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In Reply to: RE: DVD is based on 60 yr old NTSC technology and lossy DD/DTS sound posted by Tom Brennan on February 02, 2009 at 08:41:08
...and I'm going to buy a BD player.
I guess every movie fan, depending on taste and means, has a different threshold. If you have a smallish display, and you don't sit close, BD isn't probably gonna matter that much.
If your favorite movies aren't on Bd, then it m akes sense to wait.
For me, there are enough BD titles out now, and the PQ is so superior, that it's worth it to me to have 20-30 movies I really really like in the highest format possible. I don't have much interest in blockbusters. But there are enough good films - classics, foreign, indpendents etc. that I like for me to go ahead. Now that Criterion is releasing BDs, I expect that number to rise.
I'm actually buying far fewer movies of any type these days - if I like a film but don't absolutely love it, I'll rent it from Netflix. I'm sure there will be scores of movies I like that will never make it BD any time soon, so those DVDs will be staying in my collection. I only have a couple LDs left, neither of which is available on DVD. Heck, I even have some VHS movies that aren't on DVD (The Advocate, Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe).
I recently saw The Seacrhers and Pride & Prejudice on BD - WOW. Difference is not subtle so I gotta buy a player.
Here's a few of the films on my BD interest list:
The Searchers
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Casablanca
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Walkabout
400 Blows
BBC Planet Earth
An American In Paris
Amadeus
Let The Right One In (although I may go with the Euro import on this release, depending on UA version)
Pride & Prejudice (1995 and soon 2005)
Winged Migration
2001
Dr Strangelove
Becket
Dark City DC
Blade Runner
The Day The Earth Stod Still
Dog Day Afternoon
Harry Potter & The POA
Hunt For Red October
LA Confidential
The Last Waltz
Lonesome Dove
Life Of Brian
The Third Man
This does not count a dozen or so foreign BD releases not available in US that I plan to get like Zulu, In My Father's Den, Black Narcissus, Cabaret etc.
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