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Blu Jacket · 02-23-2008, 03:59 AM

Everyone in the world must know about Blu-ray now. I was talking to my Dad tonight, one of the most technologically inept people I know (but he's improving

), and he mentioned hearing about the Blu-ray format victory.

As a little background, I do feel like the oddball for being in on new tech before anyone else in the family. My Aunt finally got cable just two days ago after years of complaining about the bad reception from her rabbit ears and I only recently got her to quit calling DVDs "tapes". My parents finally got their first PC and cellphone just this past year, though they stubbornly hang onto their VHS player because they don't want to replace their videotapes. At least it's a combo DVD/VHS unit.

So if one of them knows about Blu-ray, I figure it must be doing well. LOL

Forgot_Username · 02-23-2008, 04:14 AM

Yea, it's spreading fast.

And I'd like to say sorry in advance for the Canadiens beating you tomorow.

Marcusarilius · 02-23-2008, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu Jacket

Everyone in the world must know about Blu-ray now. I was talking to my Dad tonight, one of the most technologically inept people I know (but he's improving

), and he mentioned hearing about the Blu-ray format victory.

As a little background, I do feel like the oddball for being in on new tech before anyone else in the family. My Aunt finally got cable just two days ago after years of complaining about the bad reception from her rabbit ears and I only recently got her to quit calling DVDs "tapes". My parents finally got their first PC and cellphone just this past year, though they stubbornly hang onto their VHS player because they don't want to replace their videotapes. At least it's a combo DVD/VHS unit.

So if one of them knows about Blu-ray, I figure it must be doing well. LOL

LOL! Holy Cow that funny. And I thought my family was bad. Of couse, check out my system below. I'll get there.

Big Daddy · 02-23-2008, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu Jacket

Everyone in the world must know about Blu-ray now. I was talking to my Dad tonight, one of the most technologically inept people I know (but he's improving

), and he mentioned hearing about the Blu-ray format victory.

As a little background, I do feel like the oddball for being in on new tech before anyone else in the family. My Aunt finally got cable just two days ago after years of complaining about the bad reception from her rabbit ears and I only recently got her to quit calling DVDs "tapes". My parents finally got their first PC and cellphone just this past year, though they stubbornly hang onto their VHS player because they don't want to replace their videotapes. At least it's a combo DVD/VHS unit.

So if one of them knows about Blu-ray, I figure it must be doing well. LOL

Your parents are very advanced. My mother doesn't own a cellphone. She doesn't even want to upgrade her Sanyo Beta VCR with a VHS VCR. Her Beta machine is over 25 years old and still works. She always asks me to buy her blank Beta tapes. Are you listening Sony? Please continue to make blank tapes for my mother's sake.

Ascended_Saiyan · 02-23-2008, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Daddy

Your parents are very advanced. My mother doesn't own a cellphone. She doesn't even want to upgrade her Sanyo Beta VCR with a VHS VCR. Her Beta machine is over 25 years old and still works. She always asks me to buy her blank Beta tapes. Are you listening Sony? Please continue to make blank tapes for my mother's sake.

Damn!

Joon · 02-23-2008, 04:53 AM

My mother purchased a HD DVD on accident about 2 weeks ago thinking it was a DVD. Then today I am at their house and she tells me that she bought a movie of a "dead format." I almost fell off my chair, she heard it on the news. She now understands that I backed Blu-ray so she gave me the movie to return to Best Buy and will gladly exchange it for another BD movie.

ulri4651 · 02-23-2008, 05:00 AM

small world. news travels fast. GREAT for blu-ray. I have to be honest if it weren't for the PS3 I would have NEVER adopted blu as early as I did. But man oh man do I love it. I don't think everyone realizes just how BIG a role the PS3 played in winning this format war.

Marcusarilius · 02-23-2008, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ulri4651

small world. news travels fast. GREAT for blu-ray. I have to be honest if it weren't for the PS3 I would have NEVER adopted blu as early as I did. But man oh man do I love it. I don't think everyone realizes just how BIG a role the PS3 played in winning this format war.

The DUD fan bouys and HD DUD headquarters sure did. Always rankin on the PS3 as a player counting twards BD stand alone players sold.

YoodinVranks · 02-23-2008, 05:59 AM

I was shopping for Blus at Target and this little old lady comes up to me and says... "Those aren't movies, dear. Your player won't play them."

I didn't have the heart to try to explain it to her, I just thanked her and made like I was putting them back until she was out of sight.

PVJAG · 02-23-2008, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by YoodinVranks

I was shopping for Blus at Target and this little old lady comes up to me and says... "Those aren't movies, dear. Your player won't play them."

