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It just depends - I think of myself as very, very picky...

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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
Master & Commander
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
Godfather I & II
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.

Edits: 02/04/09

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RE: It just depends - I think of myself as very, very picky... - Tom Brennan 04:10:17 02/03/09 (3)
I understand you and I may go BD myself once a certain tipping point is reached. I have The Searchers on my DVR from HDNET movies but I'm moving soon and will lose it (along with Cheyenne Autumn, 2001 and several other good pictures). Seeing as The Searchers in one of my favorite pictures ( I saw it as a kid when it came out and I never watched Roy Rogers again) the move might do the trick.

I'm a big fan of the big format pictures of the 50s and 60s---Ben Hur, South Pacific, Ten Commandments, El Cid and such, Zulu too. Once enough of those are on BD I'm certain to go.
- You may be in luck then... - Harmonia 21:13:14 02/03/09 (2)
  ...as I think almost all those are in the works for BD. Zulu is out. I saw that one in theaters.
  
  I saw The Ten Commandments as a very small child, and certain scenes absolutely terrified me. I hated that the Pharoh's horses got drowned along with the soldiers and went screaming up the aisle.
  
  AFter seeing Ben Hur, I had simultaneous crushes on Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston.
  - RE: You may be in luck then... - Tom Brennan 22:46:27 02/03/09 (1)
    What scared me in The Ten Commandments was the killer green fog.
    Scar was scary as Hell in The Searchers and when John Wayne scalped him I freaked. Even then (I was seven) I knew that sometimes Americans scalped Indians but to see it on the screen was shocking.
    Seeing the road show version of Ben Hur in 1959 was when I became aware of hi-fi. When I heard the blasts of the overture's opening fanfare, reproduced magnetic multi-track through (presumably) Altec A4s or A2s I was hooked. Hell, I still prefer big Altecs over all other speakers and any system must pass the Ben Hur test to be first rate in my book.
    
    Edits: 02/03/09
    - Creeping green death for eldest born... - Harmonia 12:48:51 02/04/09 (0)
      It started dripping off the moon and coiling through the streets - I started covering my eyes. I wasn't enchanted with the lamb's blood on the doors either. I didn't like to see blood in those days.
      
      Speaking of blood, turning the water into pools of blood were scary too.
      
      Oddly, one of the things that scared me the most was when the Israelite slave got his loincloth caught in the log rollers.
      
      But it was Yaweh drowning the horses and charioteers that sent me running up the aisle.
      
      I think I was 4-5 years old.
      
      Ben Hur was the first movie that REALLY impressed me.I think live music presentation also had an effect on my enjoyment and desire for good stereo equipment, but certainly road show presentations like Ben Hur, How The West Was Won et al had an effect too.

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