My Blu-rays are an "in case of apocalypse" kind of contingency. I have five movies I could watch repeatedly until the end of time (couldn't find X-Men: Days of Future Past for the picture, but I have that, too), then four awful Batman movies to convince me that society is better off having been destroyed.

Not really, for 35mm films 2k is pretty much the best to get out of them, a decent digital transfer in 4k with some error correction is fine but there isn't much sense in rereleasing most older titles in 4k because the picture difference would be minimal.

On topic: I love Blurays, they're a pleasure to watch, i know i get a faithful version to the original material, even with "flaws" like grain included and on most of mine the menu and ads are very non-intrusive, so far. Most i have don't even have ads on them i think...

I only have about 30 by now, only got around to buy a player last year. Definitely have a lot on my list though.
I won't replace every DVD i have, for comedies or thrillers im fine with upscaled DVDs but I've started replacing some of my favourite movies like 2001 and Apocalypse Now (well, both filmed on 70mm, so they look great on BD).

i won't buy DVDs anymore at least...

About 30 movies, with my favorites being The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies.

I have just recently started to buy Blu-rays, because they used to be much more expensive than DVDs, but these days the price difference is small and acceptable, in most cases.
At least most of my Batman collection is Blu-rays, not counting the old serials and 1966 movie which are DVDs.

It makes things a bit inconvenient that I don't have a Blu-ray player (and not planning to buy one), but fortunately DVDFab has successfully decrypted the movies that I own, so I can just use them as files.

The one thing that I still prefer with DVDs is the ease of ripping subtitles with Subrip*, there's really no such tool for Blu-rays yet, and I hate using subtitles in the form they are on discs, I want to be able to change text location, font size and all.

(* = as long as you're ripping extended latin characters, I once did an experiment with hangeul, and it took days to correct the all the OCR mistakes between 았, 있, and 었 and so on...)


If you just want to watch the movies, VLC and Daum Potplayer will play them.
If you want the menus too, then you either have to wait for free players to have them one day, or buy some software player.

You might want to consider buying DVDFab Media Player, though.
It is lacking in features, at least compared with some other players, but at least the company who is developing it is among the "good guys", as they are providing also tools to get rid of DVD/Blu-ray DRM.

Robocop
Dredd
Game of Thrones (all seasons)

All else is superfluous. :P

Okay, so I own *many* others, too. Maybe I'll list more later.

I liked the first two, especially Batman Returns. :P

I have yet to buy a Blu-ray... Not interested though, I don't watch many movies anyway (:P)

Do PS3 games count? That would be it. DVD is fine as it is. Has been since they first came out. HD-DVD and Blu-ray never did it for me. Just can't get all worked up over 'X many more pixels per shot of film or video.' Going from VHS to DVD was like going from horse and buggy to spaceship. Going to from DVD to Blu-ray was like going from 700 watt microwaves to 1100 watt microwaves.

I understand where you're coming from, as I used to be a HD sceptic myself.
However, once you have actually seen the HD video and bought some Blu-rays, there's no going back to DVD, if there's a HD alternative. I wouldn't bother to "upgrade" my existing collection, but I wouldn't buy any more DVDs either, unless:
1) something is only available as DVD
2) DVD is considerably cheaper
3) DVD has some extras or stuff that Blu-ray version is lacking.

It is unfortunate that the wrong format won the HD war, but as Blu-ray is the standard now, I myself thought that it makes more sense to accept the situation, than trying to lean to the past (DVD) or the future (some Blu-ray replacement some day).


True, but in order to use SupRip you first need to use DVDFab (or such) to make a copy of the disc and then use some demuxer to extract those subtitle files. Which is, needless to say, very inconvenient.

There are some programs which can skip the demuxing part, like PavByte, but the quality of ripped subs is really unusable, at least it was for me.

With DVDs and SubRip, there's no unnecessary extra steps*, and even though it takes some time to teach SubRip the alphabets, in the end, it provides an srt file which has less errors than other similar programs.

(* = in some rare cases, you actually need to demux it first, in order to get the timing right)

Geez, I really feel like I'm explaining some computer thing to my mother over the phone...... I'm really wondering what's your workflow and your intent....

Steps for DVD:
1.extracting the movie files to HD via DVDshrink
2.optional: encoding sub file to srt via subrip
3.encoding movie using MeGUI

Steps for Blu-Ray:
1.extracting the movie files to HD via MakeMKV
2.optional: extract sub files via MKVextract (take 2clicks and 2minutes) and encode to srt via suprip
3.encoding movie using Handbrake

No fucking difference.... BR ripping is even more easy and user-friendly than in the DVD days (different framerates, interlacing, letterboxing, etc.)

Ever since I stopped paying for Broadcast Pollution from the Corporate State Networks over a decade ago, I plopped a few coins every month on DVD entertainment.

I tend to favor DVDs over the Blu-Ray discs, since it seems most of the Blu-Ray movies don’t allow you to take breaks from watching, moving to the disc Title Menu screen and return to where you were in the movie.

As far as total movies, I have a fairly extensive collection, well over 1500, that range from Silent films from the early 20th century, to film packs from every decade and genre too. Many of the movies I’ve searched for specifically and am still adding a few here and there, when I can find them.

Complete Movies series include, all Charlie Chan mysteries, Marx Brothers comedies, Thin Man mysteries, Sherlock Holmes collection (Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce), Star Wars (IV – VI), Die Hard (1-3) and Lord of the Rings extended versions (on DVD), and the complete Akira Kurosawa collection, just to name a few.

Also complete TV shows like Kung-Fu (David Caradine), Hogan’s Heroes, Star Trek Next Generation, M.A.S.H., China Beach, and a few HBO series like Band of Brothers.

Plus some favorite cheesy film fest classics, Shaw Brothers martial arts films, Steve Reeves Hercules (and other period piece Italian and Spanish low budget features), Godzilla (1970s), and whatever else pops up in various 50 and 100 movies packs.

I do try to avoid getting bad films in a series, like the third Terminator and Xmen, but I have the first two in both series.

Lord of the Rings trilogy extended edtition and The Blood and Icecream Trilogy, that's all.

Added numbers = number of steps/programs required

Very much difference.
BR ripping requires an additional program, and that "2 minutes" quite obviously multiplies.
If it's a box with five discs, then you waste 10 minutes just to extract sub files, which is an unnecessary step with DVD ripping.
(Of course copying the disc itself to hard drive takes much longer with BR, so the whole process takes MUCH longer, but since data copying wasn't the issue really, let's leave it at that.)

And, like I said before, some programs can skip that extra step, like Pavtube ByteCopy, but if every line of the srt file has OCR errors, then the end result is useless.

If anything, your example only proves my point about BR subtitle ripping being nowhere near as convenient as DVD subtitle ripping.

Yeah, I've seen HD. Looks great. I'm not complaining about the quality. I just don't think the increase in pixels or picture clarity is enough to warrant converting over all of my DVDs the way people did when we all got rid of our VHS tapes back in the day. DVD doesn't look as good as Blu-ray, but for a guy who grew up with standard television, DVD still looks great, especially with movies that have remastered prints.

But in the end, I'd still rather watch an old great movie that has scratches and color fade than a new crappy movie in shiny 3D HD-rad-O-vision.