HD & You

[Psycho Circus]

I say screw it. I like grainy VHS quality or bog standard DVD. I don't like all this HD LCD, Blu-Ray balls. I don't want everything looking like a video game FMV sequence!

Wait, what?  Why would they look like FMV sequences?  Do you think films in the theatre look like video game sequences (since they're far better quality than 1080P HD)?   

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying! I care about the film, the characters, the scenes and the story, not how many inches I have on my Heihachi liquid giga-bob TV! DVD quality was great until Blu-ray came along, and everyone started drooling over that and got suckered in to buying their movies collections all over again. It's my choice if I want some £300 lump of plastic to rape my wallet, but I'm sticking with what I've got. 

[Torgo]

The main reason that I got my HDTV was to be able to watch sports in HD. It's like you're really there in person watching it due the much higher resolution. I also get all of the local channels in HD as I haven't gotten Direct TV yet (though I'll be doing that by this Spring).  The aspect I like best about my HDTV is being able to finally  take advantage of all of my anamorphic widescreen dvd's. As far as Blu-ray, I'm going to be very picky on what I replace out of my large DVD collection. Do I really need Child's Play in HD? Nope! Another thing to keep in mind is that buying an older movie in HD doesn't mean that they took the proper time to remaster it for HD and in a lot of cases just dump their existing masters onto the Blu-ray format.

[The Burgomaster]

As far as Blu-ray, I'm going to be very picky on what I replace out of my large DVD collection.

I probably won't replace any of my DVDs . . . I'll just start buying blu-rays of movies I don't already have.  When I made the switch from VHS to DVD, I bought everything new on DVD and either sold my VHS tapes on eBay or gave them to my parents.  I can't afford to do that again.

[Criswell]

Im only replacing movies i love to death (a lot)

[Torgo]

As far as older movies, when they finally ever release the original 3 Indiana Jones movies on Blu-ray, I'm definitely getting those.  They were supposed to have come out by this past Thanksgiving according to a bunch of reputable DVD sites, but then........nothing.

I've heard some bad things about the Stanley Kubrick box set in hi def as  a couple of friends of mine said that it's almost like the studio cleaned them up too much. Particularly Full Metal Jacket, they said that the people in that one almost look like mannequins at times.     

[hellbilly]

I don't own the box set but I bought The Shining and A Clockwork Orange recently. Both look great, especially The Shining. The wave of blood coming from the elevator was quite the "wow" experience in HD