Blu-rays are 8 years old and DVDs still cling to them like a cancerous tumor. Why?

[randomhero24]

I am not even CLOSE to upgrading to 4K, or even 3D for that matter. Still happy with standard Blu Ray at the moment. DVD's are good if you want to throw them into a car player or portable player. It's better to have one for nothing than not to, isn't it?

[Penton-Man]

This thread is a guilty pleasure.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by randomhero24

I am not even CLOSE to upgrading to 4K, or even 3D for that matter.

Who asked you?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by The_Donster

OK, clarify "older people"?

Older than me.
Admittedly, young-ins can sometimes provide a valuable service…..http://www.fascinatingpics.com/7-int...tion-in-china/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by vargo

[I]"In my day we watched movies on smartwatches with crappy 8K resolution and by gum we appreciated the artform. We didn't have it easy either, I had to walk 5 miles barefoot in the snow

backwards!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by vargo

Nowadays these dumb kids piping movies directly into their visual cortex, they don't appreciate movies like my generation.

Correction. Not that direct yet, but have gotten as deep as a subretinal location (pigment epithelium of the retina) for the Argus II, something not elaborated upon in the video clip - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...sc#post6848325

[thegoat]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

...Basically cinema is now a fast consumption product. Here this week, gone the next. So basically the whole experience has changed.

So for them cinema doesn't mean the same. Gone are the long waiting times between new movies (remember those). Gone are the epic movies. The whole cinema culture is now fast food, and as far as I know, nobody treats fast food like fine dinning, young and old. This will NOT revert to how it was, those days are gone forever.

Respectfully disagree. While there are more blockbusters for every good drama, the latter still gets plenty of attention, and as far as blockbusters go, I would argue that people today want a lot more from them blockbusters than prior generations. While action/SFX films of the 80s and 90s were typically 90-110 minutes, if such a film comes out today that is less than 2 hours, people complain about it being too short! Big money makers like Avengers, Hobbit/LOTR, Harry Potter, Man of Steel, Dark Knight, Amazing Spider-man, Avatar, and so on. are all 2+ hours, and people still want extended cuts!

Even older films like T2 and the Alien franchise have had their runtimes boosted on DVD to satisfy audiences wanting more out of their movie. Fans really want to immerse themselves in a film for as long as possible. A lot of TV viewers watch seasons in marathon sessions as well rather than waiting week by week. People criticizing the attention span of today's moviegoers (not sure if that was your intention, but it seemed implied) seem to forget this.

You could also make the argument that the action/SFX films of today are a lot more substantial than their 80s/90s counterparts, but that's another topic.

[iank]

You could, but you'd be completely deranged to do so.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by octagon

Well, he did also say he wouldn't be an old man for thirty years.

I assumed he was in denial.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Next next gen. Read it again.

I assumed you made a typo. Either way, "next next" is NOT correct grammar. Learn to write.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

I assumed he was in denial.



I assumed you made a typo. Either way, "next next" is NOT correct grammar. Learn to write.

Not sure who you think you are talking to here? It's a phrase, it wasn't intended to be 'correct grammar'. I suppose a 'tran' is correct grammar is it? Is it a cross between a train and a van?

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Not sure who you think you are talking to here? It's a phrase, it wasn't intended to be 'correct grammar'. I suppose a 'tran' is correct grammar is it? Is it a cross between a train and a van?

When you write like a child, how do you expect anyone to understand you? Anyone would have thought it was a typo, you can't write like that and expect it to be interpreted correctly. Stop being so annoying and go away. You've upset several people in this thread, not just me.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by octagon

Like hell it didn't

[Show spoiler]

Fifty years ago the WWII generation thought television would be the downfall of western civilization. Children raised on television wouldn't read. They wouldn't appreciate art or culture. They would call information for numbers they could easily look up in the phone book.

Twenty years later baby boomers were convinced the so-called MTV generation signaled the end of Hollywood and the world as we know it along with it. The quick cuts and the ADD this and the visual that were going to be the end of substance and quality.

And now we have the MTV generation pissing and moaning about the smartphone generation.

I figure I've got at least one more round of this silliness to look forward to and with any luck I might even stick around for one more after that.

WOW!!!!!!!
My first PC was a Tandy TRS-80 in 1977 (If curious, wiki it), I was 16 lol. Never stopped since and as early as the 386 I started building my own, wow talk about flashbacks. But it proves my point, we didn't have PCs at all, imagine that with all it encompasses for a sec if you were born past 1975 or so.

Well, to this day I' m still fascinated by technology and where it's going (tech was my whole career, and as a cable co net tech, we dealt with all of these things, if some knew how evolved things really are now compared to only 10 yrs ago and how much everyone's life got much easier and we now need this). We can't stop technology nor should we want to, otherwise we'd still be horseback riding (if you were rich enough that is)

Originally Posted by Scarface32

My parents own 2 blu-ray movies and 12 DVDs
My brother owns 1 blu-ray and 8 DVDs
My other brother never upgraded past VHS

They all think I'm weird for having as many Blu-ray Discs and DVDs as I have.

