Posted by RCE Defiant on 01/05/08 15:18

"POD {Ò¿Ó}" <DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@DEADSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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> "RCE Defiant" <peterstonesfcuk@thespam@hotmail.co.uk> once tried to test
> me. I ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
>> I know it's hard to crystal ball it and say never but I don't think
>> I'll ever bother with Blu-Ray or HD-DVD unless I buy it by mistake as
>> something bundled with something else. They'll have you flipping your
>> collection till the end of time if you keep stumping up the cash for
>> every new format they can think of. Roll on fibre to the house and a
>> £20 per month all you can eat film subscription!
>>
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>> RCE Defiant
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>
> 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.

I have seen Hi-Def and have 3 HD sources plumbed into my T.V (360, SkyHD,
Mediacenter).

> 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???

That's where a good off-site backup strategy comes in (he says as he's
literally doing his monthly backup to a 500GB disk that goes off-site for
the month before it comes back next month to do it all again).

> Also, why am I paying almost as much for something less than half the
> quality?

I dunno!

<SNIP>

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RCE Defiant

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