Originally posted by: LaserschwertOriginally posted by: olzenOriginally posted by: Darth Solo
Cant believe people are adopting the HD/Blu Ray thing so easily!
Glad somebody shares my view. It's too early to launch another home video format. DVD only became very popular a few years ago. Only the real hardcore fans will buy new equipment and new versions of the same movies. It killed of Betamax and Laserdisc and it'll probably kill off these as well.
I AM adopting HD, but not yet BluRay. It will be years until I get myself new hardware and buy HD-movies on BluRay... but there are already hundreds of HDTV-recordings of several movies out there on the UseNet, and I am focussing on those right now. It is a big leap forward, so why shy away from it completely? I don't see HD as a replacement to DVD yet. The perfect DVD-set (and I'd like to say that Jackson's "Lord of the Rings"-SEEs fit this term) is still much more valuable to me than higher resolution... although there are several movies out there I'd like to have in HD... like digital movies (Pixar, Dreamworks... I am an graphics guy after all), huge epics (Ben Hur, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator), Classics (Star Wars 4 - 6, Indiana Jones), VFX-heavy movies (like the Prequels) or movies with an awesome production design (the Harry Potter movies, Star Trek, Terminator, Alien)... so, basically movies that - when presented in HD, simple "show more". There would be no reason for me to watch "Clerks", "Chasing Amy", "Mallrats" or "Dogma" in HD, since these aren't visually impressive movies (ok, "Dogma" and "Jay & Bob" are Kevin's better looking ones, but still).