Advantages of Blu Ray Over DVD
November 22nd, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized — Movie Critic
A lot of people don’t know the difference between Blu Ray and DVD. Often the larger price tag on Blu Ray players and movies puts people off, but there are distinct advantages over DVD that you should consider. To that end, here is a shopping guide to help you realize those advantages.
For starters, their discs have a lot more storage space than DVDs. While regular DVDs have only 4.7 GB of space, their counterpart discs can store up to 27 GB – which is 13 hours of standard definition television, or 2-3 hours of HDTV. This means that you can store a lot more information on a disc, which means more special features for your movies as well as more details to watch on your HDTV.
Buying a Blu Ray player doesn’t mean that you need to replace all your DVDs, as you might have done when converting from VCR to DVD. All players are backwards-compatible, meaning you can watch your older DVDs with a Blu Ray player. Most players also “upconvert” your DVDs; in other words, they increase the definition of your standard DVD to a better image for HDTVs. If you have a substantial collection, you can still watch them in higher than standard definition (though it’s still not HDTV).
The biggest advantage of Blu Ray over DVDs has been touched on but not fully explored: HDTV. You will not get the same quality picture on an HDTV with a standard DVD player. A disc will give you superb picture quality, and also audio quality. So not only will you experience better TV and movies, your sound system will sound better too.
The substantially improved picture and sound on HDTV sets is a result of the increased storage space on the Blu Ray disc, as well as the blue laser behind the technology. By upgrading to Blu Ray you will never want to go back to DVD – just like you never wanted to go back to VHS.
