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Las Vegas Dave
Blu-Rays suck. We got a PS3 specifically for Hairspray. That one was marvelous. About another hour of Special features. Enchanted was pretty good, and Superman Returns was okay.
I have found that most Blu-Ray don’t offer the special features that the DVDs do. For me, that is what I want to see. With the space available on a Blu-Ray, they could hand the cast handheld video cameras and put it all on as special features. Instead we get squat.
I have been telling anyone that will listen to me that upscaling is the way to go. We have upscaling on our DVD Recorder/player and it is very good. Blue Ray will be a temporary blip on the radar unless prices for it drop to regular DVD prices.
Great time for a new product launch, just as Blu-ray is solidifying their grip on the HD format. I can’t wait to see how this will turn out!
The devices won't record to Bluray but they will play Blu-Ray.
I have an inexpensive LG upconverter that produces an amazing picture on an HD screen.
Yawn. Wake me up when society has settled on one, and only one high definition standard. Till then, I’ll be perfectly happy with standard DVDs, they’re just freaking movies, they’re really not that important.
Dave,
For us, upconverting is the way to go. We have an extensive collection of DVD movies and select TV series on DVD, such as Combat, Poirot, Robin Hood and Columbo, 2,000+ at last count, most commercially available, but about 20% burned by ourselves from various sources, as they are not commercially available on DVD at this time. We do replace our ‘homemade’ DVDs as they become commercially available, as the extras and the quality of the print usually make it a good buy.
That said, let me further say that the vast bulk of our movie DVDs span the period from the 1930s to the 1950s. They are from native analog prints, in various states of quality. Some have been restored and digitized, but the source material is still acetate/analog. A Blu-ray version of these titles would offer us nothing over a a regular DVD of the same, upconverted.
Thank you for this tidbit of news. Perhaps it could be titled”Toshiba’s Revenge’?
God bless. Sursum Corda
Put me on the list. JUst got HDTV. I am a newbie and dumb. What kind of cable do I need to hook up? See I know nothing.
My PS3 plays Blu-Ray perfectly and my Denon ci-3808 up- converts regular DVD’s from my PS3 to 1080p just as fine ...Wait until you a**wipes have to buy a 1440p display...get a grip, technology will shift like the wind. And if you have to have the best you will pay for it. Like me. I love having the best...The good news is that all of this madness will end when I’m dead.:-)
What’s the big deal about Blu Ray? DVDs work just as fine without all of the other crap loaded onto the disc. I don’t care about stopping a movie and bringing up details about a scene as it is in Blu-Ray, I don’t care what type of clothes the actor is wearing, CAN’T I JUST SEE THE DAMN MOVIE?
I’m one of the suck, er enthusiasts that got one of the $99 Toshiba HD-DVDs when they had a big sale a ways back. I use it to watch standard DVDs and it looks great.. the up-verting is much, much better than I expected.
An aside, I went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie.. it was digital.. and, other than it being a very big picture, I was not all that impressed with the video quality. I felt like I was watching a big standard def DVD.
n 1987, Toshiba Machine, the subsidiary of Toshiba, was accused of illegally selling CNC milling machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union in violation of the CoCom agreement, an international embargo on Western exports to East Bloc countries. The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan, and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries.[1] The US had always relied on the fact that the Soviets had noisy boats, so technology that would make the USSR's submarines harder to detect created a significant threat to America's security. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania said "What Toshiba and Kongsberg did was ransom the security of the United States for $517 million."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba
Having a long memory, and Toshiba’s stunt back during the Reagan admin, I wouldn’t buy as electronic device from Toshiba if it turned lead into gold.
Toshiba executives hinted that it would soon release a standard-def DVD player that could compete with Blu-ray rather than endorse its rival.Thanks LVD.