Glancing at my profile at Blu-ray.com, I just realized that Inglourious Basterds marks the twenty-first BR movie that I've ever bought.  And while that's certainly a marginal number when compared to the total amount of DVDs I own, even I'm surprised that I've accumulated so many since getting the PS3 back in early 2008.  I'm still very much a DVD consumer, so I'm still fairly selective as to which films I feel are deserving enough to pick up on BR, but I must admit that falling prices and studio practice of conveniently packing the movie onto an accompanying DVD has made it that much more tempting to simply head straight for Blu for future releases.

For those who've gotten aboard the Blu-ray train, how many have you picked up so far?  What was your first?  Do you have any personal favorites?  Enchanted was my very first Blu-ray, if you don't count Spider-Man 3 that was packed in with my 40GB PS3.  As for my personal fave, Star Trek currently stands as my all-around top contender.  The picture and sound quality is absolute top shelf, with matching bonus features to boot.

There are very few movies I'm looking to replace existing DVD versions of, with the possible exception of The Lord of The Rings trilogy.  The theatrical cuts are apparently arriving in April 2010, but I'll be waiting out for the Extended Editions -- which I'm venturing won't be released for a good while yet.

One. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Two if you count the recent hisaidhi concert bd release. I wish fox would release moulin rouge on bd

Unless you count the, er, seafaring Zeta Gundam BD I, um, moved from a strangers computer onto my own, then none. Yet.

I suspect that since Kojima vaguely announced a followup to ZOE2, it's time to make good on my promise and shell out for a PS3 now. -______________-

I've got quite a few, though I don't have a profile on blu-ray.com to list them all.

Among them:
Stargate: Ultimate Edition
Stargate: 15th Anniversary Edition
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Ultimate Edition
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate Edition
James Bond - Casino Royale (original and special ed release)
James Bond - Quantum of Solace
other James Bond movies that have been released on blu-ray (I don't remember them all off hand)
Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead (I'll be getting the Specials Box set due out in Feb 2010)
Contact
Transformers 1 and 2
Star Trek
Star Trek Original Movies and TNG Movies collections

I've also got Fringe S1 on blu-ray, Torchwood seasons 1, 2, and Children of Earth, and Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray (picking up S3 today).

The movie I really want to get released (other than Lord of the Rings Extended Editions like Angela wants) is Stardust.  It came out on HD DVD before, but that was when Paramount (?) was HD DVD only... I keep seeing little inserts in other packages saying it's coming, but nothing yet. arg!

i've bought three BRs since i got my PS3 in 2007 and zero DVDs. most of my money and free time goes to games, books and CDs nowadays, so that's not so surprising to me.

but i've rented a few more.

None.  No HDTV so why bother.

(Haven't even watched one yet either, just 2 minutes passing by those in-store displays)

Ditto.

Although I guess you could say I do own one for the moment since I bought one for my sister as a gift: Goodfellas. She has the one disc DVD version that you have to flip halfway through (there is a two disc version that you don't have to do this which I have) which is extremely lame for such a good movie.

The two-disc DVD cost me $9 a while back while the Blu-Ray cost $10 at Wal Mart on Black Friday. Don't think I would actually go shopping on Black Friday, I was working and nabbed it during my fifteen minute break.

I have to admit the $78 and $118 Blu-Ray players were really attractive price wise, but the thought of $30 new releases quickly brought me back to reality, as it did many other people from what it said in the newspapers.

As said, prices have been falling at a surprising rate.  Every new BR release I've seen this holiday season -- Transformers 2, G.I. Joe, Up, Star Trek, Half-Blood Prince, Terminator Salvation, and Inglourious Basterds -- have all been regularly selling for $19.99 at retail.  Just a few bucks more than your standard one-disc DVD release, and in many cases CHEAPER than the equivalent two-disc DVD special editions.

I own 23 Blu-ray titles. 8 of them are TV season sets (or a miniseries, in the case of Planet Earth and Band of Brothers) and the rest are all movies. Good times.

Just five for me so far:

Cutthroat Island
The Dark Knight
Galaxy Quest
Planet Earth
Star Trek (2009)

if you don't own lost on blu-ray, you haven't seen high def show ^_~

I would have thought that a movie collector would always choose the highest-quality version available.  If you buy movies in the second-best format, aren't you needlessly hastening the obsolescence of your collection?

