Los Angeles resident
09-25-2011, 06:11 AM
It sucks shit that more and more people would rather watch movies on their computers via streaming video than on their HDTVs via Blu-ray.
Not that I feel sorry for the companies that sell or rent out DVDs, but it's bad for people who value both quantity and picture quality when it comes to viewing movies on TV. Just two and a half years ago I bought a Blu-ray DVD player to replace my standard definition DVD player and just several months later signed up with Netflix and now I'm being told very soon it will be obsolete if it's not obsolete now. My HDTV is not wired to receive streaming video and even if it was, I wouldn't enjoy watching movies of 720p picture quality as opposed to watching Blu-rays at 1080i. I also think it sucks that Netflix is getting out of the DVD by mail business. They had a large selection of DVDs, including rare hard to find DVDs and now they want to go into streaming where the quantity is just as inferior as the quantity at Redbox.
On the bright side, Variety magazine reported that the six "Star Wars" films that just went to Blu-ray a week ago had over $80M in Blu-ray sales. It's encouraging, but I think that is more the exception than the rule.
Either way, home entertainment has just gone to hell. Consumers with very low standards would rather watch inferior picture quality on their TVs or computers than on Blu-ray. What a shame. This is just as bad as VHS beating out the Betamax.
Not that I feel sorry for the companies that sell or rent out DVDs, but it's bad for people who value both quantity and picture quality when it comes to viewing movies on TV. Just two and a half years ago I bought a Blu-ray DVD player to replace my standard definition DVD player and just several months later signed up with Netflix and now I'm being told very soon it will be obsolete if it's not obsolete now. My HDTV is not wired to receive streaming video and even if it was, I wouldn't enjoy watching movies of 720p picture quality as opposed to watching Blu-rays at 1080i. I also think it sucks that Netflix is getting out of the DVD by mail business. They had a large selection of DVDs, including rare hard to find DVDs and now they want to go into streaming where the quantity is just as inferior as the quantity at Redbox.
On the bright side, Variety magazine reported that the six "Star Wars" films that just went to Blu-ray a week ago had over $80M in Blu-ray sales. It's encouraging, but I think that is more the exception than the rule.
Either way, home entertainment has just gone to hell. Consumers with very low standards would rather watch inferior picture quality on their TVs or computers than on Blu-ray. What a shame. This is just as bad as VHS beating out the Betamax.