What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
 

I need to be able to better resist the urge to upgrade every SD title I have as they become available on Blu-ray, and I was wondering what criteria others have found useful.

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Price and will I watch the movie anytime soon. Its that simple.

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1. Rewatchability
2. Transfer
3. Price

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I ask myself the following questions (more or less in order)
1. How much do I enjoy it?
2. How much do I want it?
3. Will I want to watch it many times?
4. Is it worth the money?

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Better picture and sound is a given.

1. Does it, at least, have all the extras of the previous dvd version/versions ? If not, no sale.
2. Is is a release of one of my absolute favourite movies ?
3. Price

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My love for the movie.

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#1: how much it improves on it's DVD counterpart (transfer/sound/extras).*
#2: price*

*some titles, it has to be a huge difference, some titles, not so much.

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1. DTS
2. extras not on DVD
3. price

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Lack of funds and 2 kids in college are a good motivtor to be happy with the SD's. Unless it's <$10, I'll only upgrade movies I watch at least once a year, had an inferior SD, and got an excellent HD transfer

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I'm curious why DTS is a factor for you? Among the lossless codecs, the DTS flavors don't have the same bitrate advantages as they did in the lossy DVD realm.

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DTS Blus always sound richer, fuller and louder on my system than English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Blus and much better than its DVD counterparts' Dolby Digital 5.1 mix.

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1. Price
2. Replay Value
3. Transfer (or if the film is something I really need in BD)
4. DVD Extras carried over?

My view is a bit different than most: when it comes to movies, if I can get it for $10 or less I will upgrade to BD. If I don't care enough about the movie to upgrade then I don't care enough to keep the DVD. But I only have a few hundred DVDs, as opposed to the thousands that some have, so I've already been fairly selective over the years.

With the exception of a few favorites, I don't care about extras because I only watch them once anyway. So a barebones BD is ok for most titles.

I am less likely to upgrade TV series because the expense would be too great. But it isn't likely that most of my TV on DVD collection will ever get released on BD, so the question is mostly moot.

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Either your mind is playing tricks on you or your hardware has a processing bug. Have you done a level-matched comparison of the same source mix? DTS HD-MA and Dolby TrueHD (processed properly) both provide bit-for-bit transparency to the source. Any differences you're hearing are either placebo, differences in the source mix, or decoder/processor problems. The codec itself is not the issue.

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Mainly price, no Blu gets bought for over $10 except Criterions and exclusives.

But it also usually has to offer some new extra. Just an A/V upgrade doesn't do much for me.

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This makes absolutely no sense.

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Pretty much the same for me.

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1. Is it on Blu-ray?
2. ???
3. Profit.

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If I haven't watched it in the past ten years then it's not getting upgraded.

If the movie has a new transfer that looks better than an upconverted DVD.

If I think my enjoyment of the movie will be enhanced by seeing it in high def. Not every movie needs the high def treatment, plain and simple.

Price...if I am buying it again it has to be a good price.

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your incessant condescending & dour attitude on these boards makes no sense.

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For me I'm not upgrading any DVDs unless there's a massive improvement in quality or if I only had it in other-region DVD before.

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My rule is simple- I have to have watched my existing copy on my current setup first- if it looks 'good enough' and/or I just don't really love the movie as much as I may have used to, it doesn't get upgraded.

Standard DVD widely varies by title- I thought Boogie Nights (the original issue, 3rd DVD I ever bought) looked pretty good still, but Independence Day looked like ass (picture much too soft due to compression.)

Blu-Rays that don't have the original mono or matrixed surround tracks don't get upgraded no matter what- I won't buy "The Terminator" with only the newfangled 5.1 mix (granted it does sound pretty good, but that's not how it's supposed to be!)

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That doesn't explain your weird audio set-up or lack of hearing.

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I always upgrade.

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This, i sold 99% of my DVD collection to get started on blu and now have around 200 DVDs left (I had like 2300) I mainly kept my "Grindhouse & Drive-In" collection since most of that stuff wont go blu and I still have alot of WWE DVD sets that are never gonna go blu