Anyone else just skip the whole 'Blue Ray' discs thing in life?

[doublethink]

I mean I went from VHS to DVD to ... Streaming .... Never bought one Blue Ray disc ever. Still pick up a DVD disc now and then to add to my wall collection, not much though. Did I really miss anything? And now on to watching another Halloween movie on DVD in my collection !!! Happy Halloween and Goodnight !!!

[Historic NY]

1. YUP

[fantase56]

2. Whut's a blu-ray????

[fantase56]

3. Whut's a blu-ray????

[applegrove]

4. Yup.

[TexasTowelie]

5. I bought one Blue Ray disc,

then came home to find that my DVD player couldn't play it.

[Earth-shine]

6. Sometimes, the streaming version of a movie can look poor on the screen, but the blu-ray will look

much better, especially on a big TV.

On small TVs, it probably matters much less.

Also, there are 4K disks, which I find to have much better visual quality than the equivalent streaming versions.

I own my favorite movies on 4K disk. I just bought Intersteller. It was a visual treat to behold on a big TV.

[relayerbob]

7. BDs are very high quality both bideo and audio

Far superior to DVD, and most streaming. Unless you don't have the equipment to play it properly with, then you wouldn't care.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Yes

[Skittles]

9. bad eyes, I never could really tell the difference

[Haggard Celine]

10. I never bought a blu-ray player, so I've never

seen a movie that used that technology. I just stream movies now, and I never replaced my dvd player when it quit. Streaming is good enough for me. With Disney and Amazon Prime and Hulu, there are so many movies to choose from at any given time that I'm happy with that.

[COL Mustard]

11. They're really inexpensive now

I just looked and there’s one on Amazon for less than $20.

[Haggard Celine]

12. Damn, that is cheap!

Maybe I'll get another one. I can actually afford that.

[Applan]

17. My local Goodwill

Always has lots of blueray players in the $6-$10 range. Some very good ones. I picked up a top of the range yamaha for $8.

[Haggard Celine]

18. Thanks for the idea.

I’ll go to Goodwill on my days off this week. I had no idea that I could get one so cheap!

[COL Mustard]

23. That's an even better idea.

Not giving $$$ to the big box stores.

[wnylib]

24. Damn! I paid $60 for mine a couple years ago at Wal-Mart.

[brewens]

13. I just got my first blue ray player but have no disks for it. I got it because the comparable

DVD players weren't much cheaper. I will probably use it mostly for CDs anyway. I am looking forward to watching a few blue rays to check it out anyway. I can see getting a few of my all-time favorites on BR if it makes a difference.

[Archae]

14. I have a decent DVD/Blu-Ray player...

From Sanyo.

And I have a grand total of ONE Blu-Ray disc, "Rise of Skywalker."

I have no paid streaming services, and don't want any.

[eShirl]

15. Blu ray would be wasted on my little budget TV.

Guess it's not important enough to me to spend the money upgrading everything.

[hlthe2b]

16. Since I never bought an enormous Oled or other $4K tv, I never found that DVDs were insufficient.

So, no. Honestly, I watch more on the small tv in my bedroom or streaming on an ipad--when I do watch anything, that level of definition quality is pretty much lost on me anyway.

[hunter]

19. Yeah. We have the least expensive Netflix plan too.

When my wife and I want to see a high definition movie we go to the movie theater. Before covid we'd do that once or twice a month.

But honestly, neither one of us was blessed with eagle eyes. We've got a 1080p television but Blu Ray disks don't look significantly better to us. Maybe it's because we grew up with old fashioned broadcast NTSC television (black and white when we were children) and DVDs on a modern flat screen television are certainly better than that.

If the world falls apart and we can't stream anything we still have a very large library of DVDs to fall back on. I've bought many of these in thrift stores.

[Prairie_Seagull]

20. Blue Ray player now in a pile

of other tech stuff like my well loved ginormous speakers.

[MicaelS]

21. Absolutely NOT.

I have a 65” Hisense 4K TV, and a 4K Blu-ray player. I only buy Blu-ray dnd 4K Blu-ray Discs. I can tell the difference. I am retired on disability, so electronics keep me sane.

[jmowreader]

22. Oh no no no!

Through quite a bit of clearance sale/eBay/thrift store/pawn shop shopping, my home theater consists of a 64" 4K Samsung television and three Sony carousels: one Blu-Ray carousel and two DVD carousels. The DVD carousels are mostly full of "Complete Series" box sets of television shows and the Blu-Ray player is for movies.

I have not and will not start streaming anything. The streaming services delete movies from their libraries on a regular basis. That can't happen on my system.

Helpful hint: If you get a 4K TV, the only reason you need a 4K Blu-Ray player is to watch 4K Blu-Rays. If you have regular Blu-Rays, DVDs, Pioneer LaserDiscs or VHS, the television does upconversion to 4K on its own, and very well.

[miyazaki]

25. Nope.

I'm very selective but enjoy picking up limited/rare releases. Many films will never be officially stamped again.

[mockmonkey]

26. I have one Blu-ray movie

I bought a DVD and they included the Blu-Ray. I don't have the player. I'm still using my Betamax. I'm not kidding.

[Lucinda]

27. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

yep