DVD or Blu Ray?

The bad part is that I think that Blu Ray came into this world already on life support.  Of course digital download already exists and will eventually eliminate physical copies, just like with music.

I got a Blu Ray player for Christmas.  I've bought a few Blu-Rays when I find them on sale, but they are pretty expensive in comparison to DVDs.  I like that it has brought down the price of DVDs.  For the most part I have been just renting Blu Rays from the local store.  I think with the newer movies that were made for Blu Ray the Blu Ray is better.  For older movies that are just being re-released on Blu Ray, I don't think that it really makes much of a difference.

rpe9p wrote: Maybe he meant do you buy DVD or Blu Ray, or do you think the slight increase in quality is worth it

Slight increase? There's almost 3 time the pixels!



Maybe I just prefer it because I'm the visual equivalent to an audiophile. In a few years you'll all have blu ray players anyways, maybe you'll just be watching your crappy old DVDs on them

I don't have the money to go out and buy everything to be able to fully enjoy Blu Ray, so DVD is fine by me. Besides, I hardly watch movies, I'd rather invest in music.

King By-Tor wrote: This is an odd poll... Blu Ray is the next gen of home video, like DVD was to video tape. DVDs display at a maximum of 480x720 res while Blu Ray displays "full HD" 1080x1920. Some blue ray transfers haven't been the best and sometimes they decide to not transfer the special features, but they will eventually. This is a poll where one contestant is literally better in every way than the other because it was designed to be.

You're right but you can still prefer dvd's over blu rays, just like some people prefer vinyls over cd's. Atleast I like dvd's way more than blu rays, which might be because I don't have a tv good enough to get advantages from using a blu ray disc


Edited by Tursake - May 07 2010 at 13:26

This is an odd poll...

Blu Ray is the next gen of home video, like DVD was to video tape. DVDs display at a maximum of 480x720 res while Blu Ray displays "full HD" 1080x1920. Some blue ray transfers haven't been the best and sometimes they decide to not transfer the special features, but they will eventually. This is a poll where one contestant is literally better in every way than the other because it was designed to be.