No Blu-Ray for me until prices drop dramatically. I was a late adapter to HD-DVD, and purchased one after the war was over for $60 new and use it to up-convert my mass DVD library. Blu-Ray is not worth 400+ as I do not see the significance in quality to a 1080p up-converting DVD player. I am more for quality picture and sound for the best price, NOT features....
Not meant in an attacking way or anything, but if you don't see a significant difference in upscaled DVDs and Bluray, then I agree, you shouldn't buy one yet. Instead you should first save money for a new TV.
The difference really is huge. I don't even watch DVDs anymore, upscaled or otherwise. Now granted, I'm an HD junkie, but I can tell an incredible difference. No matter how you slice it, DVD is still just upscaled 480p.
@Andrew No insult taken, but to clarify I have an excellent LCD HDTV (52" Sharp Aquos). Maybe I wasn't very clear on what I meant. I would never pay 400+ for a Blu-Ray player, even if the quality has a substantial difference from up-converting.... The only reason I purchased an HD-DVD player was because of the price $$$. By buying an HD-DVD player after the war for $60, I now got a top of the line up-converting DVD player plus 5 free HD movies for less then what I would have spent for a standard DVD up-converting machine.
So again, up-converting for "me" is far better then Blu-Ray because I just don't see $400+ for a machine that much of any substantial difference....
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Xeod @ May 3rd 2008 12:36PM
No Blu-Ray for me until prices drop dramatically.
I was a late adapter to HD-DVD, and purchased one after the war was over for $60 new and use it to up-convert my mass DVD library. Blu-Ray is not worth 400+ as I do not see the significance in quality to a 1080p up-converting DVD player. I am more for quality picture and sound for the best price, NOT features....
Andrew @ May 4th 2008 7:28AM
Not meant in an attacking way or anything, but if you don't see a significant difference in upscaled DVDs and Bluray, then I agree, you shouldn't buy one yet. Instead you should first save money for a new TV.
The difference really is huge. I don't even watch DVDs anymore, upscaled or otherwise. Now granted, I'm an HD junkie, but I can tell an incredible difference. No matter how you slice it, DVD is still just upscaled 480p.
Xeod @ May 6th 2008 6:29PM
@Andrew
No insult taken, but to clarify I have an excellent LCD HDTV (52" Sharp Aquos).
Maybe I wasn't very clear on what I meant. I would never pay 400+ for a Blu-Ray player, even if the quality has a substantial difference from up-converting.... The only reason I purchased an HD-DVD player was because of the price $$$. By buying an HD-DVD player after the war for $60, I now got a top of the line up-converting DVD player plus 5 free HD movies for less then what I would have spent for a standard DVD up-converting machine.
So again, up-converting for "me" is far better then Blu-Ray because I just don't see $400+ for a machine that much of any substantial difference....