Do many people buy Blu-ray's of DVD's they own?

[Cochese04]

I've upgraded essential favorites... Nosferatu, Blade Runner, Alien, 2001, the Die Hard series, Universal Monsters, The Thing, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, King Kong (33), Highlander, Star Trek 1-6, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 1-2, etc.

My stupid devotion to Japanese monster movies also caused me to spend a ridiculous amount of money replacing Godzilla and Gamera DVDs, usually upgrading to Blu-rays that are scarcely better than their standard-def predecessors.

I'll also upgrade movies that aren't quite timeless classics if the price is right (the 1999-2008 Mummy trilogy) or the Blu-ray is a monumental improvement on the DVD, which is sadly becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence.

A lot of films I do consider favorites and yet I haven't bothered with an upgrade... Touch of Evil, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 12 Monkeys, Children of Men, Blade, Airplane!, everything in the Alfred Hitchcock Essentials Collection, The Exorcist, etc. And of course there are those that haven't gotten a Blu-ray release at all. Something's wrong with the world when The Blair Witch Project gets a high-def release but The Quiet American doesn't.

Other favorites I simply never owned before owning them on Blu-ray. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Aliens, The Blues Brothers, Goodfellas, Casino, Citizen Kane, The Evil Dead, Halloween, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Godfather trilogy, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, The Jerk, the Mad Max trilogy, The Maltese Falcon, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Predator, Purple Noon, Raging Bull, Rififi, the Rocky series, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, The Sting, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, Total Recall... somehow none of these ever managed to find their way into my DVD collection before I transitioned to Blu-ray.

[Jr7936]

I have the dvd set with the unaltered versions on the 2nd discs, so even though I have the blu complete set i am still keeping the set with the unaltered versions

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

The movie rewlly has to be either dirt cheap on Blu ($7.99 or below), or the DVD is just unwatchably bad/old. I've only upgraded maybe two dozen titles but they're pretty essential to me (most recently was Star Wars prequel trilogy; would've upgraded the whole set but didn't feel re-buying OT without the unaltered versions).

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

Originally Posted by Movie shy

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if many people buy Blu Ray's of dvd's they own? I've had my blu ray player since April and have only bought 3 blu ray's that I had in dvd's. I bought the Mel Brooks Collection and had Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in dvd and bought the Shrek The Whole Story Collection while I had the Shrek dvd. With those 3 exceptions I have just been buying movies in Blu Ray that I don't have in dvd.

Absolutely! Of course.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by JoeDeM

I think most people start out by only buying the essentials and favorites when replacing DVD's, but once you get hooked by the better quality picture and sound, you start replacing most or all. I replaced most and just waiting on the others to be released.

Yes, I certainly ended up replacing a lot more than I thought I would, but there are some films I don't care about upgrading. For example, would Airplane and Step Brothers really become much better films on HD?

To me there is a clear difference between how real cinematic films look in HD and how averagely shot films look. They are not at all equal. Watching some Kubrick and Antonioni films on blu-ray was a complete revelation, especially some of Antonioni's films with poor dvd transfers. e.g Red Desert. Same with Heaven's Gate.

I just don't feel the need to rush out to upgrade cheaply and/or competently made/shot films that looked fine on dvd.

Each to their own of course.

Originally Posted by Cochese04

Other favorites I simply never owned before owning them on Blu-ray. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Aliens, The Blues Brothers, Goodfellas, Casino, Citizen Kane, The Evil Dead, Halloween, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Godfather trilogy, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, The Jerk, the Mad Max trilogy, The Maltese Falcon, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Predator, Purple Noon, Raging Bull, Rififi, the Rocky series, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, The Sting, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, Total Recall... somehow none of these ever managed to find their way into my DVD collection before I transitioned to Blu-ray

There were many films that I never bothered upgrading from VHS to DVD for some reason that I ended up purchasing on blu-ray. e.g Alien, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Citizen Kane, Mad Max 1+2, Blade Runner etc etc

In the case of Blade Runner it's because I was holding out for a special edition that didn't arrive until the HD era. It's the same reason why I didn't bothering getting Burton's Batman films on dvd until the mid 00's when the two disc editions arrived. I just had little to no interest in buying bare bones editions of films I loved, especially after 2001 or so when the quality of dvd's entering the marketplace had dramatically improved. Naturally I made a few exceptions, but I was pretty committed to holding out, especially if it was a popular studio film that would eventually be re-released.

