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RE: "Where's your BD collection?" - I've got one Blu-ray disc on the way.

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In Reply to: RE: "Where's your BD collection?" - I've got one Blu-ray disc on the way. posted by Audiophilander on January 19, 2008 at 12:15:47

>> You should respect my expertise more since I'm not a format fanboy or a multi-national corporate CEO with a marketing agenda. <<

First of all, you are a fanboy of HD DVD and you have no expertise. Secondly, the Warner CEO is Meyer. We're talking about the president of the Home Video Division of Warner. Thirdly, that division has been releasing both HD DVD and BD formats for many months. There has been much thought and deliberation prior to their decision--as there was with my decision. The studios and consumers who do their homework realize that BD is the way to go.

>> You still haven't figured out that capacity is of little value if it isn't properly used <<

We've discussed this already and you've been told that capacity is of enormous importance and has dumbed down HD content for both formats. Only a moron, if given the chance to adopt a 50 gig format or a 30 gig format, would choose the 30 gig format.

>> Shwoooosh! (over your head) You completely missed the point! There is NO clear choice; the waters are muddied by:
1) upconverting players with near HD resolution
2) higher priced Blu-ray hardware and HD movies (both formats)
3) hardware glitches (mostly 'not-ready-for-prime-time' players)
4) shifting HDMI specifications & no future proof hardware <<

Upconversion is nice, but it's basically like line doubling. It gives the illusion of HD, but for those who can honestly evaluate the picture (which rules you out), upconverted DVD doesn't cut it. The discussion is about HD formats. The higher priced BD hardware is a temporary issue that isn't significant. As for hardware glitches, those aren't significant either, affecting a couple titles on players that have been discontinued, and then blown way out of proportion among Blu-ray haters like you on AVS. The PS3 has proven future proof, and as for HDMI specifications, I already agreed with you that this is one area that deters people from adopting the HD formats, along with the fact that there is a format war. This discussion is just about the "war" itself and its impact in muddying the waters.

>> Consumers have been told to wait on the sidelines by critics and experts who see nothing but confusion, the least of which comes from the two clearly identified competing formats. <<

That's a crock of shit. I can point you to dozens of articles that cite the dueling formats as the reason to stay on the sidelines. If the industry can unite behind one format, it will give millions of consumers the confidence to take the plunge.

>> Only brick and mortar retailers would find these two formats problematic, and that's because of limited shelf space. <<

Nope. It's a major issue among sane consumers (which excludes you).

>> BTW, before you joined the 'circus' and started doing cart-wheels and head-srands for Blu-ray your previous job wouldn't happen to have been as a salesman in the home mortgage lending industry, would it? <<

Thanks for your curiosity. I've been a projects manager at a scientific instrumentation company for the past 10 yrs. Before that, I was a journalist. What do you do for a living?
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