Critics give Blu-ray thumbs up

VB: Mainstream movie reviewers, including the legendary Roger Ebert, are starting to rally around Blu-ray Disc.

The format has long had support from tech fans, but up until now, it has not played a big factor in movie reviews. But the recent Blu-ray releases of the Godfather trilogy and world documentary Baraka have so inspired critics that many are telling readers that now is the time to purchase Blu-ray players.

That attention to detail had Ebert glowing in his Oct. 16 review that "Baraka by itself is sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player." He describes various scenes giddily, such as "the indescribable beauty of the aborigines" and "the sad poetic beauty in slow motion of a chain of explosions for a strip mine."

The San Francisco Examiner took a shine to Baraka as well declaring, "Anyone who dug Discovery Channel's Planet Earth series, especially on Blu-ray, will totally fall in love with this flick."

Critics feel much the same way about Paramount Home Entertainment's Sept. 23 Godfather release, which features all three films.

[aaron23]

We all know it

[DevastationEve]

bluray is the present. sex is the future, get it right!

[HighDefinition]

Only idiots and the most HARDCORE of 360 fans don`t.

[aaron23]

DARK KNIGHT blu ray will be the first nail in the coffin of DVD in USA

However in Japan Blu ray will kill DVD within 1 year

[meepmoopmeep]

i think anyone that has an HDTV should be happy about Blu-ray.
what's the point in having an HDTV if you're not going to use it whenever you can.

[Andras84]

....said that blu-ray will fail!! [email protected] all of these dumb hypocrates!

[FCC]

Blu-ray is amazing... if you have the money. Living with your girlfriend in an apartment leaves no space in a budget for Blu-ray movies.

[Andras84]

I live with my girlfriend in an apartmant and I have a [email protected] load of blu-ray movies.

EDIT: At below. Well I take my gf to great places too. While not places that will charge you say $200/ dinner we get around. You seam to think that my life revoles around blu-ray and I'm a no good low life who sitts at home all the time. Well this is how it just came down. Dude I just got a SONY camera for $1500...not expensive enough??? Well it is to me. Maybe we are not in the same league. But we do go the the movies every week, to the opera every now and then...always visit museums and travel the world. I just came back from Europe 3 weeks ago.

So please stop with this BS that you are all about. A Blu-ray movie is not much more expensive than a DVD. Take Iron Man as an example. $19.99 on DVD and $26.99 on blu-ray. I'll take blu-ray for the few extra bucks thank you very much.

Don't try to spin thinks just because you are cheap!

[FCC]

That's you not me, I like taking my girl out to expensive places and she likes buying me expensive stuff, neither of us are that interested in the best picture quality. We're also spending hells amount of money on gas, we're not rocky or on cracked ice here, we have a nice sum of money but we're not going to blow that on a Blu-ray player and movies.

[Sitdown]

living with your girlfriend in an apartment mean there is money for bluray...since you can split the bills? Unless you are saying that you are a freeloader.

Edit: Well according to your post, you could have bluray...you just choose not to.

[FCC]

Correct Sitdown, I usually do not buy anything that's not standard or that's brand new. Good thing that's my mentality, HD DVD and buying a launch 360 or PS3 would have been a perfect example of how I saved my money. My girlfriend and I are waiting on Blu-ray to be not as big as walletrape as it is now just to view movies.

Going to my friends house to watch Blu-ray movies achieves as much as owning it myself. :P

[Narutone66]

ones who would buy a rewinder for their CD/DVD.

[HighDefinition]

This thread took a funny turn.

[FBl]

Obviously

[aaron23]

Blu ray is the future

accept it cuz it is a fact

Whether u like it or not

[aaron23]

IRON MAN has crossed 1m mark on Blu ray

Incrdedible Hulk Blu ray captured 20% market share

Indiana Jones sold more on Blu Ray than DVD

TDK already has a million in preorders on Blu Ray

It is no3 on amazon US

[ape007]

blu-ray ftw

one of the best overlooked features in blu-ray disks that it doesn't get scratched

I got resistance 1 since lunch and it's clean like new

edit: oppps an epic spilling mistake,I will leave it like that without editing,you dudes cracked me up,bubbles for both of you :)

[strotee]

How long ago was lunch? lol

Kidding, I knew you meant "launch".

[HighDefinition]

LOL. That`s tooooo funny.

But, yeah BLURAYs are awesome for scratch resistance, i`ve TRYED to scratch them, it hard you have to put ALOT of force into it.

