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| Allbusiness Deactivated User THE CLOTHED COLOSSUS!! RULER OF FEMALE FLESH!!! 296 Posts 3/12 |  Posted - May 3 2014 : 9:47AM |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - May 3 2014 : 10:12AM [Link] |
jayo  All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - May 3 2014 : 2:53PM I haven't purchased a Blu-ray stand-alone player to replace my DVD player because the DVD player is perfectly good, and I don't want to spend the money. I avidly replaced my VHS tapes with DVDs because I liked DVDs 1,00 hex better. They were smaller, the image was better, better player features (skipping around), and "extras" that I liked. Blu-ray's images don't seem (to me) any better than DVD, even though I haven't done a serious comparison, the "extras" are usually none, and the player doesn't seem to offer any new features that I want. The result is that I've been buying blu-rays for new acquisions, not to replace my DVDs. And even then, if something's offered on both blu-ray and DVD, I've been price-comparing. If the DVD is significantly less, I'll buy the DVD. There's also the fact that I'm older and I don't like a helluva lot of what's coming out now in movies; I have no desire (negative desire?) to buy FAST & FURIOUS movies on any format, let alone blu-ray. You can bundle the Adam Sandler Collection together for $5 and I would still want you to pay me $20 to "buy" it, before I throw it unopened into the trash. Blu-ray reminds me of what happened with LPs in the 1960s when Stereo came out. For many years, records usually came out in both "mono" and "stereo" editions. It took a LONG time before mono finally died. [Link] |
| DarkDeveloper Member 57 Posts 6/10 | Posted - May 10 2014 : 4:35PM Of course the introduction of smartphones and tablets has now also changed how we consume our TV/movies, in this context, the idea that I HAVE to watch a HD movie in my Blu-Ray player (connected to the TV) seems so, erm, 20th century... Finally, I think pricing has always been an issue. I have'nt kept up recently, but a couple of years ago a retailer was selling the newly released movie 'Outpost' (low budget British Nazi-Zombie horror movie, shot in a dimly lit bunker) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. The DVD was priced around £7 (screams low budget tat) and the Blu-Ray was £14.... I was thinking to myself, i appreciate that the Blu-Ray edition is Hi-Def and all that, but 1) the movie is shot in a dimly lit bunker, so hardly the best material to show of the joys of HD, and 2) while i appreciate that HD carries a premium, charging double the price of the DVD shows just how out of touch the entertainment industry is, and this was before the global financial meltdown... [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 11 2014 : 2:01AM Jacco [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - May 11 2014 : 10:34AM [Link] |
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