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None. ever. I have thousands of DVDs.. and am not interested in BluRay.The last movies i watched..Alien Resurrection. I had just watched Alien. Aliens.. and ten minutes of Alien3..I have no issues with watching damn near perfect upscaled DVD on my 42" plasma.
The Master. The acting was some of the best I have seen and the film is shot in an incredible format. My wife quit on it after about 15 minutes and i finished it wondering what it was about, really. A character study and a visual experience though.
C'mon Liz - don't be so cranky! An entry level panansonic blu ray player is like $80 If I wasn't such an AV hoarder, I'd send you one of my extra blu ray players.......
C'mon Liz - don't be so cranky! An entry level panansonic blu ray player is like $80 (which will also upconvert DVD's). If not for the image quality (maybe not such a big deal on a 42' set), the sound quality upgrade is worth it. Dolby TruHD & DTS-HD Master Audio discrete & lossless audio is worth it over plain crumby dolby digital / DTS on DVD's. Watched on Blu Ray Queen's Montreal concert circa 1984 the other day, and even at DTS-HD 24 bit / 96khz (not Master Audio), it looked great and sounded awesome. And I'm not even a Queen fan!If I wasn't such an AV hoarder, I'd send you one of my extra blu ray players....... ADDITION : and the new ones allow you to stream Netflix, etc, which is definitely nice if you don't already have a standalone Roku / Apple TV / etc.
It certainly is not the price of a BluRay player stoping me. The fact i own a LOT of movies on DVD. that is the primary reason I have not bothered with a BluRay player. (when My Denon 5910 player croaks.. yeah I will buy an Oppo..) I have zero need to rebuy anything. having done that once with "perfect sound forever'.. And also endless VHS replaced by laserdisc, then DVD.. i an finished with ANY rebuying. Period. (Now laserdisc.. yeah, the minute i compared DVD to laserdisc on my Plasma i tossed $10K worth of laserdiscs into the trash. I have not been THAT impressed with BluRay over upsampled DVD.. No-where near as big a jump as DVD from laserdisc. So it is nothing to do with fearing the upgrade... It is that the upgrade (from upsampled DVD to BluRay) is just NOT enough to make me jump. Where with Laserdisc to DVD it was a no brainer 'throw the laserdiscs in the trash NOW!' (maybe for you the jump from DVD to BluRay is worth it. Not to me. I got my pile of movies.. I never stream, not borrow..Any move made before the last two years that i would ever want to see i already own. On DVD. For me, DVD is all I need. Maybe when I buy a 65" or bigger screen i might want BluRay.. By then the 4X may be coming to a TV near us soon..I really am not interested in 'defending' myself over this and derailing the thread.. Thanks.