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In Reply to: RE: " ...you wanted the cheap player, casablanca and matrix..." - 1 partial fact out of 3 assertions... posted by Jazz Inmate on December 11, 2007 at 01:13:26
Wasn't it the blu-boys that used to chant "CONTENT IS KING"? Of course picking one format over the other based on exclusives is a valid reason. It may be the ONLY valid reason. What good is an HD format if you don't like the movies offered? I'm sure if he preferred Cars, or "Spidey", and went BD, you would applaud him.
Your stance here is almost as strange as your Microsoft conspiracy theories.
Jack
Edits: 12/11/07Follow Ups:
Anyone who bases such decisions on titles at a time when only about 100 titles had even been released is not making rational decisions.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Studio backing is only as valuable as the titles they put out. A studio's catalog is worthless if it never sees the light of day.
Jack
You guys genuinely don't seem to understand that this is not a static situation. The concept that titles are continually coming out seems lost on you. Basing decisions on the available titles at a fixed point in time, early in format rollout, is completely nuts.
And this is where voting with your dollars comes into play. By jumping the fence from one side to the other, you are not telling the studios what format you prefer and you are encouraging the war rather than the format. Decide which is best and support it. Right now, neither format has the title availability to justify interest in terms of building a serious library.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
> > > Basing decisions on the available titles at a fixed point in time, early in format rollout, is completely nuts. < < <
No, basing decisions on titles that may never see the light of day is nuts.
> > > And this is where voting with your dollars comes into play. By jumping the fence from one side to the other, you are not telling the studios what format you prefer and you are encouraging the war rather than the format. Decide which is best and support it. Right now, neither format has the title availability to justify interest in terms of building a serious library. < < <
I'm telling the studios, that I'm a movie lover, not a format cheerleader.
Of course, that's why I still buy DVDs.
Jack
...on my tombstone (not that I'm in any hurry! -grin). If folks are content to wait around until the dust settles to enjoy their favorite films in high definition they might be under the latter before they even see the former! :o)
Cheers,
AuPh
Truely pathetic.
Jack
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
You have no idea what is in my collection, and you are grasping at straws.
Jack
There simply aren't many good titles out there on either HD format to be a logical reason to adopt.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
...BRP! ;0)
E.g. I waited for the Extended (DTS) versions of LOTR before I bought them on DVD. For the long-term, bandwidth and storage are very important considerations, that consideration is driving my selections for now.
What good is a format, if you don't like what its offering? That's why I jumped off the SACD bandwagon 6 months after I jumped on it.
Oh sure, its nice to hear promises of how glorious things will be in the future, but what good is that if they don't have any movies you want to see?
Jack
There is only one reason to buy into HD: a fascination with QUALITY and a desire to see a tremendous volume of films released with that QUALITY.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
But I have over 80 HD DVDs, and only 20 BDs-5 of which were free, and the Ocean's Trilogy I got on BD because the HD DVD was sold out.
OTOH, I have over 1000 DVDs. Most of my watching is still SD.
> > > There is only one reason to buy into HD: a fascination with QUALITY < < <
I'm not going to buy a nice picture of a movie that I don't like. If you want to do that, by all means go for it. I won't-that sends the wrong message to the studios: "I'll buy anything in HD!".
I'm sure Sony loves you.
Jack
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