Thinking about finally making that Blu Ray Jump

[7Force]

Uh, think you misread that, I wrote Blues Brothers, not Band of Brothers.

[Yakumo]

I actually have a Japanese DVD of Blues Brothers in a normal CD case. japanese DVDs were like that at the begining. The image quality on that was very good however I've never watched it on a HD screen so.....

Yakumo

[7Force]

DVDs don't ever look that good on an HD screen...at least not as good as Blu-Ray.

[spot778]

Native resolution for DVD is 420p

[Yakumo]

I just bought me 2nd Japanese BluRay disc!!! Could this be a new trend of Japanese discs being cheaper than western ones? Nah, I doubt it. Just on offs. I got Batman! I've been after this for a while now but it's always been a little expensive on US Import and domestic Japanese release. Amazon were doing a Golden Week Special on it though for 1900 yen so I just had to pick it up.

I love the original Batman movie. I'm going to get a big bucket of caramel popcorn, chocolate and 1.5ltr of coke, make the room dark, crank up the surround system and have myself a cinema day at home. Oh yeah, this is going to good.

Yakumo

[graciano1337]

I just bought me 2nd Japanese BluRay disc!!! Could this be a new trend of Japanese discs being cheaper than western ones? Nah, I doubt it. Just on offs. I got Batman! I've been after this for a while now but it's always been a little expensive on US Import and domestic Japanese release. Amazon were doing a Golden Week Special on it though for 1900 yen so I just had to pick it up.

I love the original Batman movie. I'm going to get a big bucket of caramel popcorn, chocolate and 1.5ltr of coke, make the room dark, crank up the surround system and have myself a cinema day at home. Oh yeah, this is going to good.

Yakumo

I love those type of cinema days. I do that with The Simpsons. Any time I sit down to watch a few dvds of classic Simpsons episodes, I make sure I order a pizza. I do weird things with older console games, too. Like sitting on the floor in front of the tv like i did as a kid instead of sitting in a chair. lol, i don't know why...

[Yakumo]

I always sit on the floor when playing games. Mostly because there's no sofa in my games room. Well, I more lounge on the floor against a Japanese floor seat than actually sit on the floor. It's actually very comfortable.

Yakumo

[7Force]

Original Batman movie? You mean the Tim Burton one? Because I'm pretty sure the 60s Batman movie is on Blu-Ray too

[Yakumo]

Yeah, the Tim Burton one.

[pool7]

Native resolution for DVD is 420p

I'm curious about this statement.
I know Wikipedia cannot be 100% trusted, but they mention several resolutions for the common frame rates, and 420p is not one of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

I'm not saying wikipedia is right and you're wrong, I just never heard of 420p as a "standard" resolution.

[7Force]

The native resolution for DVDs is actually 480i.

[la-li-lu-le-lo]

The native resolution for DVDs is actually 480i.

Correct. (Most) DVDs are not progressive-scan, unfortunately.

I always sit on the floor when playing games. Mostly because there's no sofa in my games room. Well, I more lounge on the floor against a Japanese floor seat than actually sit on the floor. It's actually very comfortable.

Yakumo

Surely you don't sit on the floor to watch movies...

[ave]

I always sat on the floor while playing games. It was the best solution for me because my monitor racks have always been quite low and I want to be close and in perfect angle to the game.
As a nice side effect, it feels like I'm getting closer to the experience of Japanese people playing the same games as me, hahah!

[yuckymucky]

DVDs don't ever look that good on an HD screen...at least not as good as Blu-Ray.

I have found a few that look pretty good through an upscaling player, mostly animated movies.

[anime4ever]

I have found a few that look pretty good through an upscaling player, mostly animated movies.

I decided to start switching my movies over to Blu-ray about a year ago and I must say that even though upscaling does an ok job nothing can really compare to the quality of Blu-ray, especially on TV's that are over 50". I also have to say that I notice the biggest difference when watching anime/cartoon shows the most. Blu-ray really picks out the little details and gives everything a real nice texture and the colours are way more vibrant.