Posted by Walter Traprock on 01/10/08 18:46

Is that it is usually off-topic in this newsgroup!
Have you noticed that traffic in this newsgroup has
nearly disappeared since, when, in the past, it was
announced that HD-DVD/BlueRay was projected to be
released in future? It's like, DVD is no longer
new-fangled! No longer cutting edge! It is now
retro-primitive! The never-ending battle to not
care what is on the tube but have it in the very
latest style continues forever!

By the way, the most SEVERE picture problem with
"home" (as well as office, stores, mechanics,
restaurants, etc.,) video is not lack of pixels,
but the presentation of 1.33 content as 1.77 ratio
in widescreen TV sets. The pictorial result is so
"bent", so warped, so squished, it is just
intolerable. And since old TV and old movies aren't
going to disappear anytime soon, the problem is
scheduled to remain.

Last DVD watched: Madame Sin, oops, that's a VHS
rental. OK, I think it was the best of not the nine
o'clock news.

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