The State of Blu Ray Video Today
It’s good to see that the promise of Blu Ray video is being satisfied at this very moment. While some releases have been critically panned for not living up to the technological potential of the format, these are thankfully quite the exception. Compared with the situation with DVD a decade before, when many discs were nothing but straight ports of VHS copies, there being none of the improvements in sound and picture quality possible with the format – some of these actually played straight through from beginning to end, just like a VHS cassette – today’s Blu-ray catalog boasts dramatically improved video images along with digital discrete surround sound. What’s more, given prices that are often barely distinguishable from what’s charged for DVDs, it’s about time you yourself got on board!