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(Speaking in terms of hypotheticals). If was starting from scratch (ie. an almost clean slate), I would probably do something like this ^ too. I only started buying a lot of dvds/blurays in 2011. So I more or less started from an almost clean slate at the time, when blurays were already...

Some of these movies I remember watching on tv after midnight or on weekend afternoons, when I was a kid or preteen. (Stuff like dracula, etc ...). (On a tangent). I use think hd resolution didn't matter much for black & white titles. Though what changed my mind about this, was comparing the...

This may very well be the case. The only vintage (or classic) films I purchased on my own, were mostly sci-fi or horror type stuff. For example, stuff like Metropolis and the first Universal Monsters bluray set.

Did you grow up watching these particular films when you were a teenager or young adult? Frequently I pick up various big name classic films on bluray for my father, where I sometimes watch these movies with him. (He gives me lists of titles to look for on bluray or dvd). He mentioned many...

Speak for yourself. ;) By most possible definitions, I am definitely not an audiophile / videophile. If one were to categorize me in the "pantheon" (or pecking order) of the audiophile / videophile world, I would probably be a lowly combination of a bottom feeder scavenger crossed with a...

If the 1080i is also at 60 interlaced frames per second (on american hd screens), one can ask whether the telecine "judder" is also problematic. For example on my previous cable dvr box, I noticed when going from frame to frame in pause mode, every 4th frame was repeated in the hd video on many...

Out of all the tv shows I have on bluray, I can only think of one show where the bluray looks way better than the hd broadcasts (or dvds for that matter): seasons 1 to 3 of the revived Hawaii Five-0. For some odd reason, the Hawaiian landscapes look a lot more spectacular on the blurays, than...

Hopefully the Oppo and madVR folks will figure out ways to improve sd->4K upscaling so that it's at least minimally watchable.

(From a personal + historical perspective). For many years, I kept on saying to myself that I would never buy bluray because there was no easy way to directly crack the AES encryption algorithm used in the AACS drm system on bluray and hd-dvd discs. In contrast, the dvd css drm system was so...

In regard to upscaled dvd, it may also be highly dependent on what type of equipment one is using to do the actual upscaling. If one is tweaking madVR with "media player classic" on a modern computer with a decent graphics card, one can get very impressive results with upscaled dvd video. (My...

In the event that dvd recorders are not available anymore, another possibility is to jerry-rig a solution which exploits the "analog hole". On some cable systems, they still offer the old analog signal for customers who haven't moved on to digital. All it takes is an old computer tv tuner...