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Once your ISP puts in monthly low caps and high overage charges... there'll be plenty to explain to the family when they cant stream any more movies for the month.
That day is coming, and is why I still prefer to buy BR discs and watch/rip them to my PC for streaming to the TV.
Dont think for one minute that Comcast and Verizon are going to let us all stream endless amounts of data every month forever.
Once your ISP puts in monthly low caps and high overage charges... there'll be plenty to explain to the family when they cant stream any more movies for the month.
That day is coming, and is why I still prefer to buy BR discs and watch/rip them to my PC for streaming to the TV.
Dont think for one minute that Comcast and Verizon are going to let us all stream endless amounts of data every month forever.
Nice troll.
It's not really a Troll, ISPs are content providers and it's within their financial interest to forcefully persuade customers to consume the ISPs own provided content (for a fee) over the competition's content. Streaming media is a double loss for company's like Comcast who would much rather see you use their bandwidth to stream their own Xfinity content. So slowly but surely, they are going to ween people off the competition by means of throttling and bandwidth caps that only apply to the competition.
If only people spent 1/4th the amount they spend on their big tv on a surround sound system, or in fact any audio system other than tv speakers.
BR was meant to bring the movie experience to your living room. You either appreciate high fidelity AV or you don't. There'll always be people for whom its perfectly ok to watch a 720 stream on demand via their tv speakers, you can't really expect them to buy discs.
When you can buy all 3 Godfather movies for $9.99... that says best value right there.
Putting unskippable marketing on almost every disc is not helping the cause. Nothing irks me like putting in a disc I bought five years ago and being forced to sit through a trailer for Wolverine Origins.
Luckily it was a dual disc so I just popped in the DVD and guess what? It worked and I didn't care. Blu-ray is more trouble than it's worth and I don't care.
Pretty much this.
The issue is that the average consumer is ok with mediocre video and crap audio being streamed to the speakers on their tv.
That being said, I have a largish BR collection but I would gladly switch to streaming if BR quality video and audio were available, however until that day comes I'll stick with the superior quality available on disk.
I borrowed a Blu-ray disc from a friend last weekend, couldn't get to to play on my laptop because apparently they constantly change the DRM and PowerDVD 10 isn't updated anymore. I'd have to give the PowerDVD jerks $99 to play the disc, and then this would probably happen again at some point.
Luckily it was a dual disc so I just popped in the DVD and guess what? It worked and I didn't care. Blu-ray is more trouble than it's worth and I don't care.
I borrowed a Blu-ray disc from a friend last weekend, couldn't get to to play on my laptop because apparently they constantly change the DRM and PowerDVD 10 isn't updated anymore. I'd have to give the PowerDVD jerks $99 to play the disc, and then this would probably happen again at some point.
Luckily it was a dual disc so I just popped in the DVD and guess what? It worked and I didn't care. Blu-ray is more trouble than it's worth and I don't care.
Instead of giving the PowerDVD jerks 99 dollars a year to watch your blu-rays you already paid for, pay AnyDVDHD 99 dollars and watch your blu-rays for a lifetime with faster updates than power DVD provides. Nothing worst then when I spend $200 dollars for the latest Japanese Ultraman Movie Blu-Ray pre-order and the Disc won't work for literally 2 months if your waiting for Power DVD to support it......
You may be on to something there. Maybe I will give that a shot.
I will continue to buy Blu-rays because I will keep them for decades and I will watch them whenever I want.
(And I'll repair the equipment needed to do so as many times as it takes to keep it in good, working condition until I can no longer hold a soldering iron.)
And then in a few years when ultra hd resolutions come out you'll feel like you're not hip because you're watching old blu-rays when you could be watching new movies at 1034983498 x 19239833 resolution.
I would love a decent audoio system but right now don't have room for it and i own BR disks. It is on a wish list, but the audio on my Sony TV is fine for now (i have had a decent audio system few years ago so i know how it can sound)
Ugh, reading this thread is going to have my looking at audio systems now, DAM YOU ALL!
I was a big DVD fan... have about 100 different movies on it... I have 2 Blu-Rays... never got into it. Probably because I had kids by the time the format came out.
Now I buy ALL MOVIES I want to "own" through iTunes... and watch through the AppleTV... FLAWLESSLY Even on 70" TV's in high def... it's AMAZING and there is NO stuttering or issues. And I can bring them all locally to my other apple devices if I care to...
Not sure why I should bother with anything else...
When you can buy all 3 Godfather movies for $9.99... that says best value right there.
If only people spent 1/4th the amount they spend on their big tv on a surround sound system, or in fact any audio system other than tv speakers.
BR was meant to bring the movie experience to your living room. You either appreciate high fidelity AV or you don't. There'll always be people for whom its perfectly ok to watch a 720 stream on demand via their tv speakers, you can't really expect them to buy discs.
I have spent far too much money and more importantly dealt with too much frustration over the years using an HTPC to watch blu-ray. Looking back I should have invested in a standalone player and an HD audio decoder from the start. The frustration and wasted time has been bad enough... but honestly I've spent about $400 on player software over the years, nevermind the cost of the drives and the extra long HDMI cables etc.
And then in a few years when ultra hd resolutions come out you'll feel like you're not hip because you're watching old blu-rays when you could be watching new movies at 1034983498 x 19239833 resolution.
I have spent far too much money and more importantly dealt with too much frustration over the years using an HTPC to watch blu-ray. Looking back I should have invested in a standalone player and an HD audio decoder from the start. The frustration and wasted time has been bad enough... but honestly I've spent about $400 on player software over the years, nevermind the cost of the drives and the extra long HDMI cables etc.
And then in a few years when ultra hd resolutions come out you'll feel like you're not hip because you're watching old blu-rays when you could be watching new movies at 1034983498 x 19239833 resolution.
Nor worth it when my only free time to watch movies is when the kid (age 2) is sleeping. Wife & I usually turn the volume down or mute.