I bought one Blu ray and noticed that on my 32", 720p TV, there's no visible difference. (Thankfully my Blu ray player is a PS3, and I do really love my games in hi-def.) So that's it for me, until I get a bigger TV, which may not be for some time. I've always been perfectly satisfied with DVD, and the selection of movies on Blu ray is still extremely limited - at least for us who aren't interested in Hollywood's latest remakes.
So what is stupid about getting something extra for the same price? Yeah, it would be stupid if they are charging you more for something you don't want or need, but I haven't seen any of these where the cost is any different than other Blu's. More > less in my book, whether you have any use for the DVD copy or not (and some people do, such as portable DVD players, computers, or even just to give away or sell).
They'll have to pull my DVDs from my COLD... DEAD... HANDS!!!! :lol: I've yet to know anybody personally to take the dip on blu-ray, but a few days ago I overheard some guy in the blu-ray section of Target rave out loud about how he scored GODZILLA '98 for only $10! Sad, but true!
New movies I own that looked awesome on blu with a full HD TV: 30 Days Of Night Rambo (2008) Knowing The Last House On The Left (2009) Orphan Drag Me To Hell So, bottom line.Blu is for watching recent movies, NOT old flicks.
hmm I think older movies are more impressive than their new cousins , wizard of oz, halloween, towering inferno, terminator , texas chainsaw massacre and so on
You must not look at older titles such as New York Ripper or Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue. These movies look far superior on the blu format than their DVDs.
...which is exactly why I won't even look at them--I just cannot afford to start replacing my collection at the point (probably never).
Nothing more complicated than: it seems like waste that a company would offer this. I just don't get it.
Not sure why companies do it but I am guessing that for some of the larger distributors it may be somehow more cost advantagous to sell both the blu and the DVD together in one package as opposed to having separate releases.
If that's true, too bad these geniuses couldn't have forseen this when half of them started out selling full frame and widescreen discs separately.
Yeah seriously. I always hated that. Especially when I was overseas with the military and all the PX's would always stock the full screen versions and not the widescreen ones.
Something else (like this isn't enough) about that... is when 20th would put out just one and label it "Fullscreen" as though you had the option to buy widescreen if you passed on this one. Go home, check Amazon.com and find out the "Fullscreen" version is the only one they released. I think they pulled that shit with Eye of the Beholder. And later Sony with Wild Things.
Whatever with digital downloads, digital copies, flippers of the standard DVD - if I wanna keep the standard DVD I'll just clone it. Give me an incentive to upgrade by offering me a rebate for my old DVD. Love Blu's!!!!!
The first dvds for Wild Things were flippers with WS on one side, FS on the other. Then Sony took over Columbia-Tristar and re-issued this and hundreds of others like it with just the FS side (and the same UPC to make it even harder to track down the orginals). I could name a bunch right off: The Fan, Sheena, The Deep, Idle Hands, Money Train are ones that pop right into my head, probably cuz I had to track them all down from ebay and amazon after the FS only versions were all I could find in stores. I saw a list once and will try to find it again and post it if I do.
This is not the list I was thinking of, in fact I think this is wave 2-4 of the WS cuts from Sory (love that Simpsons joke): Adventures Of Milo And Otis Air Force One The Best Bite The Bullet The Body The Buddy Holly Story Chances Are The Cheap Detective Deep End Of The Ocean Desert Heat Futuresport Gattaca Geronimo: An American Legend Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Hard Times I Dreamed Of Africa Jackie Chan's Who Am I? The Juror Knock Off MacKenna's Gold Madeline Mercy No Way Back Nowhere To Run The Odessa File The Order Roxanne Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book Screamers Silent Rage Starman Stepmom Suspect Sweet and Lowdown The Thirteenth Floor Two Moon Junction These look more like what I recalled, even if it's a different site than I recall seeing them on and a shorter list than I remember: Part 1 and part 2.
