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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/18/06 18:19
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>And even *then*, they made you never want to look at your
>>VHS tapes again--You wished for a world where "rewinding" had become
>>obsolete, and saw the doorway open.
>>We didn't buy DVD's because they were "sort of better". If that were
>>the reasoning, we'd be watching S-VHS to this day.
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> There was only one reason I bought a DVD player, and that's because The
> Matrix came out on DVD 6 months before it came out on VHS. I think a lot
> of other people bought DVD players for the same reason.
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> They need to find a few titles that people want so desperately on DVD and
> make them available only on an HD format. They won't do that, though, for
> a lot of reasons. The internet can short circuit any plan like that today.
It's not the Internet, it's the fact that most movies that came out
during that Summer of Love had never been studio-restored, or available,
or only on VHS, up to that point--If you were thinking you now had to
"replace your entire tape collection", there was never a better time to
do it:
If it wasn't the Matrix, you bought your player because of SOME title
that was released between the summer of '99 and the spring of
'00...Okay, hands up, for how many was it the "Yellow Submarine"
restoration? :)
If they're selling a hi-def format on the down-convertable idea of
"Don't worry, you can still play your standard DVD's", I see a
particular flaw/difference from history right there.
And if they're not, I see an even bigger one.
Derek Janssen
djanss@comcast.net
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