Some may say it's
because I'm a skin flint but others would say and correctly it's
because I was sceptical about the hype.
However, I've now
upgrade to Blu-Ray.
Why? As a blind person
you'd think it'd be pointless upgrading but – I retain some
functional vision and with this I can see the difference between DVD
and Blu-Ray. Also there seems to be a substantial difference in audio
quality too.
With DVD the colours
are more pronounce, vivid and bold. Although you know they are real
people, you also know the colours aren't quite natural.
With Blu-Ray, the
colours are less of everything above thereby giving a more natural
look. The increased resolution gives a much sharper and window like
image.
The audio is slightly
less tiny. I know this can be down to the equipment the audio comes
out of but, with DVD, I found the sound levels weren't set the same
way as with Blu-Ray.
Since it's been
sometime now after the launch of Blu-Ray you can get a reasonable
Blu-Ray player for roughly the same price as a good DVD player. The
best deals as ever are to be had on the usual sites eBay and Amazon
and such like.
Of course, to put my
claims to test you can buy a triple play movie and compare the
quality between, DVD/Blu-Ray and Digital (on the computer).
Now, with Blu-Ray
Player and an external Blu-Ray drive you can now even play Blu-rays
on Mac.