by Witness 007 22 Replies latest jw experiences
I'm with daniel-p on this. I have a few VHS tapes and a lot of DVD's. I see no reason to "upgrade" my hardware until they start releasing some content that is worth watching. As it stands now, the only thing I watch on television is the news and the food network. Considering what I'm paying for cable I could save the money and just catch the news on the radio.
W
Depends how much you love movies I guess! I threw out my video player a year ago since I no longer use it.
007: I love movies. But not so much that I'm going to invest in the whole continuous-upgrade philosophy that media corporations have a lot of people signed on to.
Daniel,
I absolutely hear you. I call it the bleeding edge of technology.
You need to wait and invest when things level out - and you're certain that things will not change. I had an old television set until recently, because the hdtv's they were selling years ago were a big step below today's standards. When I did buy, I researched the best brand, best quality, and bought it. Frankly, I'm confident in my purchase. Besides, I'm a cheap guy - I don't like throwing my money away on gadgets.
Blu-ray HD? It's here to stay. There is nothing else on the horizon - that's why I purchased it.
Next thing I'm waiting for: Telephones to all become like I phones. They will become much more powerful than they are now. Until then, I will never buy an I phone. My cheapo cell phone works just fine. Maybe another five years or so.
We have been using DVDs for only 3 years.........I think it is just a scam to get us to have to be continually changing our equipment.
The one thing that is here <not on the horizon> that may prevent BluRay reaching critical mass is internet bandwidth and a content distribution model that works for all the stakeholders.
Opinion is divided as to how long it will take before you can legally download more or less whatever you want in HD - some say years, some say decades.
I think it is just a scam to get us to have to be continually changing our equipment
Of course it is. Just like CDs replaced vinyl, and DVDs replaced VHS and now blu-ray is on the horizon. 10-15 years something will be there to replace blu-ray. It's all about making the consumer pay again and again for the same content.
Blu-Ray is a Sony product. I hate Sony products and will do my best to avoid buying Sony anything. 3 1/2" floppies were garbage too (good riddance).
I've been in the Audio/video biz for some time and 1 thing I learned that the best medium is not necessarly the one that wins. i.e.
Beta Versus VHS. Beta was clearly better but lost.
8 track versus cassete. Cassette is the worst medium in the world and yet it won over 8 track, real to real and every other superior medium.
There was a version of the cassette that was called half track by Mad Man Muntz. He sold alot of these double wide cassettes. It had 7.5 ips that was double cassette and a 1/4 inch tape as opoosed to 1/8". And yet it's gone
I'm with the "Thumbs Down" group 100%! Booo on the big corporations.
If BluRay took over, I suppose we'd all have to run out and buy new computers, too? (Since the CD/DVD drive wouldn't work w/bluray?)
Like Blondie, I've only had a DVD player since 2006.
Didn't even get a color-TV until 1986! It lived 11 years.
I'm always a dinosaur/late bloomer when it comes to getting the latest gadgets. I don't want anything else, a cell (cheapo Nokia from Sam's), the TVs/VCR/DVD combos, 1 laptop, 1 stereo.
I'm a TV/VCR/DVD-combo die-hard, though. Love the combos! I think I got the last 2 on the planet last summer from ebay, brand new in the box, great deal. Wish I had bought 4 of them now. (The guy had 147 of them, Panasonics, which I love Panasonic).
No big screen TVs, surround sound, all that jazz.
As for the VHS tapes, Sam's Club quit selling them early last year, whatta big pain, they had those great 10-packs cheap, Maxells. So it's Walmart and Sony 5-packs now, unless I want to buy in bulk off the net. There's still quite a few places that sell them in bulk. A Sam's employee told me last year their business customers were highly ticked when Sam's quit selling the VHS tapes as many businesses still use them in their video/surveillance cameras, etc.
Such is "progress" - but in whose stinking opinion? ;-/