Edit: This is the first time that I've visited Blu-ray.com, and I was puzzled that the copyright notice covers a period starting in 2002.  After doing some digging, I learned that this domain was registered immediately after the Blu-ray name was announced, and it appears as though the site went live shortly thereafter.  I am impressed that an unofficial Blu-ray site has been in existence for nearly eight years.

Some films are more appropriate for Blu-ray. I wouldn't bother picking up a rom-com in HD, for instance. Why bother when the DVD would be perfectly satisfactory? On the other hand, Star Trek and other big-budget epics cry out for the increased resolution that the format offers.

I don't even watch Lost, but I bought the series anyway.  My girlfriend watches it, and Amazon's crazy deal last week was too much to resist ($108.99 for all five seasons on Blu-Ray).

Anyway, my Blu-Ray total is up to 27 titles, but most of those were obtained in the past month due to some great deals (including the Lost series, the Harry Potter films, and The Matrix).  My favorite?  The 1980s classic Trading Places.

If it isn't worth spending a few dollars more to own a movie in a higher-quality format, then why buy it in any format at all?

Shhhhhhh! You're making too much sense, we can't have that.

I would buy Lost on blu-ray, but I'm going to hold off until the inevitable massive complete series boxset that comes with your own island.

*shrug* Because to me, the difference isn't that gigantic. My television isn't gigantic (32 inches) and it doesn't support 1080p. Yeah, I could be accused of being short-sighted (for the time when I inevitably get a much larger television) but by then, Blu-ray could also shunted inside in favor of the latest and greatest thing.

For now, there's just some films I don't feel the need to have in HD. More often than not, I'll go to a used DVD shop and buy whatever tempts me. I don't think I've bought a new DVD in over a year.

Only 2, I'm afraid: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, which I got for the FFXIII demo, and Dark Knight, which I got because it's AWESOME.

Thing is, I hardly ever buy movies at all, because hardly any movie I ever see leaves enough of a lasting appeal to make me want to own it.
Secondly, Blu-Rays are goddamn expensive in the Land of the Rising Sun, and I definitely don't want to settle for normal DVDs anymore, so that's a problem too.

I'll definitely be buying Inglourious Basterds when it hits stores here though.

Amazingu, you are aware that the U.S. and Japan are in the same region for Blu-ray, right?  Unless you need Japanese subtitles for showing movies to your Japanese friends, you could order Blu-ray discs from overseas and get them faster and probably cheaper (even with shipping) than they go for in Japan.

For my part, I continue to pick up DVDs because they're still the most viable way to share a movie watching experience with family and friends -- family and friends, that is, that haven't yet made the jump to high-def.  Blu-ray purchases are designated mainly for my own consumption, of the films that I really enjoy, or, as Wanderer states, where the benefits of high definition and better audio are more prevalent.

That's why the concept of the DVD pack-in is so convenient for someone like me.  You get the best of both worlds without having to succumb to the double-dip.

There are so many blu-rays I'd like to buy. But there are very few I would need to buy, for two reasons. One of my friends has a huge collection, so if I ever got a blu-ray player, I'd have access to quite a few right away. Another reason is that I have a $1200 Denon DVD player, modded to handle any region. DVDs look rather insane in 720p on a 50" plasma.

If I were to go blu, I already know what my first few purchases would be: Pandorum, District 9, Moon, Mirrors, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly.

Wait, seriously!?
D'OH!

I thought they were different, like with regular DVDs!

Well, that settles it then, I'm importing the Inglourious Basterds Blu-Ray!

Thanks for the tip, Adam!

That's the first I've heard of the Region Coding on Blue Rays being different from the DVD Region coding. 

Sure sounds handy to have both Japan and the US in the same region now, glad they "Fixed" that little issue.

Here's a handy picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c … th_key.png

Maybe violet-ray will have just two regions, that is, one of NTSC and one of PAL. (Not sure if SECAM is still in use.) Bear in mind that violet-ray is just an imaginary thing, but it is the next logical step in the progression of disc-based media. It seems though, that blu-ray has at least made some effort to reduce the regions to those of PAL and NTSC, although this is just my speculation.

that's actually pretty bad for japanese and euro people. now it's even more confusing to build up a consistent collection, with different region encoding for DVDs/BRs.

