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Blu-ray Discs Won't Be Cheap
frdmfghtr writes "Red Herring has a story on the forthcoming price of Sony Blu-Ray HD DVDs. At $23.45 wholesale, they aren't cheap. From the article: 'Some of the movies to be released in the first batch by Sony are The Fifth Element, Desperado, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Legends of the Fall, and Terminator. Sony's wholesale price of $23.45 for Blu-ray discs is 56 percent more than the $14.99 it costs to buy a new DVD of Hitch from BestBuy.com. A Terminator DVD is available for $9.99.' Another reader suggested a link to an Ars Technica article with more information.
I can't wait to watch Hitch in High-Def! This type of movie is the exact reason why I bought an HDTV!!!
Blu-ray Discs Won't Be Bought.
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Great strategy. Switch up the format every decade or so and obsolete the old hardware so that people have to keep buying the same movie over and voer again if they want tomaintain a viewable collection.
On another note, I still buy VHS every chance I get. At least when a HVS tape gets a little worn out it just keeps on going with some blips and squiggly lines instead of just.......stopping and displaying a "Can't Read" error.
I'd like to know where you can get a burger for a buck at any Mickey Property.
Their Ice Cream bars alone are $3 and we paid $8 a pop for the cheap burgers in TommorrowLand.
For my money though, the Captain America burger is much better at Universal.
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Actually, the next generation of video will be challenging for porn. You'll have enough resolution to see every pimple on every methhead pornslut's ass. They're going to have to do a lot of preprocessing they didn't have to do before to smooth 'em out. Actually, this is a problem with DVD, too; a lot of women who looked great naked on VHS look terrible on DVD.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Exactly! DVD is much easier, because now you don't have to fast forward through the commercials, since they won't LET YOU! :)
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Or, in binary:
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more than 2 orders of magnitude.
A great example of this was the old rented VHS versions of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. If you rented a copy that had been on the shelves for awhile, the part where Phoebe Cates gets out of the pool (Cars playing Moving in Stereo in background) and she walks up to Brad undoing her top...
That part of the tape was often unviewable due to so many people rewinding and watching it over and over and over....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........