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How did I watch films before this?

Got the Band of Brothers set for Christmas. The clarity of the film is incredible!
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zjbell 12/26/2008 10:02pm
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I'm with ya Tiki.

I finally got a PS3, I'm watching "Crimson Tide" on BluRay... A little disappointing it's wide screen even though the package said nothing about wide screen.

Still an awesome picture.

What kind of TV do you have?
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CR250Rider 12/26/2008 10:20pm
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i own 2500 DVD's and prob not going to BluRay anytime soon.

maybe if they drop the price to like $10 or something.
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zjbell 12/26/2008 10:32pm
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I bought crimson tide and old school for 12 bucks at cosco today.
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When they start renting Blu Ray, I'll use the PS3 more. When I had my plasma flat screen, I bought a couple Blu Ray movies, but since that broke, and I had to go back to the Hitachi HD projection dealio, I stopped.

I'm buying Band Of Brothers and Dark Knight though, for sure.

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zjbell 12/26/2008 11:00pm
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Netflix rents blu ray.
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I just download the blu ray dvd rips.
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Tiki 12/27/2008 12:03am
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zjbell wrote:
I'm with ya Tiki. I finally got a PS3, I'm watching "Crimson Tide" on BluRay... A little disappointing it's wide screen even though the package said...
I'm with ya Tiki.

I finally got a PS3, I'm watching "Crimson Tide" on BluRay... A little disappointing it's wide screen even though the package said nothing about wide screen.

Still an awesome picture.

What kind of TV do you have?
Samsung 42. I got the Samsung, PS3 and the home theater last summer. Since then I got a few bluray films. Twister, Harry Potter for my wife. Really havent gotten many films as yet. My wife knew I wanted this Box Set, and she went for the Bonus on the BluRay. Just amazing on the image.

Crimson Tide is a great film. Good suspense.
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My wife got me one for Christmas along with Ironman. I really don't see the big deal about it ????
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BDOG wrote:
My wife got me one for Christmas along with Ironman. I really don't see the big deal about it ????
You need a better TV then. My wife got me one and I'll never buy a normal DVD again.
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dougie 12/27/2008 6:52am
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Do you need special equipment to watch Blue Ray?
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BDOG wrote:
My wife got me one for Christmas along with Ironman. I really don't see the big deal about it ????
X2!

I have a new 52 inch HD television. I can't tell the difference!

When my friends are over, they say they can tell.... But I sure as hell can't!

Them- Wow, look at the clearity....
Me- Looks like normal TV to me!

Them- Wow, the sound is incredible....
Me- Sounds like a normal surround sound!

I don't know what "difference" I'm looking for....
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zjbell 12/27/2008 8:28am
12/27/2008 8:28am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 9:39pm
It's not as easy as hooking up the BluRay player to your tv and popping in a disc.


More than half of my friends and family had either the wrong equipment or had it hooked up on the el cheapo.


My uncle had a 42" 1080p set hooked up to the cable coming out of the wall. My brother had his PS3 hooked up with the RCA cables. I've had plenty of people tell me "why would you buy a 1080p set?" and then hook BlueRay up to the 720 and quickly see what I mean. You have to buy the right TV to begin with. Remember that $200.00 you saved by purchasing a 720 over the 1080? Well, you'll wish you spent the money after watching a 1080p stream, especially on the larger size TV's.


In order to get everything out of HD TV and BlueRay you need a 1080p TV, Digital output HD Cable Box, usually only capable of 1080i-- Dish Netowork is trying to stream 1080p) Or a high def player (BluRay/HDDVD). Then you need a digital cable to hook it all up.


If you do all this right and still don't notice the great quality, you might want to get the eyes checked.
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pt 12/27/2008 10:15am
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BlueRay is dead...
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Waiting for Saving Private Ryan to come out on BluRay. That opening battle scene should be awesome in High Def.Smile
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What I don't understand is when your watching a hi-def movie on a widescreen tv and in some cases it still has the black bars at the bottom and top-isn't that why you got a widescreen for?
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mcphilly 12/27/2008 11:53am
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HuskyEd wrote:
Waiting for Saving Private Ryan to come out on BluRay. That opening battle scene should be awesome in High Def.Smile
Yeah that will be sweet, my wife got me Apocalypse Now on blue ray and it is unreal.

