Blu-Ray Sucks - I'm sticking with DVD

[sneakers]

I'm happy to see that Blu-ray players have come down in price... but the media has not, and there's no way I'm paying $25 to watch Step Brothers. Plus the technology is still, bafflingly, dog-slow.

[Bryan Pope]

I'm happy to see that Blu-ray players have come down in price... but the media has not, and there's no way I'm paying $25 to watch Step Brothers. Plus the technology is still, bafflingly, dog-slow.

Hmm, Chris Null said the same thing. I mean, he said the exact same thing.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111749/the-best-and-worst-tech-products-of-2008/

[BrettCullum]

Wow! That was verbatim.

[HGervais]

I wonder if Chris Null also pays full price for every Larry the Cable Guy movie that comes out?

[Gobear]

I wonder if Chris Null also pays full price for every Larry the Cable Guy movie that comes out?

Who pays full price for any DVD? OK, I know somebody has to be keeping FYE in business, but with all the discounts available online and in B&M stores readily available it makes no sense to pay the full MSRP on any media.

[hoytereden]

I don't agree that the format sucks but I do agree that the discs have to be competative in price with standard DVDs for this thing to work. I'll pay $3-5 difference but $10-15?-not a chance. That said, I hope no one pays retail for the discs and if they do they have way too much money on their hands and should immediately start; and contribute to, a "Support Hoyt" fund. As for the technology-The basic nuts and bolts are there; have been for a while, but they keep adding, or updating things. Is this a bad thing? Not really. Frustrating; yes but in home electronics there is no such thing as a top, best, greatest thingamabob; only a current top, best, etc.... That said-I hope the format makes it. I support it and see that quite a few here do also.

[J.M. Vargas]

I may be an HD-DVD fanboy but I recognize a good deal when I see one. When the sale is right (and you have to actively look and hunt for the bargains, not wait for them to drop on your lap) some excellent Blu-ray movies can be had for an obscenely low price. During the Black Friday weekend amazon.com was selling the Bond movies at less than ten bucks each if you ordered all six! Right now you can get "Wall-E" and "Prince Caspian" on Blu-ray for less than 38 bucks and w/o tax (depending on the state you live). At most B&M stores you'd have to pay that much for just one of them. If you value the movie experience enough to invest good coin on an HDTV and decent surround sound then the boost in AV quality you get from Blu-ray is a phenomenal deal, especially when prices are either the same or lower than regular DVD. And no, "Stepbrothers" isn't worth $26 on any format!

I'll tell you what is hampering Blu-ray big time is the incompatibility of stand alone Blu-ray players with a wide variety of Blu-ray movies (particularly the one's with BD Live content). I'm on a budget and wanted to buy a co-worker a Blu-ray player as a Christmas gift, but there's no $200 player I can give to him with the peace of mind that most (if not all) Blu-rays out there will play on. Most of the below $200 BD players are older models and/or only 1.1 compliant models, which often crash because of how some movies are encoded. Even some 2.0 models (like the newer Sharp and Insignia models at Best Buy) are crapping out with movies that should be playable everywhere (google 'For Your Eyes Only' Blu-ray incompatibility for the most recent fiasco). The only Blu-ray players I'd feel comfortable with are the Sony BDS-350 and Panasonic 35 and higher, but those go for $250 or more. Until the PlayStation 3 continues to be the only bulletproof Blu player out there (a game machine running a distant third behind Wii and XBox 360 this holiday season) only AAA mega-blockbusters like "The Dark Knight" will sell over a million units, and mostly to owners that happen to fall under the commonly referred to as 'PS3 demographic.' Not the type of folks that will rush to buy chick flicks, documentaries and/or general type entertainment on Blu versus cheaper DVD alternatives (especially in this economy).

[Steve T Power]

Local Wal mart pricing:

The Dark Knight (2-disc SE) DVD - 23.88
The Dark Knight (2 disc) Blu-ray - 28.83

$5 in the difference. And people say that's too much?

People need to quit pissing and moaning about something that isn't an issue.

I walked into my local Future Shop today and they had over 100 blu-ray titles for 19.99 or less. Some damned good shit there for 12.99!(I nabbed Sin City) I don't see how people can still complain about pricing.

And i really think someone needs to address the nature of this particular thread. There should be moderation here, and a warning should be delivered.

[HGervais]

Well, sneakers post is plagiarism. So okay.