HD v. Bluray minirant
Hey, remember when I said Id rant on something else before that celeb list if it came up?
I keep forgetting to rant on this. HD-DVD....and Blu-ray. So basically what this boils down to is which company's movies do you like better since Warner picked their horse, Sony picked theirs, etc. etc. etc. Personally, for a very long time, I saw no difference between HD and Bluray whenever I saw it at least not enough to convince me to cut off my left leg to sell alongside my testicles and my first born son to upgrade my dvd player and or numerous movies. Hell I never saw a tremendous difference from original gen dvds. If I ever do upgrade, itd be after affordable multideck systems exist. Ones that play tapes, dvds, and next gen dvds. Because why the hell should I get rid of 100s of dvds just so I can wait for them to get released...again....so I can say....OOOOO I can see the hairs on Matt Damon's head so clearly..this was so totally worth the extra 500 bucks and selling my soul to people like the heads of Disney and/or WB.
Which brings me to why I thought of this. Couple weeks back I was in a Best Buy and an HD tv was playing what was an HD-DVD version of Batman Begins. For the first time in my life, I saw the difference. The car chase with the Rambler looked real. It looked like it was happening right in front of me and it feel like a real car chasing other real cars down a road. Which brought up an interesting thought in my mind. I don't like this. I really really don't. If I'm watching a movie or dvd, I want to see a movie or dvd. I don't want to feel like I'm tripping on hallucinogens and losing my grip on the distinction between fantasy and reality. And so, now I will definitely not buy what I'm now certain will be the winner (a blu-ray player) unless its backwards compatible with regular dvds and plays tapes (thatd change but im not willing to cough up for the tivo enabled cable box yet re: the tapes). and even then, I still prolly wont do it until my current one gives up the ghost, chokes, sputters, spouts an eerily dramatic monologue, and dies.
It comes down to this. When VHS-DVD wars happened, There was a legitimate, visible difference between the two. DVD won because it looked better, because it had menus, because it had special info and features on all the movies, because you didnt need to rewind it, etc etc etc. With HD and bluray facing regular now, all I can think is...ok so you want me to rebuy all my movies so i can say they look pretty even though usually they have the exact same features as a regular dvd does when the regular costs less and comes out at exactly the same time. Sorry, I don't feel the need to spend twenty additional dollars just because you think the american people need to work themselves into a masturbatory frenzy over just how pretty the explosions in Die Hard 4 are. Sometimes, sad to say, technological progress should skip a generation so that we can continue to love the infinitely better tech we already experience, rather than the marginal upgrade that costs way way too much money.
I keep forgetting to rant on this. HD-DVD....and Blu-ray. So basically what this boils down to is which company's movies do you like better since Warner picked their horse, Sony picked theirs, etc. etc. etc. Personally, for a very long time, I saw no difference between HD and Bluray whenever I saw it at least not enough to convince me to cut off my left leg to sell alongside my testicles and my first born son to upgrade my dvd player and or numerous movies. Hell I never saw a tremendous difference from original gen dvds. If I ever do upgrade, itd be after affordable multideck systems exist. Ones that play tapes, dvds, and next gen dvds. Because why the hell should I get rid of 100s of dvds just so I can wait for them to get released...again....so I can say....OOOOO I can see the hairs on Matt Damon's head so clearly..this was so totally worth the extra 500 bucks and selling my soul to people like the heads of Disney and/or WB.
Which brings me to why I thought of this. Couple weeks back I was in a Best Buy and an HD tv was playing what was an HD-DVD version of Batman Begins. For the first time in my life, I saw the difference. The car chase with the Rambler looked real. It looked like it was happening right in front of me and it feel like a real car chasing other real cars down a road. Which brought up an interesting thought in my mind. I don't like this. I really really don't. If I'm watching a movie or dvd, I want to see a movie or dvd. I don't want to feel like I'm tripping on hallucinogens and losing my grip on the distinction between fantasy and reality. And so, now I will definitely not buy what I'm now certain will be the winner (a blu-ray player) unless its backwards compatible with regular dvds and plays tapes (thatd change but im not willing to cough up for the tivo enabled cable box yet re: the tapes). and even then, I still prolly wont do it until my current one gives up the ghost, chokes, sputters, spouts an eerily dramatic monologue, and dies.
It comes down to this. When VHS-DVD wars happened, There was a legitimate, visible difference between the two. DVD won because it looked better, because it had menus, because it had special info and features on all the movies, because you didnt need to rewind it, etc etc etc. With HD and bluray facing regular now, all I can think is...ok so you want me to rebuy all my movies so i can say they look pretty even though usually they have the exact same features as a regular dvd does when the regular costs less and comes out at exactly the same time. Sorry, I don't feel the need to spend twenty additional dollars just because you think the american people need to work themselves into a masturbatory frenzy over just how pretty the explosions in Die Hard 4 are. Sometimes, sad to say, technological progress should skip a generation so that we can continue to love the infinitely better tech we already experience, rather than the marginal upgrade that costs way way too much money.