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Posted by Black Locust on 04/13/06 05:28
In article <Gok%f.2139$ZW3.604@dukeread04>, "~P~" <bmxtrix2005@cox.net>
wrote:
> Other TVs, like my 15 year old 27" RCA with composite inputs?
>
> SURE! These players output video at regular old-fashioned 480i levels which
> happily will show video on my old TV.
You're kidding right? Who in their right mind would throw down the money
for an expensive HD player just so they could view it on their old
analog television? That's COMPLETELY defeating the purpose of these new
formats! Doh.
> As for VCRs... well, sure you COULD buy stuff on VCR tapes and studios make
> them, but those numbers shrink every day. I have been in my new house for
> almost a year now... still haven't hooked up my VCR. Haven't had ONE
> occassion where I've wanted it.
You're missing the point entirely. Everyone knows the VHS market has
shrunken down to the size of a cockroach. DVD player penetration is
pretty close to what VCR penetration was at it's PEAK back in the mid
1990s. Everyone and their grandma has a fucking DVD player now.
YET(<--that being the keyword here) many of the movie studios continue
to support VHS here in the year 2006, nearly 10 years after the
introduction of DVD! Why do they? Beats the fuck out of me. Surely they
can't be making more than a bag of peanuts in sales or rentals on the
damn things these days, but none-the-less some studios(like the
aformentioned Universal) keep chugging the old, obsolete things out. Not
to mention VHS tapes are much more complex and costly to manufacture
than an optical disc. So please tell, why in the blue hell would movie
studios keep supporting VHS long after the market for it has disapated,
but abandon DVD when there's still a huge demand for it? Just so they
can try to "force" us to upgrade to HD? Sorry, I don't buy it. The movie
studios aren't stupid enough to alienate the customer like that.
Especially when it's getting easier and easier every day to illegally
download movies...
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush
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