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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FilmAlba: Quote:
You should consider importing from America. Not only are the cases more aesthetically pleasing but the wealth of content is greater. And i think everything is worth buying on Blu-ray.
And as for Frost/Nixon
It's a vast improvement over it's DVD counterpart
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Frost-Nixon-Blu-ray-Review/4308/ The exchange rate, region coding and my financial situation prohibit the import of US discs (with the exception of The Shining and Cujo which were dirt cheap and region-free). As for Frost/Nixon...it's not that I thought the picture wouldn't be an improvement it's that I didn't think the film itself warranted a blu-ray purchase. I tend to buy FX/Scenery/Costume/Epic films on BD. Having said that, if I could have got Frost/Nixon on BD for the £4 I paid for the dvd then I would, obviously, have gone that way. |
| | Registered: April 14, 2007 | | Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting xocbc: Quote:
Me too, I've no desire to move to Bluray yet, I'd be back to where I was when I bought a DVD player 10 years ago - starting going through my existing collection and replacing them.
I think I'll only bother with a bluray player when my existing player dies, and even then, buying DVDs cheap in the local supermarket £3 a time, loads of good titles, is far more appealing than paying £15 for a Bluray release, especially on older movies where the original print doesn't have the resolution to justify a Bluray release. This makes me laugh. Original prints are made on film, which has a far greater resolution than any Blu-ray. The only problems they do have are dirt or marks on the print which can be cleaned up with restoration. If you have a large HDTV, you'll appreciate the difference HD can make. Just compare any HD movie to it's SD release. |
| | Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | The majority of Blu-rays (including all releases from Warner and Paramount) are region free. Importers see here. | | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
| | Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
The exchange rate, region coding and my financial situation prohibit the import of US discs (with the exception of The Shining and Cujo which were dirt cheap and region-free). If you go for Warner, Universal or Paramount releases (in other words, those who supported HD DVD), their releases are all region free. I've bought from stores like DVDWorldUSA (now DVDExpress247 for Blu-ray) who charge in GBP. Unfortunately I can't help with your financial situation though! |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | HD DVDs would still have been more expensive for sure, since the format died I've picked up many titles from as low as $1.99. So it really hurts when I have to pay 10 times more for a blu-ray.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
| | Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 21 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting jmbox: Quote:
Quoting xocbc:
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Me too, I've no desire to move to Bluray yet, I'd be back to where I was when I bought a DVD player 10 years ago - starting going through my existing collection and replacing them.
I think I'll only bother with a bluray player when my existing player dies, and even then, buying DVDs cheap in the local supermarket £3 a time, loads of good titles, is far more appealing than paying £15 for a Bluray release, especially on older movies where the original print doesn't have the resolution to justify a Bluray release.
This makes me laugh. Original prints are made on film, which has a far greater resolution than any Blu-ray. The only problems they do have are dirt or marks on the print which can be cleaned up with restoration.
If you have a large HDTV, you'll appreciate the difference HD can make. Just compare any HD movie to it's SD release. Sorry what I meant was the combination of original prints not being cleaned up, or more likely the use of a lower resolution existing transfer. I worked as a DVD Reviewer in the early days of DVD and the amount of straight lifts with little cleaning from VHS really annoyed me and my point was really that I didn't want to upgrade to Bluray for the sake of it and just get the DVD transfer upscaled to bluray. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Quoting Pantheon:
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The exchange rate, region coding and my financial situation prohibit the import of US discs (with the exception of The Shining and Cujo which were dirt cheap and region-free).
If you go for Warner, Universal or Paramount releases (in other words, those who supported HD DVD), their releases are all region free.
I've bought from stores like DVDWorldUSA (now DVDExpress247 for Blu-ray) who charge in GBP.
Unfortunately I can't help with your financial situation though! That sites a bit expensive IMO. I use http://www.blurayregioncodes.com/index.php?region=b to check regions (although I already knew which studios were R-free). Once my finances improve (anyone want to give me a job? ) I will be importing certain things (Monster Squad on BD for instance....which still has yet to arrive in the UK on dvd!! I've got the US dvd). I even have a region hack for my BD Player; but I just don't want to get into importing when prices do seem to come down quickly in the uk anyway. |
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