[manunited1]

I have upgraded a ton of DVDs and sold the ones off that did not have exclusive special features.

You favorite movies demand to be seen in high def.

[Dylan34]

Originally Posted by Cochese04

I've upgraded essential favorites... Nosferatu, Blade Runner, Alien, 2001, the Die Hard series, Universal Monsters, The Thing, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, King Kong (33), Highlander, Star Trek 1-6, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 1-2, etc.

My stupid devotion to Japanese monster movies also caused me to spend a ridiculous amount of money replacing Godzilla and Gamera DVDs, usually upgrading to Blu-rays that are scarcely better than their standard-def predecessors.

I'll also upgrade movies that aren't quite timeless classics if the price is right (the 1999-2008 Mummy trilogy) or the Blu-ray is a monumental improvement on the DVD, which is sadly becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence.

A lot of films I do consider favorites and yet I haven't bothered with an upgrade... Touch of Evil, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 12 Monkeys, Children of Men, Blade, Airplane!, everything in the Alfred Hitchcock Essentials Collection, The Exorcist, etc. And of course there are those that haven't gotten a Blu-ray release at all. Something's wrong with the world when The Blair Witch Project gets a high-def release but The Quiet American doesn't.

Other favorites I simply never owned before owning them on Blu-ray. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Aliens, The Blues Brothers, Goodfellas, Casino, Citizen Kane, The Evil Dead, Halloween, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Godfather trilogy, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, The Jerk, the Mad Max trilogy, The Maltese Falcon, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Predator, Purple Noon, Raging Bull, Rififi, the Rocky series, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, The Sting, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, Total Recall... somehow none of these ever managed to find their way into my DVD collection before I transitioned to Blu-ray.

You definitely need to upgrade The Exorcist!! The blu-ray is phenomenal! The Mummy series and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are must upgrades as well.

[Dylan34]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I'm betting on the chance that most of the Blu-rays in my existing collection are pretty safe from becoming obsolete.

I doubt that studios will be in a mad rush to release 4K discs of the 1950s film noir titles or the 1980s slasher movies in my collection.

Well, that's been kind of my point when talking about 4k blu-ray. Why even release a format that the studios are not going to go all out on? A few classic catalog titles will be released but they're not going to go back and do "proper" 6 to 8k scans to make a nice 4k blu-ray master because that's what it will take. Just like it takes a 4k scan to produce a really nice 1080p blu-ray. The studios have half-assed most blu-ray catalog titles and are just now going in and correcting some of them with good 4k scans. I'm happy with blu-ray and it's going to take a lot for me to take 4k blu-ray for a spin.

[JimDiGriz]

Originally Posted by Dylan34

You definitely need to upgrade The Exorcist!! The blu-ray is phenomenal! The Mummy series and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are must upgrades as well.

Children of Men is a massive upgrade as well - and its cheap as chips.

[DrexlerMcStyles]

I only buy a couple new titles a year (I'm pretty selective about whats in my library) so my main thing IS upgrading my dvd's to blu. With U-Turn recently announced that only leaves me 14 dvd titles that I want to upgrade, should they ever get the blu treatment.

[Wickerman1972]

I could count the DVDs I've bought on my fingers. It wasn't enough of an improvement over TV for me to care.

[Tok]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

It doesn't have to be successful. It just has to promote the sell of 4K TVs and it will probably do that extremely well.

Look how well 3D BD got people interested in 3D displays. 4K may be slightly more successful. I wouldn't bank on it being a massively accepted tech in its native format. 4K in general is going to rely on an old trick.... Upscaling.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Tok

Look how well 3D BD got people interested in 3D displays. 4K may be slightly more successful. I wouldn't bank on it being a massively accepted tech in its native format. 4K in general is going to rely on an old trick.... Upscaling.

I think it will be more successful than 3D. Also, unlike 3D 4K is not going anywhere as it's just the natural progression to the highest resolution with content available, which is of course 8K.

[Wickerman1972]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I think it will be more successful than 3D. Also, unlike 3D 4K is not going anywhere as it's just the natural progression to the highest resolution with content available, which is of course 8K.

