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Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire
DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations: Premier Sets like Band of Brothers still command good money. TV sets are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon. I have been buying and selling DVDs on Ebay for 5 years, I basically use it as a rental service, buy new, watch once and sell right away. 5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc. Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs? I am kind of suprised that I coulnd't get $15 for a LOTR EE set. But I guess that makes sense, premier movices like LOTR will benefit the most from HD and thus people are avoiding buying them. Just a few thoughts. |
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I am avoiding buying them. I may avoid buying a non-1080p input tv
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jm wrote: I am avoiding buying them. I may avoid buying a non-1080p input tv because of it. i can understand your sentiment, but isn't that basically ALL tv sets? I'm only aware of 2 HDTVs that take native 1080p in (HP DLP and there's one LCD, iirc). Top of the line Sony SXRD ($10k) doesn't. And 1080p is not even quite "complete" as a format, is it? IIRC, currently 1080p exists only in 24,25,30 fps and not the usual 50 or 60. Without going into yet another rant on AACS et al, I'll say that I'm normally an early adopter and i have a 50" 720p DLP TV and I EAGERLY anticipate a hi-res DVD-type format b/c there current DVDs do not (to me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50" screen. Now, whether h.264 is the solution or whether mpeg-2 at 480p with higher bitrate could eliminate the artifacts that bother me is something i donut no (or if there's another solution). btw, has anyone watched any HD WMVs? output to a big tv? if so, how do they look? -goro- |
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Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He
won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. |
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5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc. Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs? No, it's the true sign that you can get new DVDs for great prices from places that you are certain will deliver. -- Jeff Rife | | http://www.nabs.net/Cartoons/OverTheHedge/Chainsaw.gif |
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wrote in message oups.com... Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. I really see no reason to "dump" dvd's because an HD version may be coming. You have no garuntee if this or that title you really like is ever gonna be rereleased in HD-DVD or BlueRay so you could sell something you cant get again. I'd also imagine most if not all of those new HD players coming out NEXT YEAR will have some sort of decent upscale. At least wait till several players and at least some supply of HD-DVD's are physically avail at local stores before you dump everything. Heck I seem to recall how Superbit was gonna make ppl replace all their movies, back when 1st introduced, because it was so much better. That didnt turn out to be true, as far as I can tell anyway, with only a Handfull of titles in SuperBit it sure didnt render regular DVD's obsolete and I kind of doubt HD-DVD will either. Course I have different ideas for HD DVD. I'm looking forward to being able to buy entire Seasons on a single disk instead of 6 disc's to shuffle everything is right there. Wi |
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wrote in message ... Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations: LOL! You're not too smart are you? Premier Sets like Band of Brothers still command good money. TV sets are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon. That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add shipping to yours, it's a ripoff. 5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc. That's because DVD's now cost half as much as they did 5 years ago. Plus with DVD Shrink, there's no reason to buy these crappy movies that are not worth $20. Rent it and copy it. Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs? Hell no. Not even close. Only tech savvy people even know what HD-DVD is, which leaves out 90% of the DVD buying public. |
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Its not like the move from Laser Discs to DVDs. I sold off my LDs when
they were still selling used for $15 to $25. Over the years I replaced most of those LD titles with the same DVD titles for the same price or less. Why sell off your DVDs at $5 each. The prices have pretty much bottomed out. --------------------- http://auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/ |
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Bratboy wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. I really see no reason to "dump" dvd's because an HD version may be coming. You have no garuntee if this or that title you really like is ever gonna be rereleased in HD-DVD or BlueRay so you could sell something you cant get again. Which is why I still have ~750 laserdiscs. Matthew -- What if you arrived at the fountain of youth, only to find dead toddlers floating in the pond? -- John O on AFB |
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Your giving them to much credit. :-) Even summer of 2006 is highly
