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As simple as that. I can add to the question but I don't want to taint your answer. Please indulge...
Originally Posted by Steve Tannehill
I want to have physical possession of the content I watch. I don't want to stream movies or TV shows. I want them to look good on my HDTV. "DVD-quality" is not good enough anymore. HD-quality is. And blu-ray is the way to deliver it.
Kino Lorber has obviously paid attention to how major studios produce Blu-rays and learned what to do and what to avoid. Their discs load quickly and go directly to a simple menu with no lead-in trailers or other advertising material and no elaborate Java code that takes minutes to load. The film is presented with excellent audio/video quality, and the extras are informative rather than promotional. The people at Kino Lorber seem to understand that a film like Ajami can’t be used to cross-sell other films or tie-in merchandise. Their focus is on delivering the cinematic and emotional experience. What more can one ask?
Originally Posted by robbbb1138
Because once you go Blu, you'll never be able to watch DVD again...
Originally Posted by Steve Tannehill
I want to have physical possession of the content I watch. I don't want to stream movies or TV shows. I want them to look good on my HDTV. "DVD-quality" is not good enough anymore. HD-quality is. And blu-ray is the way to deliver it.
Originally Posted by Sam Posten
It will surprise absolutely nobody that I am going to be the voice of dissent here.
DVD is a perfectly fine technology and it will be with us in the mainstream for at least another 5 years. It was OVER ENGINEERED for the time it was released and is very pleasing to me to watch top quality encodes at 90+ inches on a front projector upscaled to 720p. On a 40 inch monitor or less DVD is absolutely a pleasure to watch.
Streaming technology is perfectly fine for non top tier content.
Of course we want to see Avatar on Bluray. It deserves to be shown with the highest possible audio and video quality. As do thousands of movies we know and love.
But I for one am absolutely content to watch TV programming, older films and other content (heh sorry didnt mean to use it both ways there, but there you go) on DVD.
I am further content to watch documentaries and 'lower tier' films, TV shows and other content on streaming media. Especially if it's free, ala the excellent Netflix instant streaming.
I have thousands of little plastic disks and I am considering just how very important it is to me to take the vast majority with me to my new home. As streaming technology gets better and better it will be more and more difficult to justify the waste of precious oil on plastic that will rarely be used and on dead tree covers to hold them in not to mention the space in a home to store it all.
Originally Posted by Brian Borst
I agree. I never liked it when they called DVD isn't good enough any more. I think it's that DVD is good, and Blu-ray is simply better.
Originally Posted by Michael Reuben And "for the record" I love Blu-ray, it's just that at the moment only a small percentage of my movie collection is on Blu-ray. So I still tend to watch a lot of DVD and occasionally lesser formats, no snob I.