Blu-ray Technology: People love pretending they understand it

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Now, there's a lot of people who simply don't want to use Blu-ray because they don't have any interest in the enhancements. Then there are people like this guy:

Patwell, I hate to break it to you but your above mentioned "special features" can and have been done on DVD and other medias (DIVX). All Blu-Ray is, is a DVD with more storage (more layers), everything that's possible on Blu-Ray is possible on DVD. To accommodate whats on Blu-Ray and transfer to DVD would maybe add one more disc to your movie.

It's both frustrating and hilarious to note how he seems SO CONVINCED that Blu-ray is "a DVD with more layers", and that he thinks, apparently, he's an expert on the format even though he's clearly read nothing about it. If he doesn't want to use BD, great. But he, and a lot of people like him, ignore whatever information is "accurate" or "makes sense" in order to try and justify it to others.

Thus, what was once a civilized discussion becomes a "Look how smart I can pretend to be while using my amazing powers of mouth diarrhea" case.

Maybe a few of these people are really uninformed, or don't know better. It's the way they present their ideas about these topics they have no knowledge of (other than, of course, a strong opinion) as fact that really upsets me.

I mean, at the Blockbuster up the hill they give out free pamphlets explaining exactly what Blu-ray is and what the advantages are. People just don't want to bother knowing.