And what happens when your internet connection goes out? Because it will, sooner or later.
So you have poor eyesight then. If your son sees the difference on the same set, it’s not that it’s calibrated wrong, it’s you.
I stream using data?
I live in a major metropolitan area and I still have shitty internet sometimes. Especially on weekends when everyone else in the area is streaming movies and playing Call of Duty and sucking away my bandwidth.
This is why I don’t buy VHS anymore.
Sounds like you have a shitty player. When I leave mine on pause for too long and it kicks over to live TV I just hit play on the remote and the movie starts back up at the point I paused it.
Since we’re in the midst of an argument about SD vs. HD, I should point out for clarity that the quote is with respect to the difference between 720p and 1080p, not between SD and HD. This is an example of the “diminishing returns” phenomenon. The difference between 480i and 720p is quite substantial. The difference between 720p and 1080p is less apparent in many cases, despite the greatly increased information content.
I still like to own movies I really like but DVD is usually much cheaper than DVD for a new release. So I tend to only buy used Blue Ray.
The quality difference is not that huge, like VHS to DVD was.
I think we know that 3D TV is a fail, so that killed one area which would have helped Blue Ray.
Streaming works very well for enough people to hurt sales greatly.
For me though it is that they want too much for Blue Ray. If they got the price down under $20 consistently I would be buying more Blue Rays.
One thing that annoys me is Blu ray players seem to lack features DVD player have had for literally years.
The DVD player I bought in 1997 would remember where you stopped on the last 5 disks it played. My Blu Ray doesn’t do that. It often will forget where the current disk was stopped and start form the beginning.
After that first DVD player, I upgraded to a 5 disk changer. I loved it. It was great for binge watching Seasons of shows (before that was a thing) or putting in a selection of Movies to watch later or CDs to listen to.
When I wanted to switch the Blu ray I looked and looked for a multi disk player and they just didn’t seem to exist. Ended up going with a Sony that was a lemon and then an LG single disk player.
Not watch movies until the internet connection comes back on. It’s not like I can watch a disc that I don’t own.
Me? I’ve got a stack of books to read.
Physical books??
The resolution on physical books is total shit.
I’d find the flashlight and candles. If my Internet is out, there is a 99% chance that my electricity is out as well. Which means I wouldn’t be watching anything.
Okay, in theory I could still watch a DVD on my laptop, assuming the battery was mostly charged. This corner case doesn’t make it worth buying and storing physical media, in my opinion. I think I own maybe 6 DVDs total, and 4 of them were gifts.
The problem is that they don’t have to tank. They just have to decide it’s not in their interest any more.
Microsoft used to sell DRM’d music. At some point, they decided not to do it anymore and shut down the authentication servers. Microsoft is still around, but if you bought that music, sucks to be you. The best part is the brand name they sold it under: “PlaysForSure”.
Yeah, but they’ll tell you before they shut everything down so you can download home copies.
Yeah, still not worried. If I were worried, I’d use one of the many available methods out there to make hard copies.
I’m pretty much the prototypical target consumer for Blu-Ray: I’ve got the disposable income to pay for my entertainment instead of stealing it, I recognize the quality difference vs. other sources, I’ve got the TV and surround sound setup, and I watch a lot of movies (some of them multiple times).
…And I still only pick up a small number of discs each year, almost exclusively in the holiday sale season. Why? Price isn’t right otherwise. I’m willing to pay between $5 and $10 for a Blu-Ray, depending on how much I want it. Neither the $30-40 MSRP (or $20-30 effective price) for new releases nor the $15 that movies tend to settle in at is something I’m going to impulse-buy as I’m walking through the mall or browsing Amazon. Sorry.
I own a bunch of DVDs and Blu-Rays but find that there is almost something else on TV, streaming or at the theaters that I can watch instead of watching a DVD/Blu-Ray of something I’ve already seen.
When I watch something it is to experience a story or learn something new, not count the pores in the actors skin or the blades of grass on the lawn. As long as the picture is clear enough that I know what is going on the image resolution is irrelevant.
Half of the video I watch is of content more than 10 years old anyway. Almost none of that is available in HD and I enjoy it just as much as the new movies.
If you put a high-def blue-ray on the latest monitor next to a DVD on an older set I could probably discern the difference but I doubt it would affect my enjoyment of the program. So why pay extra for something that does not significantly alter my experience.
Especially when watching standard 4:3, 480i resolution stuff on a wide screen TV – either you have bars on the sides or the image is distored to fill the screen or everyone’s heads are clipped at the top because you’re doing that goofy zoom-to-fill thing. How do you not notice any of that?
What is wrong with bars on the sides of the picture?