for about $80, so didn't seem too pricey. Of course, the discs themselves cost more than DVDs, so I only plan to buy really special movies on BR. So far, only TH has fit my criteria.
I do enjoy watching on my tablet. For me, the picture seems clearer and sharper than our TV. Mr. Elf rolls his eyes at this preference, especially for epic-sized movies like The Hobbit, but I maintain it works out just fine because of the proportional correlation between how close a screen is to you and it's size. Sometimes, a movie screen is just too big. My eyes just can't take everything in. But then, I'm the type of person that wants to see EVERY detail (well, at least for ME movies.)
so I voted for both. Right now, I still watch them on DVD, but since my television's getting older (it looks like the power is going out until it warms up, which can take up to half an hour, give or take), maybe I'll even be able to upgrade by my birthday, or at the very latest, by the time the Extended Edition for DoS is released sometime before TABA hits theaters (then I'll be able to buy the 3D version instead of the DVD, but since Thorin's on the cover of the TE, I'll be keeping both, unlike last year with AUJ). It's not the Blu-ray player that the pricey item (since they can cost as much as a DVD player used to cost), but the HD television that you have to buy with it (though I'll have to get both a 3D TV and 3D Blu-ray player as well as a TV stand, since the one that I have now won't be able to support a 47' 3D HDTV, it can only support the piddly 20 incher that I have now). Maybe it's a good thing I pre-ordered the 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack for DoS after all.
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Things I can't watch on Blu-ray. Love, love, love that increased picture quality. Fortunately, though, the players have come down considerably in price, but for those for whom awesome picture quality can happily take a back seat, the quality of the newly released DVDs seems to have improved, too. But if you have a large screen TV, you'll still lose too much resolution unless you view on high definition.
Wish I could afford one of the new 4K TVs but that won't be happening.
Hey, I still have a videotape recorder. So you can guess I'm usually behind the height of technology... but just a little. As a lover of many an old and/or arthouse film I wouldn't get far with Blu-ray format anyway. Maybe when (if?) my video/DVD combination fails me and I can find a device that does both DVD and Blu-ray I may change my mind. But until then, I'm quite happy with DVDs.
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and have been for the past 6 or so years it's really hard for me to watch a lot of things standard definition. I'm just spoiled I guess So Blu-ray if there is an option, and DVD when I need to! But VHS's are fun for nostalgia's sake!
I wasn't even aware of that. Thank you for pointing it out! Still, the lure of Blu-ray is pretty small, because most films that are brought out as Blu-ray (older ones, not new, obviously) aren't really up my alley anyway. Besides, how much definition do you need on a telly that's on the small side? And I'm certainly not upgrading on telly-size... I watch a DVD every other week or so and the news if I happen to be home at the appropriate time (else I watch them online) and that's about it.
I have a blu/ray dvd player so if the dvd and blu ray has the same extra material I buy the dvd (Cheeper). If there's more on the blu ray I buy that if I love the movie.
I prefer dvd's though and for the longest time they were so much cheaper than the blu's so that resentment kinda lingers i guess
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So Blu-ray if there is an option, and DVD when I need to! But VHS's are fun for nostalgia's sake! 
