Are people converting their DVD collections to Blu Ray?

Question

Are people starting to sell their DVDs and replace them with Blu Ray discs? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Absolutely - I have sold many of my DVD's and replaced them.

I, Robot

Independence Day

Men In Black

Spider-man 1 and 2

Twister

Arlington Road

Big Fish

Black Hawk Down

Cast Away

Die Hard Trilogy

Donnie Brasco

Enemy of the State

Flatliners

Harry Potter movies

Identity

Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Man on Fire

Master and Commander

Predator

Reign of Fire

Revenge

Signs

The Fifth Element

The Road Warrior

The Rock

The Terminator

Unbreakable

Waiting...

Wyatt Earp

I find the more I watch Blu-ray, the harder it is to stick on a DVD. Even upscaled the low bitrate MPEG-2 found on a DVD just looks terrible compared to the high bitrate MPEG-4 and VC-1 encodes on Blu-ray.

Unfortunately not everything sells.

There are movies I may not replace immediately. When I read reviews and see that not much went into a disc, like lots of Universal's HD DVD releases last year, then I will wait until perhaps they re-do a high definition release properly.

Knowing that The Godfather trilogy is coming out this Christmas restored frame by frame by film archivist Robert Harris has me overjoyed. The DVD's of The Godfather movies are absolutely awful. They've been restored and scanned at 4k resolution, maintaining all grain and shadow detail under the supervision of Coppola and original cinematographer.

Blu-ray is such a huge upgrade in audio that for me sometimes even if the PQ doesn't get fantastic ratings it's worth the upgrade. Comparing the 5.1 PCM track from Blood Diamond for example against the DVD's Dolby Digital track, it's laughable how awful the DVD sounds....like a 128 Kbps .mp3 track.

Answer 2

Some yes, some no....comedies and other movies that don't make use of the better sound and picture I am keeping on dvd, but science fiction movies, action, fantasy and movies based on comic books I am re-buying them on blu-ray because they look and sound so much better than the dvd version.

Answer 3

No, bluray discs are still too expensive. Although the quality is much better, I doubt I'll re-buy any except my favorite movies even when the price goes down. At some point they will stop selling dvd players and we will have to convert but I don't see that happening for many years.

Answer 4

im mixed with blu ray...the picture is great and it really shows off the images in, say, planet earth but in movies with a lot of cgi like the day after tomorrow, its obvious that its fake.

while i like blu ray, i wont be selling all my dvds and converting, especially at 30 dollars each!! thats like half a tank of gas!

Answer 5

I don't know why all the hype about blue ray dvd disc and players have to do with picture quality on blue ray technology it can't be much of a diffrience the only thing that really matters is the quality in the tv you have for example max 1920X1080p or over and the contrast 50,000:1 ratio or over should make any dvd player look spectacular so why spend all that money just because every body getting into it I'm like the matrix movie unplugging one person at a time and trying to make people believe your spending to much money on blue ray technology which I prefer to wait when it is much cheaper to get into.