Well, some of you guys (and the $100 GC at Wal-mart) convinced me. I am a strong believer that downloads will be the future but at the same time, I am old school and do like having hard copies of the things I love.

I was going to wait and see where it all panned out but since I canceled all my HD cable in the last few months and HD-DVD died...I was going thru HD withdrawals and was in denial. I fucking hate that I have to support Sony but there is no other way unless I wait several more years for a different physical format (if that even comes) or for downloads to get their shit together.

I think boxes like the Roku Netflix box is the future but there is no timetable on when they will be HD and then you never know what content will and won't be approved for use. I love that the 360 can download HD movies but I refuse to pay 5 bucks for a rental that disappears in a few days or weeks. I love Netflix because I can watch my fill for a fixed price and plan to just stick with them for my BR needs (even if they decide to charge a little extra).

So I went and bought a PS3 yesterday and plan to use it strictly for BR. Can you believe the damn thing doesn't even include component cables in the box??? But that is another topic.

But this time I will not fall into the DVD pitfall of buying movies constantly only to want the bigger and better edition that is released a year or two later. I am going to stick to rentals only this time and will only buy movies that I feel I HAVE to own (which I am going to severely limit...but then I will either buy them new/used for 10 to 12 bucks. I got to where I would have unwrapped movies on the shelf which is silly. I still tend to only find the time to actually watch the ones that come thru Netflix while the ones I buy just sit and collect dust.

I got my first taste last night. Borrowed I Am Legend from a friend. Crummy movie but the picture looked damn good. :)

Congratulations, brianluvbd. :)

Yeah, the composite-only thing is really looking silly in this day and age for consoles, and I consider good cables a requirement now. Then again, what do they include? Some want HDMI, some need component. Including both would be kind of a waste.

It's funny you mentioned that name. It was cool and unique when I registered it near 10 years ago. Guess I am stuck with it. Ugh.

I would say they need a minimum of component cables included. They cost nothing nowadays and for a product that ties iteself so closely to High Definition, including just composite cables is pretty retarded.

I have over 2000 dvds, and just got a Blu-Ray PS3 player.

I will buy a "few" of my faves again in Blue-Ray, but no way am I going to replicate a huge #. I will rely on an upconverting player for that.

New movies going forward will primarily be Blu-Ray though.

Agreed. Microsoft worked it out (Composite/Component hybrid), why couldn't Sony? Cutting costs, but ah well, got over that one pretty quick, especially since my PS2 component cables worked with it.

BD will be out of date in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. So around July 9th, at around 10:52:50 PM EST. Yeeeah, my nerd moment for today.

Thats my stance on it. Upconverted DVDs don't look as good as Blu-Ray movies, but they still look good.

I replaced more than I thought I would with all the good deals last year, but I have slowed way down this year. I'm trying to buy BD going forward for new movies, but I'm only replacing DVDs going forward if it is a real favorite. If we start getting more deals where disc prices get around $10 I may start replacing more, but I don't see too many of those deals anytime soon.

I totally agree BD looks better than DVD, but DVD is hardly unwatchable. Both my PS3 and LG BH200 do a very solid job of upconverting DVDs.