Posted by Steve(JazzHunter) on 09/05/05 15:49

On 4 Sep 2005 23:25:09 -0700, "DaLoverhino" <DaLoveRhino@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Not late with me.
>
>Anyways, didn't Schindler's List come out when DVD's were a known
>technology? And weren't DVD's selling for like maybe $30 bucks back
>then? And even if there weren't many titles, you know that it was just
>a matter of time.

Schindler's list was issued to laserdisc mid-1994, the same time as to
VHS if I remember, (a new idea then, mostly lasers came out two months
or more AFTER the VHS and Betamax release.) DVDs came to market at the
end of 1997, and Schindler's list was first issued in DVD in early
2004, ten years after the laserdisc release.
>
>Back then, I would patiently wait for the movie I wanted to come out on
>DVD, because one criteria I have for purchasing movies is that the
>picture quality stay superb, and you could only do that with laser
>discs and dvds. I wouldn't buy VHS anything knowing that in a few
>years the picture quality would degrade, if I played the movie lots.

Sme people consider the early days of DVD to be "back then" but I've
been buying Home Videos since 1978, and laser since 1981, giving me a
whole different perspective. I DO wish I'd bought more Image and HBO
and Goldwyn DVDs in the late 1990s, many of those are now quite
collectible.

... Steve ..

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