Do you honestly think Blu-ray is the future?

I don't remember the last time I bought a dvd. I currently have a huge dvd collection, so the thought of buying some of those movies again just to have it on blu-ray seem nonsensical to me. Especially when I know in a decade, blu-ray will probably be obsolete. All of my movie watching is now done on demand or I just download it. I think for games will be different. I will continue to buy physical media for them but I really do see services like Steam the future way many of us will get our games.

Don't care since its just a format. It won't affect my games much and I'm not a movie guy all that much so, whatever I guess?

I guess Blu-Ray is great and all, but I know me and most of my friends/family don't have the fancy televisions and what not to show a difference from DVD's. I completely agree with the download and streaming thing, that is probably a more probable future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021012.stm

I buy all my movies in Blu-Ray.

Don't care since its just a format. It won't affect my games much and I'm not a movie guy all that much so, whatever I guess?

ActicEdge

on topic, I see it being great for gaming, but not so much for movies. The movies cost way more than they have any right to, especially when I can just get the dvd and upscale it.mtron32

I remember when DVD's were the same price.

A little different though, as not every household has a HDTV yet, therefore DVD's are the way to go, for most.

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Don't care since its just a format. It won't affect my games much and I'm not a movie guy all that much so, whatever I guess?

mtron32

So I could give my input. I explained why I don't care and thus have contributed. I cared enough to respond to the thread if that is what you are getting at.

I don't remember the last time I bought a dvd. I currently have a huge dvd collection, so the thought of buying some of those movies again just to have it on blu-ray seem nonsensical to me. Especially when I know in a decade, blu-ray will probably be obsolete. All of my movie watching is now done on demand or I just download it. I think for games will be different. I will continue to buy physical media for them but I really do see services like Steam the future way many of us will get our games.

bphan

Just because you dont buy blurays doesnt mean it will be obsolete... If you dont want to buy blurays rent it; how much times are you gonna watch it if you buy a hard copy?

Yes. I think people still needs a physical media, and BD is the best choice, but it could be the last. Movies will allways be available on a physical media, because getting the same picture and sound quality with all the extra's, it'll have to be one very big download or stream. And when you buy a movie or a game, you want to own it, and having it on the hdd that can fail anytime is'nt the same. And how big do these servers have to be if they are going to have every single movie that is ever made on there? Especially in good quality. And how will the internet connection in my area and servers hold up if everybody is streaming or downloading 1080p movies after work? Way into the future it will be possible, but not now.

I buy BD when the movie is worth having on BD, animation movies or action movies like Transformers or Batman. Drama movies can stay on DVD only, hehe. But what I have started to do alot is downloading games from the PS Store for my PSP or PS3, and that is something I can see getting more popular in the future. Being able to download those old games for example.

This isn't Format Wars. Just thought you should know.

[QUOTE="mtron32"]on topic, I see it being great for gaming, but not so much for movies. The movies cost way more than they have any right to, especially when I can just get the dvd and upscale it.-Traveller-

I remember when DVD's were the same price.

A little different though, as not every household has a HDTV yet, therefore DVD's are the way to go, for most.

well, yeah it is the future because not everyone wants to wait for a download or rely on the internet to watch a movie. or pay yearly fees.

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[QUOTE="mtron32"]on topic, I see it being great for gaming, but not so much for movies. The movies cost way more than they have any right to, especially when I can just get the dvd and upscale it.mtron32

I remember when DVD's were the same price.

A little different though, as not every household has a HDTV yet, therefore DVD's are the way to go, for most.

Yeah, it's not so big this time. I see movie-buffs, and people who are into tech to go this route. Certain families may do, but I can't see all of them doing it.

I love watching a good HD transfer of a movie. There are some bad ones out there though :(

Not for gaming.Next-Gen-Tec

[QUOTE="Next-Gen-Tec"]Not for gaming.ermacness

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[QUOTE="Next-Gen-Tec"]Not for gaming.tmatte

My parents have 2 HDTV's in their house with a blu-ray player hooked up to one of them. Guess what they buy 95% of the time? DVD's... Blu-Ray will never be as popular as DVD because most of the general public (including my parents) do not see any reason to spend $5-$10 more for a blu-ray version of a movie since most can't tell the difference between native 1080p blu-ray movies and upscaled 1080p DVD's... IMO blu-ray doesn't really offer a huge advantage unless you're a videophile and need the best of the best.

Asbroadband speeds get faster, more affordable, and computers/DVR's get bigger hard drives, I think downloading movies from the net or a special movie service is the future, not blu-ray.

