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Posted by Fry on 01/05/08 15:13
> I take it you've not seen Hi-Def then? I'm still nursing a semi over the
> 5 disc Blade Runner blu-ray, and I've had it for a couple of weeks now.
Hi-Def is nice, but it offers few significant leaps over DVD... You get
higher picture quality and sound, but that's about it. Most are
perfectly happy with DVD, whereas people weren't satisfied with VHS.
With downloads, you'll get better than DVD picture quality, and
something that's much more convenient than having to go to shops and
buy discs and then store them all at home.
> Fibre won't do it in my life-time, same way as I'll still buy a CD,
> since I'll never download anything from iTunes in my life, spend money
> and have nothing to show for it? What if my hard disc fails???
In the case of iTunes, if your hard disk fails, you load up iTunes, go
Store -> Check for Puchases... and then it looks at what you've bought
and what you have on your disk, and re-downloads anything that's
missing.
> Also, why am I paying almost as much for something less than half the
> quality?
Two reasons: Apple don't have any competition, and most people aren't bothered.
> No if you want streamed media with all the MPEG blockyness, that's up to
> you, I'll stick to my blu-ray discs that I can watch whenever I want
> without having to pay again.
H.264 at a decent bitrate is more than sufficient to deliver a decent
picture. I guess it comes down to how often you watch films... I'm
coming to realise that the huge rack full of DVDs I've amassed have
only been played once each. I'm not a big re-watcher of films, so if I
switched to pay-per-view downloads, I'd probably save quite a lot of
money. The only thing I re-watch are TV comedy box sets, my Arrested
Development discs have probably seen more use than all of my films put
together.
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