If it's available on blu-ray, I buy the blu-ray. Blu-rays are so cheap now that why wouldn't you want the resolution increase of HD on blu-ray? If it's a really obscure movie or TV series that I want and it's only available on DVD, I buy the DVD.
Some older '70s and '80s TV series, although shot on 35mm film, will probably never be remastered in HD for blu-ray, like The Six Million Dollar Man, which I bought on DVD, and I'm happy to even get it on DVD.
However, with Universal's new blu-ray set of the classic 1970s TV series Battlestar Galactica, mastered from 35mm film elements for blu-ray, in its original broadcast 4x3 and top-to-bottom cropped/enlarged for today's 16x9 widescreen TVs versions, I may have made a mistake buying Universal's Six Mil on DVD if they plan to give Six Mil a similar royal, red-carpet treatment...
I bought the TV miniseries Roots and Roots-The Next Generations on DVD because DVD is currently the only format they're offered in.
Many TV sitcoms from the '70s and '80s were VIDEOTAPED in front of a live studio audience and the videotape of the time was standard-definition. 35mm film, an inherently HD format, with few exceptions, was typically only used for dramatic material at the time. Sitcoms wouldn't wholly embrace 35mm film until Cheers and Seinfeld. These old shows included All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Three's Company, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Barney Miller, The Facts of Life, Night Court, etc. There will not be a resolution increase in putting these shows on blu-ray, and there's no reason AT ALL to put these shows on blu-ray, unless to use blu-ray's storage capacity to cram more of them onto a single disc, therefore, DVD sets of these shows shot on videotape is all there will ever be and is just fine. DVDs of these shows still looks cleaner than the original network broadcasts viewed through 75-ohm pin antenna jack.
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