BlueRay versus DVD?

lopploovoll

I'm getting married in a few weeks and the videographer is putting the pressure on to go with BlueRay for the video and not DVD (for an extra £300!).

I don't have a BlueRay player so i would have to buy that to watch it, but I gues I will have to buy one one day anyway. Question is, are DVDs likely to be phased out quickly or will I be safe with a DVD for a few years yet?

Thanks

emmahip

sounds like he's just after your cash! even if dvd players disappear (which is very unlikely in the next 5 years) blu-ray players can play dvds anyway - in 10 years time you might have to pay £25 (or equivalent in world money units or something :rotfl: ) to transfer your video onto a new format.
rant over ! i'd tell him to sling his hook though

phatbear

Tell him to shove it.

Have you got a hi def tv as well, because without one blueray is kinda pointless, so assuming you havent you would need to buy a blu ray player, personally id buy a ps3, and then a hi def tv and pay the extra £300 for the disk.

Stick with the normal dvd mate and find a btr way to spend the extra £300

all the best

the bear

lopploovoll

Cheers folks. Duly told to 'ram it'!

M4RKM

£300 extra for using a - probably the same camcorder, and b - a slightly more expensive blank disc... hmm... that is a great money making idea...

Yes you would see a noticeable difference in picture quality, but not for that kinda money.. if it was £100 difference, i'd be tempted to ask him if you got a DVD and a BluRay version, so when you do upgrade, you could watch the high def, and still watch the standard def version now, but for £300, that is just too expensive

M

Donnie

The chances are that he will shoot the video in High definition anyway and then edit it down to DVD quality.
My solution, depending on the size of the final edit, would be to ask him to transfer it to an external storage unit such as this Seagate FreeAgent Go 120GB USB2.0 2.5" External Hard Drive or something like the PNY Attache Black 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive.

If the videographer wants to be helpful, he could place it on the drive for you. It costs him nothing, so you shouldn't expect anything more than a nominal fee.

That way, you could watch it via your PC in High Definition and/or burn to DVD/BluRay at your leisure.