Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 305

Edit: Damn you, multiple tabs!!!

xhonzi said:

This is the inspirational quote on my calendar this week:

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

-Bill Gates

It's also one of the best examples of irony I've ever read.

I don't buy many movies these days (I've turned psycho-minimalist after always owning too much stuff), but I fuggin' love the Blu-Ray format. For movies I'm not ridiculously attached to, I totally dig HD Netflix streams. But for those few films (Blade Runner, sigh, Star Wars, etc.), it's so great to see such amazing presentation. In the right hands, Blu-Ray is the shiz.

On another note, I'm happy to finally post this. After all my turmoil getting the Harmy and dark_jedi edits of these films, I thought I'd show my gratitude by making an awesome box set for myself and a couple of friends, so they can appreciate the efforts of the fan community. If Lucasfilm won't put these on my shelf, I will!

cthulhu1138 said:

I don't have a BluRay player for one reason. It's honestly not much of an improvement. Don't get me wrong, I notice a difference, it's just that 1080p isn't all that good when I can down... um... AQUIRE 4k rips of Tron Legacy and others.

I think those people are largely in a minority, whether it is on a film forum or just in the general public. If you can't see the difference between a DVD and a Blu-ray you need your eyes checked. Even on a 21" monitor the difference is night and day unless you are comparing a poor example of a BD, in which case I would agree the difference is more subtle.

I think the best educational tool is actually broadcast HDTV, like sports and the like. You can switch from one channel showing it in SD to another channel showing it in HD and it's like two different shows. When my family members did that, just by chance, the true quality of HD hit them (and HDTV broadcasts usually aren't good compared to BDs).

I've got 1 (count 'em) BD!!

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

I literally don't have the cash to spare at the moment as my girlfriend lives in a different country and most of my disposable income is used visiting her.

There won't be any wide-reaching resolution upgrade after HD/BD. The technology exists now--there are 4K projectors. The problem is that it outstrips the limits of what the human eye can resolve. When you are dealing with a 36" monitor (sort of the "average" size now?), there simply isn't detail that the human eye can easily measure at such low screen size. You'd have to take a magnifying glass to see the difference.

On a large screen--not a 48" screen but like a fifteen-foot-wide projection screen--you may notice an improvement, but it won't significant enough to upgrade. Only theatre owners will benefit from 4K and even now a lot just stick with HD and 2K projectors because they can't see the expense in getting 4K ones, which have existed for some time. I think eventually all theatres will have one 4K (and maybe in some decades 8K?) deluxe screen for large-format stuff like IMAX or whatever becomes it's equivalent, but I just can't see anyone putting that in their homes. It would be a waste of money.

I don't have a BluRay player for many reasons.

I do not want to torcher my self! If blu ray is so much better than DVD

Than it would be torcher ever time I had to use DVD after getting accustomed to blu ray.

And even if I had an the $$$$$$$$$$$ to buy all the BluRay movies I ever wanted. I still would not be able to fined over have the movies I now have on DVD. And even with DVD I still every now and than have to go to VHS for movies that do not have DVD’s.

I do have a HD LCD TV but it is a 32” 7:20P and with up scaling and the right settings I can make the GOUT look slightly better then one of those old SD Projection TV’s.

The reason I got the HD LCD TV was because, I hade always wanted a big screen tv but in the small room I had I could only put a 20” 4:3 CRT. And will

Letterbox on a 20” 4:3 looks like… will you know.

I do have 5.1 surround sound. Well 5.0 surround sound I cant have a sub woofer in the building I live in.

Something else to bear in mind when discussing how big the leap from DVD to Bluray is - some TVs/players have better upscalers than others.

DE

I remember the good old days of last week, when this thread was about Star Wars...

*swoon*

One last thing.

I remember seeing a split screen comparison of DVD and Blu ray in a store. I know fore shore they did there best to make the DVD look its worst. But to me the blu ray was almost to clear. With such a hi resolution you could have seen every things Even things that you should not see.

TV's Frink said:

I remember the good old days of last week, when this thread was about Star Wars...

*swoon*

Some threads just get hijacked, 1 of mine did recently, so I just went ahead and changed the thread title for them, so I will just make a new thread when I have something to add or report.

Obviously I don't mind a little deviation from the topic but this is just getting silly.  I'm sure a DVD vs. BR (:p) thread in another section of the forum would be better for this discussion.

skyjedi2005 said:

Pros for laserdisc over vhs and dvd.  No region code and no macrovision.

Pros over Blu ray no drm.

Hacks or ways to bypass macrovision and dvd region lockouts were taken care of though not necessarily legal under USA laws.

Blu ray could have been without region codes or lockouts but Sony and some studios did not want that because of reverse importation.

While a Blu ray movie that is in region A say a japan release will also work in the USA, a Blu ray pS3 game will not.

All PS3 games are region free though. /offtopic