What Pct. of your BLU RAY discs are double-dip's ?

[dvd-4-life]

I have yet to get involved with BLU RAY and as I look at the releases only a few besides the new releases catch my attention. Do most of you only buy a few of the older releases while buying mostly new releases ?

[JimRochester]

Too freakin many. Actually the only ones I really mind were the "upgrades" that ended up being a disappointment like Total Recall. My SE Mars Tin looked better than the blu. The % is about 80.

[Mr. Cinema]

Don't have an exact number, but I like my movies presented in the best possible quality. So I'd say many.

I'm more interested in seeing older films in HD. Great examples of why upgrading to BD is a no-brainer: Godfather Collection, Bonnie & Clyde, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey...

[RichC2]

Black Hawk Down, Wild Things (well not really, my DVD was defective) and The Fifth Element so around 10%.

[Yavin]

I swear there's already a thread on this topic somewhere ... anyway, my double dip percentage for Blu is about 50% ... for HD it was a lot higher, probably around 75%.

[GizmoDVD]

No idea at this point. Maybe 20%. I stopped though recently - got tired of spending $20 a disc for something I'll watch once and thats it. Me, Myself and Irene on DVD is good enough for me.

[jdodd]

Exactly 50%.

(I just started, and I only have 2 BDs :lol: )

[dvd-4-life]

How do they decide on what get's released ? Most of the titles have no appeal too me. I already have Planet of the Apes on laserdisc and dvd so did they decide those people who bought them before will buy them again .

[Sweet Baby James]

47 for 77 have been upgrades. 5 of these were free with the mail-in rebate for buying a player and most of the others were part of a BOGO deal(Amazon/Columbia House). I was able to dump the SD versions at FYE for store credit.

[Drexl]

I'm not going to go through and count them, but I'd say about half.

[clckworang]

Hmm, that's a good question. I have bought quite a few double-dips, but on the other hand, I have also purchased quite a number that I didn't previously own. I'll have to check, but it seems like it's probably close to 50-50.

How do they decide on what get's released ? Most of the titles have no appeal too me. I already have Planet of the Apes on laserdisc and dvd so did they decide those people who bought them before will buy them again .

:shrug: I don't know, but I plan on buying them again. And I don't think laserdisc ownership factors into their decision-making process too much.

[dvd-4-life]

Hmm, that's a good question. I have bought quite a few double-dips, but on the other hand, I have also purchased quite a number that I didn't previously own. I'll have to check, but it seems like it's probably close to 50-50.



:shrug: I don't know, but I plan on buying them again. And I don't think laserdisc ownership factors into their decision-making process too much.
Well the laserdiscs were remasters too begin with so I guess the dvds were remasters of the remasters and the BLU RAY discs will be the remasters of the remasters of the remasters.

[awil1026]

Thanks for asking this question: it motivated me to find out. 36/71= 51%. My upgrading has been very cost-effective, however.

[SoSpacey]

only one title i have double dipped on. i have been holding out hard on the double dips, especially since the Blu version is damn expensive.

[Drexl]

How do they decide on what get's released ? Most of the titles have no appeal too me. I already have Planet of the Apes on laserdisc and dvd so did they decide those people who bought them before will buy them again .

Yes, titles that are proven sellers are more likely to be released. However, they have to stagger out the really big titles. It's a balancing act of releasing enough desirable titles to get people interested, while saving the big guns for when the market grows and they can sell more.

[TheMovieman]

Mine is 22/35 or 62.8%, but a good number were free. Taking those out, it's 40%

[darkside]

46 out of 170 or 27%. Classic films are really the only ones I like enough to consider them upgrade worthy. In most cases a film may not get watched often enough for me to bother rebuying it again unless I can get the HD version really cheap. That was the case with probably half of the ones I did upgrade.

[bluetoast]

7/33, so around 21%. One of those 7 was a 'double dip' on a VHS title (Nightmare Before Christmas) and I counted The Godfather set as 3 BDs.

[bunkaroo]

Whatever films I owned before on DVD were upgraded in any case. Some like Wall Street I waited on deals.

[Admiral7]

I'd say over half of my blu-ray collection I previously owned on DVD, but I have quite a few I didn't have before, either because they weren't previously available or the dvds had non-anamorphic transfers, bad transfers, etc. Some of my blu-rays I didn't previously have on DVD:

A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Risky Business
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Searchers
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Happy Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[insanecollector]

only the classics and even then only because of killer deals or trades.

[asianxcore]

I only have 32 discs, but none of them are double-dips.

[Arpeggi]

I'm weak and I double dip on every dvd that I have. :(

[Drexl]

Oh, I should add that Full Metal Jacket is an HD double dip, since I had the first HD DVD version (although it was a gift) and then the SE BD.

