Blue Ray or DVD??? What's gonna happen?

[cjefferys]

What about home-burned DVD's ?

Yeah, my Blu-ray player has played anything I've thrown in it, burned DVDs, burned Blu-rays, even discs with avi files burned on it. Same with my PS3.

[mego73]

Yeah, my Blu-ray player has played anything I've thrown in it, burned DVDs, burned Blu-rays, even discs with avi files burned on it. Same with my PS3.

Same with my blu ray player. I actually play almost as much burned DVD's on it as I do blu rays.

[Werewolf]

Eventually Blu-Ray will replace DVD. High definition is not going away. I buy all my new releases on Blu-Ray. People are just not going to pony up the big bucks on all of those 1080p HDTVs just to play upscaled DVDs on them.

I know some companies, mostly Microsoft I think, are pushing digital distribution hard. I'm vehemently against that. It's just a way for companies to take your money without you actually owning anything. You don't own a digital copy. You have a limited license of it's use. When you have a physical copy of a book, DVD, Blu-Ray, video game etc. that's yours to do with it what you want. Trade it, sell it, loan it to a friend, skeet shoot it, whatever, it's yours. Digital distribution takes away your right of ownership.

[kennermike]

The last sentence is exactly why I wont ever fully transer to digital download well said!
Digital download takes away your right of ownership!

[JPkempo]

The only digital down load I don't mind is books. My mom has a kindel she loves that you can make the font bigger so it's easyer to read. Guess it saves trees and I think there is a bigger profit for the writer.

[cjefferys]

I know some companies, mostly Microsoft I think, are pushing digital distribution hard. I vehemently against that. It's just a way for companies to take your money without you actually owning anything. You don't own a digital copy. You have a limited license of it's use. When you have a physical copy of a book, DVD, Blu-Ray, video game etc. that's yours to do with it what you want. Trade it, sell it, loan it to a friend, skeet shoot it, whatever, it's yours. Digital distribution takes away your right of ownership.

Yes, that's exactly why I vastly prefer buying physical media, I like to actually own and possess what I buy. Same reason why I have no interest in the Kindle and will continue to buy physical books. Media companies love the idea of having complete control over the media you "buy" from them, but I'm not going for that, I want the control. I hope that I will always have the option to buy hard copies instead of downloads, but who knows what the future will hold.

[mego73]

I would use digital download/streaming in the same way I'd use renting but for stuff I want to keep, a physical copy on some medium is the only way to go.

[palitoy]

VHS is coming back baby

[BlackKnight]

VHS is coming back baby

Yeah ..., So is Hairy Bush Porn.

[cjefferys]

My uncle has me looking for a working CED player. Not quite as old as VHS and Beta, but probably one of the most obsolete video formats out there. But he likes old tech stuff, he just gave me a Sony Net MD Walkman. Anyone got any blank Mini Discs I can record music on?

[Mikey]

Yeah ..., So is Hairy Bush Porn.

It's very possible

Just because something is in today you can almost bet in wont be in tomorrow.

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy

[mego73]

My uncle has me looking for a working CED player. Not quite as old as VHS and Beta, but probably one of the most obsolete video formats out there. But he likes old tech stuff, he just gave me a Sony Net MD Walkman. Anyone got any blank Mini Discs I can record music on?

I have a non working one. CED was the only thing I could afford for playing movies in high school.

[Mikey]

CED was the only thing I could afford for playing movies in high school.

Me too,
I still remember some of the movies I had ....

Star Trek Classic -- Space Seed and the Changling
Alein
Tron
Fiddler on the Roof
Beatles Let it Be
The Complete Beatles

[cjefferys]

Yeah, my dad bought one when they first came out, we didn't even have a VCR yet. Unfortunately we had over a half hour drive to go somewhere that actually rented them. And most of the rental discs had a lot of skipping (it was really quite a flawed format). After about six months, my dad traded it in for a VCR.

[mazinz]

My uncle has me looking for a working CED player. Not quite as old as VHS and Beta, but probably one of the most obsolete video formats out there. But he likes old tech stuff, he just gave me a Sony Net MD Walkman. Anyone got any blank Mini Discs I can record music on?

I still have Godzilla and Rodan in the CED format. IF it is something you ever want to digitally copy back to your PC, STAY away from minidisc. Sony really ****ed it with protection, so much so that even analog personal recordings you could not transfer digitally back to the pc. Only a few years ago did Sony make a few MD mini decks that were able to transfer back the analog recorded versions digitally. I ****ed Sony for ****ing me for years (went through a few MD decks all made like crap and all with over protection-- at that time homedeck cd recorders did not really exist and buying a pc was out of the price range- had to preserve my personal tape recordings onto something- so I went with minidisc). I bought the special non protection for analog recordings mini deck, used it for a solid two days to transfer all of my material from their crap disc to wave files on the pc and then brought the thing back and got my money returned