Is Blu-ray worth the price?

If DVD was worth it to you when it was first released. Then yes Blu-ray is worth it. Just make sure to buy them off amazon.com to get the best price.

Plus they upscale your DVD's so you don't lose your entire collection. Just get all the new movies on blu-ray and your good to go.

No. The jump from VHS to DVD did not only have huge leaps in visual graphics but the fact it had a new storage media that didn't degrade was pretty signficant. Blu-Ray just looks crispier, it'll be intresting to see if it picks up as fast as DVD did though.

I wouldn't buy a player because it's not worth the money right now. I wouldn't mind investing in a PS3 because you get both but right now the price for both the PS3 and standalone players are too pricey to be worth it. Wait until this 4th qtr and you might have a $300-$400 standalone player (although I still think that's too much for what you get). Who knows, PS3 might be reduced further this year when they figure out that their current pricing structure is wrong.

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

IsPlaystation 3worth the price ?
YES

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Bluray and HD-DVD are also beneficial for 1080i/720p owners as well. And the question of worth is entirely up to the individual.

answer = planet earth

you will see what blu-ray has in store you will be even more surprised to see what your hdtv is capable off thx to blu-ray...

i just cant think of a hdtv without a hd medium anymore no way im turning back to dvd...

now. bluray and hddvd will only be around for a few years i think so don't invest in either. downloadable movies will be the next thing.shoeman12

I can't wait to watch 300 in HD.

*three hours later after its downloaded*

Oh boy and its only 2am.

now. bluray and hddvd will only be around for a few years i think so don't invest in either. downloadable movies will be the next thing.shoeman12

there is no such thinglike a 2 gbhd movie

so when you start downloading have a nice time waiting...

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DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

ramey70

Bluray and HD-DVD are also beneficial for 1080i/720p owners as well. And the question of worth is entirely up to the individual.

go read sony's PR releases about bluray, pre-ps3 launch...

the ONLY thing they boasted about was "true hd", ie; 1080p.. and for that reason ALONE is why (according to them) it's the better choice (ignoring the high prices associated)

you're right about worth and the individual tho... as proven by the ps3's lousy sales...;)

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

[QUOTE="ramey70"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Bluray and HD-DVD are also beneficial for 1080i/720p owners as well. And the question of worth is entirely up to the individual.

go read sony's PR releases about bluray, pre-ps3 launch...

the ONLY thing they boasted about was "true hd", ie; 1080p.. and for that reason ALONE is why (according to them) it's the better choice (ignoring the high prices associated)

you're right about worth and the individual tho... as proven by the ps3's lousy sales...;)

I watch blu-ray movies in 1080i and they look spectacular. 1080p is for 50" tv's and up.

[QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

Bread_or_Decide

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT 1080p tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT bluray tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

What stance? When did I make any such stance? 720p/1080i/1080p are all HD and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Yeah and guess what you can still watch them in 1080i. Sony can market all they want. Blu-ray works with my 1080i tv. I honestly don't care about what everyone else is buying. I'm happy with how awesome all the movies look. Who cares about the rest of the world. All I know is all my friends want to come over to my house and watch movies and TV in HD.

For movies = yes

For gaming = no

[QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

Bread_or_Decide

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT bluray tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

What stance? When did I make any such stance? 720p/1080i/1080p are all HD and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Yeah and guess what you can still watch them in 1080i. Sony can market all they want. Blu-ray works with my 1080i tv. I honestly don't care about what everyone else is buying. I'm happy with how awesome all the movies look. Who cares about the rest of the world. All I know is all my friends want to come over to my house and watch movies and TV in HD.

so if 1080i is good enough... bluray really looks like a ripoff when hd dvd players are hundreds of dollars less....

i think sony would rather people bought their own br players rather than go to your house to watch hd movies tho...:)

i'm sorry, i just don't see the value in being forced to pay for something you can't use to its potential...

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT 1080p tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

As I've said before, Sony was dumb to ever push the nonsense that 1080p is the only "true HD" (granted many other company's do it as well".

Further, I still have no idea why you insist on why you somehow equate me to Sony. I own the Wii, 360 and PS3 and use my 360 more than the other two combined.

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT bluray tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

What stance? When did I make any such stance? 720p/1080i/1080p are all HD and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Yeah and guess what you can still watch them in 1080i. Sony can market all they want. Blu-ray works with my 1080i tv. I honestly don't care about what everyone else is buying. I'm happy with how awesome all the movies look. Who cares about the rest of the world. All I know is all my friends want to come over to my house and watch movies and TV in HD.

so if 1080i is good enough... bluray really looks like a ripoff when hd dvd players are hundreds of dollars less....

i think sony would rather people bought their own br players rather than go to your house to watch hd movies tho...:)

i'm sorry, i just don't see the value in being forced to pay for something you can't use to its potential...

The maximum potential of HD-DVD and the 360 is 1080p. Are we to understand you are using it to its full potential?