I didn't have the heart to try to explain it to her, I just thanked her and made like I was putting them back until she was out of sight.

That's funny.. I've been in that exact same situation before.

Winn · 02-23-2008, 06:05 AM

My grandmother called me at work to let me know about the Warner move. Let me repeat that. My 84 year old grandmother called the school and had them page me in my classroom to tell me that Warner went Blu exclusive.

Marcusarilius · 02-23-2008, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Winn

My grandmother called me at work to let me know about the Warner move. Let me repeat that. My 84 year old grandmother called the school and had them page me in my classroom to tell me that Warner went Blu exclusive.

OMG! You have the coolest GM on the planet! Congratulations!! Can you ask her when Tranformers is coming out on BD?

HeavyHitter · 02-23-2008, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Winn

My grandmother called me at work to let me know about the Warner move. Let me repeat that. My 84 year old grandmother called the school and had them page me in my classroom to tell me that Warner went Blu exclusive.

That's awesome.

hardcore_canadian · 02-23-2008, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Forgot_Username

Yea, it's spreading fast.

And I'd like to say sorry in advance for the Canadiens beating you tomorow.

Whoo Habs!

Ascended_Saiyan · 02-23-2008, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Winn

My grandmother called me at work to let me know about the Warner move. Let me repeat that. My 84 year old grandmother called the school and had them page me in my classroom to tell me that Warner went Blu exclusive.

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Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

That's awesome.

Seriously

!

atrofast · 02-23-2008, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by hardcore_canadian

Whoo Habs!

Go Sens go! The habs ain't overtaking us yet!

Blu Jacket · 02-23-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by atrofast

Go Sens go! The habs ain't overtaking us yet!

Hey, we just beat the Sens in a shootout.

And even if the Habs whoop us tonight, at least I can watch it on my brand new XBR4. Just got it delivered today.

Blu Jacket · 02-23-2008, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Marcusarilius

OMG! You have the coolest GM on the planet! Congratulations!! Can you ask her when Tranformers is coming out on BD?

That truly is the coolest Grandma on the planet, mine is lucky if she remembers what day of the week it is.

ryoohki · 02-23-2008, 04:21 PM

Man Radio Energie here, who have a show that is listened by more than 300,000 people in montreal region and 750,000 in Quebec whole just did a joke on Blu-ray.

The guy (french) talk with a really bad english (lol he's trying but he just sucks) and call a Futureshop Rep about Blu-ray. It's kinda Prank Calling...

It's really funny if you're Bilingual here because he mix french/english in he phrase but the Rep guy just laught in the background

So you can't be more Mainstream than that... LOL!

The MP3 is available on their site, but you have to understand both to find it funny..

Anhslaught · 02-23-2008, 05:25 PM

I'm in the same boat with my parents. My mom won't know what bluray is for a while, but my dad is getting there. He loves technology, but isnt very well informed since I'm his only informer.lol

My brother and law and a younger brother are very technology savv, but I had to push and teach them what bluray was for awhile. My younger brother was Pro HDDVD for awhile and kept calling me a Sony nuthugger or something like that for awhile because I have a brand loyalty. I told them all the ups and downs of hddvd and bluray but its not recently that he admitted that I was right all after reading about the death of HD DVD. haha

As for my bro in law, he pretty much listened to whatever I told him about bluray and HD DVD, but he ended up getting both, eventhough I said HD DVD was going to eventually phase out because of studio support. He listened of course, but still bought one anyways because of movies that were not on bluray. A few days ago I was watching "Don't forget the Lyrics" with him and out of no where, he and my sister was like "so hddvd bankrupted?" I told them its not really bankrupt, its just they dropped out of the competition. I could tell he was sad because of the long pause that he found out that his HD DVD is no longer useful in a few months. I felt bad and was like, "you can probably sell it for a bluray player." lol

He has a bluray player in his room though, but complains about it being too slow. I told him its not the bluray disc, but the bluray player thats slow. Showed him how fast it turned on, in my PS3 blah blah.

Plus, I was at circuit city and some old man was talking to us and said "So you got a bluray player to go with the HDTV?" I told him I'm planning to, just cant decide which yet(just got the xbr4 yesterday after months and months). Anyways, bluray is going to takeover like a plague.