I realise your Violet-Rays haven't yet hit the market but even now with Blu-Rays, do they even have PAL or NTSC any more? Aren't they SD standards and don't apply for Blu-Rays? I don't know the answer, just asking the question because, certainly for movies, I wouldn't see a reason for it any more.

As for me, I don't have a lot of Blu-Rays but my Star Trek movie collections bulk it up a little as that's 10 movies.

So, aside from the 10 Star Trek movies, I have -

Star Trek (you know, the new one)
The Wrestler
Moon (haven't yet watched it but I'm looking forward to it)
Spiderman 3 (only because it came free with my PS3, bad movie)
Two versions of Watchmen
Doom (I love this movie)
S.Darko (no idea why, it's not a good movie)

That's it. I do like the Blu-Ray picture quality and, these days, I'm far more likely to pay a little extra for that.

Bad for Euro people maybe, but not for Japanese.
Blu-Rays are WAY cheaper in the US than in Japan, plus they tend to be released around the time, or even way before the movie in question hits theaters in Japan.

The difference with the region coding this time for us Euro people is that a massive number of Blu-Rays are region free. I think Up has been the only one I've been interested in recently that isn't region free.

our last dvd from netflix  (a takashii miike film called the crows) has been sitting on the tv stand for nearly 3 weeks. Even though i quit fedex, our dollstore has been consuming 12-15 hours a day during this holiday madness. It's difficult for me to justify buying anything that requires free time anymore...

on the bright side,, my f'd up jokes are free and can be created any time of day or nite. My latest:

Did you guys know that outhouses along the northern Chilean border are called Bolivia Newton Johns??

I wanted to see if I could find a PAL blu-ray and the easiest way to do that is to head over to HKflix.com (I remember that site being littered with PAL format DVDs). Here's one:

  http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.552 … etails.htm

  Considering that Region B is largely Europe and Australia (which are PAL areas), this does seem to support my suspicion that blu-ray is attempting to separate PAL and NTSC. I always used to wonder why Japan and Europe were both on Region 2 in the DVD format. That never made any sense because Japan is NTSC (like the U.S.) and Europe is PAL. I have to make sure not to buy anything in the PAL format because even with a PAL converter, they never look quite right. I suppose that Europeans and Australians need the opposite device (an NTSC converter) if they want to watch U.S. versions.

  I think that PAL and NTSC are standards above any sort of medium that plays discs.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

But what seems to define PAL and NTSC are lines of resolution (which have changed on Blu-Ray), frame rate (I suspect Blu-Ray movies play at their native 24fps and aren't converted to 25 or 30fps but I could be wrong) and colour ranges (again, I'm not sure they apply to Blu-Rays). And of course both standards were based on interlacing, which most Blu-Rays don't do.

There must be someone I can ask about this...

Edit: I asked a video technician guy and, yes, PAL and NTSC are standard def standards and don't apply to Blu-Rays. There will be no difference in res or frame rate between a US or European Blu-Ray. The exception is when a Blu-Ray contains SD content, like some extras which would usually conform to the local standards but the movies themselves will be the same.

That depends on your definition of "films."  If you mean actual movies, then I would own zero, but I do have three BRDs: the second two Futurama films and the Seth McFarlane Cavalcade thing.

OK, I thought of this last night and I just had to say it:

j/k @Angela

"If you love Blu Ray so much why don't you marry it!"

Sorry, I had to get that five year old "comeback" out of my head.

Giving this old thread a bump. I've had my new Blu-ray player for a little bit now and I've been enjoying it. I haven't turned into a Blu-ray fanboy yet, but the movies do look good and I've finally got a small collection of Blu-ray discs.

You can check out my stash here:
http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collec … ember=Boco

Walmart and Best Buy seem to be having a couple sales so I'll likely check them out on Tuesday. If there are some good deals on good movies... then my collection will grow.

On a side note, just today I got Speed Racer on Blu-ray for $10 brand new. I paid more for my DVD copy back when I got it. :'(