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In Reply to: RE: Nonsense...You invest in media that will be supported posted by Jazz Inmate on February 27, 2008 at 23:36:35
As long as there is no Blu-ray standard, I wouldn't want one. Even if you buy the "winning format" player now, that player may not be able to play discs released in a year or two without being upgraded. I think that this is real deception. My Sony CDP-101, about the first CD player ever sold, still works fine, and it will play any RBCD every released. My S-VHS machine still works fine and will play any S-VHS or VHS ever released, though I hardly ever use it. I have owned three Sony and two Toshiba DVD players, and none has ever given me a hint of trouble. I bought an HD DVD player for under $200 with 10 free movies. Knowing then what I know now, I wouldn't have, though, for obvious reasons. For reasons above I wouldn't have bought a Blu-ray either. I have no problem buying HD DVD movies, the few that interest me, for $15 or less. The ones I am interested in are at least twice that on Blu-ray, and some aren't even available at all on Blu-ray. Maybe my player will crap out before I get full use of it, but I doubt it. It also happens to be a superb upsamplig DVD player, so I now have something quite nice to tide me over until they can straighten out what Blu-ray really means and then force many people to either buy a new machine or get theirs upgraded.
And if people claim this "standardization" is no big deal, they don't read the postings here very thoroughly. I don't recall many posts about trouble reading HD DVDs, though I'm sure there must be some, but I've seen plenty about Blu-ray.
Joe
Follow Ups:
Like hundreds of thousands of other blu-ray adopters, I have never had one problem playing a blu-ray disc. Not once.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
And I continue to expect to play every Blu-ray disc I buy for the foreseeable future with my current player. I don't expect Blu-ray disc compatibility to be an issue.
HD DVD had their own compatibility issues early on.
You obviously have ben lucky or timely in your purchases so far, but I wouldn't bet that all future Blu-ray discs will play on your machine. In fact, I'd bet the opposite, and time will tell.
Joe
What a shame--he'll just be able to watch the movies in 1080p. That aspect of the format is not changing and if it's the movie you care about, you should realize that BD is worth adopting now.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
I can live without PIP, IME, internet connectivity etc. There's only a handful of DVDs and Blu-rays where I've actually bothered to browse through the extra features.
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