Comments on: Tangled Up In Blu http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/ Ramblings and musings of John Zeitler. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rob Browning http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21716 Rob Browning Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:11:35 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21716 That's a digital mandate, not an HD mandate. But it's true that a lot of confused people think that they have to get an HDTV or at least an EDTV. Rob That’s a digital mandate, not an HD mandate. But it’s true that a lot of confused people think that they have to get an HDTV or at least an EDTV.

Rob

]]> By: Ash http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21692 Ash Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:41:03 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21692 I basically agree with rob, but additionally, the upcoming hdtv mandate has made it so it's now now easier to get an hdtv than a regular tv. They practically don't even make crts. Because of this, I've seen a few people (parents of friends and such ) that probably wouldn't give a rip whether they have some ancient color tv with vhf/uhf dials connected to a crappy top-loading vcr buy hdtvs when their tvs needed to be replaced (or when they needed an additional). When they buy the tvs, they also mostly seem to decide it makes sense to get an hd-dvd or blu-ray player along with their new-fangled tv... and this is while things are still expensive. I basically agree with rob, but additionally, the upcoming hdtv mandate has made it so it’s now now easier to get an hdtv than a regular tv. They practically don’t even make crts. Because of this, I’ve seen a few people (parents of friends and such ) that probably wouldn’t give a rip whether they have some ancient color tv with vhf/uhf dials connected to a crappy top-loading vcr buy hdtvs when their tvs needed to be replaced (or when they needed an additional).

When they buy the tvs, they also mostly seem to decide it makes sense to get an hd-dvd or blu-ray player along with their new-fangled tv… and this is while things are still expensive.

]]> By: Rob Browning http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21686 Rob Browning Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:44:53 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21686 To the contrary: the transition between BluRay and DVD is going to be exactly the same as the transition between DVD and VHS. What has you confused is the idea that the consumers' opinions matter. They don't. Just as with DVDs, it will take about five years for BluRay players to get cheap. Then that's all the manufacturers will be selling you. And then after a couple of years of transition, BR discs are going to be all that the studios will sell you. There will be no alternatives. Rob To the contrary: the transition between BluRay and DVD is going to be exactly the same as the transition between DVD and VHS. What has you confused is the idea that the consumers’ opinions matter. They don’t. Just as with DVDs, it will take about five years for BluRay players to get cheap. Then that’s all the manufacturers will be selling you. And then after a couple of years of transition, BR discs are going to be all that the studios will sell you. There will be no alternatives.

Rob

]]> By: Grey http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21680 Grey Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:27:13 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21680 I've been uninterested in Blu Ray for the same reason. Granted I haven't really seen much HD TV or any side by side comparisons, but right now I'm happy. The transition from video to DVD wasn't all that much about simply video quality or DVD extras - a lot of other differences played in. Blu-Ray isn't so much different from DVD to cause a revolution. High def gaming *is* a big step though. I've seen the side by side comparisons on a friend's system, and it is pretty damn wow. I think in a year or two Microsoft and Nintendo will be regretting not having in-built HD. I’ve been uninterested in Blu Ray for the same reason. Granted I haven’t really seen much HD TV or any side by side comparisons, but right now I’m happy. The transition from video to DVD wasn’t all that much about simply video quality or DVD extras - a lot of other differences played in. Blu-Ray isn’t so much different from DVD to cause a revolution.

High def gaming *is* a big step though. I’ve seen the side by side comparisons on a friend’s system, and it is pretty damn wow. I think in a year or two Microsoft and Nintendo will be regretting not having in-built HD.

]]> By: Ismail Saeed http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21677 Ismail Saeed Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:56 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21677 PHPBB Warning: The next update of phpBB will completely redo the skinning engine. Look at what has happened to the keenspot forum for a taste. If and when you make this upgrade, please be sure to make the default blue skin up again, and move the avatars back to the left side again if possible. Yes. That is all. PHPBB Warning:

The next update of phpBB will completely redo the skinning engine. Look at what has happened to the keenspot forum for a taste. If and when you make this upgrade, please be sure to make the default blue skin up again, and move the avatars back to the left side again if possible.

Yes. That is all.

]]> By: Ismail Saeed http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21668 Ismail Saeed Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:49:11 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/02/27/tangled-up-in-blu/#comment-21668 I agree with you up to a point, but 1) You DO still have an HDTV, and more and more channels are showing in HD if you have an HDTV, so that "your" TV IS by definition grander than "my" TV (meaning it has resolution already for when you watch ordinary TV that those of us with standard TVs do not get) and 2) An HDTV is getting to be a far easier proposition than the thousands you mention. I don't know about sound system and the other things you'd want to actually take advantage of that TV, but given the screen, and how you can buy a computer that can do plenty of media playing cheaply, I think you can do quite a lot with just the needed floorspace for a tower and a TV. I agree with you up to a point, but 1) You DO still have an HDTV, and more and more channels are showing in HD if you have an HDTV, so that “your” TV IS by definition grander than “my” TV (meaning it has resolution already for when you watch ordinary TV that those of us with standard TVs do not get) and 2) An HDTV is getting to be a far easier proposition than the thousands you mention. I don’t know about sound system and the other things you’d want to actually take advantage of that TV, but given the screen, and how you can buy a computer that can do plenty of media playing cheaply, I think you can do quite a lot with just the needed floorspace for a tower and a TV.

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