I think Blu-Ray will become the standard soon enough, although I hear the Japanese have already got a superior format in the works that surpasses Blu-Ray and it will be on the market in a couple of years. It never ends.
Anyway, the albums I was talking about are all from the Analog era, the old classics that you can only find in used shops if at all. And then you hope they are in decent condition.
The guys I know are not professional but just love vinyl recordings, and they are preserving the best vinyl albums using all their tricks of the trade. I don't think I will go Blu-Ray, I've paid so much money over the years for format upgrades I'm not going to do it again. However I will dabble in the analog/digital conversions that are available and I must stress these are OOP(Out Of Print) recordings you have a hard time to find them period and some are worth $1,000's of dollars if you are lucky enough to stumble across them.