If it's really just going to be 100gb discs like it's rumored to be I don't even see what the point is. They're talking about supporting 4K at 60 fps for Christ's sake. If the discs aren't a minimum of 200gb capacity it isn't going to be proper 4K by a stretch.

[Tok]

Originally Posted by Wickerman1972

If it's really just going to be 100gb discs like it's rumored to be I don't even see what the point is. They're talking about supporting 4K at 60 fps for Christ's sake. If the discs aren't a minimum of 200gb capacity it isn't going to be proper 4K by a stretch.

Exactly. What they are doing with 4K BD is what HD DVD was to DVD. An incremental upgrade at the lowest cost. I have little faith it will be significantly better.

[Lentulus Batiatus]

Originally Posted by Dylan34

What is everyone going to do when 4k blu-ray launches next year? Replace again? Some folks like you have 2,500 or more in blu-ray upgrades. I'm asking because I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that yet. Just trying to get some ideas.

4K isn't going to be a massive improvement in picture for a LARGE number of films. If it wasn't mastered in 4K then you are already getting the 2K version.

Going from a large BD library to 4K makes it very easy to be selective. My top films sure, I'll quintuple-dip. but for 90% of my BD's it won't be worth it. And they won't even be released on 4K anyway so there's nothing to be concerned about.

But saying that, 4K won't last long in stores so long as studios continue to push DVD so it's all a moot point.

And yes, I upgrade every DVD I can when it's cheap enough. There's no reason to be a collector who appreciates film enough to have bought the DVD and then not buy the HD version if it makes sense to do so. I have about 200 DVDs I could currently upgrade and probably 50 more to eventually add to that list. Then 150 DVD's that will only ever be DVD and for the most part that's fine. It's not fine that studios are now dropping BD from some of their releases however. So stupid!!!!

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by Lentulus Batiatus

4K isn't going to be a massive improvement in picture for a LARGE number of films. If it wasn't mastered in 4K then you are already getting the 2K version.

Going from a large BD library to 4K makes it very easy to be selective. My top films sure, I'll quintuple-dip. but for 90% of my BD's it won't be worth it. And they won't even be released on 4K anyway so there's nothing to be concerned about.
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Most movies until recently were film so THEORETICALLY greater than 4k. Unfortunately most barely could be restored to reach 2k. But certainly some, esp. those in the larger formats (70mm, etc.).

I have tried to upgrade all my DVD collection to Blu-ray and by now have mostly succeeded. I started my Blu-ray collecting in 2006, and for many years didn't buy any more DVD's. Recently I started some DVD buying mostly for older TV programs that are less likely to go to Blu-Ray, and for some very old movies that also less likely to go to Blu-ray. I do have many older (1920's and earlier) that made it to Blu-ray, but think they are a rarity.

Probably will start quadruple dipping for some titles in the future when 4k media becomes available. (laserdisc, DVHS, DVD, Blu-ray, new 4k format). Fortunately not to many titles ever reached DVHS so most title have only been triple dipped to date.

All my DVD's that I replaced, except a few with extras that I think were interesting, have gone to my Friends and Family Giveaway. Ditto for all those combo Blu-ray DVDs.

[mikeyfridebuzz]

I swore when I first went with Blu Ray that I would only upgrade the DVDs of special effects movies that I felt were essentials like Star Wars, Indiana jones, Jurassic park etc.

It didn't last long before that plan went out the window.

[Rik1138]

For me, if it was worth buying on DVD, then it's worth upgrading to Blu-ray if available. If I ever intend to watch it again, I want the Blu-ray as I really can't stand watching SD material on a large HD TV anymore, if I can avoid it.

Once I have the blu-ray, I will either sell or give away the DVD (eBay if it's worth more than $5, usually just give it to the local library or take it to Goodwill otherwise). I think I've kept one or two that had bonus material where the Blu-ray was movie-only, but even that is rare since I hardly ever watch bonus content twice... It is annoying when they can't at least just copy over the content from the DVD though...

[VagueSimplicity]

Luckily, I was a kid with no money when people were building their movie collections with DVDs. I barely had any DVDs, so I just went with Blu-ray to future proof my collection. And here comes 4K, which I will be very selective with this time around.

[Suntory_Times]

The only dvd's I have left are those that haven't yet been released on blu-ray. The first two before films 'need' a release as they are personal favourites and it would be such a shame for the best home video release of them to be on dvd.