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Posted by Goro on 03/23/07 13:54
On Mar 22, 10:48 pm, "def456" <def...@none.none> wrote:
> "def456" <def...@none.none> wrote in message
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> news:NhPLh.16222$bb1.4210@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net...
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> >I ignored it but obviously it's the coming thing because Netflix is
> >offering BluRay discs now. So how long before it gets as cheap as DVD...?
> > (BluRay players/burners under $50 each, and blank BluRay discs under $2
> > each)
>
> > I'm willing, so long as I can rip & burn movies to BluRay discs. It's like
> > three DVD DL discs which would hold like 3 full-length movies with full
> > DVD quality, and a significant space savings.
>
> > In the meantime I'll continue with DVD.
>
> I read most of the replies and the concensus seems to be about 5 years. That
> means the DVD format probably still has a long lifetime to look forward to,
> another 5 years, at least, which is fine with me. That was actually the
> reason for my question since I'm planning on investing a lot in DVDs. Or, am
> I...?????
>
> A little birdie tells me the future is not in DVDs or BluRay or HDformat
> discs, but in external portable hard drives. Have you noticed how cheap they
> are lately? I picked up a 250G external USB drive at Staples for $80 (US$s,
> of course) recently. That will hold 32 movies at 8G per movie, resulting in
> a cost of about $2.50 per movie. Wow! Did I calculate that correctly? That's
> already as cheap as DL DVDs. :)
>
> So maybe what we really need is TV sets which can accept a connection to
> these little portable USB hard drives, each of which can old 32 or more
> movies. Of course our computer monitors can already do that, but many of us
> prefer the theatrical experience of watching movies on our big screen TV's
> from the luxury of our easy chair while stuffing ourselves with popcorn and
> soda pop (or whatever). :)
>
> So will I be putting my money into DL DVDs or a shelf full of portable
> external USB hard drives? I'm not sure yet, maybe the latter. Hard drives
> have a long lifetime too, I imagine.
Encoded into x264 or divx hd, they look pretty damb nice at ~ 1.4GB
per movie (that's 2 CDRs)
it woudl be interesting if video went the way of audio and bypassed
the H-Res format entirely and moved to a computer file format.
(yes, the usages of audio and video are very different, but still...)
-goro-
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