Blu-rays are great but packaging is ugly!!

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As a home theater and film enthusiast, I'm very excited about the new possibilites Blu Ray Disc offers when it comes to sound and image quality.

However, the only thing that stops me from starting to collect Blu Rays big time is the packaging. Most DVDs come in nice packaging with Special Editions and most Blu Rays so far look cheap with that blue plastic slips. A superior format should also LOOK superior and more exclusive. There are only a few exceptions like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" which in my opinion is one of the few discs worth buying so far.

Now that it has become evident that Blu Ray will be the new Home Entertainment format there is no need anymore to advertise the format with slogans like "Beyond High Definition" on the cover. The Blu Ray logo should be sufficient by now.

As long as DVD Special Editions and packaging looks nicer in my collection than Blu Rays I will not buy them - even though I would love to...

What are your thoughts on the packaging?

Andreas from Salzburg, Austria