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Watch Blu-rays? ;)

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:clap: Hear hear.

Off the top of my head, some recent & upcoming SD-only releases:

The Baby & Bloody Birthday (Severin)
Duck Soup & the rest of the 4 Marx Bros (Universal)
Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive (Discotek)
Gargoyles (Henstooth)
MST3K Volumes XX & XXI (Shout Factory)
Nightmare: 30th Anniversary (Code Red)
Strip-Tease [1962] (Mondo Macabro)
The Witchmaker (Code Red)

There's a whole world of SD cinema out there.

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Agreed. Which is why I buy movies, not formats. I still buy DVDs, even with a BD player. Best of both worlds and all of that...

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...using the technology to facilitate the cinema, not determine it. :thumbsup:

(I still view regional encoding as a worse culprit than formatting. Would anyone mind giving me an estimate of how much a region-free Blu-ray player would cost? I don't feel like doing the tech research. Suffice it to say, I'm on a budget. I don't care about snazzy apps, just something a bit better than defective junk. Reliable & simple. Thank you.)

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Regardless of whether you agree with my opinion or not, it is honest.

Yep, the trouble with generalizations is that they'll bite you in the ass. So, I'll revise my previous point:

Most major new releases on Blu-ray are priced competitively with their DVD counterparts and frequently (depending upon studio) come with both formats.

In the instances where this is not the case and you don't want to pay the price difference, a Blu-ray player will also play DVDs. Options are a wonderful thing.

Honest enough for you kinterboy?

I thought so.

Component cables are perfectly capable of 1080p, but the specs for HD formats (HD DVD included) don't permit it. But you're aware, aren't you, that 1080i is still "full HD" and is the format used by most broadcast networks? Most people will be unable to distinguish between 1080i and 1080p, and a Blu-ray player hooked up via component will still look fantastic.

Yes, there is, and a Blu-ray player will play it just fine. bboisvert's post says it all.

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I've been told that a Blu-Ray player might make my DVDs (don't own any Blu-Ray discs) look better, but I've also been told that I'll never get 1080p (Blu-Ray standard) out of a 1080i TV with no HDMI, consequently what you've said conflicts with everything I've been told up to this point. So, I trust you'll forgive me if I don't believe everything that everybody tells me. -kd5-

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If I was reading what you two were talking about, you were talking about the cables, Mr. Salty commented on what you said about the cables and you are now talking about the TV.

But he's right. 1080i still looks pretty damn good when I watch it cable channels. And my DVDs do look better when played on my blu-ray player. Does it look as good as full HD? No. But it's damn better than straight SD. Maybe my Panasonic player does a very good job of upconverting.

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I'll put it this way: Until I upgraded my receiver a year ago with one that has HDMI switching, I had my HD DVD player hooked up with component cables, running 1080i. The diffence between it and my Blu-ray player running 1080p was indistinguishable on a 50-inch screen.

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What movies have this tinting you're talking about ? Other than Matrix, I can't think of any strangely tinted movie out lately.

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I don't know about the other colors, but every frickin' recent horror movie can't be complete without some green.
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/5949/59s194.jpg

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Oh, c'mon, that's from one dream sequence which exaggerates the dreary hospital lighting, I don't really think it represents the overall lighting of The Descent. In fact, most of the color saturation was red, given the cave flares.

What I like even less than florescent greens is that saturated blue lighting that's used to simulate night time. I don't want to pick on Guillermo Del Toro, but he's a director that comes to mind when I think of overly blue palettes:
http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-conte...apien_blue.jpg

And I recall Matrix Revolutions having some really ugly blue lighting. Give me the green of the first one any day over those endless blue shots of CGI machines fighting CGI machines. :brickwl2:

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It was a wm lopez comment--it wasn't supposed to make sense.