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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by JumpCutz
(Post 10066102)
I think he did that on purpoise.
And if Hokeyboy wants to exchange personal attacks please send them to my email so we don't get into trouble. I don't recall calling anyone a loser. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by ReduxGuy
(Post 10064475)
You know, not ALL lovers of cinema can afford a Blu-Ray and a TV bigger than the house. Ex. I will be buying Mr. Fox tomorrow, even though Fox gave the Blu-Ray all the worthwhile features and the standard DVD gets the fluff.
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
This could be easily fixed if studios would just release the SE on BOTH FORMATS. I am not knocking blu-ray, it's a great format and I look at it as the same way LD was to VHS, it is for videophiles and I just think it's dumb to not include something on a DVD that could very easily be included but the choose not to. VHS couldnt include stuff that LD could but DVD can include almost everything that the BR does
I don't understand why the studios are starting to hate on DVD so much. I think DVD has made studios more money than VHS ever did and now there are treating it like the little bastard of the Home Video format. I feel for all the people that want SE Blu-Ray's of certain movies, I think they should get them. I just don't want DVD to be casted off and ignored for Blu-Ray. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Larry C.
(Post 10066545)
Yeah because he is the only one who would think of that and not the one who was saying he was more "retarted"
And if Hokeyboy wants to exchange personal attacks please send them to my email so we don't get into trouble. I don't recall calling anyone a loser. I so hate the Internet. :mad: |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Sessa17
(Post 10066552)
You are the perfect example of the baffling pro-DVD only people that I keep pointing out. You own over 1500 DVDs! You CAN afford a Blu-Ray player & big screen TV. The average person does not own over 1500 DVDs. You clearly have a great deal of money to spend, doesn't matter how cheap some of those DVDs are. A Blu-Ray player a little over $100 would not be a problem.
Still, HDTVs have never been cheaper and more easily affordable. The same with Blu-Ray players and, for the most part, software (although the latter has aways to go). The 46" Samsung I bought a year-and-a-half ago is half the price today (and well under $1,000). |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
(Post 10066136)
No, you won't. 3D Blu-ray releases are backwards compatible. If you pop a 3D disc in a player that's only geared for 2D, a normal 2D presentation will play. (You get either the left eye version or the right eye version...and still in full 1080p to boot. I suppose the maximum bitrate of the video could be lower than a dedicated 2D release, though.)
Hypothetically we may have two choices for someone who doesn't want to watch their movies in 3D; you can purchase the expensive 3D Blu-ray version with all the extras and watch it in 2D or you'll be able to purchase the cheaper 2D Blu-ray version as a bare-bones release. We will be stuck buying the more expensive product whether we want it or not just to get the extras which used to be standard on the 2D Blu-ray. To me, that sounds like the same discussion over DVD/Blu-Ray. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10066699)
The fact that I used the phrase "is makes", misused "worse" when I meant "worst", spelled loser "looser" and then finished it up with an excitable "!!!1!!11!!!one!11!" didn't tip you off that the whole thing was gag?
I so hate the Internet. :mad: |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Larry C.
(Post 10066831)
nah my bad i was in a pissy mood earlier.
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10066878)
All good. You can be my wingman any day. :up:
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
For those of you looking for a relatively inexpensive Blu-ray player, this Sylvania, that Amazon is selling currently for $59.99, is excellent: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product
It is a great quality Blu-ray player that has played everything I've thrown at it without a single firmware upgrade. The only negative I can come up with about it is that it doesn't have a way to connect to the internet, so that means no BD-Live, but in my experience, those features are usually worthless and BD-Live sometimes freezes players or causes them to take forever to load. Jump on it now, as I don't know how long it will last. Then head on over to monoprice and get yourself an HDMI cable for cheap. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10066878)
All good. You can be my wingman any day. :up:
Originally Posted by Larry C.
(Post 10067399)
You got it :thumbsup:
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
(Post 10068070)
Jeez, get a room!
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Larry C.
(Post 10065040)
Are you really gonna compare cookies and technology base products? In the world of electronics things have a very short "shelf life" (since you like food references) We all here are brought together by this technology and our love of movies. If this is the case why all the resistance? Enjoy it on a much better format.
People bitch and moan about how now everyone is giving the BD's the royal treatment. Duh its better and will be the stardard before you know it. It's really not about the Blu-ray technology itself, which is of course superior to DVD, but the way in which it is marketed and sold. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10068227)
Anti-semite! :mad:
Today is a better day :D |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Sessa17
(Post 10066552)
You are the perfect example of the baffling pro-DVD only people that I keep pointing out. You own over 1500 DVDs! You CAN afford a Blu-Ray player & big screen TV. The average person does not own over 1500 DVDs. You clearly have a great deal of money to spend, doesn't matter how cheap some of those DVDs are. A Blu-Ray player a little over $100 would not be a problem.
I've seen several films on Blu-Ray and honestly, I don't see any real difference that's going to give me some epiphany; the Blu-Ray for Bram Stoker's Dracula is one that just really pissed me off because Blu-Ray's supposed to be the "wave of the future" and the BD transfer looked like a bad VHS dupe. Now my family has a decent set-up: 55" Samsung with a good upgrading Sony player (aside from the reveal of how screwed the SD-DVD copy of TDK is, but that's an argument for another time) and we do have the money to upgrade, but we just don't see the need right now. Even my father - who's one of the most pro-technology people I know - doesn't see why we should upgrade right now (and he practically lives at Best Buy). Now the day Titanic, The Entity and The Ruling Class are out on R1 Blu, then I'll throw in the towel and "upgrade." That's just my two cents. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by ReduxGuy
(Post 10068686)
My collection list is comprised of everything my family owns; they buy the most in the house.
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Sessa17
(Post 10068755)
Why would "your" collection comprise your entire family? Especially if you don't live at home, that is just weird, I wouldn't want my mom's movies lumped in with mine & then post it it my sig. I don't include my girlfriends movies in my collection, they are her movies, not mine.
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by orangerunner
(Post 10066538)
The difference was they didn't remove things from VHS in order to entice people to buy DVD. With DVD it was simply value-added.
The studios are removing features and extras that were once standard on most DVDs and are now exclusively putting them on Blu-ray in order to entice people to switch to Blu-ray. That's the difference. Had the studios started to record VHS tapes in SLP record mode (slow speed, really bad quality) to make DVD look superior, that would have been comparable. Such tactics weren't necessary for DVD because consumers in huge numbers universally agreed the disc format had significant increased value over the VHS format. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Bishop_99
(Post 10068942)
True, but at the same time some studios were releasing the DVD version earlier than the VHS version of some films.
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Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Originally Posted by Bishop_99
(Post 10068942)
True, but at the same time some studios were releasing the DVD version earlier than the VHS version of some films.
Buying a new release title at $29.95 on DVD was a value added tactic, it wasn't about taking something from VHS you didn't already have before. |
Re: WB and The Blind Side...SD screwed Again!
Just when I was thinking of visiting the local christian bookstore to buy a copy.
"The Blind Side" was removed from the shelves of one of the nation’s leading Christian retail chains after a pastor complained of profanity and a racial slur used in the film, and the decision has sparked debate within the community. Even though the Oscar-winning movie has been off the shelves at LifeWay Christian Stores for more than a month, writers are still weighing in, and more often than not they are ridiculing the decision. On Friday, for example, televangelist Rod Parsley wrote that LifeWay was sending an “ominous” and “unbiblical message” that Christians “must be sheltered from the world’s realities.” http://www.movienewz.com/img/disc/la...d-side_dvd.jpg |
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