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To: Las Vegas Dave
My personal observation about Blu Ray is that it will eventually die out. I have a 60" Pioneer Kuro and have watched several Blu Ray DVD's and they are good but not the distinct difference over traditional DVD's as DVD was over VHS players.

Being on a fixed income now, I get all my DVD's from the public library and copy them in case I don't have time to watch the original. The library does not stock Blu Rays and even if they did, there is no economical means to copy them at this point in time..........

There are also only two avenues to rent DVD's at this time. One is thru Blockbuster at a premium if you wish Blu Rays and the other is Red Box, which does not stock Blu Rays.............

With that being said, I don't see Blu Ray taking off and replacing the existing DVD technology..............In fact, I expect it to die out.

10 posted on 09/13/2011 6:12:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I don't know--I have both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and the Blu-ray version is jaw-dropping in clarity on my 40" Sony KDL-40EX500 LCD panel.

By the way, be aware than many "cheap" Blu-ray players do not properly upscale conventional DVD discs. I have a Sony BDP-S370 that does upscale the resolution, and DVD discs look really good, though of course you can see the limitations of the 480p source material.

14 posted on 09/13/2011 6:49:11 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Hot Tabasco
"There are also only two avenues to rent DVD's at this time. One is thru Blockbuster at a premium if you wish Blu Rays and the other is Red Box, which does not stock Blu Rays............."

Uh, Netflix??? DVD or Blu-Ray or streaming.

18 posted on 09/13/2011 7:04:59 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Hot Tabasco
My personal observation about Blu Ray is that it will eventually die out. I have a 60" Pioneer Kuro and have watched several Blu Ray DVD's and they are good but not the distinct difference over traditional DVD's as DVD was over VHS players.

I cannot say if Blu-ray will "die out"; but you should definitely see a difference between DVD & Blu-ray. It may not be as dramatic as VHS & DVD because VHS was crap compared to discs. VHS was crap compared to laserdisc.

19 posted on 09/13/2011 7:18:01 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: Hot Tabasco; RayChuang88
Hot Tabasco wrote:

I have a 60" Pioneer Kuro and have watched several Blu Ray DVD's and they are good but not the distinct difference over traditional DVD's as DVD was over VHS players.

I edit HD video and make both DVDs and Blu-ray discs of the exact same content, and the Blu-ray picture is outstanding compared to DVD.

20 posted on 09/13/2011 7:38:22 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If you don’t see much difference, you need to visit your eye doctor, or check that you are properly set up.


23 posted on 09/13/2011 10:45:32 PM PDT by moonhawk (The only problem I have with burying Bin Laden at sea is that he was already dead.)
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