I have replaced several HD DVDs with BDs. Should those count too?

[kms_md]

i think that most of my BDs are upgrades over SDs - there might be two are three that are not.

[avrilfan]

halloween
mr and mrs. smith
mrs. doubtfire
i know what you did last summer
i still know what you did last summer
distrubia
res. evil 3
urban legend
harold and kumar/ white castle
batman begins

[dsa_shea]

I have 152 Blu-Ray releases including about 10 tv show sets and a couple of movie collections (Godfather, Dirty Harry). I believe of those I have 52 movies/sets that I have double-dipped on. I have double-dipped on both the Godfather and Dirty Harry collections and they both have been well worth it. I also double-dipped on Heroes: Season 1 and Prison Break: Season 1. Now I try to stick strictly to Blu-Rays only but sometimes you don't really have a choice.

[BuckNaked2k]

Far too many!

American Psycho (2000)
Austin Powers Collection: Shagadelic Edition
Aviator, The (2004)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Blade Runner (1982)
Body Heat (1981)
Casino Royale (2006)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Dark City (1998)
Doors, The (1991)
Dracula (1992)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Fifth Element, The (1997)
Firefly: The Complete Series (2002)
Godfather Collection: The Coppola Restoration (VAR)
Hunt for Red October, The (1990)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
King Arthur (2004)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lost Boys, The (1987)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Memento (2000)
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Oldboy (2003)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Top Gun (1986)
Total Recall (1990)
Usual Suspects, The (1995)
V for Vendetta (2005)

[Quake1028]

50% exactly.

[GizmoDVD]

Just counted mine. 17 out of 100. Wow...I actually did pretty good.

Probably another 45 or so in HD DVD

[The Bus]

I'd say a third or less on BD. I'm not paying $20-$25 to double-dip. I will pay $10 or so. And it will be a long time before most BDs are $10. That's why I only buy one a month, if that.

[SIUmark]

39/55 are double dips for me. I got good deals for now so I'm happy.

[Hammer99]

Interesting exercise, though I was afraid to find out the results:
Out of 379 BD titles,
131 are double-dips (34.6%)
50 are triple-dips (13.2%)
27 are quadruple-dips (7.1%)
4 are quintuple-dips (1.1%)
1 is a sextuple-dip (0.3%) Robocop - 1 LD, 4 DVDs
1 is a 'seventuple' (?) dip (0.3%) Terminator 2 - 2 LDs, 3 DVDs, 1 HD DVD
It's only money lol.

ETA: Forgot one, make that 3 quintuple-dips and 2 sextuple-dips:
Total Recall - 2 LDs, 2 DVDs, 1 HD DVD

[GenPion]

37 out of 94.

Um... wow. That's a lot.

[wormraper]

109 out of 384 blu's and HD's combined.

[droidguy1119]

The only one I can think of that wasn't was Be Kind Rewind, since it was a new release. I'm sure I have at least one other new release, but I can't think of it right now.

[Michael Corvin]

On dvd I was much more inclined to grab blind buys at $15 or less new release pricing. I am much more hesitant with Blu when they release for $25 or more. That being said, it shows in my collection. I'd say half are double dips. It's easier to stick with what I know until prices come down.

However, this fall will be big with all the summer movies I'm looking to get (Indy, Wall-e, Caspian, TDK & Wanted).

[jeffrey r]

I've been double-dipping a fair amount, and the sales on HD-DVDs were hard to resist and the recent Amazon and CH sales have bolstered my blu-ray double-dips.

What I have not done yet, and what I really want to avoid, is doing the hi-def double-dip ("HDDD"??), going from an HD-DVD release to a blu-ray release. All due respect to those who are doing it for an incremental improvement in audio (most reports I've seen so far have shown video to be equal or different, not necessarily better in blu-ray), I am really trying to draw the line at that.

But in general, once you start watching some of your favorite movies in HD-DVD or blu-ray, it's hard to go back to SD-DVD. But for movies that are not my favorites, SD-DVD is still ok for me.

[GizmoDVD]

Interesting exercise, though I was afraid to find out the results:
Out of 379 BD titles,
131 are double-dips (34.6%)
50 are triple-dips (13.2%)
27 are quadruple-dips (7.1%)
4 are quintuple-dips (1.1%)
1 is a sextuple-dip (0.3%) Robocop - 1 LD, 4 DVDs
1 is a 'seventuple' (?) dip (0.3%) Terminator 2 - 2 LDs, 3 DVDs, 1 HD DVD
It's only money lol.

