Star Wars Blu Ray Release

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

If they have both versions of the original trilogy (the original version and whatever passes as the latest "Director's Cut" or whatever) on the discs, they will be the first movies I'll get once I finally buy a Blu-Ray player.

If they don't, then why should I bother?

[Sylent_Asassin Black Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Sylent_Asassin]

I'm done with Star Wars unless it's something new. How many different damn editions of the same shit with one or two additions can you put out? For those of you that want to buy this shit, I have a bridge to sell you on some nice beachfront property.

...and a green saber in Episode IV is an EPIC FAIL.

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

I still don't have a single version of the movies. The original trilogy got released on DVD when I was absolutely broke, and since then, there have been more pressing concerns.

[Darth_Primus Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Darth_Primus]

It's Malibu Stacy with a new hat!!!, so you know I'm down with this.

[Caleb Lancaster The Time Traveler Find all posts View Profile Close Caleb Lancaster]

blu ray is THE thing

if you dont have a blu ray player within the next couple of years you wont be able to buy physical copies of movies
dvd is moving out just as vhs did but at least blu ray players let you play your old dvd movies too

VHS became obsolete and outdated to DVD due to convenience and quality and size. To me, Blu Ray not only is just a DVD with High Def, it didn't make the previous generation obsolete. If someone gets you a Blue Ray Player for Christmas, you can still play your DVDs on it.

Aside HD, Blue Ray is pretty much the same as DVD, and I don't see why we need something new anyway. What more could I want from my home viewing experience? Ease, and special features, that's great, but Quality of picture? I don't think enough people care how something looks to shill out 200 bucks for a Glorified DVD player.

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

I still don't have a Bluray player. But what I like about the Bluray format is the fact that they can have picture-in-picture commentary tracks beyond the classic audio commentary.

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DVD is moving out? When did that happen? Blu Ray might be the high def standard, but DVD isn't going anywhere for a while. I'll wager that by the time DVD is out, Blu Ray won't be the standard anymore. There's already better shit on the horizon, HD-DVD and Blu Ray drug their fight out too long.

have you been to a video store or even a walmart lately???
besides that these estimations are old news

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20...king-over-dvd/

even now bd sales are still steadily increassing as more and more people continue to buy the players

VHS became obsolete and outdated to DVD due to convenience and quality and size. To me, Blu Ray not only is just a DVD with High Def, it didn't make the previous generation obsolete. If someone gets you a Blue Ray Player for Christmas, you can still play your DVDs on it.

Aside HD, Blue Ray is pretty much the same as DVD, and I don't see why we need something new anyway. What more could I want from my home viewing experience? Ease, and special features, that's great, but Quality of picture? I don't think enough people care how something looks to shill out 200 bucks for a Glorified DVD player.

you can get bd players for around $100 now and more than plenty of people care because it IS becoming the standard
in my experience the only people who claim to not care are people who havent seen a full bd feature on an hdtv
basically if you an hdtv you should have a bd player if not you shouldnt but you shouldnt be naive about it either

bd will push out dvd within the next 2-3 years, and thats about the same time frame as dvd did it to vhs
(remember dvd was introduced in 1995 but vhs was still being produced until 2003/4)

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have you been to a video store or even a walmart lately???
besides that these estimations are old news

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20...king-over-dvd/

even now bd sales are still steadily increassing as more and more people continue to buy the players

Yes, I've been to movie stores and Wal Marts, and there are just as many DVD's on the shelves now as their were 5 years ago. There hasn't been one movie that I've bought in the last year that wasn't available in both formats.

Yes, BD sales are increasing due in no small part to the addition of BD capability to the PS3 and the recent price drops.

But there's still none of the tell tale signs that we saw when VHS over took Beta, when DVD took VHS...DVD is still going strong and readily available.

you can get bd players for around $100 now and more than plenty of people care because it IS becoming the standard

It's not the price, some people just don't see the point in going out and buying into the new HD format.

I have a DVD collection about 4,000 movies thick. I have no interest, desire or intentions in ever going completely over to Blu-Ray and I doubt I'll ever have to. At least, not into BD format.