I think you can really tell the difference in the movies with a a lot of out door scenesSmile
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Tiki 12/27/2008 12:22pm
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dougie wrote:
Do you need special equipment to watch Blue Ray?
BluRay player. The PS3 is also a bluray player being Sony created it. I understand Samsung has reasonable priced bluray players. $150 or so. As ZJ said, it kinda goes to waste if you dont have a 1080pi monitor.

And - you need to run all the cabling HDMI, you can loose the detail in RCA plugs.
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What I don't understand is when your watching a hi-def movie on a widescreen tv and in some cases it still has the black bars at...
What I don't understand is when your watching a hi-def movie on a widescreen tv and in some cases it still has the black bars at the bottom and top-isn't that why you got a widescreen for?
What SuperFan was talking about...I'll expand a bit. Widescreen TVs are a fixed ration (16:9). But, widescreen movies come in a variety of different ratios...all close to 16:9, but rarely exactly 16:9.

There are three options to deal with this

1) Play it in native ratio and live with the bars
2) Stretch it so that part of the picture is outside the viewing screen
3) Stretch/fill so that it covers the whole screen without anything missing.

I go with 1 usually because you don't miss anything and people don't look excessively tall or squaty (however it's stretched). But, some folks find the bars distracting. Understandable.

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Moto95 12/27/2008 3:32pm
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Get Blackhawk Down on Blue Ray, it's unbelievable, so is The Dark Knight/
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CR250Rider wrote:
i own 2500 DVD's and prob not going to BluRay anytime soon.

maybe if they drop the price to like $10 or something.
you have 2500 DVD's and are not going to switch because of the price of the bluray discs?
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I'm checking everything out.
el moto diablo 12/29/2008 8:07am
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I want to see Planet Earth on blu ray but not till its time for a new tele
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jtiger12 12/29/2008 9:09am
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i have planet earth on blu, and its fantastic. Finally got a new 1080 switching receiver and surround speakers. The man cave is complete at this point, until i get my 1080P projector in the spring. I must say though, I have a really nice pioneer up converting DVD player and it looks CLOSE to blu on my 52" XBR6. Close enough that 70% of normal tv watchers won't catch the nuances like picture noise and washed out colors. BluRay really shines when you want a consistant PQ, and full uncompressed sound to a good theater system (THX, DTS, Neural, Dolby Digital) At screen sizes less than 50", with a proper HDMI hookup, there is not much diff between bluray and a good UP converting DVD player for the common folk. At 82" though, I bet anybody could tell the difference in my theater room when i hit the screen with bluray vs dvd. And you will definitely hear and feel the difference in audio a bluray soundtrack provides, granted you aren't using a cheap out of the box all in one surround system.
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Tiki 12/29/2008 9:12am
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el moto diablo wrote:
I want to see Planet Earth on blu ray but not till its time for a new tele
I have seen part of it. It came on a bluray sample disc.


H O L Y C O W - Worth the 80 bones.
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txmxer 12/29/2008 9:31am
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jtiger12 wrote:
i have planet earth on blu, and its fantastic. Finally got a new 1080 switching receiver and surround speakers. The man cave is complete at this...
i have planet earth on blu, and its fantastic. Finally got a new 1080 switching receiver and surround speakers. The man cave is complete at this point, until i get my 1080P projector in the spring. I must say though, I have a really nice pioneer up converting DVD player and it looks CLOSE to blu on my 52" XBR6. Close enough that 70% of normal tv watchers won't catch the nuances like picture noise and washed out colors. BluRay really shines when you want a consistant PQ, and full uncompressed sound to a good theater system (THX, DTS, Neural, Dolby Digital) At screen sizes less than 50", with a proper HDMI hookup, there is not much diff between bluray and a good UP converting DVD player for the common folk. At 82" though, I bet anybody could tell the difference in my theater room when i hit the screen with bluray vs dvd. And you will definitely hear and feel the difference in audio a bluray soundtrack provides, granted you aren't using a cheap out of the box all in one surround system.
screen size is definitely a lot of it.

the larger you go (relative to distance from the screen) the bigger difference the extra pixels make.

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