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. Of course, what investment? The movies cost like $2 more, if that (with exceptions, of course) and the quality is night and day. You're right, 720 vs. 1080 is not noticeable until you get beyond probably 40" tvs. DVDs can't take advantage of your 720 television though so you're kind of screwing yourself by not getting blu-ray. The one thing that people don't realize, and what's the cause of certain people to say blu-ray/hd isn't worth it, is that older movies have questionable transfers to blu-ray. If an older movie was originally made on poor quality film by the production company, it's not going to be all that much better than when it was made on DVD. Movies made beyond the early 2000s won't have this problem though. It's worth it, even though occasionally you will find movies filmed with so-so equipment that simply was not all that great in the first place and has only marginal improvements with blu-ray.. On the other hand, they say Blu-ray has the potential to over take HD-DVD's with its capacity advantage and the possibility of an improved player.
I do like streaming (I'm streaming Taxi Driver with Amazon now), but there is something to be said for having something physical. I've downloaded several TV shows through iTunes, and while I've enjoyed them I'm missing out on quite a bit. There are no special features and I'm limited as far as the number of times I can transfer/burn the files.
DVDs first came out in the US back in 1997 and they didn't stop selling VHS until 2008, so maybe the switch to Blu-Ray will be similar.
I just order a Blu-Ray player today for $100, so I'll see if it lives up to the hype. If not I can always return it.
From what I know and heard from my friends, the only thing Blu-ray is superior to HD-DVD is the capacity having 50gb and 30b at the most respectively. In terms of quality, which is dictated by the bit-rate, surprisingly HD-DVD's provides a slightly higher bit-rate its opponent. However the difference is virtually impossible to notice when it comes to watching movies, games are a different story however and yes me has ps3
If you ask me though, price is a helluva factor. HD wins for now.
Ughh forget what I said then. My Asian perspective doesn't relate.
It was one of the first 3 I got when I got my blu-ray player. I also got Snatch, eventually, and that's one of those movies that probably is not much better than the DVD version.
