Is Blu-ray All That?

Not enough of you though. Try to find a CD store in NC these days and you get places that do it half ass. When I want something on disk, I sadly have to go to Amazon or ebay these days.

Thus I have to disagree with Racer up there. The iTunes store and iPods came out in what, late 2001 and was 10gb? People said the net could not handle the downloads then. 4 years later iPods held 80gb and record stores were in their death throws!

 

I worked for Tower Records many years ago. I saw the death of the LP, then the CD. The arguments people making today about bandwidth and formats are the same ones made 10 and 20 years ago. Moore's law is not dead yet, only the people that think it is.

 

Actually this isn't the case. I have an Xbox360 and just recently signed up for Netflix. The entire interface works through the Xbox. Unfortunately it does still have a ways to go, as the selection is still pretty small (could keep me occupied for years, but still small..) and the audio is only stereo. No streaming surround sound yet. The HD looks pretty good, although I've run into bandwidth problems a few times where it cut back to a lower quality, which really sucked. Streaming movies is definitely the future, and the reason the company named itself Netflix well before they were able to distribute movies over the net. It has a long way to go before I stop buying DVDs and Blu-ray though.

 

...because you ordered your movies over the net, not by walking into a store.

 

You know, I find it pretty funny how much I MISS places like Tower Records. It was like walking through a candy store, never knowing what you might find. Now days you have to spend 30 min looking at iTunes to see if you like anything and cover art is as dead as dead!!

The world has moved on I guess.....

 

I loved Tower. Plus they always had hundreds of magazines to choose from on all sorts of subject matter.

Barnes & Noble is slowly fading away around here. A similar thing. Its nice to go in and pick up a book or magazine rather than scroll around Amazon...

 

Sign me up.

 

Like most i keep my laptop by my tv and XBOX 360.

I do a search or follow one of the recomendations from netflix and add it to my instant queue and it plays on my xbox within seconds. Netflix makes recomendations based on your rating of the movies you watch. All the movies you've downloaded are stored for easy access for future re-viewing.

I really like the Netflx/xbox download setup.

 

I, too, miss record shops in general. They were magical, and you could always spot hotties there. No meeting any hotties on iTunes...

 

Netflix software is shockingly bad and the image quality is so 1980...also jack ***** for selection. They've got a long way to go until they are out of the tinkertoy stage.

 

Blu-ray is worth it, I hate watching dvds now

 

Last I checked there was no way to preview movie trailers on xbox360? could be wrong now as its been awhile but when I tried it I couldn't figure out how to preview.

 

Wired did an article about streaming movies a few months ago and indicated that the CEO's original intent and reason for the name was to get to the point where the entire movie experience occurred on the net, not just selecting them online and having a physical disc sent to your home. They're finally there, but as others have said, it still has a ways to go.

 

He's full of ****. If he had said that from day one, then okay... but he conveniently comes up with this now? I don't buy it.

 

^^^ yea, I saw that one and thought he was rewriting history as well.

 

Death of the LP? When is that actually going to happen?

The last three albums I purchased were all on LP. Two of them were originally released within the last 12 months by young artists.

Death of the CD is near...not the LP.

LS

 

What are LP sales today vs 1980 again?

 

+1 on getting the PS3 instead plus you get Netflix streaming I believe.

 

No clue...but are they dead?

More and more artists are choosing to move to LP recently...amazing really. A few years ago, barely anything was being released on vinyl. Now, new titles are being added daily.

I wouldn't call this a death.

LS

 

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100106007077/en/2009-U.S.-Music-Purchases-2.1-2008-Music

LPs represent less than 1% of music sold.

Its dead....its just not buried

 

I have over a hundred Blu-ray DVDs and still continue to collect them.
You should also try and watch a Blu-ray music video it's awesome. And if you
try and listen to a Super Audio CD (SACD) That sounds excellent as well.
Of course having a descent sound system helps too.

 

Our Wii also streams Netflix.

 

Might as well collect them. They will probably be the last physical form of movies.

My collections have spanned VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc (Loved them), DVD, and now Bluray (I skipped HDDVD).

 

Nice!