Do you have a BluRay player?

Minstrel27 · 18-08-2011 04:30PM

I have a PS3 for my Bluray player.

I will buy Bluray where possible but only online. Shops are rip off merchants.

If I want to buy a Bluray that is region locked and released in America only, then I will download it instead of paying for it. Only stupid bastards don't implement region free on their Bluray discs.

Bluray = Betamax?? What?

Aodan83 · 18-08-2011 04:34PM

I don't have a BluRay player, but I selected all the options in your poll anyway. That'll learn ya, with your fancy colourdy DVDs.

DanTheMan91 · 18-08-2011 04:34PM

I had a PS3 and watched 1 or 2 blue ray films, didn't notice anything spectacular.

Magic Beans · 18-08-2011 04:37PM

Blu Ray player with a 1.5 TB external USB drive attached and loaded with full HD rips (6-8gb each). Sweet.

Duggy747 · 18-08-2011 04:40PM

Don't have a bluray player but I do get HD movies, especially if I'm in the mood for watching older movies again.

Die Hard HD

18-08-2011 04:46PM

I have 2 players (not ps3), dont own 1 blu ray disk.

8gb hd downloads are where its at tbh.

In saying that Watched the dark knight on the blu ray player and the quality is ridiculous, way better than any download.

Angron · 18-08-2011 04:55PM

Yes I do, the PS3. I don't really watch movies though, it's just for games. I think the rest of my family have used it the odd time for Blu-Ray though.

Mickey H · 18-08-2011 04:58PM

Haven't gone near Blu-ray yet to be honest.

Would prefer a DVD over an avi to be honest. An actual DVD blows away a .avi file burned to DVD in terms of sound quality especially if played on a 5.1 system. There's just no comparison between re-coded 2.0 sound and original 5.1 sound.

18-08-2011 05:03PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH4g_ua5es

Stinicker · 18-08-2011 05:31PM

Just to add my own input I have a Bluray player and a BluRay drive in the pc, I find it useful as a storage medium, but not as handy as an external harddrive.

I have only 8 or 9 BluRay films however I have rented at least 20 titles this year and usually go for xtravision €2 deal. BluRay disks are not too expensive as others have said and all of my titles have actually been bought in the North or whilst in England, buying anything like this in ROI is just a mega rip off.

I have a 2TB drive with dozens of 1080 BDrips and for every bluray disk I'd have several films on the harddrive. Just it takes ages to download a 10GB or 8GB rip. I could count the amount of times I went to the cinema on one hand in the last year since I got into BluRay and downloading. I still find the majority of people I know downloading off crap like torrents and frostwire and this gives really mixed results, usually cams and crap.

Vicxas · 18-08-2011 05:33PM

Dont have one, getting one for star wars tho!

Vicxas · 18-08-2011 05:33PM

Double post.... odd

deathrider · 18-08-2011 05:35PM

I'm still stranded in DVD Land. I don't have a bluray player, and even if I did, I don't have a HD TV so it would be a complete waste. Happy enough with DVDs though. I spent ages buying DVD versions of all the old horror flicks I used to own on video, and I don't fancy re-buying them all again on bluray.

muppetkiller · 18-08-2011 05:50PM

I've had blu-ray for a few years now and to be fair unless you have the Right TV and sound system there's little point paying the extra for a Blu-ray disk.
When you do though it's simply brilliant.

MysticalRain · 18-08-2011 05:57PM

Don't have a need for Blu-ray disks myself. There are plenty of torrent sites where I can download either a compressed 8GB rip or full quality untouched Blu-rays.

x_Ellie_x · 18-08-2011 06:00PM

I don't have a BluRay player and I don't have any plans to buy one in the near future. I'm sticking with my DVD player. Honestly I can't really tell the difference between the two because I don't have the best eyesight so there's no real point in me buying one. Plus I don't really buy DVD's anymore (except for TV boxsets). I usually download my movies (since I usually just watch them the once) or record them on the sky box & save them to a DVD disc. I also have a 1TB media storage box that I can plug into my TV. Got it for only €100 in PC World, best thing I've ever brought - it comes in handy when I download tv episodes and movies, I can watch them on my 62in TV instead of my small laptop screen.

Magic Beans · 18-08-2011 06:00PM

Mickey H wrote: »

Haven't gone near Blu-ray yet to be honest.

