Here in Australia VHS tapes are dead! My Blockbuster video threw out all there tapes and started promoting Bluray movies...in Feb 2008 HD Players and movies ceased production making Bluray the new standard for the future! I just got one and its awesome in picture and sound. This year most major movie hits are out on bluray. I have "The Godfather x3" "Diehard quadrilogy" "Spider man x3" and "Rambo x3" boxsets and they all look awesome. The next 12 months will see Bluray taking over and after afew years DVD will be the new "VHS tape" of the 21st Century!
Bluray DVD take over! Have you seen one? It killed VHS and HD movies! Is DVD next?
by Witness 007 22 Replies latest jw experiences
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shamus100
It will take time, Witness007.
In Canada, VHS has been gone for years! You couldn't find a tape to save your life. I own a blu-ray player too, and it's amazing! Your television needs to be very good quality to get the full effects of it.
It makes hi-def look yucky.
And the nice thing about Blue-ray players is you can use regular hi-def DVD's no problemo.
Rent the new Batman movie on blue-ray. It's amazing.
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daniel-p
Forced technological change does no one any good except a few corporations. My goal is to reverse this change in my own life. I have no TV, I listen to the radio for news, and I read actual books for entertainment and play non-electronic games. Of course, I still have a computer and the internet... I have a feeling this will be the last to go. But my cell phone is going this September (when my contract is up), and I'm switching back to a landline.
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Witness 007
DanielP........welcome to happy new year 1980! lol just kidding!
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daniel-p
I'd need some 8-tracks for that, 007!!
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daniel-p
On a more serious note... the reason why I stopped playing the game of newer-better-faster technological purchases is that eventually you're paying for only marginal increases in quality. None of that actually improves the CONTENT of the media you're concerned with. I don't care how fast the fricking PS3 is = are the games any good? This is why, IMO, Nintendo got it right when they stepped out of the game of manufacturing increasingly expensive hardware and started focusing on GAMEPLAY and innovative experiences. Not that I even have a Wii, or any other console, but the point is a newer, faster, and better TV and DVD technology does not make a crap movie a good one. If you have the money to blow away on 1080p HDTVs, HD cable, and $24-30 Bluray DVDs, then by all means do so. But it won't be as satisfying as spending a fraction of that cost and just watching quality programing or a well-made film on an ordinary TV.
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Lady Lee
the used media store where I go is slowly gettting rid of their VHS collection. They are just beginning to get used blueray media.
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Mastodon
Interesting to know that the video market follows the porn industry wherever it goes. Beta vs. VHS? The standard became VHS because that's the route that the porn industry picked... same thing happens now with the blu ray vs. HD DVD debacle.
BluRay kicks ass. No doubt.
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Witness 007
Shamus I love the disc space, Godfather 2 goes for 180 minutes now on one bluray disc rather than 2 DVD's.
Lady lee I go to a secondhand store here that gives me Blurays at halfprice! Diehard x4 box set $50.....Rambo x3 box was $39...Spiderman x 3 $49 huge bargins!
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