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TWRoO on 03 September 2012
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Turkish said:
kowenicki said:
Turkish said:
kowenicki said:
Turkish said:
kowenicki said:
5 people have bought more than 500 blu rays?

Wow. That's... Er....


Better to own more than 500 blurays than nothing.


I own some blu rays.  I think owning 500 is a collosal waste of money, blu ray upgrade isn't worth it for the vast majority of movies. Each to their own I guess.  Hope they enjoy re-buying them when 4k is the norm in 5 to 10 years.

I think you're wrong, its a waste of money to you because you don't see the value of owning the best quality possible.

I dont appreciate quality?  How wrong you are, you dont know me, you couldnt be MORE wrong. The cars I drive, the things I own and my last tell a very different story. But I won't be roughed by manufacturers peddling their wares.

Blu ray version of a movie such as....say "the big lebowski" doesn't improve the movie or the experience one iota. Constantly rebuying many older movies in new formats in the future will be  folly and frankly a con by the manufacturers.

By the same logic, lets all watch vhs tapes because the evil manufacturers dare to ask us to buy movies every 10 years in a newer format.

I don't understand such logic, you buy new tvs, new cars, new electronics, they make your experience bigger, better, faster, crisper.

I think Kowen was mainly speaking against the practice of upgrading entire collections, not on simply buying a new format. That and the time difference between VHS (late 70s) and DVD (late 90s) is twice that of DVD and Blu-ray (late 2000s) and the advantages DVD game over VHS were ones of convenience (mainly taking up much less storage space and not having to re-wind) as well as picture/sound quality.
Another advantage of DVDs is that it only required consumers to buy a new player... rather than a new player and a new TV (and if you are going to take proper advantage of the new TV, more expensive network TV contracts)

I'm all for improving technology (though maybe you wouldn't think that based on my arguments) but for general consumers the upgrade to Blu-ray doesn't have a same appeal as it did to DVD.

I can understand a collection of 500 or more if that person is a film critic or something (and gets films for cheap or free) or an absolutely massive film buff and happens to think 500 of the films released in the last 6 years were worth owning, but if most of those 500 you already owned before on DVD then it is quite excessive.