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Topic: Anyone consuming HD or Blu-ray?
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Mike Blakesley
Film God
Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 11-10-2006 01:24 AM
I'm not buying a HD DVD player until they are $99.99 or less, which they will be as soon as two things happen:
1. One of the two formats dies a slow painful death;
2. Regular DVDs are discontinued (or at least put on death row, like LPs and cassettes were).
Of course it's always possible that the general public is just fine with DVDs the way they are and both new formats will tank out, like is happening with SACD. I wouldn't care if that happened, either.
As for HDTV, I'm willing to spend oh, maybe around $500 on a new set. When they hit that point for about 60 inches, I'm in.
Why in the world do we have to use a spinning disk for all this stuff anyway? I predict that within 10 years, storage will be so cheap and plentiful that you'll be able to just play movies off of a stick or something. Either that or everyone'll just stream everything off the Net and nobody will have any spinning disks. (Then the terrorists will attack "the internets" and we'll all be screwed, entertainment-wise.)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 11-10-2006 09:42 AM
quote: Mike Blakesley
As for HDTV, I'm willing to spend oh, maybe around $500 on a new set. When they hit that point for about 60 inches, I'm in.
When has a TV that big ever been that cheap?
Relatively speaking, today's HDTV rear projection screens have much higher quality and much lower prices compared to old 4:3 ratio projection screen NTSC-only TVs sold only a few years ago. I remember decent NTSC rear projection TVs commanding $5000 or more.
Basically, the price is going to come down only to a certain point on those giant sized televisions. I paid nearly $600 for my old 32" RCA CRT television nearly a decade ago, and that model was on sale (the regular price was nearly $800).
I want a pretty big HDTV set whenever I'm set to buy, at least something around 60". Considering materials costs and all that other stuff, I'm prepared to pay around $3000 for the thing. I'm just not willing to buy right now over technical reasons rather than price point.
quote: Mike Blakesley
Why in the world do we have to use a spinning disk for all this stuff anyway? I predict that within 10 years, storage will be so cheap and plentiful that you'll be able to just play movies off of a stick or something.
I think that's fairly likely, so long as the lawyers out there can agree to it.
When the Internet gets fast enough it will kill video rental stores. And that development may be minor compared to a lot of other things that will happen when average Internet connections sustain data download rates of 30 million bits per second and more. HD video on demand will be possible. The traditional methods of television broadcasting over the air as well as cable/satellite delivery will be taken over by IP delivery. The whole nature of telephony will be changed too, with a great deal of it being video-based.
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