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Well, however one wants to phrase it, the fact is that when Blu came out they touted the format as being so far superior to DVD as to leave DVD in the dust.
Then the complaints about playback failure due to firmware issues started to become more common.
Bluray obviously and very easily leaves DVD in the dust when it comes to video/audio quality and even people not concerned with these things can easily spot the difference between a Bluray and a DVD.
Maybe I was fortunate to never hear of the complaints you mentioned concerning Blu before I upgraded, because in all the years since I never experienced these issues. Of course, one may argue if in the times of fibre cable optical streaming physical media is still needed, and I'd agree, but there is no way I'd ever go back and be satisfied with DVD and or VHS picture/sound quality.
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Maybe I was fortunate to never hear of the complaints you mentioned concerning Blu before I upgraded, because in all the years since I never experienced these issues.
It's been discussed on this very discussion board.
If there are folks who never had glitchy machine, great. But the problems do exist.
I guess sometimes you get a lemon, sometimes you get a peach.
Of course, these problems apparently do exist, why else would people discuss them here. As I said, I was apparently fortunate enough to never heard of them before buying a bluray player, and never having experienced any issues with my bluray player. Blurays are more sensitive to scratches and fingerprints than DVDs or CDs are, though, but I never had a scratched Bluray either.
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The only reason I bought a player ( an old one) is because many new releases of older titles are only available in HD.
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Aug 12, 2019 - 10:32 AM
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Ado
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Savior of the visual arts?
Never heard anyone claim that about blurays
Well, however one wants to phrase it, the fact is that when Blu came out they touted the format as being so far superior to DVD as to leave DVD in the dust.
Then the complaints about playback failure due to firmware issues started to become more common.
And that's when I started to think, "Umm....", which lead to my flowery prose
I appreciate the fact that the players are backwards-compatible, but the added storage capacity and increased resolution are not game-changers to me when they are putting standard-def programming on the discs.
Bluray is factually a superior storage format to DVD, both in terms of sound and visual data. Now, just like a CD, you can of course put crappy content on it. Logically, the better and more refined the film content the more the bluray shows it off. Now 4k is an even further upgrade. But yes, there are many shows and films that do not really benefit at all from a bluray, it shows no improvement, because they were filmed in low resolutions equal to something less than 1080P.
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