{"id":647,"date":"2008-05-13T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T10:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:30","slug":"bluray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/bluray\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem.  After having watched Blu-ray movies on my home theatre system I&#8217;m now spoiled.  While regular DVDs still look good, Blu-ray discs look even better. This is now preventing me from purchasing any more DVDs &#8211; unless I suspect that they might either never be released on Blu-ray, or that their source quality is such that Blu-ray, itself, won&#8217;t make things look better than they already do.<\/p>\n<p>My problem, however, is my existing movie collection.  How many of the movies that I currently own do I want to &#8220;double dip&#8221; on?  In other words, what do I buy in Blu-ray that I already have in standard DVD format?  One answer is anything that relies on really good cinematography.  Another, is any movie that I really like.  The issue with the second answer, however, is that I only have movies that I really like in my collection.<\/p>\n<p>Also, what do I do with all of my regular DVDs when I end up with their Blu-ray equivalent?  Keep them, give them away, sell them somehow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem. After having watched Blu-ray movies on my home theatre system I&#8217;m now spoiled. While regular DVDs still look good, Blu-ray discs look even better. This is now preventing me from purchasing any more DVDs &#8211; unless I suspect that they might either never be released on Blu-ray, or that their source &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/bluray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Blu-ray.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}