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Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/23/07 00:39
Winfield wrote:
>> Having just set up my first Blu-ray/PS3/LCD setup this weekend, let me
>> introduce myself as a REAL "Average person", who gets mythologized about.
>> And after downloading a few 1080 trailers....ohhh, yah. There's a
>> difference.
>
> Hey! Congrats on getting your new toys, Mythological Person.
Well, point is, for all the hi-def support I've been making, kind of
embarassing to admit, I'd never actually SEEN a 1080p Blu-ray *or*
HD-DVD movie in my life, at least outside of the odd "Chicken Little"
display at Best Buy.
(AND they were all sold out of the two or three keeper titles I'd wanted
to come home with, my first Netflix Blu-rental wasn't shipped till
today, and I'm still waiting for the November DeepDiscount sale before
picking up any new ones.)
I just took it as the fact that movies-on-disk in general was already
changing toward a new industry standard that FCC regulations on the
digital sets was already helping to cause (ie., the new disks are
already turning up in the ads as if it was a normal thing), and that it
was time to start standardizing one standard for all those said "Average
people" to jump on.
I remember DiVX-vs.-DVD, I remember June 1999, and lemme tell ya,
sonny-Jims, it *WASN'T* "brand competition" that drove prices down and
the good studio titles onto disk.
....But anyway, now that it's in my living room with no blue-shirt clerks
looking over my shoulder, yeah, it's pretty darn cool. ^_^
Derek Janssen (getting hooked on PS2 Kingdom Hearts for the first time
in eight years ain't bad either)
ejanss1@verizon.net
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