[Saracen]

Well, personally, very very rarely do I buy a DVD, BR or otherwise. There's a limit to how often I'm interested in watching a given program from a DVD, and it nearly always isn't enough for me to be prepared to buy DVDs. I'll watch it when it comes on TV, or if I'm really keen, watch a film at the cinema when it comes out.

But for me, the pleasure I get from watching a film the second time is nearly always a lot less than it was the first time, and even less after that. There's only a handful of films I'd even bother to watch when they come on TV if I've already seen them several times. It's a perfect example of the law of diminishing marginal returns in operation.

So .... at a rough guess, 70% of my enjoyment in a film comes from the first viewing, 20% from the second, and thereafter, the remaining 10%. Which begs the question ..... does the increased quality from viewing one, and maybe viewing two justify the price premium, because after viewing two, I really don't give much of a fig.

And the answer, for me, is ..... nope.


Exceptions, that I will view multiple times :-

- some music videos.
- some documentaries.

There are some documentaries where HD is, to me, worth the cost. It tends it be wildlife and natural history stuff, like the BBC wildlife unit comes up with, or Planet Earth. Those, if I was to buy them, I may well go for HD versions.

There are some music videos that I'll watch again and again. But the problem then is that it's for the music, not the images, and I may well 'watch' with my eyes shut .... in which case I might as well buy a CD instead, and usually do. But in any event, even on first viewing, those are about sound not vision, for me.

I agree with staffsMike - it's not that I can't tell the difference, its that most of the time, I don't much care and certainly not enough to pay BR price premiums. Hence, I don't buy many DVDs and am certainly not forking out either for BR media or even for the player. When players are as ubiquitous, and cheap, as DVD players are now, and when BR disc prices have come down to the point I'm currently prepared to pay for the few DVDs I buy, then maybe I'll buy the occasional BR. But not until then.