What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
11-22-10 | 11:31 AM
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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.
11-22-10 | 01:08 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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?
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?
11-22-10 | 03:02 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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
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
11-22-10 | 03:20 PM
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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.
#2: price*
*some titles, it has to be a huge difference, some titles, not so much.
11-22-10 | 03:35 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
1. DTS
2. extras not on DVD
3. price
2. extras not on DVD
3. price
11-22-10 | 04:01 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
Lack of funds and 2 kids in college are a good motivtor to be happy with the SD's. Unless it's
11-22-10 | 04:16 PM
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11-22-10 | 04:32 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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.
11-22-10 | 04:42 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
1. Price
2. Replay Value
3. Transfer (or if the film is something I really need in BD)
4. DVD Extras carried over?
2. Replay Value
3. Transfer (or if the film is something I really need in BD)
4. DVD Extras carried over?
11-22-10 | 05:20 PM
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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.
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.
11-22-10 | 05:20 PM
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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.
11-22-10 | 05:29 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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.
But it also usually has to offer some new extra. Just an A/V upgrade doesn't do much for me.
11-22-10 | 06:22 PM
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11-22-10 | 06:32 PM
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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.
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.
11-22-10 | 06:34 PM
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11-22-10 | 06:34 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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.
11-22-10 | 06:36 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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!)
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!)
11-22-10 | 10:55 PM
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Re: What crteria do you have for whether to upgrade a title to Blu?
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