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Topic: DVD vs BR-DVD -- live together 4 how long?
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Dan Biegner
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From: Northampton, MA USA
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 02-22-2011 09:32 AM
In my neck of the woods, vinyl is actually pretty trendy. Personally, I only collect jazz and hip hop albums on vinyl. Everything else is either digital or CD. Most record stores here DO actually carry vinyl as a result. I know that's probably not true everywhere or just anywhere, but thought it'd be interesting to note that it is still a niche market.
It's also funny to see that a lot of "indie" bands do make it a point to put out vinyls. One of the first vinyl records I bought after moving here was Sufjan Stevens's "Greetings! From Michigan!" Came with a bonus track not included on the CD. I think maybe I need to pick up that Scott Pilgrim record though. Good soundtrack. Same with Where the Wild Things Are too...
Regarding blu-ray vs. DVD, I pretty much buy exclusively on blu-ray at this point, though I have no qualms with DVD. The image quality of blu-ray really is enough for me to prefer that to DVD. And since blu-ray have more "space," you can pack more features on them as well, and I'm a fan of that. I think Sony spoiled me with the PS3 though. I don't see the difference between blu-ray and DVD to be as big as the gap between DVD and VHS, but it is enough that I notice it and have a preference. But the technology is similar, so I don't need to replace my DVDs with blu-rays the way I had to replace my VHS tapes with DVDs.
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Scott Jentsch
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From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 02-22-2011 11:14 AM
DVD's have become a commodity item whose value has been reduced so far that $4.99 is becoming a common price attached to anything but new releases. I see DVD holding on for a while, but it's losing ground fast to streaming solutions.
Probably the biggest key factor in the popularity of DVD is for in-vehicle entertainment systems. Even those are starting to feature input jacks, so the kids can just plug their iPods into the console and see sponge-bob up on the viewscreen in the minivan.
Blu-ray is taking the position that DVD once had, but I fear that streaming will take over. Even though its quality is substandard, the convenience for the consumer and the price attraction for the studios and places like Amazon and Netflix may cause us to lose physical media altogether in the next several years.
I will not buy a movie on DVD. I was offered a DVD copy of a movie to review for my site, and I turned it down. Reviewing a DVD is a waste of time, as anyone who cares about the quality of the image or sound, or about the extras, is going to be interested in buying the Blu-ray version instead. If all they want is to see the movie, they can stream it or rent it from Redbox for a buck.
DVD has lost its value to the point where it has no value. Once the streaming suppliers bulk up their selections, there will be little use for the digital versatile disc.
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-09-2011 09:51 AM
That piece by Andrew Merey on durhamregion.com is flawed in the very points he uses to support his opinion.
1) Old movies can look great on Blu-ray. It takes some effort to do a good transfer, but when it's done right, we get The Searchers and Casablanca. One would hope that he doesn't think that raiding the stack of GoodTimes videotapes is the way that DVD's and Blu-ray's are authored.
2) He got this one right, but it was an easy one.
3) This is a classic old-fogey response used by people that aren't necessarily old, but stuck in their ways nonetheless. When you watch a lot of HD, SD doesn't look so good any more.
That said, I don't think it's a zero-sum game. DVD doesn't have to die for Blu-ray to be successful. Streaming can work alongside both of them, but I think it poses the most serious risk to DVD, with Blu-ray becoming possible collateral damage if too many people are willing to overlook the diminished quality that is received in exchange for the convenience.
Of course, that could be just temporary if the bandwidth is available on both ends of the chain. I just watched an HD movie via Netflix Instant Watch on a 120" screen, and it looked pretty good. Good enough that most people wouldn't notice a difference between that and Blu-ray.
The movies he mentions would most likely appear on streaming services before any physical medium, due to the cost involved with pressing, distributing, and selling discs. Streaming seems to be an excellent way to deal with such titles, followed closely by Amazon's CreateDVD or whatever they call their burn-to-DVD process.
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