Did that feel good?

And we are (weird), like vinyl purists, but things do tend to always come back to the where they started. That's the balance of life, anytime you swing the scale it has to hit way left and right before it fully comes to a rest. Quality is def on the upswing and every day you have more and more willing to pay (for what everyone says they get free wink wink) for quality recordings and masters in music. CD did it's thing, iPod it's own and vinyl on the upswing with hi res music flourishing that a good sign.

When the moviegoers born after Avatar get unimpressed by the wow factor anymore (and that's already now) they will have to adapt and the story will again be important.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

When you write like a child, how do you expect anyone to understand you? Anyone would have thought it was a typo, you can't write like that and expect it to be interpreted correctly. Stop being so annoying and go away. You've upset several people in this thread, not just me.

well corrected! Just in time.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

WOW!!!!!!!
My first PC was a Tandy TRS-80 in 1977.

Mine was a Commadore 64

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

WOW!!!!!!!
My first PC was a Tandy TRS-80 in 1977 (If curious, wiki it), I was 16 lol. Never stopped since and as early as the 386 I started building my own, wow talk about flashbacks. But it proves my point, we didn't have PCs at all, imagine that with all it encompasses for a sec if you were born past 1975 or so.

Well, to this day I' m still fascinated by technology and where it's going (tech was my whole career, and as a cable co net tech, we dealt with all of these things, if some knew how evolved things really are now compared to only 10 yrs ago and how much everyone's life got much easier and we now need this). We can't stop technology nor should we want to, otherwise we'd still be horseback riding (if you were rich enough that is)


Did that feel good?

And we are (weird), like vinyl purists, but things do tend to always come back to the where they started. That's the balance of life, anytime you swing the scale it has to hit way left and right before it fully comes to a rest. Quality is def on the upswing and every day you have more and more willing to pay (for what everyone says they get free wink wink) for quality recordings and masters in music. CD did it's thing, iPod it's own and vinyl on the upswing with hi res music flourishing that a good sign.

When the moviegoers born after Avatar get unimpressed by the wow factor anymore (and that's already now) they will have to adapt and the story will again be important.

My first computer was a BBC micro.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

This thread is a guilty pleasure.

Originally Posted by thegoat

Respectfully disagree. While there are more blockbusters for every good drama, the latter still gets plenty of attention, and as far as blockbusters go, I would argue that people today want a lot more from them blockbusters than prior generations. While action/SFX films of the 80s and 90s were typically 90-110 minutes, if such a film comes out today that is less than 2 hours, people complain about it being too short! Big money makers like Avengers, Hobbit/LOTR, Harry Potter, Man of Steel, Dark Knight, Amazing Spider-man, Avatar, and so on. are all 2+ hours, and people still want extended cuts!

Even older films like T2 and the Alien franchise have had their runtimes boosted on DVD to satisfy audiences wanting more out of their movie. Fans really want to immerse themselves in a film for as long as possible. A lot of TV viewers watch seasons in marathon sessions as well rather than waiting week by week. People criticizing the attention span of today's moviegoers (not sure if that was your intention, but it seemed implied) seem to forget this.

You could also make the argument that the action/SFX films of today are a lot more substantial than their 80s/90s counterparts, but that's another topic.

Ok, let me change the perspective on this to be clearer.

I was born in 1961 and saw my first movie, "The Jungle Book" in December 1967. I can't really remember how long it stayed at the theaters but know it had to be a stretch as my parents took me 3 times. you knew that it would be a minimum of 7 years to get a chance to see it again. I had to wait till Christmas 1968 to see another one, the awesome "The Love Bug". 1 freakin year.

Another little take on perspective, what we all take for granted today in audio for our movies, I had to wait 1 year or so of adds to see "Earthquake" in 1974 that was a huge event, the introduction of "Sensurround" (Wiki it as you had to be 14 if not 18 then) if you haven't lived the "before and after Earthquake" experience you can't relate.

Even the grand Star Wars made you wait 3 years between them. In 3 years we almost have 2 reboots now.

Just saying that everything is relative to were you are but if you look at the history of cinema as a whole, my argument stands.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Mine was a Commadore 64

Originally Posted by Steedeel

My first computer was a BBC micro.

I have to search that one, darn curious now

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

I have to search that one, darn curious now

Let me know what you think?

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Let me know what you think?

I'll see that Micro and throw in a Timex Sinclair.

(Bit of a cheat, though--belonged to an uncle so it wasn't really mine, but I spent a lot of hours messing around on that thing.)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

I'll see that Micro and throw in a Timex Sinclair.

(Bit of a cheat, though--belonged to an uncle so it wasn't really mine, but I spent a lot of hours messing around on that thing.)

Is that the same as a ZX Spectrum Sinclair?