My parents have 2 HDTV's in their house with a blu-ray player hooked up to one of them. Guess what they buy 95% of the time? DVD's... Blu-Ray will never be as popular as DVD because most of the general public (including my parents) do not see any reason to spend $5-$10 more for a blu-ray version of a movie since most can't tell the difference between native 1080p blu-ray movies and upscaled 1080p DVD's... IMO blu-ray doesn't really offer a huge advantage unless you're a videophile and need the best of the best.

Asbroadband speeds get faster, more affordable, and computers/DVR's get bigger hard drives, I think downloading movies from the net or a special movie service is the future, not blu-ray.

It's probably the future of cheap solid state media. I'm sure blu-ray will be fairly common on PCs in a few years.

Of course I do? What else is there? Plus it looks great, I just bought 5 new ones on the weekend :)

For physical media yes, because it hasn't been cracked yet and hollywood will push it as far as it will go until it is cracked to cut down on piracy.

no

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021012.stm

fahadq8

Beautiful! :D

If they're the future the future isn't now, the Blu-ray disk drive in the PS3 is more of a burden than a aid. Current generation console games receive next to no benefit from Blu-ray storage space, it in fact suffers because the PS3 Blu-ray disk drive is only fast enough to support HD movies.

Perhaps when we have 1GB Vram so use massive art assets in games and Blu-ray disk drives are much faster on consoles people will start seeing beneifits.

For physical media yes, because it hasn't been cracked yet and hollywood will push it as far as it will go until it is cracked to cut down on piracy.

shakmaster13

It was cracked a long time ago.

My grandad god bless him who was a real tech head just passed away a few weeks ago. He left me his blu-ray player and a collection of 11 blu-ray movies. I can see the difference but...

..its not a huge difference over 576p DVDs upscaled on my 720p TV. At their current price point I'll still but DVDs and settle with 5.1 surround etc. Unless Blu-ray comes right down in price, its never going to become mainstream.

I buy and rent ONLY Blu-Ray. I cannot predict the future but as for the here and now yes Blu-Ray 100% for me.

My grandad god bless him who was a real tech head just passed away a few weeks ago. He left me his blu-ray player and a collection of 11 blu-ray movies. I can see the difference but...

..its not a huge difference over 576p DVDs upscaled on my 720p TV. At their current price point I'll still but DVDs and settle with 5.1 surround etc. Unless Blu-ray comes right down in price, its never going to become mainstream.

DAZZER7

Everything is downloadable soon so really the need for another format will be unnesessary in the very very near future.

For the next 8 years or so yeah.

All I know is BD is awesome and once you go BD, there's no going back!

I buy all my movies on blu-ray. Especially animated movies, they look amazing in blu-ray:)

My grandad god bless him who was a real tech head just passed away a few weeks ago. He left me his blu-ray player and a collection of 11 blu-ray movies. I can see the difference but...

..its not a huge difference over 576p DVDs upscaled on my 720p TV. At their current price point I'll still but DVDs and settle with 5.1 surround etc. Unless Blu-ray comes right down in price, its never going to become mainstream.

DAZZER7

It'll come down in price, much like DVD's did. Any new technology costs a fortune to produce unfortunately.

SMPTE Makes Blu-ray Mandatory for 3D

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[QUOTE="mtron32"]on topic, I see it being great for gaming, but not so much for movies. The movies cost way more than they have any right to, especially when I can just get the dvd and upscale it.mtron32

I remember when DVD's were the same price.

A little different though, as not every household has a HDTV yet, therefore DVD's are the way to go, for most.

you skipped a step. CD was before DVD. What about from CD to DVD? It's the same as DVD to Blu-Ray

downloads aint the future either until we have speeds that are acceptable dls will have to be like they are now-small games or last gen ones old ones,

anything less then 7 gig , most of its less then 1 gig , the xbox originals would be the only ones to be over 1 gig

bluray is the future for movies but dvd will stil be sold along side it because sd dont do bluray

but games its not even worth the cost sony learned the hard way as not every developer fills a dvd

I don't remember the last time I bought a dvd. I currently have a huge dvd collection, so the thought of buying some of those movies again just to have it on blu-ray seem nonsensical to me. Especially when I know in a decade, blu-ray will probably be obsolete. All of my movie watching is now done on demand or I just download it. I think for games will be different. I will continue to buy physical media for them but I really do see services like Steam the future way many of us will get our games.

bphan

Not for gaming.Next-Gen-Tec