Introduction

It's time for me to blog again. I haven't been covering college news in a while so my other blog has been left unattended to.

So with the movies I've been watching on Blu-ray and DVD lately, I decided to start blogging short reviews as I see them. These aren't going to have the technical details of each disc. Most people probably wouldn't know what AVC is, for example. So I'm going to post reviews that are simple to understand for practical usage.

A little about me, I've always loved movies. I didn't buy many videos in the VHS era because of how fragile they were and how you could always record movies off TV and get the same quality.

I didn't get into laserdisc. The discs were too big and awkward. Laserdisc didn't feel like it was going to be the next big format.

When DVD rolled around, I bought into it heavily. I see it as the first acceptable format for movies. Not only are the discs more durable than VHS, but they brought in widescreen as the standard and included special features. I always watched the "behind the scenes" specials on TV and it was great to be able to own them with the movie.

And now Blu-ray is taking over.

There were several reasons I didn't buy into Blu-ray at first.
- Blu-ray and HD-DVD were at war with each other. I wasn't going to buy one format and watch it lose.
- I already invested so much into DVD. I didn't want to see it go away in just nine years.
- I didn't see much of a difference in quality.

If you feel the same way about the quality, I challenge you to watch only Blu-ray discs for a week (on a HDTV) and then watch DVDs. You'll see what I mean. The upgrade isn't the same leap as VHS was to DVD, but it's still a big leap.