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Anyone collect Blu Ray, what genres etc do you like.

I am into Horror, scifi, Giallo, Silent, and classic movies. More recently Film Noir.

Favorite labels being Arrow, Eureka, 88 Films.
 
I stopped after I did that on DVD and then realised I wanted them in better quality. Then started bluray and then wanted them in 3d. And so on. I realised I was falling for the trick of the studio and do exactly what they set out to do.

Don't do it anymore.
 
dejongj said:
I stopped after I did that on DVD and then realised I wanted them in better quality. Then started bluray and then wanted them in 3d. And so on. I realised I was falling for the trick of the studio and do exactly what they set out to do.

Don't do it anymore.
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I know mate it can be a long slippery slope.
 
Only if you let it.
 
I don't really watch films over and over, well I do but that's kids films with the little ones. I need long enough between watching a film a second time that the formats out of date.
 
have to say i dont buy physical anymore , dont own a blu ray or dvd player
just to expensive for one off watches
 
Mr Bump said:
have to say i dont buy physical anymore , dont own a blu ray or dvd player
just to expensive for one off watches
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Usualy if you wait a couple of months you can pick up BR's realy cheap and the PQ will be much better than download or streaming.
 
Most of mine are on DVD as I generally won't replace "just because". Since I bought a BD player the majority of new purchases have been on BD, but it's one shelf of those vs four of DVDs. Labels : Artificial Eye, Pathe, a few Kurosawa films on BFI. Those are mainly foreign language or "arthouse" type films (e.g. Orlando, Trust), but have plenty of more mainstream stuff as well.
 
onomatopoeia said:
Most of mine are on DVD as I generally won't replace "just because". Since I bought a BD player the majority of new purchases have been on BD, but it's one shelf of those vs four of DVDs. Labels : Artificial Eye, Pathe, a few Kurosawa films on BFI. Those are mainly foreign language or "arthouse" type films (e.g. Orlando, Trust), but have plenty of more mainstream stuff as well.
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Quite a bit of BFI, Artificial Eye have received some fantastic new restorations/transfers on Blu Ray.
 
^^ sorry mate not sure what your trying to say with this post?
 
I have a blu ray player but only a few blu rays, and most of those are what I consider to be my favourite films and have them in steel book format. I probably have less than a dozen.
 
Barry L. said:
^^ sorry mate not sure what your trying to say with this post?
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Well you did ask "what genres etc do you like?". The above is the answer. It's a graph of my blu-ray collection sorted by genre. Surprised that you found that difficult to work out.
 
dejongj said:
LOL I used to do that. Religiously catalogue my collection. Was actually not that hard as the camera scans in the details and metadata gets retrieved.

Nice one :)
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As I get a new disc, I open the app, the camera scans the bar code and that's it.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
As I get a new disc, I open the app, the camera scans the bar code and that's it.
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I can't remember what my app was called, but it also allowed for sharing and tracking who had what ;) I used to ran my own little blockbusters and with friends with frequent travel to Japan and US they kept on coming. Once I was worried as my girlfriend now wife, ordered a whole bunch of serial killer movies from dvdexpress in the early days of the format. 1
 
dejongj said:
I can't remember what my app was called, but it also allowed for sharing and tracking who had what ;) I used to ran my own little blockbusters and with friends with frequent travel to Japan and US they kept on coming. Once I was worried as my girlfriend now wife, ordered a whole bunch of serial killer movies from dvdexpress in the early days of the format. 1
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Yep it does that too. I got it because after snapping up a particularly good lightning deal on Amazon, on putting the disc away I found that I already owned it!
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Well you did ask "what genres etc do you like?". The above is the answer. It's a graph of my blu-ray collection sorted by genre. Surprised that you found that difficult to work out.
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Sorry mate i just seen a graph and no explanation of what it was about or in relation to, now you have explained it is much clearer for everyone.
 
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Anyone into Giallo or Italian horror?

One of the best IMO:

 
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Barry L. said:
Anyone collect Blu Ray, what genres etc do you like.

I am into Horror, scifi, Giallo, Silent, and classic movies. More recently Film Noir.

Favorite labels being Arrow, Eureka, 88 Films.
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I was given 2 boxed sets of Film Noir classics DVDs when I was doing Film Noir photography. Which was a lot of fun to do, with friends or the photography club. You need to find a creepy looking alley at night, and wear the right hat and coat. As the darkness and silhouetting masks any modernities.
 
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Not really anything to do with DVD collections, but I also got fed up with format changes and more recently the cost and quality of streaming. We got yearly passes to Cineworld as it is just at the top of our street and three years later, no regrets.
 
Tulipone said:
Not really anything to do with DVD collections, but I also got fed up with format changes and more recently the cost and quality of streaming. We got yearly passes to Cineworld as it is just at the top of our street and three years later, no regrets.
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I used to have one too....and Cineworld is 17 miles away!
So worth it. :-)
 
I'm going the other way. The girlfriend would order 2 or 3 DVDs a week until I set up Amazon Fire TV with Prime. Now she's down to 1 DVD a month. And now the Film fest is on she's taken 2 weeks off to watch about 5 films a day at the cinema. The looney.
 
As others have pointed out, with the advent of streaming, "owning" a physical disc isn't as important any more. But I still do it for films that I love and enjoyed and want to watch in full glory.
 
ecoleman said:
I really don't see the point in watching a movie more than once.
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Quite a few i don't but it's nice to have them there incase i do and many i have are also collector's editions.
 
Not any more, I was in HMV yesterday, saw 4K blurays for sale for the first time £25-30 and you need a new player

No thanks , streaming is the future
 
wack61 said:
Not any more, I was in HMV yesterday, saw 4K blurays for sale for the first time £25-30 and you need a new player

No thanks , streaming is the future
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Poorer PQ though.
 
Barry L. said:
Poorer PQ though.
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But no clutter , £16.99 a month for odeon unlimited is much better value, as many films as you want for the price of one look I can see the hairs up his nose UHD disc
VHS VCD DVD HD DVD BLURAY HD BLURAY how many more until they stop , in any case unless you've bought a high end TV you probably won't even notice the difference, all 4k TVs won't be the same like all 1080p sets weren't

I had a 1080i panasonic set that got "upgraded" to a 1080p set and there was a noticeable drop in pq
 
wack61 said:
But no clutter , £16.99 a month for odeon unlimited is much better value, as many films as you want for the price of one look I can see the hairs up his nose UHD disc
VHS VCD DVD HD DVD BLURAY HD BLURAY how many more until they stop , in any case unless you've bought a high end TV you probably won't even notice the difference, all 4k TVs won't be the same like all 1080p sets weren't

I had a 1080i panasonic set that got "upgraded" to a 1080p set and there was a noticeable drop in pq
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When the content is being streamed you get a lot of compression issues you don't see on physical media., also you loose out on extras and also in many cases the restored versions of films.
 
I don't think I've ever watched any of the extras on a dvd ever, the extended special editions they bring out with tantalising directors cut titles are usually full of drivel that was cut out for a reason , I've bought blurays that had dreadful PQ and DVDs that were as bad as VHS, 1080p is perfecty adequate when the transfer is done right £20-30 for a HD bluray is taking the P IMO, production costs will be the same as the bluray they're selling right next to it for £9.99

They're already working on 8k TV so stand by to be able to view individual faces in a football crowd from the airship

The only thing I'm grateful for is HDTV and the slow mo action replay has shown footballers to be the overpaid thugs and drama queens they really are
 
Your probably watching to many of the mainstream releases. Try the likes of Arrow or Eureka for value for money releases.
 
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