Daniel Jackson Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Even though the Black Friday deals have expired there are still loads of bargains to be had on the Amazon.com web site, if you are prepared to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Unfortunately, these Amazon deals are killing the Ma and Pa B&M stores. They simply cannot compete with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Just ordered Contagion, Columbiana, Matrix Reloaded/ Matrix Revolutions and The Ides Of March for a hell of a lot less than the high st stores could offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Unless you want the discs in your hand on release day there is no excuse for paying full retail for ANY Blu-ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Transformer: Dark Of The Moon 4 disc c/w 3D- B&M Store $54.99 + Taxes.. Amazon.com $29.99 no tax + free delivery= No comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Orwell Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) Blue Ray will never dominate. Thank god. Ultimately you'll be buying film on keys and any money poured into Blue Ray now is only good for filling your attic. Edited February 22, 2012 by Rex Orwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Blue Ray will never dominate. Thank god. Ultimately you'll be buying film on keys and any money poured into Blue Ray now is only good for filling your attic. I'm not going to even bother explaining why that will never happen, to someone who cannot even spell Blu-ray correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Blu-ray hater or maybe a HD-DVD or Apple Fanboy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member George Ebersole Posted March 3, 2012 Author Premium Member Share Posted March 3, 2012 Well, at one time TV stations used to air prints run through a telecine, or a 35mm print put on 3/4 inch video tape. Those images (print depending, which was usually pretty battered, even though it ws 35mm) were full of detail, and looked more than passable on broadcast TV. In that vein, I don't see VOD being a problem save for the fact that the cables aren't laid and homes don't have the hardware as yet to recieve the data for a new printed 12K/frame image (or however many Ks you want in there). With TV signal, you don't have that problem. It's up to the consumer to buy the right TV and aerial to get the best picture he can. I think once the network has been revamped to carry more data, then VOD will be the way to go. Comparing my regular DVDs to some of the films I taped on VHS and BETA umpteen years back, I can honestly say that DVD, even though it allows widescreen, presents an image that, to me at least, feels like a generation or two has been lost in the transfer. If that's the case, and Blu-ray only improves on that some, then I see VOD being the new "TV" for the 21st century. Just me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Vincent Sweeney Posted March 4, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 4, 2012 VOD already is the TV of the present. Most TV's/TV devices have connectivity built in now. Some form of VOD will continue to rise as the new standard, along with cloud storage/sharing of media and take over for the most part. For those who don't know what's happening in the media consumption world, people (myself included) are already getting close or same-as Bluray quality on streaming TV's now. Next year I bet it will be even better. It will go to 4K at some point, of course, and so on. I hope I can keep buying Blu/Red/Green-rays too, same with film stocks, for a long time to come but it will all become more of a specialty item too soon I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Black Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) This was all completely inevitable. Toshiba/Sony really needed to get it together and come up with a united front for the new format. Instead they got into a big battle with one another and the consumer just walked away. Now VOD is very much on the rise as expected and people are only looking for quality to match their DVD's by and large. Which leaves blu-ray where exactly? Blu Ray is the new laser disc. A high end niche format for those who care about high quality images in their movies. I imagine it will be able to struggle on in that form for a long time to come but it's sad because it could have all been so much more. love Freya Edited March 5, 2012 by Freya Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Orwell Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) I'm not going to even bother explaining why that will never happen, to someone who cannot even spell Blu-ray correctly. No go on, I'd be interested. Apologies for the spelling error, but the format isn't even on my radar. Edited March 6, 2012 by Rex Orwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Orwell Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Blu Ray is the new laser disc. A high end niche format for those who care about high quality images in their movies. Freya's right. But the high quality images will come to the rest of us soon enough anyways, in fact more so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 VOD already is the TV of the present. Most TV's/TV devices have connectivity built in now. Some form of VOD will continue to rise as the new standard, along with cloud storage/sharing of media and take over for the most part. For those who don't know what's happening in the media consumption world, people (myself included) are already getting close or same-as Bluray quality on streaming TV's now. Next year I bet it will be even better. It will go to 4K at some point, of course, and so on. I hope I can keep buying Blu/Red/Green-rays too, same with film stocks, for a long time to come but it will all become more of a specialty item too soon I think. The problem with Hi-Def VOD is that the ISP are penalizing it's customers over bandwidth rates and limits. Sure, go to 4K but you will pay an arm and a leg for the privilege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I much prefer to have actual physical media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Orwell Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I much prefer to have actual physical media. I agree. But Its the unsurity of what form this will actually take. DVD's themselves are a flawed format given how fragile the medium is. Many of my DVD's have been well taken care of, but skip in places. When examined the disc shows no evidence of scratching. It could be argued that it's the quality of the laser, yet I've played some of these discs on high end players with the same results. This is another reason I'm in favour of piracy and the ability to download films in AVI etc free of charge (and you can read my insight into SOPA and PIPA here). The medium is a marketing moneyspinner. It's preferred for me to go out like a good little consumer and re-buy films I've already paid for which I refuse to do. My habits have developed into watching a bulk library of AVI files in constant rotation, and leaving the DVD inside the box. The DVD has already become more of an ornament. My prediction of sticks was mocked by another member further up, but to me it seems the most logical avenue, in which case, is it really a form of physical media? Anyway, MG Siegler on the death of Blu-Ray (sp!) : To be clear, because of the way it’s compressed, iTunes 1080p content is not equal to the 1080p picture you’ll get from a Blu-ray disc. It’s very close, but it’s not quite there yet. I imagine it will get there as digital compression technology continues to improve. But even if it doesn’t, this is something that won’t mean a thing to the vast majority of consumers. Thanks to the marketing of television sets over the years, they know “1080p”. They don’t know that the quality can be inconstant. Fair or not, it won’t matter. That’s one reason why the new Apple TV is such a huge win here. Previously, it was limited to displaying 720p content which undoubtedly gave some would-be purchasers pause. But a new chip (a single-core A5), some 1080p content in iTunes, and the same $99 price changes that. But there are cheap Blu-ray players out there now, so why does the Apple TV trump those? And what about other boxes like the Roku, which can also do 1080p streaming content? One word: AirPlay. Read on : http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/14/the-new-apple-tv/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Still prefer my Blu-rays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Vincent Sweeney Posted March 17, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 17, 2012 No penalties here. HD 1080p VOD all day long. Time Warner is running cable internet ads, right now, boasting as a feature "better VOD performance", etc. By the time 4K VOD comes along, other schemes will land into place to keep up. This all evolves every week, like it or not. It's "Broken record" time it looks like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 There will always be a need for physical media as far as movies are concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 My friend insists that his 720P Blu-rays (projector) look better than anything offered on Apple TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Not all 1080 P is created equal. It also depends on how it was authored. Blu-ray is generally authored to a higher standard than HDTV and Downloads simply because of the file sizes involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I've watched downloaded 1080P files and they don't look anywhere as good as Blu-ray does. Far too much digital noise and artifacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Orwell Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Netflix lost 2.76 million DVD subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2011, as more and more of the service's customers shifted to streaming-only packages. But even if the iconic red envelopes are disappearing from a mailbox near you, Netflix still has a solid foothold in the movie marketplace. In 2012, movies viewed online are expected to outnumber movies viewed on DVD and other physical formats for the first time. Will 2012 mark the death of the DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Definitely not convinced. Not from folk who actually love their movies and not just watch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I may consider downloads for TV Series that don't require Hi-Def Audio, such as Sherlock. However, for TV shows that have loads of explosions and also for movies I will always want them as physical media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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