Would prefer a DVD over an avi to be honest. An actual DVD blows away a .avi file burned to DVD in terms of sound quality especially if played on a 5.1 system. There's just no comparison between re-coded 2.0 sound and original 5.1 sound.

And on the 6th day God created MKV and He saw that it was good and it soundeth fncking great.

bonzodog2 · 18-08-2011 06:12PM

I'm more interested in the plot of a movie than HD video. I mostly download 700MB avi's and watch on a laptop, so I've no plans to get BluRay capability. I use DVD-R for some data backup, or to make video DVDs for people with older players that don't do divx.

SuperInfinity · 18-08-2011 06:19PM

Why would anyone watch a HD movie on a laptop? It's just a ridiculous concept. Plug your laptop into a proper monitor at least.

gregers85 · 18-08-2011 06:22PM

I connect my hard drive to the usb port on the BlueRay so can watch downloads on the big TV haha

DjFlin · 18-08-2011 06:27PM

I've reached a point in my life where I hate all the 'stuff' I've accumulated. So I ripped all my DVD's to a single 1.5TB hard disk, and stuck them in the attic. I've got an Xbox 360, so if I want to see a film in HD I'll happily stream it from Zune. Same goes for music, no discs for me.

subway · 18-08-2011 06:33PM

Zune, 700mb avi rips without ac3
Did someone mention limewire...

Wtf is this thread about?
Isn't there an old folks forum for this type of thing?

18-08-2011 06:36PM

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Why would anyone watch a HD movie on a laptop? It's just a ridiculous concept. Plug your laptop into a proper monitor at least.

Laptop screen are a bit small especially if you have a 13.3 inch however most are HD now, I know mine is and the picture quality is excellent. If you dont have a monitor its not such a ridiculous concept at all. I have a 20inch monitor which I usually use but the laptop is actually better if you are watching very high quality stuff.

Voodu Child · 18-08-2011 06:38PM

I download 1080 rips and convert them to Laserdisc. Quality ends up better than any Bluray, and it's a proper manly-sized disc, none of this poxy 12cm rubbish.

Biggins · 18-08-2011 06:41PM

Have a player. Can't watch any film now if its not in HD.
Even the quality of picture in our local cinema is poorer than the large HD TV at home with our Blu-ray.

Einhard · 18-08-2011 06:43PM

I don't know what anybody's talking about! I'm still in my 20s and already obsolete.

SuperInfinity · 18-08-2011 07:00PM

Biggins wrote: »

Have a player. Can't watch any film now if its not in HD.
Even the quality of picture in our local cinema is poorer than the large HD TV at home with our Blu-ray.

Well your local cinema must be a kip. Proper cinemas have resolutions of several thousands (horizontal and vertical) for the past century, and for the past 50 at least objectively look a lot better than any home equipment.

Also, you can't or you would do anything you could to try to watch it in HD? I can not take you seriously if you literally would refuse to watch a movie that wasn't in HD. That is just idiot talk. Like people who claim they can't play old video games anymore.

Once I saw someone say that they did not "see the point" of watching a show like Game of Thrones if it wasn't in HD.... wow, how stupid can you get.

TPD · 18-08-2011 07:03PM

listermint wrote: »

They have the internet in Donegal :eek:

Roads too when it isn't raining.

sink · 18-08-2011 07:27PM

Biggins wrote: »

Have a player. Can't watch any film now if its not in HD.
Even the quality of picture in our local cinema is poorer than the large HD TV at home with our Blu-ray.

Most modern cinema projectors are 4K which is 4 times the resolution of 1080p so the cinema you're going to must be poxy.

I have a HTPC with a Blu-ray player but I only have two blu-rays and never rent. I just download 8GB+ 1080p AC3, currently have 3TB stored. As I have a 47" tv, SD looks really pixelated and **** so I avoid anything less than 720p.

The_Thing · 18-08-2011 07:36PM

I have a Western Digital TV Live Hub, it has a 1 TB internal hard disk and is just slightly larger than a paperback book. For file format compatibilty it is probably one of the best pieces of home entertainment kit currently on the market. I have it connected it to my PC via ethernet with a static IP address and I have my Windows right-click menu set up with shortcuts to various folders on the WD so all I have to do is right-click a file or folder(s) on my PC, select "Send To" and then select where on the Western Digital I want to put the files\folder(s).

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