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May 15, 2015 - 7:51 AM
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Ado
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...go ahead and spring for the Blu Ray and get the next generation a year or so down the road when the price comes down.
Thanks Ado. I think I will buy a Samsung Blu-ray player for 69.00 now.
I only have a few titles on Blu-ray: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Bye Bye Birdie and The Great Race. But, I have a large collection of dvds and can't really afford to upgrade all of them.
There are about 5 titles that I'm looking to buy, each with only a few dollars difference between dvd and Blu-ray. Since I do want the best picture possible, I'll probably spring for the higher end format.
Sounds perfectly sensible to me. I still have quite a few DVD's, depending on the player, there is some upscaling that can somewhat improve DVD quality on the Blu Ray player. I agree with your idea too, for your favorite movies, or just some movies that look amazing on BluRay - go ahead and spoil yourself, some amazing Blu Ray - 2001, Lawrence of Arabia, Blade Runner - if you are into that stuff, those movies are astounding on Blu Ray.
The rest of your library, you can just wait a while, and replace that stuff most important to you when you are ready. There is a good bit of stuff that still has to be remastered and cleaned up out there in the catalog as well.
Enjoy your new Samsung player. I am sure that you will.
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May 15, 2015 - 8:44 AM
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Ado
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The way to go is get a blu ray player.
Play the best blu ray titles you love with good transfers, play your DVD's that you still like.
I really do not have a problem with some DNR, I had no problem with Star Trek IV, people complain about it, but it looks so much better, the great deep focus lens work, you can finally see.
Same for ST TMP, it looks amazing in the original cut blu ray.
Yes, there are some movies that have terrible transfers like Secret of Nimh, it should not have been transferred at all, at least till they try a little harder. For that, yeah, you can play your DVD copy till it gets an improved master. For years the studios got away with crappy transfers for home video because they were VHS for a long time, so really no one could tell how bad they were, some studios have barely upgraded the DVD titles from that. The upgrade of studio catalog costs them a lot of money, but then, they can make a lot of money too. I think that the TNG upgrade was pretty expensive, but a resounding success, the remasters look good, and they have sold really well. The show looks brand new.
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May 15, 2015 - 11:27 AM
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Francis
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It's a crap shoot. There isn't even a consensus on what an HD transfer should look like. Many purest love film grain and want it on their Blu Ray. I hate it personally. (BSG TNS, Dare Devil) Though I am no fan of DNR'ing something to the point it looks like a cartoon either. (Star Trek 4) On the other hand I absolutely love (for the most part) Disney's animated remasters, they are crisp, clean and colorful.
I like film grain and am only in favor of DNR only when there is actual noise to remove. So far I've sold over 100 DVDs and upgraded them to their blu-ray counterparts and in all cases the transfers have more detail, better color and overall it's like re-discovering a movie when you get to watch it in HD. Some of these I thought I'd never get to experience this way, a lot of cult movies or forgetten low budget genre gems are being treated like royalty by the blu-ray specialty labels and that is a welcome addition to the otherwise familiar catalogue of classic titles.
Some films are simply unscaled or not cleaned up at all. This means tiny specs on film almost unseen on a DVD now look like a snow blizzard on a BluRay. So in fact the DVD looks better than the BluRay version. (Example: Secret Of NIMH)
I haven't seen NIMH but I am not bothered by the occasional spec, what you will see with blu-ray is when different film stock is used or processed differently, you will be able to tell for some shots. That adds to the charm. Same goes for some special effects which in HD clarity often don't hold up all that well. Those that do hold up for older movies, credit to the people who got it right. What I am saying is I'll gladly take the occasional spec if it means I'm getting more detail in the picture. So far the only movie where I preferred the DVD was the 90s version of Night of The Living Dead, but that had nothing to do with quality issues and more with different versions of the movie.
So overall for me where HD is available and depending on the movie, I'll gladly upgrade it.
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