ETA: Forgot one, make that 3 quintuple-dips and 2 sextuple-dips:
Total Recall - 2 LDs, 2 DVDs, 1 HD DVD

Oh man, you are brave. I'm kind of afraid to do that kind of counting...knowing how much money I've spent on the same title.

The only one I think comes close to you is Dawn of the Dead (1978).
I own the Theatrical and Directors cuts on VHS, the Theatrical, Directors and Ultimate on DVD, Theatrical on UMD, and the Blu-ray. I think I also bought the Laserdisc one at some point in time as well...can't remember for sure.

[Dean Kousoulas]

30 out of 42...ouch.

[bunkaroo]

Inspired by Hammer99, out of my current 353 BD's (counting Die Hard as separate even though I own the BD box) I'm at:

125 double dips (35.4%)
76 triple dips (21.5%)
13 quadruple dips (3.7%)
1 quintuple dip (0.2%)

What was the quintuple? None other than the venerable reference favorite - The Fifth Element! Original DVD, Superbit DVD, Deluxe 2-disc DVD, original Blu-Ray, Remastered Blu-Ray

I got the original BD free with my player, but it still counts I think.

Appropriate for the quintuple...

[Sweet Baby James]

What was the quintuple? None other than the venerable reference favorite - The Fifth Element! Original DVD, Superbit DVD, Deluxe 2-disc DVD, original Blu-Ray, Remastered Blu-Ray

I got the original BD free with my player, but it still counts I think.

Appropriate for the quintuple...
I think that you just put Luc Besson's kids through college.:)

[kefrank]

Of my 40 hi-def titles, 13 are DVD double-dips, so that's about 33%. Most of those were super-cheap HD DVD grabs though, so it was easy for me to justify.

I'm really trying hard to be careful about double-dipping, but there is no hesitation on classic titles like Cool Hand Luke or the Godfather trilogy.

[smashthesymbols]

For currently having such a small HD collection I have a lot of double dips. Thank God I'm cheap and didn't pay much for the HD version, or the DVD versions in most cases.

Blu-Ray
14 titles total, 64% are double dips
8 double dips
1 triple dip (Black Hawk Down: 3 disc DVD, extended cut DVD, Blu-Ray)

HD-DVD
30 titles, 67% are double dips
17 double dips
3 triple dips

[matome]

45% multiple dips (103 out of 227)

65 double dips
28 triple dips
5 quadruple dips
4 quintuple dips
1 septuple dip (The Fifth Element - laserdisc, original DVD, superbit, german SE import, R1 SE, Blu-ray, remastered Blu-ray)

[bunkaroo]

I think that you just put Luc Besson's kids through college.:)

No kidding, and I have Blu-Ray double dips of La Femme Nikita and The Messenger coming up, as well as a possible region free Leon import from Germany.

Damn you Luc Besson for making movies I like! :)

[starseed1981]

3 of 21

[clckworang]

I went back and checked last night and it's almost 50-50, though in truth there were 2 or 3 more on the double-dip side, but that will change because I have a lot of stuff pre-ordered that I didn't previously own. Should be interesting to check back after the holidays and see how that's changed.

[bunkaroo]

I'll be headed for another quadruple dip this coming week with The Thing (previous had the original Uni disc, SE and the HD DVD).

Also a triple dip on Sixth Sense (previously two different DVD versions), as well as 40YOV and Daredevil.
Gah it never ends.

[Cosmic Bus]

8 out of 37 HD-DVDs (22%)
3 out of 16 Blu-rays (19%)

Have mostly stopped double-dipping once I accepted how little use I get out of the movies in the first place. Buying something once is usually fine for me, and if I sell it and want to rewatch later, there's always Netflix.

[Michael Corvin]

What was the quintuple? None other than the venerable reference favorite - The Fifth Element! Original DVD, Superbit DVD, Deluxe 2-disc DVD, original Blu-Ray, Remastered Blu-Ray

For me it was:

Original (snapper case / flipper)
Director's Cut
Superbit
Ultimate Edition
Blu-ray

[Drexl]

What's this about a different "director's cut" of The Fifth Element? Are you sure you're not thinking of Leon?

[JimRochester]

HD DVD's 61 discs
36 new
23 double dips
2 triple dips - Smokey and the Bandit and Caddyshack

Blu-Ray 62 discs
32 new
29 double dips
1 triple dip - The Rock

I did have a couple Blu's that were double dips that I ended up trading away for other discs because I felt the SD was superior. I had the 4 disc SE of Pearl Harbor with the R rated cut and all the extras and The SE of Black Hawk Down I chose to stay with the deluxe SD of that as well.

I only counted original DVD's or LD's in the double dips. Anything that was VHS or a DVD-r wasn't counted

[fumanstan]

Of my meager collection of 25 Blu-ray disc's, 15 are double dips.