General Forum - buying ex-rental blu ray titles - Page 1

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With DVD ex rentals sometimes you get the film, and no extras, not sure about blu ray. I've not heard of the actual film being different though.

Am I not the only one who thinks Blue-ray HD disks will take a very long time till the public accepts them.

If you look at shops like HMV you see a half row of disks at most compaired to normal DVD.

The problem is that most people, including myself have spent a small fortune building up a normal DVD collection of over 100 disks and are not interested in another format, no matter how good.

Also HD in this country is very expensive, SKY HD adds more to you monthly bill, so not interested, and HD player/recorders are just a waste of space, at the moment, due to most people splashing out only recently on a normal DVD player/recorder.

Also due to the recession, I just cannot see Blue-ray taking off, like VHS tape and DVD disk did.

Blue-ray is a new format which came out just too soon for the public to accept.

You've been talking to Basbat ain't you?



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BluRay will co exist with DVD but it will gradually take over. If you are happy with DVD quality & many are good, there is no need to change. I only buy the BluRay & HD-DVD versions now, but I lihave no problems with my DVDs. Having said that the quality of a couple of them, ie early bond were poor on DVD & they were the special editions a couple of years ago, so I will replace them as & when with BluRay.

Firstly, it's Blu-ray. Secondly, it's already selling faster than DVD did at a comparable stage in its life-cycle. It's aimed at proper audio/videophiles, rather than 'Joe Public'. It's also backwards compatible with DVD, so you don't lose anything by upgrading. In my experience HMV has a shed load of BDs on their shelves as well. Not as many as DVD, but then there are less film available at the moment.

Having said that, you're not alone. Basebat is of the same opinion.

It'll take over eventually, just needs more people to buy the players. Atm pretty much everyone has a DVD player, most have more than one (say for the bedroom or kids rooms) because you can buy them sometimes for under £20.

A lot of people now have HD ready TVs, so it is only a matter of time before the cost of Blu-ray players begins to hit the same sort of price points that drove a huge surge in take up by the public at large.


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it is only a matter of time before the cost of Blu-ray players begins to hit the same sort of price points that drove a huge surge in take up by the public at large.
richersounds are selling a samsung blu-ray player for just over £80, and i'm pretty sure you can get an LG
and/or sony player at asda for around £100.

still remember paying £170 for a crappy LG DVD3200 back in 2000.... infact, that player was the reason for
joining the "reviewer" ranks.

Ste

Blu Ray will become mainsteam when

They stop making non Blu Ray players

Release all new films in Blu Ray format only