unlikely. And if its true that BluRay is going to require a internet connection there will be many that won't buy, including me. As for people dumping their dvds for BR, I think you'll find most of them are trolls looking for a fight. "afiggatt" wrote in message ... wrote: Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations: They are? I doubt if we will see any Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players before the spring of 2006 and even that is uncertain. I hope your HD TV has a DVI/HDCP or HDMI port because it is likely that the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players will only send the 1080i HD signal out the copy protected digital port. The component will likely be good for 480i/480p only. I don't understand why anyone would dump their DVD collection just because of BR or HD-DVD on the horizon. It will be years before many of the DVD titles will be available on BR/HD-DVD. And will the modest improvement in picture quality for many older movies (those in poorer condition) be worth buying it all over again? I don't expect to buy either a BR or HD-DVD player for at least 1 or 2 years after they hit the market and possibly even longer, depending in part on how draconian the copy protected requirements are. Alan F ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:44:25 GMT, "Large Farva"
wrote: wrote in message .. . Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations: LOL! You're not too smart are you? Because he is selling his collection now?? Premier Sets like Band of Brothers still command good money. TV sets are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon. That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add shipping to yours, it's a ripoff. Well Amazon has it new for $10.99... never been to Wallmart but I doubt your claim of $4.99... so I call your bull****. 5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc. That's because DVD's now cost half as much as they did 5 years ago. All DVD's... interesting claim. New Sin City is $26.... don't remember paying $52 a year ago. "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:33:24 -0600, Black Locust
wrote: But by all means, dump your entire DVD collection before the OVERHYPED HD formats have even launched. Sure, it's thousands of dollars down the toilet, but it's pocket change to you, right? I'm sure you're some rich douchebag with tons of $$$ to burn, but you're still an idiot in my book. Little harsher than normal Black. "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ |
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It's spelled "Wal-Mart" and their website has Red Dragon for $10.87.
This does not mean the other poster was wrong, as their stores and website often have different pricing. It's too bad you never visit Wal-Mart, because they have some really great DVD deals, especially on movies. -beaumon |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:23:08 GMT, spewed forth these words of
wisdom: Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations: I dumped a large majority of my CD collection, thinking SACD was the future. Big mistake! -- Galley's Music Scene A different music topic every weekday http://www.GalleysMusicScene.com/ |
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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote: In article , Allan [email protected] .org wrote: are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon. That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add shipping to yours, it's a ripoff. Well Amazon has it new for $10.99... never been to Wallmart but I doubt your claim of $4.99... so I call your bull****. no, it's true. Sure, you have to hunt through that big bin of DVDs they stick in the aisle, but there you have it. Wal-Mart's listed price for Red Dragon is $10.87 There are a lot of titles available for $9.98 at my local Wal-Mart. Most of these will rarely sell for more than $5.00 used on eBay. $5.00 might be a little high considering that you have to pay atleast $2.00 postage if not more. ------------------ http://auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/ |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:44:04 -0500, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
wrote: In article , Allan [email protected] .org wrote: are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon. That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add shipping to yours, it's a ripoff. Well Amazon has it new for $10.99... never been to Wallmart but I doubt your claim of $4.99... so I call your bull****. no, it's true. Sure, you have to hunt through that big bin of DVDs they stick in the aisle, but there you have it. Amazon on-line is $10.99... Wal-mart on-line is close to that. Cheapest price at DVD price search... $9.19. It's Bull****. "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ |
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On 8 Dec 2005 07:02:30 -0800, "Goro" Gave us:
current DVDs do not (to me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50" screen. You probably have you brightness up too high. That posterization of dark areas will carry though to the new format likely as well. |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:33:24 -0600, Black Locust
Gave us: I built a DVD collection to have my favorite movies and TV series available to me for many years to come on a small compact disc that never wears out or deteriorates and provides good video/audio quality. Exactly. |
