The HD Experience
I must say, I am not terribly enamored with the Blu-Ray experience. When you put a DVD into the drive, what do you get? Well, if it's an old DVD--back when DVDs were awesome--you got sent straight to a menu screen where you could immediately play the movie. Of course, nowadays, you have to sit through several minutes of previews with the menu button disabled, and then often a 30-second (or more) long intro to the menu where they show clips from the movie you just want to watch.
But all that is changing with the advent of Blu-Ray. When you put in a Blu-Ray disc, you get 15-30 seconds of a load screen. Then you get the logos for the publisher, then it loads the unskippable previews from the internet. Then you get another 15-30 second loading screen before you get the menu. If you're really lucky, there won't be another loading screen after you click play.
All this for a resolution bump? Two steps forward, two steps back.
But all that is changing with the advent of Blu-Ray. When you put in a Blu-Ray disc, you get 15-30 seconds of a load screen. Then you get the logos for the publisher, then it loads the unskippable previews from the internet. Then you get another 15-30 second loading screen before you get the menu. If you're really lucky, there won't be another loading screen after you click play.
All this for a resolution bump? Two steps forward, two steps back.