I imagine that I'll go fully digital before I ever consider switching to BD completely.

in my experience the only people who claim to not care are people who havent seen a full bd feature on an hdtv
basically if you an hdtv you should have a bd player if not you shouldnt but you shouldnt be naive about it either

That's the rub, isn't it. There are still more people using standard def then Hi Def, and as long as those people hold out, DVD's will still make money and be readily available.

Personally, I have a beautiful 1080P HDTV with a kick ass million to one ratio, the few BD's I have look great. But the problem is that so do my upconverted DVD's...it's not perfect 1080P, but it still looks amazing....and my DVD library is quite considerable in size, so there's no real reason why I would consider going out and buying all new equipment and rebuying what amounts to thousands and thousands of dollars worth of DVDs.

bd will push out dvd within the next 2-3 years, and thats about the same time frame as dvd did it to vhs
(remember dvd was introduced in 1995 but vhs was still being produced until 2003/4)

The difference is that A) by 1998- three years after it was introduced- VHS availability was shrinking on store shelves. There's no shortage of DVD's. B) DVDs were compatible with standard definition TVS- so the investment required was much smaller. With BD you need a HDTV, expensive HDMI cables and the expensive player....in the middle of a horrible recession? I think your being optimistic at best. And C) DVD was a considerable leap forward in technology to VHS, BD, not so much. Truth is, the average person just doesn't care about resolution as long as the picture they have looks good.

Oh yeah, there's also the little point of contention that the 2-3 year estimate has been being tossed around since BD beat out HDDVD...a little over two years ago.

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2 years ago people were saying 4 or 5 years
believe me i was in the thick of it with my job at the time

regardless though you should mark my words

in 3 years when youre forced to upgrade because you cant buy new movies on dvd anymore youll remember this conversation and realize i was right

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2 years ago people were saying 4 or 5 years
believe me i was in the thick of it with my job at the time

regardless though you should mark my words

in 3 years when youre forced to upgrade because you cant buy new movies on dvd anymore youll remember this conversation and realize i was right

2 years ago, I read quite a few articles that claimed 2-3 years ago. In the time I've been a live, all these arguments have been had before, very few of them have to fruition.

I doubt very seriously, in two years time you'll have every American citizen switched over to a much more expensive format...especially at a time of recession where job futures and incomes aren't certain.

Or perhaps you haven't noticed that spending has kind of slowed down over the last couple of years.

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how is bd a "much more expensive format" THAT is an old and dated argument that never held weight
on average bds are maybe $2-$5 more per movie and come with more special features

and maybe you havent noticed that while spending has dwindled bd sales have continued to GROW

[Razorgod Anti-Monitor Find all posts View Profile Close Razorgod]

how is bd a "much more expensive format" THAT is an old and dated argument that never held weight

2-5 dollars more per movie. 35 dollars for an HDMI cable, that doesn't come with most of the BD players being sold, and of course the cost of a brand new HDTV- priced anywhere from 300-1500 bucks.

That's not a lot of money for me, but the average middle to lower class family- that's a lot to ask for an investment in a new format.

As for sales continuing to grow....sales on shelfed media are dropping across the board....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/enterta...-expectations/

Some highlights....

"The sagging DVD market has been expected to decline, but blu-ray sales were expected to bolster the industry. A combination of slower-than-expected retail sales and the recession are to blame."

The hardware sales for Blu-Ray were down, but of the people that bought blu-ray players, including PS3s, owners bought a meager 1.5 movies per household. The report suggests that DVDs remain “good enough” for most titles, and the cost simply cannot be justified by most households.

”The failure of the Blu-ray format to capture enough of the market in 2009 means this downward trend is now set to continue, with the short-term uplift in video spending that we had previously expect to see in 2010-2011 now unlikely to materialise.”

Blu Ray sales did increase 70 something percent, but industry analysis claims that Blu Ray will only acount for 68 percent of physical home media sales by 2014. That's not enough to kill off DVD entirely.

Most industry speculation is taking into account the recession, so you seem to be the only person denying that the recession will play a factor in it's growth.

On top of that, I've 4 letters for you....BDXL.

[Darth_Primus Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Darth_Primus]

So Amazon has listed the complete saga on blu ray for $89.99.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/han...t-bbf_1_glance

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+1.