Are you going to replace your DVDs for the new format?

[Edge]

Well I won't be one of those people who goes and gets the new technology when it first comes out. However if it catches on I probably would eventually.

My main love affair with DVD's is convienence more than anything else. I love having an entire season of a show on a few DVDs.

I wouldn't go out and get a whole new collection of movies though. I might get the ones I really love such as POTC, but as a whole I'd use it more to get new movies and replace older movies as they got worn out or used.

Personally I'd prefer backwards compatibility as I'm always a fan of that. As of right now though I am not totally convinced this is the next wave. The average consumer will only allow so many technology leaps in their entertainment purchases. The video game industry {mainly Sega} and Laser Discs have proved that.

Backwards compatibility would go a long way in solving that problem but who knows if it'd actually happen.

[The Little Merman]

Oh please! I will got for this Blu-Ray/HDDVD crap! I have been collecting DVDs for so long, and I am in no need to buy a new player and I don't have a HDTV....Plus- it probably won't even sell because 87.5% of the United States does not care about new technology, when 50% of the people just got a DVD player!

[MickeyMouseboy]

I am! I'm upgrading to Blue Ray!

[thatartguy]

Oh please! I will got for this Blu-Ray/HDDVD crap! I have been collecting DVDs for so long, and I am in no need to buy a new player and I don't have a HDTV....Plus- it probably won't even sell because 87.5% of the United States does not care about new technology, when 50% of the people just got a DVD player!

Yes, this is why stores like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. aren't some of the fastest growing companies in the United States.

[bmadigan]

I will not replace what I already have, but I have been holding off on buying the Pixar films, since I figured they will show the biggest improvement in Blu-Ray.

[Starion]

New format? What new format? You mean HD-DVD? I might buy the HD-DVD versions of my existing DVDs. I don't think I'll sell or give away my current DVDs and VHS tapes. I'll buy future movies in HD-DVD format.

deathie mouse: Thanks for posting some nice links to threads about HD-DVD and Blue-Ray.

Ok will the new blue ray and stuff look just like dvds and still use dvd case packaging?

Good question. I don't know. Maybe. If the packaging or sizes of the case are similar, I might confuse the DVD and Blue-ray cases with each other.

The diameter of a blue ray disk is 120 milimeters

[purplebluelove99]

first of all I just started collecting my dvds in 2003. And my collection is still growing. So no I don't think I am going to change over to another format to soon. What's wrong with regular dvds? Let the rich people try out this new format, doesn't anyone remember what happened to laserdisc and laserdisc players? They were too expenisive and too clumsy. And the machines were too costly. Wait for something to be in the consumer market for a while before you try it out yourself. We did that with the dvd player and we didn't get one until 2002, when it started taking off and the price dropped.

[thatartguy]

Well, the main thing to remember is that the DVD's you collected aren't going away. It's not like when you first bought a DVD player all your VHS copies disappeared. (Although I almost instantly forgot about them when I got my DVD player.) I absolutely have not touched a VHS tape since, unless it was the only option.

The same thing happened once companies put out Widescreen movies instead of hack and slash, I mean pan and scan versions.

[deathie mouse]

Here's a pic of a Fuji Blu-Ray single layer equivalent of a "DVD-R" sold in Japan:


CD, SACD, DVD-A, and DVD-V (Movie DVDs) prerecorded media have all had different cases, so i'll imagine Blu-ray, and HD-DVD (AOD ), will have their slightly different cases too. Or at least they might try for a while to differentiate the product, but they probably will still look similar to the current ones since all are 5" (12cm) media.


Starion you're welcome
At some point I hope I'll post pics too

I think the better informed UD members are the better the choices they will make. We still have to see real demos of real products, so till they arrive it's all numbers and theoretical speculation for most everybody.

