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Post by InvisibleWolfMan on Aug 22, 2007 23:21:56 GMT 2
 Anyone bored yet? I am. Just staring at the image above makes me...oh, I dunno...want to harm high power HowdyDoodyLand execs in their 3 piece suits.  And their kittens. Seriously.  We are 10 years into the magical world of DVD and dammit...it, for the most part, is actually holding up well. So well, why do we need high def? High def is for THE NERDS, and I use that term because I could consider myself one of them. Of course, I'm not a stuck-up nerd.  I don't care how frighteningly deep I can see the lines on Steven McQueen's face in THE BLOB when he is supposed to be a teenager but clearly isn't. I don't care if there's 300 Gagillion terabytes of DTS audio and 5000 trillion billion million Gigabytes of crystal clear video. I wanna watch a fucking movie on my tv! And enjoy it!  I'm also sick of the arguments like "it looks more like film." Yes...that's why I'm switching reels just at the cigarette burns are marked to cue the switch, RIGHT? Give me a break, idiots. I've been paying for 10 years now to switch to a format that if I treat right, will last me at least 10 to 20 more if I'm real careful. Then I'll need to buy my stuff all over again and THEN....AND ONLY THEN....will you pry my wallet from my cold dead hands for whatever the new format is then. Bastards.  I love films. I love the idea behind DVD and any PHYSICAL digital storage format that will be born in the future because of it. I just hate that these execs throw us what will amount to a niche market for niche stuck-up nerds with their niche stuck-up ideas for those 3 piece monkey suit organ grinder monkeys dancing to the "look at me, I'm the next format NOW. NO ME!!! OVER HERE!" tune and expecting that since we're halfway through the circus that we haven't seen that the dance is the same...just a different beat so that's why they're asking us to clap along like the trained seals play horns. You execs need to remember, analog was analog and although it's slower it sure made it an easier sell for upgrades. We've seen so much happen in the digital realm these past 10 years that we're SEVERELY JADED and can't muster up more feeling for high def.  Can you?  Best Regards, InvisibleWolfMan  |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 22, 2007 23:30:36 GMT 2
True that, Wolfman. I made a similar thread about this a while back too (although, admittedly, not as nicely put - or with as many smilies. Or any, for that matter).
I don't give a SHIT about HD DVD. I really do hope it will go the way of the Laser Disc and the Mini-Disc and just be for buy-everything fanboys who salivate over DTS-Ultra Magni-Sound.
I LOVE DVD. Now THAT was a genuine progression from VHS, not this pretentious, pointless fiddly shit. The sound and picture and extras are 100% superior to video - that's why I bought a DVD player. That's why I bought the same films again. Will I buy the same films AGAIN because of minor differences I would need a hi-spec TV to appreciate? No. Because I actually have sex.
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Post by trashcanman on Aug 23, 2007 22:50:00 GMT 2
"There can be only one!"
I will buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray when the smoke clears after The Quickening and only one remains. And even then, only after a severe price cut shall my cash be spent on an upgrade. HD is unnecessary for a lot of classic movies, but it looks absolutely amazing on some films, like "300" or "The Matrix", for example; but all of this corporate bullshit grates my nerves and I will buy NOTHING that is not fully supported by all studios and I can't imagine that anyone else would either. But what I am pleased about is that both formats play current-gen DVD's so we won't have to replace our disgustingly extensive movie collections just yet. In fact, word has it that the old DVD's look better when viewed on the new players. That's the deal-breaker for me. But until Sony and Paramount and all of these other corporate bastards get their shit sorted out and there is a clear next-gen DVD winner, they can all go to hell.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 24, 2007 20:10:06 GMT 2
Huh, I didn't know the new machines play existing DVDs.
That's.. well, that's actually pretty cool. And they make the old DVDs look better you say?
Hmmmmm.. (sensing a turn-around in opinion on the subject).
Nope - still "meh."
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Post by hackersanonymous on Sept 1, 2007 22:02:08 GMT 2
It's my understanding that they only make standard DVDs look better by using a system called upscaling, which can only be viewed on a TV capable of receiving an upscaled signal.
For what it's worth, you can buy an upscaling capable DVD player for not very much money at all, so I wouldn't go rushing out to buy a BlueRay/HD player purely for that reason.
Toodles!
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