Why most people I know don’t have Blu-ray yet.

[GregBe]

For those not seeing a huge difference, how large is their display? The larger the display, the more noticeable it is. When I moved to a front projection system, the difference was huge. I still watch rented DVD's from time to time and enjoy them, but I wound up selling almost my entire DVD collection, because I didn't watch them when I had blu ray choices sitting on my shelf.

[Lordoftherings]

punman wrote:

Why most people I know don’t have Blu-ray yet.
These are some of the reasons I came up with. Why do you not have one or why do most people you know don’t?
1- I don’t have the money.
2- I don’t have an HD TV to show it on so why bother.
3- I think the players are still too expensive. Waiting for prices to decrease.
4- I think the movies are still too expensive. Waiting for prices to decrease.
5- I don’t think the quality over DVD is enough to justify the expense.
6- I can get movies through cable, or via Internet so why bother.
7- I think another medium is not far down the road so I will just wait for the next craze.
(For those who picked # 3 or #4, how much lower does it need to go before you jump on the bandwagon?)

I'll say because it is not their priority in their life at this moment, or even in the future.

[lcaillo]

Lordoftherings wrote:

I'll say because it is not their priority in their life at this moment, or even in the future.

I'd say that sums it up for me. We don't watch that much TV or movies anyway, and DVD is pretty good. I would like to have a BR player just because of my interest in HT and because I work with systems all the time, but we don't need one. Frankly, I could do without the HD DVR that we have from Cox and be perfectly happy with OTA but keep it because I like to be familiar with what my clients use. HT is not everyone's priority, and DVD is far better than where we came from.

[Prof.]

Quite frankly, I don't think most people even notice the difference!!

I've had people to my theatre when I was playing DVD's only..and the same people when I played Blu-ray's...Not one comment was passed to say the Blu-ray looked better!!

I really think you have to be a HT enthusiast with front projection, before it's worth changing to Blu-ray..