Does disk size matter?

[rocketpig]

ChronotriggerJM said:
Yeah, were a small minority of people ^_^ but the tech is on the rise, the longer the technology is out, the more widespread it becomes, in fact I saw a cheapo 7.1 audio surround for pc the other day at fry's for some 500 something dollars. In terms of here and now I can reason with you, theres not a huge demand for it, and as far as cost to encode with that audio its almost nothing, in fact most of the time I believe its encoded in 7.1 and just drowned out in noise displacement for 5.1 or lower. I could be wrong on that but I don't think its that important for the better output. So whereas it might not be important to you now, if you ever feel like upgrading to a better sound system, you know you'll be able to get the most out of your disk.

My point is that 7.1 is marginally better unless you really have a massive theatre setup. My 5.1 system ran me about $1500 in individual components and sounds better than almost any pre-packaged system you'll find, 5.1 or 7.1.

It's the same problem that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are encountering; they're just not a big enough improvement over upscaled DVD to convince most people to buy into them, myself included. I don't care if players were $200; I still wouldn't touch either format even though I have a PS3.

Adding technology for technology's sake doesn't impress me much.