cheap blu ray movies??

Question

hey i just bought a new sony blu ray player bdp s300 and i was just wondering where can i buy cheap blu ray movies...does anyone know a website or a store to where to buy these blu ray movies....thank you........

P.S..............any one own a blu ray and hd dvd player...which one in your opinion is better in both sound and video quality....and which one do you think is better overall....

Answer 1

Experts have concluded that while Blu-ray disks were initially lower picture quality than HD DVD (due primarily to the use of MPEG 2 instead of VC-1 coding) the two formats are now, on average, virtually identical in both picture and audio quality. There remain differences among disks of the same format due to mastering differences ... which is why few movies of either format are singled out as being exemplary.

I personally think Blu-ray is technically the more advanced format (although not necessarily better) but HD DVD is the format I support because of the misleading way in which Blu-ray has been "sold" to the public and the imposition of excessive copy protection (BD+) and region coding (all of which have been avoided by HD DVD).

Blu-ray just (Oct 31, 2007) implemented the 2nd stage of a 3 part implementation of the Blu-ray hardware specification. In essence this means that most players sold before that date can't play many of the more advanced special features ... and this was not made clear to unsuspecting customers who bought these players. Oh sure, the movie plays fine, but many customers paid more money for Blu-ray players that don't play what cheaper HD DVD players ALL handle fine because the HD DVD spec was final from day one. See the link.

You by the way are a victim of this since Sony purposely started selling the BDP-S300 2 weeks befor the deadline so it did not have to be Profile 1.1 compliant. Doesn't that make you feel good. Persoanlly, I'd be PO'ed.

As to cheap movies, other than a few titles that people got in givaways to help sell players -- and may be available on eBay -- you probably can't. The best deals have been at Amazon .. but even then prices are still high.

The whole point of Blu-ray (and, to be fair, HD DVD) was to start a new format that could be sold at high prices, to replace the dropping revenue from DVD sales (where high prices could not be maintained).

Consumers have taken the bait ... although the Blu-ray camp particularly have maybe shot themselves in the foot, because to build sales to help kill HD DVD, they have had so many buy one, get one free (BOGO) sales that there is increasing reluctance to buy Blu-ray disks at full price.

The result is that those of us who consider DVD to be good enough for most movies (I see very little improvement from HD DVD disks over DVD on my HD DVD player), and reserve HD disks for the occasional worthy movie or documentary (e,g, Planet Earth) are able to, as I did yesterday, buy 21 DVDs for a little over $100, while shaking my head at HD disk prices of close to $40 for Harry Potter and the Bourne Ultimatum ... movies I will buy previewed in a couple of months for under $10.

The industry has made a big miscalculation. Sure HD disks are an improvement, but they are not the "mainstream" future. For multiple reasons I've detailed in previous responses here (do a search if interested) DVD will remain as the main disk medium for a long time to come, HD DVD and Blu-ray will both survive as niche formats for those who can benefit and are willing to pay the premium price, and slowly VOD and download mechanisms will take over from disks.

Happy New Year

Answer 2

I have both and neither one stands out as being better than the other. Both formats look fantastic.

On the BluRay I have been watching Cars, Pirates, Weeds, and Heroes/Harry Potter on the HD.

I have not been hunting for better prices on the new disks because I am not ready to invest too much money in the software just yet. (Ok, I bought Harry Potter and Cars - family favorites).

I have noticed I can find new HD disks for $29, but BluRay disks seem to be about $35 for new releases. People have told me there have been a number of "Buy one, get one free" deals, but I have missed a lot of these.

Try DVD Price Search. It used to do a good job of scanning many e-tailer sites to present prices.

Answer 3

ebay will have really cheap blu-rays but remmber to use the rating system so you dont get screwed. But try craigslist.com see if anyone is selling any in your area that they dont want anymore...and yes the above post is right, blu-ray is a better picture, the blu ray will phase in as the perminant next player

Answer 4

netflix has blu-ray and hd dvd, and their monthly fee is less that the cost of most blu-ray discs

Answer 5

in video the Blu Ray has a more crispier more detailed look to it than a HD DVD, it can handle more resolution and it can hold a TON of memory.