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Not that there is anything wrong with our DVD player but we could get a Blu-Ray and wireless the telly, have better picture quality and other percieved advantages that would make little real difference to quality of life. That and the discs seem to be more expensive than DVD. I might already have talked myself out of it actually. Hmmm...
You can have ours cheap, been used about 4 times in 2 years!
Depends. We like ours cause of the quite remarkably sharp images. Makes DVD look a touch out of focus. Secondly ours has the smart tv inside from sony, which includes iplayer and bbc on demand. Which we like, and our DVD is now at home with someone else.
I think we have used ours 3 times in 18 months. the picture is sharper but the price of blueray dvd's stops me buying them.
Blu-ray has superior resolution and uses better video-compression, resulting in more contrast and richer colours. Definitely sharper & a marked picture quality improvement over DVD IMHO.
I can’t comment on audio advantages really as I’m a bit mutt & jeff.
Won't change your life but the better sound and video quality will make your viewing pleasure better. New release only vary in price by about £2-3 most of the time bust you often get double or triple play in with that. Triple gives you Blu-ray, DVD (which seems silly) and a digital copy too.
You can get Blu-rays for about £5 and box sets like Alien films for about £16.
Big new telly... 5.1 and amplifier... Bluray... 2001 A Space Odyssey...Awsum 😀
I love mine. Goes well with a LoveFilm subscription.
Drac - I like the double play ones - buy lots of films for my girls and only have a PS3 at home but we have a DVD player for the car.
That makes sense I suppose.
yes, you will like the pretty pictures. no, it will not fulfil you.
Picture quality is definitely a step up, however to get the most from it, you need an AV set-up that can utilise the HD sound codecs - Dolby HD/DTS Master Audio. The difference is another level again.
Ideally you need to have a decent TV and a spare £2k to spend on an amp and some 5.1 speakers and maybe a sub.. Its a whole new experience when you can de-pressurise your living room with a sub whilst watching a film
Dunno as it needs to cost that much. Mine was a fraction of that and if I turned it up you'd probably all hear it.
We have Bluray via our PS3. I would not buy a dedicated Bluray player. Discs are pricey, except on eBay. You can't play games on a Bluray player.
There's no denying that on a 46" HDTV with Dolby 5.1, Bluray is crisper and better (contrast, blur, noise...) than DVD. But it's probably cheaper overall to get an Apple TV and watch movies in 720P or some in 1080P. They're not as crisp as some 1080P/24FPS Bluray movies, but they're good enough and better than DVD. Also, you don't have the discs hanging around. And you can also watch the movies on your iPod, iPhone, iPad or computer too. If you're in a Virgin TV area you've got a bunch of 720P HD movies on demand if you have a V+ box or TiVo.
Bluray? Nice, but it won't make your life much better.
Part of the driving force behind this is that I can borrow a friend's copy of Game of Thrones on BR for nowt whereas buying the DVD will cost me iro £16. Clearly the BR player will be rather more but, as mentioned above, a Sony one would get shot of all the wires we have running about the place for Internet telly.
As above - its great to have Bly ray with a love film subscription because it doesn't cost any more than DVD. I don't buy many because they are expensive.
Answer is yes if you add a HD projector and 5.1 surround.
I fear that a projector and surround would be a bit of budget creep. Anyway our house has glorious woodchip wallpaper that might not make for best pictu quality.
No, buy an apple tv or similar instead. Then you can have nice hd movies without all the faff of those antiquated disk thingys.
If you have a Sony Bravia TV and buy a Sony Blu Ray Player the one (TV) remote control will work both units.
The two integrate together very well.
Shop around, I found a good Blu Ray player on offer and it was worth buying, can't say I notice much difference in quality but as our DVD player had failed it seemed like the way to go.
If you can stretch to getting a PS3 get one of these instead as this will get updated by Sony. My 14 month old Sony Blu Ray player isn't going to be getting an update so that I could have Netflix on it whereas the PS3 is getting this.
If you have a Sony Bravia TV and buy a Sony Blu Ray Player the one (TV) remote control will work both units.
This is a feature of HDMI, not Sony. The smart link stuff is universal, whether it's "Bravia Link" or Regza Link or whatever, it's the same thing and interoperable.
Whilst the Sony BD units are great (it's what I bought), don't feel locked into a brand just because 'that's what your TV is'.
I love mine. Goes well with a LoveFilm subscription.
Yes, we have a Love Film sub and we always get BluRays which we play through the PS3, which also acts as a media hub, and of course a games machine. Worth considering a PS3 imho if you're in the market for a BluRay player.
A blu ray player and a love film subscription go together like STW and endless, pointless bickering 🙂
No television and blu ray will never make you're life better unless you are a fat slug who never goes out and has an aversion to fruit and vegetables.
The only fruit I have an aversion to is Dale Winton.
Blu-ray may make your life 'better' for about three and a half minutes, after which time it becomes 'normal' and you then need to find the next thing to make your life 'better' ... the whole materialistic consumer culture operates on people never being satisfied with what they've got ... although I realise if everyone held that opinion we'd all still be living in caves eating leaves and berries
Will it make a difference to your life - no
Is it the best way to enjoy movies - probably
The picture is great, but if you have a good sound set up the sound is immense - almost all Blu Rays have DTS and its absolutely amazing.
I'm sure the sound pressure levels it can generate must be illegal in 48 states or something!
unless you are a fat slug who never goes out and has an aversion to fruit and vegetables.
There are slugs who have an aversion to vegetables? Can they please supplant those in our garden who refuse to let any vege plants get out the ground without gobbling up the leaves.
I can't remember the last time we watched a Blu Ray Disc in our player, but we use it every day for the internet TV stuff it allows e.g. iPlayer. Even without ever playing a Blu Ray disc the players are good value when hooked up to the internet
Yes, we have a Love Film sub and we always get BluRays which we play through the PS3, which also acts as a media hub, and of course a games machine. Worth considering a PS3 imho if you're in the market for a BluRay player.
+1
Also since paying Lovefilm £10.00/month I've not been spending silly money down the local hire place or purchasing silly amounts of dvds & blurays from local supermarkets.
Have a top end DVD player, cheap BR and Freesat HD feeding a projector. Image is sharper on the BR than the DVD (on a 96" screen). But the thing that annoys is access speed. The BR is soooooo slows compared with the nice Sony (reference) DVD player.
Sound is good, but there is nothing wrong with DTS from DVDs.
To be honest, a good upscaling DVD player is a cheaper investment if you have a big DVD collection already.
I own a BR player, but in all honesty, most the films which are available are shite. Save your money.
However, if you do get one, buy Blade Runner. Incredible!
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Blu-ray may make your life 'better' for about three and a half minutes, after which time it becomes 'normal' and you then need to find the next thing to make your life 'better' ... the whole materialistic consumer culture operates on people never being satisfied with what they've got ... although I realise if everyone held that opinion we'd all still be living in caves eating leaves and berries
Idiot. How is your cave by the way?
Are you mates with Kaesae?
I was given a blu ray player as a gift for some work I did. Although I've only got a few Blue ray movies, it does have a USB socket which is great for playing HD movies TV series from on a stick/card. The films I have are Shrek 3, Chronicles of Riddick and 300. All look great. To be fair though you can probably pick up a lot of used Blu Ray movies on Amazon.
Further to this does anybody know of good a Blu-ray specific storage tower/shelf/case etc?