Blu-Ray

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Here is a chart comparing Blu-ray quality with the RED camera resolution.



Blu-ray currently offers us 1080p whereas the RED One camera shoots in 4k. Look at the difference. We definitely have a long way to go!

[One-Way]

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I think pretty much all Blu-ray players are dvd compatible so it's not really a "switch". It's like an add-on.

The switch I was referring to was buying Blu-ray instead of DVD.

An HD-projector sounds great though! Should be pretty exciting setting up a home theater!!!

Long overdue, my friend.

I have the entire concept in mind, which isn't excatly a concept, but I know what I want.

[Sip]

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I think pretty much all Blu-ray players are dvd compatible so it's not really a "switch". It's like an add-on.

An HD-projector sounds great though! Should be pretty exciting setting up a home theater!!!

[One-Way]

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After thinking about this long and hard and doing some much more extensive research, I think I may switch over to Blu-ray.

We were planning on moving and if we end up moving soon enough, that will make me switch over without really thinking twice. One of the reasons is because I will build a home theatre in one of the rooms. This will allow Blu-ray films to live up to its hype; with an HD projector and surround sound.

With Criterion supporting Blu-ray, it's evident Blu-ray is going to take over eventually. The scary thing is RED is already pushing the bar with not only an affordable 3k camera, but EPIC 617, a camera that shoots 28k!

I think Blu-ray will go strong for at least 10 years, but given 4k TV's are made affordable by big companies like Sony, that's going to replace Blu-ray. I'm already dying to see 4k resolution in its entirety and thinking about that makes me less excited for Blu-ray's 1080p.

[MrHyeSev]

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Maybe just like VCR's dont exist anymore/no one has them anymore, but we dont know whats going to happen.

[Sip]

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Blu-Ray owns but i don't get it. Instead of buying just blu-ray for $500-600 why not just buy a ps3 for 400 and enjoy both the gaming experience and blu-ray

Much like all other electronics (with the exception of video game systems that are heavily discounted to get people to buy the games later), blue-ray players are quickly dropping in price compared to their initial price-points. I think you can get them for less than $200 pretty easily these days and a lot of times they just give them away with buying new high-end tv's. The prices will continue to drop for the basic players while I doubt they will drop much more on the PS3's any time soon (never know for sure).

[Sip]

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I think Blue-Ray is already obsolete. I stopped using DVDs about 4 years ago (except for data backup) and have no plans to buy any sort of blue-ray device (unless it comes with something that I was going to buy anyway like a laptop, ps3, toaster or whatever).

I doubt blue-ray is going to replace DVDs much like DVD's haven't really replaced CDs. I stopped using CDs more than 10 years ago and most people have pretty much stopped using CDs these days. I think the same will happen with DVD/Blue-Ray media in the coming decade. DVD's will stick around for a while as the legacy video format while blue-ray will temporarily serve as the high-end media format until people migrate to higher and higher bandwidth connections with larger and larger local random-access storage on their media playback devices.

[Federate]

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Blu-Ray owns but i don't get it. Instead of buying just blu-ray for $500-600 why not just buy a ps3 for 400 and enjoy both the gaming experience and blu-ray

I know many people who have done that even though they barely play PS3 and it's what I would do as well, if i'd ever want to buy that.

[One-Way]

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Some people don't need/want a PS3. They just want a standalone player sitting in their room instead of a PS3.

[Pazooki]

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Blu-Ray owns but i don't get it. Instead of buying just blu-ray for $500-600 why not just buy a ps3 for 400 and enjoy both the gaming experience and blu-ray