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

Posted by Harmonia (A) on February 2, 2009 at 20:47:40

In Reply to: RE: DVD is based on 60 yr old NTSC technology and lossy DD/DTS sound posted by Tom Brennan on February 2, 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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