I don't think stand alone players are worth it, but it's a tasty extra when included in every PS3. Watching Blu-ray movies on a 1080p Samsung HD TV is quite the spectacle. But it's not for everyone -- some people are happy with just ordinary DVDs for the time being, and i'm cool with that. Right now, I would say Blu-ray is more a thing for videophiles and people who really like movies.

[QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

ramey70

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT bluray tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

What stance? When did I make any such stance? 720p/1080i/1080p are all HD and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Yeah and guess what you can still watch them in 1080i. Sony can market all they want. Blu-ray works with my 1080i tv. I honestly don't care about what everyone else is buying. I'm happy with how awesome all the movies look. Who cares about the rest of the world. All I know is all my friends want to come over to my house and watch movies and TV in HD.

so if 1080i is good enough... bluray really looks like a ripoff when hd dvd players are hundreds of dollars less....

i think sony would rather people bought their own br players rather than go to your house to watch hd movies tho...:)

i'm sorry, i just don't see the value in being forced to pay for something you can't use to its potential...

The maximum potential of HD-DVD and the 360 is 1080p. Are we to understand you are using it to its full potential?

it's better to understand i, like everyone else, has a choice to buy the hd dvd player...

no choice is afforded to ps3 customers.... at a hefty mark up...

look...i see you're trying to skew the topic from value... the facts are simply this: if the value was truly supported,bluray players wouldn't be being outsold by hd dvd players....

and the ps3 would NOT be in last place and sinking farther everyday..

the value may be supported by you, but you're in the vaaaaaast minority apparently...;)

I cant go back to watching regular DVDs. Even upscaled.

Any quality movie that comes out on BR will be a purchase for me. I am done buying DVDs.

The movies aren't that much more expensive. I have never paid more than 24.99 CDN.

no. bluray and hddvd will only be around for a few years i think so don't invest in either. downloadable movies will be the next thing.shoeman12

You have a valid point with the downloadable thing, buuuut there are a few things that show that disc media will last for some time. One they're tangible. I can hold one, look at the cover, and put it on my shelf. It cannot be deleted. Two, though the physical disc can take up physical space, I will never have to worry about throwing one disc away to fit another. Three, streaming media, with the internet connections all of our providers have supplied (and all they will for some time), has many faults. Speed, glitches, etc. Four, to get the full, uncompressed quality that you can fit on a disc ina download, you better have some bandwidth and a ton of it. Five, all they need to do is keep figuring out how to fit more layers and they can fit more data. More data allows for more quality and so on.

I have had my blu-ray/PS3 since last X-mas. By next spring, blu-ray will have one the war and I will have had a year with blu-ray under my belt. Was the extra $200 worth it for a player that will last at least 5 years? Yes. It has even been more worth it this year. I watch at least one new blu-ray movie on it per week.

no. bluray and hddvd will only be around for a few years i think so don't invest in either. downloadable movies will be the next thing.shoeman12

[QUOTE="ramey70"][QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"][QUOTE="tango90101"]

DVD didn't make you go out and buy a new tv just to get the most out of it..

bluray does...

so, no...bluray isn't worth the price....

most don't have a 1080p tv....

tango90101

Blu-ray isn't meant to make you buy a new TV. Blu-ray supplements the purchase.

After you get one you'll want more HD content. Thats when blu-ray comes in.

And with HD TV sales rising every year the future is looking blu.

sony's BIGGEST marketting point for bluray is/was 1080p..

a tv that 99% of tv owners DON'T have...;)

it's funny how you guys changed your stance from "1080p is the only true hd, so therefore blooory is better" to "bluray only need 720p"...:roll:

the main flux of hdtv selling are at the sub $1,000 mark..which are NOT bluray tv...;)

but hey..if you want to believe it's "worth it"..that's fine... it's just too bad the rest of the world apparently doesn't agree with yuou...or sony..

What stance? When did I make any such stance? 720p/1080i/1080p are all HD and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Yeah and guess what you can still watch them in 1080i. Sony can market all they want. Blu-ray works with my 1080i tv. I honestly don't care about what everyone else is buying. I'm happy with how awesome all the movies look. Who cares about the rest of the world. All I know is all my friends want to come over to my house and watch movies and TV in HD.

so if 1080i is good enough... bluray really looks like a ripoff when hd dvd players are hundreds of dollars less....

i think sony would rather people bought their own br players rather than go to your house to watch hd movies tho...:)

i'm sorry, i just don't see the value in being forced to pay for something you can't use to its potential...

The maximum potential of HD-DVD and the 360 is 1080p. Are we to understand you are using it to its full potential?

it's better to understand i, like everyone else, has a choice to buy the hd dvd player...

no choice is afforded to ps3 customers.... at a hefty mark up...

look...i see you're trying to skew the topic from value... the facts are simply this: if the value was truly supported,bluray players wouldn't be being outsold by hd dvd players....

and the ps3 would NOT be in last place and sinking farther everyday..

the value may be supported by you, but you're in the vaaaaaast minority apparently...;)

It isn't driving up the price significantly. $100 max at launch. A lot less now. You have a choice to not buy one. Please dont.