02-23-2008, 03:59 AM	#1
Blu Jacket Expert Member Member since:Feb 2008 Location:Ohio Blu-ray collection:44	Now it's official Everyone in the world must know about Blu-ray now. I was talking to my Dad tonight, one of the most technologically inept people I know (but he's improving ), and he mentioned hearing about the Blu-ray format victory. As a little background, I do feel like the oddball for being in on new tech before anyone else in the family. My Aunt finally got cable just two days ago after years of complaining about the bad reception from her rabbit ears and I only recently got her to quit calling DVDs "tapes". My parents finally got their first PC and cellphone just this past year, though they stubbornly hang onto their VHS player because they don't want to replace their videotapes. At least it's a combo DVD/VHS unit. So if one of them knows about Blu-ray, I figure it must be doing well. LOL Last edited by Blu Jacket; 02-23-2008 at 08:25 PM.

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02-23-2008, 04:14 AM	#2
Forgot_Username Banned Member since:Nov 2007	Yea, it's spreading fast. And I'd like to say sorry in advance for the Canadiens beating you tomorow.

02-23-2008, 04:53 AM	#6
Joon Expert Member Member since:Aug 2007 Blu-ray collection:208 Trading Score:1	My mother purchased a HD DVD on accident about 2 weeks ago thinking it was a DVD. Then today I am at their house and she tells me that she bought a movie of a "dead format." I almost fell off my chair, she heard it on the news. She now understands that I backed Blu-ray so she gave me the movie to return to Best Buy and will gladly exchange it for another BD movie.

02-23-2008, 05:00 AM	#7
ulri4651 Banned Member since:Apr 2007 Blu-ray collection:162 Trading Score:36	small world. news travels fast. GREAT for blu-ray. I have to be honest if it weren't for the PS3 I would have NEVER adopted blu as early as I did. But man oh man do I love it. I don't think everyone realizes just how BIG a role the PS3 played in winning this format war.

02-23-2008, 05:59 AM	#9
YoodinVranks Active Member Member since:Sep 2007 Location:South Dakota Blu-ray collection:458	I was shopping for Blus at Target and this little old lady comes up to me and says... "Those aren't movies, dear. Your player won't play them." I didn't have the heart to try to explain it to her, I just thanked her and made like I was putting them back until she was out of sight.

02-23-2008, 06:05 AM	#11
Winn Active Member Member since:Jan 2008	My grandmother called me at work to let me know about the Warner move. Let me repeat that. My 84 year old grandmother called the school and had them page me in my classroom to tell me that Warner went Blu exclusive.

02-23-2008, 04:21 PM	#19
ryoohki Blu-ray Samurai Member since:May 2007 Home Theater Gallery:6 Blu-ray collection:6 Blu-ray reviews:8 Trading Score:5	Man Radio Energie here, who have a show that is listened by more than 300,000 people in montreal region and 750,000 in Quebec whole just did a joke on Blu-ray. The guy (french) talk with a really bad english (lol he's trying but he just sucks) and call a Futureshop Rep about Blu-ray. It's kinda Prank Calling... It's really funny if you're Bilingual here because he mix french/english in he phrase but the Rep guy just laught in the background So you can't be more Mainstream than that... LOL! The MP3 is available on their site, but you have to understand both to find it funny..

02-23-2008, 05:25 PM	#20
Anhslaught Member Member since:Nov 2007 Blu-ray collection:105	I'm in the same boat with my parents. My mom won't know what bluray is for a while, but my dad is getting there. He loves technology, but isnt very well informed since I'm his only informer.lol My brother and law and a younger brother are very technology savv, but I had to push and teach them what bluray was for awhile. My younger brother was Pro HDDVD for awhile and kept calling me a Sony nuthugger or something like that for awhile because I have a brand loyalty. I told them all the ups and downs of hddvd and bluray but its not recently that he admitted that I was right all after reading about the death of HD DVD. haha As for my bro in law, he pretty much listened to whatever I told him about bluray and HD DVD, but he ended up getting both, eventhough I said HD DVD was going to eventually phase out because of studio support. He listened of course, but still bought one anyways because of movies that were not on bluray. A few days ago I was watching "Don't forget the Lyrics" with him and out of no where, he and my sister was like "so hddvd bankrupted?" I told them its not really bankrupt, its just they dropped out of the competition. I could tell he was sad because of the long pause that he found out that his HD DVD is no longer useful in a few months. I felt bad and was like, "you can probably sell it for a bluray player." lol He has a bluray player in his room though, but complains about it being too slow. I told him its not the bluray disc, but the bluray player thats slow. Showed him how fast it turned on, in my PS3 blah blah. Plus, I was at circuit city and some old man was talking to us and said "So you got a bluray player to go with the HDTV?" I told him I'm planning to, just cant decide which yet(just got the xbr4 yesterday after months and months). Anyways, bluray is going to takeover like a plague.

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