I've never gone the Blueray route. Partially because the products cost more, but mainly because I didn't like the clinical look of the very few things I've seen on that medium.
I saw the film Equilibrium at my brothers house and I HATED the look of it. It was very crisp and clean but it just looked horribly fake to me, like cheap studio lighting. I didn't much enjoy the film as I couldn't get absorbed into it, the lighting was just too off putting. I have since seen some of it on regular DVD type quality and it looks so much better to me.
At my sisters house I saw Ponyo on Blueray, and likewise I didn't like it. It's a superb film but the clarity made it really obvious that they were hand drawn/pencilled backgrounds with animation film on top. I've seen it many times on DVD and NEVER noticed that at all. The 'blended' look is so much better to me.
The one thing that I am wondering if it is better - I have various old concert DVDs, Satch, Vai, Rush etc and I don't really care to watch them much now as they just look wooly and fuzzy. I'm wondering if those sort of things look better on Blueray? I'm guessing they might, but only with more recent footage maybe?
Anyone else not a fan?
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Naughty, naughty cynic.
But you will get used to it and your brain be able to tell the little differences again.
Other studios used the same masters they'd used for DVD and the higher resolution just exposed the flaws.
But they have got much better. Most films nowadays have been shot digitally anyway so they don't need to fuck about with them at all to transfer them to Blu-ray or 4K. And older films are being remastered, in many cases with 4K scans but failing that with better 2K scans.
With things like your old concert videos, how good they'll look on Blu-ray depends on the quality of the source. If they were shot on videotape, like old TV shows, they'll still look like videotape.
I'd say the majority of the TV's I see in people homes look awful as they have them set to standard or vivid with motion smoothing enabled. Nothing worse than having to pretend that a TV looks great when people are showing off their new TV's with picture settings that looks like the instore demos in Currys.