Erm, no "more horrendous" and "more terrible" are comparative terms - "horrendous" and "terrible" are simply terms of horrendity and terribleness - something can be horrendous and terrible and that in no way implies that nothing could be more horrendous and terrible.

But ok, you want a scale: VCD - 1, GOUT - 2.5, Good DVD - 6, Good BD - 10.

And excluding outdated technology from the debate is in no way arbitrary, it's perfectly logical if the debate is about today's standards.

And yeah, sure on a 30ft screen, what you said may be true to a point, although even then a proper anamorphic DVD would make a huge difference over the GOUT, I've seen both the GOUT and the 2004 DVD projected on a large screen and the difference was still very big, although in both cases it wasn't very good of course.

But we're talking about home video here and yes I would personally never go back to watching even anamorphic DVDs but I remember when my dad first got a 1080p HDTV, I was testing the GOUT on it and my dad saw and he immediately said that it looked like crap and asked if I was sure there wasn't anything wrong with it, so I tried putting in the 2004 DVD and he was like: "See, now this is HD!" And when I put the HDTV 1080p version on (I was playing all of that from my laptop) he was like: "Meh, that's pretty much the same." True story.