There are very few displays you can go see in stores that would demostrate the real difference in quality (Heh, actually there are very few displays in stores where you can see how good EVEN DVD is. I was at the mall today and no display there looked as good as DVD can look. Not a single one.)

btw I think LD's were less clumsy than videotape I didn't have to fast foward or rewind. In fact I sometimes find navigating thru DVDs more of a chore than on LDs

And i got to watch movies in higher quality widescreen versions with Digital Uncompressed Dolby Stereosurround sound that sounded better than most theaters for many years more and no i am not rich I just love movies and music maybe too much I stilll have them.

[orestes.]

I've started seeing people state which version they would rather support and well it looks like 75% of the time it's HD-DVD.

Soon I'll have my high definition widescreen television so I might get a player when they go down in price. Now I have to decide which I should support.

[Evil Genie Jafar]

I was at the mall today and no display there looked as good as DVD can look. Not a single one.)

Probably had you gone to a mall in PR named Plaza, you could have seen some good TVs on display


...actually I went today myself and can say deathie is right.

[Squirrel]

I'm quite satisfied enough with the quality of the DVD's ... that I know I'm not gonna worry about it (any upgrading, that is). Especially since it's taken me two and a half years (and a lot more money than I should've spent) to get the video collection I now have. I don't want to be buying videos forever. And as for more storage space ... I rarely look at extras, anyway. So, as long as the movie itself is there, and looks rather nice, then ... I'm happy with it.

[TM2-Megatron]

The quality of DVD is fine for the moment, I think. Buying into either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD when they first hit the market would be ludicrous, considering the fact one of them will surely be failing eventually; and what will you do if you chose wrong?

I may limit the DVDs I do buy only to movies I particularly like or limited edition things like the Treasures series; but I won't be going for either of the next-generation discs until all movies are on a single format. Basically, the same reason the next-generation Audio CD market is still fairly limited. Sure, it'd be nice to have it; but there should really only be one.

[Disney Guru]

I am sticking with DVD, I can't afford to convert to this idiotic new format. And this format is going to go the way of the "Beta tape, and the Laserdisc"

[HalRoachFan]

I'm staying with DVD myself, everyone. The change from VHS to DVD was good enough. What people wanted was their music and movies to be in digital format so that they'll never lose quality. I don't think this is anything to worry about, because I predict this format will not succeed as many people are satisfied with their DVDs.

I don't believe for a second when people say the Blu-Ray disc is a more dramatic change than going from VHS to DVD. I bet if I compare the quality for DVD to Blu-Ray, I wouldn't tell enough difference to get interested in replacing my current collection for the new format. So what if it has more space? DVDs are good quality already; we don't need any new formats, at least for a good long while.

If one day I need to replace a broken DVD player, and a Blu-Ray player will play regular DVDs, I may buy one if the prices are good. But no, I am not replacing my current DVDs.

[Noriel]

I don't intend on purchasing a second copy of a disney movie I already own. I would purchase the DVDs if they were my favorites, but as of the moment... all of my favorite movies I already own are the Special Edition. I have Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound and The Sword in the Stone DVDs, which I probably won't purchase again if they come out in a new edition. I like the quality the movies are already... so why buy another copy?

[Leonia]

It really depends. If it's a favorite movie with substantial extras or a better transfer (visual and auditory) not found in current DVDs, then yeah, I'll definitely go for the high-def version.

Otherwise I'll just stick with regular DVDs.

[toonaspie]

Only for films I am a huge fan of.

Or maybe just The Lion King.

[Margos]

I'm not going to bother. When DVD finally does kick the bucket, I'll upgrade to get any new films, but I'll just pick up OOP DVDs of older ones. I can't possibly replace my entire DVD collection!

[Cordy_Biddle]

I have other 1,000 titles in my DVD collection (movies and TV series). I doubt most of the classic movies are going to be leaping to Blu in the near future--most took their sweet time in coming to DVD in the first place, let alone video.

I'll replace them if a bigger, better edition comes along on Blu-ray, but I'm happy to collect both formats for the forseeable future.