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In Reply to: 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
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Follow Ups
- I wouldn't buy a Blu-ray player right now at any price. - jsm 18:21:15 03/02/08 (5)
- I'll remind you of that in a few months when Sony and Universal are releasing dozens of catalog titles on BD - Jazz Inmate 22:06:06 03/03/08 (0)
- I can play every Blu-ray disc I own... - oscar 09:45:15 03/03/08 (3)
- Good luck in the future, then. - jsm 13:30:39 03/03/08 (2)
- At worst, he won't be able to play the bonus materials and PIP features - Jazz Inmate 22:08:41 03/03/08 (1)
- You mean there's more to movie watching than "just" watching the movie ? - oscar 05:09:52 03/04/08 (0)
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