Blu-ray not as impressive anymore.

[stockstar1138]

When I first watched blu-ray my jaw hit the ground at the quality. I just couldn't get over how clear it was. I bought movies sometimes just to get that awesome blu-ray experience. Well, 56 blu-rays later, the feeling is gone. I now buy movies simply for the movie, not for PQ or AQ or extras or anything else, just the movie and thats how it should be.

I watched No Country for Old Men last night and wasn't that impressed with the quality. The PQ and AQ were good, but I wasn't as impressed as I was with POTC 2. By no means am I saying POTC 2 has better quality than NCFOM, I just wasn't as floored and impressed as I was when I saw POTC 2.

When I watched POTC 2 the quality seemed above and beyond what I was used to with a few blus and a lot of upconverted DVDs/cable. Now, No Country just seems a tad above the standard, which now is blu-ray instead of upconversion/cable. I watch the movie for the movie and don't even care about the detail anymore. The only time I care about detail anymore is when its not blu-ray and then it is just this Anybody else feeling this way.

The difference was before, I would go over to a friends house with a SDTV, say to myself this is the standard, and I have above the standard (HDTV). His doesn't look bad, mine just looks really good. Now I see myself thinking that HDTV is the standard and my friends are all below the standard. Mine looks average, his (SDTV) looks bad.

This was all triggered by a Spring Break without HD. I litterly would rub my eyes every minute if I was playing a game or watching SDTV because I kept thinking my contacts were fogging up. I just couldn't get over how bad everything looked. I came home watched 2 digital flicks at the theaters (Juno and Horton) and just thought, thank god im back to what I'm used to (a standard which is now HD).