I’m addicted to HD. I bought even more BluRay-movies. Constantine, Wanted (A MUST SEE!), The Bourne Trilogy (can’t get enough of Bourne) and because of the sheer audio quality (as I read in a review on the net) Celine Dion’s A New Day, which indeed is so real that you can actually imagine that you were there at the concert.
BluRay is a new format, and you can see that the studio’s are still experimenting with the possibilities. Some use the same boring menu over and over again, others (the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) think people like to wait for the menu-buttons to appear, while others don’t include a disc-menu but only a popup-menu (not known on the DVD format). It’s confusing, but on the other hand, it makes the experience per movie even more exciting. What have they done with this movie, are there any nice features I can switch on (picture-in-picture extras are very nice), etcetera.
It’s addicting. I can’t recall I’ve spent as much money on DVD’s in such a short amount of time as I did now on BD’s. And because of the picture and audio quality, the rerun value is much higher than with DVD. You see more details, hear new background noises, or you need to watch it a third (or more) time because you keep getting stunned by the overall experience!
One advice: get decent equipment. Your surround speakers must be full-range (mine do 38/35-32.000Hz). Your subwoofer must be able to produce very low (below 30Hz, mine does a whopping 20Hz) frequencies. And of course, your TV needs to be FullHD (HD Ready 1080p as it’s now called). Don’t forget to invite your neighbors from time to time, so they know where that rumble they sometimes hear comes from…