[Pennywise]

Did you eat your lunch on the bluray?

[ape007]

yes I was so hungry

unfortunately,I tried to eat up bluray disks but they didn't break or scratch,I was so pissed,I hate sony,their disks cannot be eaten
tomorrow I'll eat gears of war and some GRAW

[Pennywise]

lol. Better bring some hot sauce to cover the turd taste.

[FCC]

It was nice clean fun until Pennywise ruined it with his last comment.

[Pennywise]

No one asked you FCC. Get back to correcting grammar in other posts.

[FCC]

I'm sorry if I offended you but...

"No one asked you Pennywise. Get back to trolling in other posts."

Nice and fixed.

[pp]

I've heard this crap before it doesn't matter how hard these droid critics spin it BLU-RAY FAILS. Critics my ass.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Please young man.Muster up what little brain cells you have and explain in crystal clear detail how Blu-ray Fails?

[darthv72]

Someone posts a story about how (insert game/format) is failing and then another someone goes out and finds a story about how (insert game/format) is succeeding.

Bottom line: opinions are like @ssholes...everybody's got one.

[Socomer 1979]

ebert gives bluray thumbs up. You know what that means right?
Its officially mainstream now. Great news but Sony selling music videos on xboxlive is even better news
as Sony has found a way to rape xbox customers too. Thats why Sony bmg is the second largest in the world.
Sony is really smart in a cold & calculating way.

[Kain81]

yet its only SONY MUSIC Entertainment

[gano]

I understand why the blu ray fail articles are here.
Holiday season arriving, dvd is being left behind more blu=
more ps3. More sales in hdtv's might arise and a certain competitor
is now seeing the affects and further more when Dark Knight arrives.
Anyway to discredit blu and confuse the masses again will help
it in the long run.

But damn.... once again y support a company with such
flawed and hated logic. Keep the people in a stupor and
take all their dough.

[gano]

Dark Knight Dec 9th people. GO GET IT.

[sirbigam]

omfg the idea that they don't scratch people , it's funcken incredible especially when I get used games for ps1 and ps2 that are badly scratched & I don't wanna mess them up even more. I'm telling yu people ps3 game resales arn't gonna be like the past,p.s lol at bestbuy selling ps3 scratch protection , I think they stoped now.

[ultimolu]

AND BLURAY IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD.

Lame ass crybabies.

Bluray is here to stay.

[tk]

The past few days we have been bombarded with "BR is failing" stories. Funny that it is gaining marketshare and failing at the same time.

[DeZimatoR]

The media is supposed to bash Blu-Ray and praise digital distribution (*cough* Microsoft's agenda *cough*)! You're going it all videobusiness.com!!!

/sarcasm

[Ps3Fanboy777]

The only other option is to order stuff HDPPV.

If I have the choice blu ray vs dvd im sure as heck not going to pick the dvd because its 3.00 cheaper and as well now blu ray comes with that other format to load on computers, phones, etc which is just awesome.

[level 360]

Now if they can just slash the price of Blu-Ray a little bit further... some good titles still cost about AU40 = US28 ( expensive ) and the not so good ones for about AU25 = US17 ( just about right ).

[Socomer 1979]

the Internet isn't where people are real people. Its full of opinions & lies. To learn the truth you have to cross reference everything & triple check it. In real life, the world is outside your door. People are themselves. So whatever you read on n4g or the rest of the Internet cannot be believed. This is all just chatter & a bunch of nonsense. You have to remember that everybody wants fame, riches & respect. Read in between the lines & don't trust anybody.

Bluray is the only option for hd televisions. Your local news channel is hd. Do you want to be a early adopter of
bluray or wait till DVD is gone for good & the price goes down. Its up to you, there's no reason to hate the guy who wants the best visual quality in todays standard. there isn't one new product that hasnt met extreme scrutiny on the Internet. Do you want to see how fuel effeciant cars were treated many years ago for proof?

[killalot100]

lol so true

[InMyOpinion]

Consumers don't give a sh*t...

[aaron23]

It will overtake DVD within a year in Japan

Consumers dont give a sh*t about sh*t box 360--dead all over the world with US remaining

[Narutone66]

buy a CD/DVD rewinder for your xbox 360. I heard MS is planning to sell it to the xbots.

[xg-ei8ht]

I think the part about blu-ray discs not scratching is enough to warrant a buy.

Time and time again, dvd discs have been scratched and jump and skip, does my head in.

[theEnemy]

Talk about hypocrisy.