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Blu-Ray Ownership Poll (Please Vote and Post)

Which option best describes your current status with the Blu-Ray format?

  • I am already an owner of a Blu-ray device.

    Votes: 220 45.2%

  • I do not own a Blu-Ray Player, but I may buy one in the next 3 months.

    Votes: 22 4.5%

  • I do not own a Blu-Ray DVD Player, but it is very likely that I will, someday.

    Votes: 141 29.0%

  • I do not own a Blu-Ray DVD Player and I do not intend to purchase one.

    Votes: 97 19.9%

  • Something else. Please tell us.

    Votes: 7 1.4%
  • Total voters
    487
  • Poll closed .
I'm with AAA3330
I download movies thru Hulu.com as well...still on the fence myself as far as blu-ray goes, but I doubt I will get one soon.....The Oppo 980 bit the big one a few days ago, so the medium of discs are questionable...
 
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I ended up with both Blu-ray and HD DVD. I bought the obscure RCA HDV5000 HD DVD player (same as Toshiba HD-A1) for like $70 on ebay beause apparently no one knew what it was. Then I stumbled across a Sony BDP-S1 on clearance at Sears for about $150 so I've been in the game for a while. I still have the S1 and an S350 now as well as the Samsung HD DVD/Blu Ray combo unit, and 3 HD DVD players as well. I own close to 300 HD DVDs thanks to the fire sales and over 100 Blu-rays.

I almost never buy Blu-rays new. Its not hard to keep your investment costs way down. I usually buy them used at FYE using coupons and promos (I bought maybe 10 today with some Christmas money and they cost about $7 each on average). Often times I end up paying less for them than I would the new DVD version.

Picture quality is a no brainer IMHO. The picture is going to look good on a good HDTV.

I was an early DVD and HDTV adopter too so I guess it all goes hand in hand. I bought my first HDTV maybe 8 years ago (don't really remember). I do know I bought my first DVD player for 80% off when Sun TV was going out of business in 1998 (I was REALLY early in that game in min 1998, they had maybe 40 titles at Circuit City when I bought that player, and the average player was running upwards of $500-600, I was lucky to pay $150 for it and that player still works to this day). Ironically one of those Sun TVs that closed had one of the first consumer plasma TVs I ever saw around here a 42" model but I forget who made it, I remember there were handfuls in the country at the time, priced at a mere $20,000, I was there the day it sold for close to $10,000 (I just bought a 42" plasma for the bedroom for $400, talk about price decreases!).

I consider Blu-ray a worthful investment if you watch movies a lot. Honestly I own a lot of HDTVs but hardly ever actually watch TV asides from football games, I couldn't even tell you whats on prime time TV, however I usually watch a movie every night right before I go to bed. I have a rather large collection of Laserdiscs but I obtained it all second hand so I can't comment on how that format was from an investment standpoint.

Still if you look you can get a Blu-ray player for under $100 and they usually do good at upconverting, so to me it would be worth buying solely on that just for the added compatibility assuming you have an HDTV.
 
whoaru99 said:
Well, if it doesn't survive, it still makes a damn fine DVD player. :D
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I agree. I recently purchased an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray player, and it is a much nicer DVD player than the Pioneer player I was using. Analog output on CDs sounds fantastic on it as well. :thmbsp:
 
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She will be mine...

(unless I can wait until something does all the same things for less..)
 
Bonus point: Blu-Ray in general has cooler packaging than DVD ever did. Case in point - Target's special editions. The Dark Knight is shaped like Batman's cowl and Star Trek is actually shaped like the Enterprise. Even the standard translucent blue boxes are cooler than the plain ol' DVD black.
 
Sam Cogley said:
Bonus point: Blu-Ray in general has cooler packaging than DVD ever did. Case in point - Target's special editions. The Dark Knight is shaped like Batman's cowl and Star Trek is actually shaped like the Enterprise. Even the standard translucent blue boxes are cooler than the plain ol' DVD black.
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Oh YEAH??

What about The Simpsons packaging?

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(not trying to be a jerk, but we gotta get this post count up there, right?
 
merrylander said:
Don't have one and no plans to buy one, our DVDs provide as good a picture as we need. More interested in a good DVD recorder without a tuner as it will be hooked to the cable box.
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What he said. Besides, I've already collected about everything I care to own on the *old* dvd format. Don't intend to buy it again (shades of vinyl, cassette, cd) and I doubt if it's going to make my 70+ year old B&W movies look any better.
 
I have a Samsung BDP-2500, got it cause it has built in decoders for DolbyHD and DTS HD. Though I'm a long time fan of Oppo and may switch to one as I have two of their upconvert DVD players that I love.
 
So far I have on Blu:
Master and Commander
All of the Kubrik films released so far (including the second version of FMJ)
Star Trek (the new movie and all three seasons of TOS)
Burn Notice S2
Reservoir Dogs
 
I do not own a Blu-Ray DVD Player and I do not intend to purchase one.
DVD is more than sufficient quality for my tastes and budget. :)

Tom
 
I have no immediate plans to upgrade from DVD to Blu-Ray. I upgraded my TV to a 50" Panasonic plasma right before Christmas. The picture quality from my DVD player, which up-converts DVD video to the plasma's native resolution and transmits it over HDMI, is outstanding -- even better than I expected. It's good enough that I can't justify spending cash up front for a new player and spending more money to get the Blu-Ray release instead of the DVD every time I buy a movie or TV show.
 
I have a Sony Blu Ray player and a Toshiba HD player. There are still quite a few HD movies available that are so cheap, so I use both formats. I just bought the Matrix Trilogy in HD for 15 dollars.
 
I have a Blu-Ray player!

My Blu-Ray collection: Dragonball Evolution, Con Air, Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, 2Fast 2Furious, Fantastic 4 Rise Of The Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider, 300, Dragonball Z - Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan/Broly Second Coming

Gohan
 
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Celt said:
What he said. Besides, I've already collected about everything I care to own on the *old* dvd format. Don't intend to buy it again (shades of vinyl, cassette, cd) and I doubt if it's going to make my 70+ year old B&W movies look any better.
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Casablanca looks incredible on Blu-Ray! An order of magnitude better than any DVD pressing. I have no intention of going through and replacing my entire DVD collection, but there are gems out there that I will pay the price of admission to see in a substantially improved form. But hey, some people think MP3's are good enough too.
 
Bought one a year ago for $160. out the door. I needed a cd player at the time so not bad for the price I think.
 
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