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NunYa Bidness wrote: On 8 Dec 2005 07:02:30 -0800, "Goro" Gave us: current DVDs do not (to me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50" screen. You probably have you brightness up too high. Calibrated using Avia. of course, the whites saturate a bit quickly on the DLP, so i had to manually correct this down a bit. Regardless, DVDs look very good and light years ahead of any previous format, but still show their limitations and on bigger screens, they show up more visisbly. OTA HDTV already shows a potential noticeable (to me) increase in picture quality. HDTV right now suffers from motion artifacting, but i assume this is from bitrate issue. -goro- That posterization of dark areas will carry though to the new format likely as well. |
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:26:30 -0500, "SBFan2000"
Gave us: I think you'll find most of them are trolls looking for a fight. And you are a top posting idiot looking to instigate one. |
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NunYa Bidness wrote: On 8 Dec 2005 07:07:11 -0800, Gave us: Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. If the current resolution of DVDs and *that* library of transfers took as many years as it did, how long do you think that re-transferring that same library to a new, higher res, longer capture time per frame masters will take? There were long lines at the companies which performed the original DVD library of transfers. You pretty much screw yourself pitching away titles that you don't have any clue as to when they will be appearing in the new format. Several years, it will take. Many titles will not even get a new transfer treatment as well. There will simply be a BR or whatever release of the same source media at no improvement in resolution. Count on it. This is too true. The first SEVERAL YEARS of BR, you will have to be extremely careful when replacing a DVD with a BRDisc. Likely, you'll have to check to see if it's from a HDMaster or whether it's from the previous master. In the latter case, it's likely to look the same as (or very close to) an upsampled 480p SD DVD (sans macroblocking, htouhg, right?) Still, for newer movies and latter day movies (some DVDs tout "From an HD master") it might be worth it. MIGHT. And then there's the diminsihing returns for (say) CASABLANCA and that huge catalog of classic movies that i love. Unlikely that (a) they'll get to it anytime soon and (b) that it will look any better. But with a higher bit rate and not macroblocking, maybe it would look better? You are screwing yourself to dump a collection of discs because something new will be coming out. Especially when you don't even know the time line for it. DVDs are going to be around for quite a while, and they are quite high enough in resolution for nearly all applications. I agree with this sentiment. -goro- |
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:49:41 -0500, Allan
[email protected] .org Gave us: Never been in a "Wal-Mart" ... and I no longer buy DVD's... so.... Ever been over a 40 IQ? |
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On 9 Dec 2005 06:30:54 -0800, "Goro" Gave us:
OTA HDTV already shows a potential noticeable (to me) increase in picture quality. HDTV right now suffers from motion artifacting, but i assume this is from bitrate issue. Nope. It's the conversion that takes place for the DLP. I have a CRT style HDTV, and there are NO artifacts EVER. I go look at even the best FPDs and see it in even simple motion. General Instrument (the inventors of the HDTV format) used 16 processors on their motion estimator board alone. I know that TVs cannot incorporate that. You will all see huge improvements when companies like faroudja (sp) start using cell cpus in TVs for such things as motion processing for the down conversion that gets done for DLP renderings. Even a standard LCD display sports the same problems... but not my CRT. CRTs STILL RULE! And this is one reason why. NO downconversion! |
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On 9 Dec 2005 06:37:27 -0800, "Goro" Gave us:
NunYa Bidness wrote: On 8 Dec 2005 07:07:11 -0800, Gave us: Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. If the current resolution of DVDs and *that* library of transfers took as many years as it did, how long do you think that re-transferring that same library to a new, higher res, longer capture time per frame masters will take? There were long lines at the companies which performed the original DVD library of transfers. You pretty much screw yourself pitching away titles that you don't have any clue as to when they will be appearing in the new format. Several years, it will take. Many titles will not even get a new transfer treatment as well. There will simply be a BR or whatever release of the same source media at no improvement in resolution. Count on it. This is too true. The first SEVERAL YEARS of BR, you will have to be extremely careful when replacing a DVD with a BRDisc. Likely, you'll have to check to see if it's from a HDMaster or whether it's from the previous master. In the latter case, it's likely to look the same as (or very close to) an upsampled 480p SD DVD (sans macroblocking, htouhg, right?) Still, for newer movies and latter day movies (some DVDs tout "From an HD master") it might be worth it. MIGHT. That is the thing. The telecine studios that do the current conversion will take even longer to do these conversions and the new movies always get to butt in line. This means that a LOT of current media will get re-released from the same masters. That means no improvement, or none that will be discernable. And then there's the diminsihing returns for (say) CASABLANCA and that huge catalog of classic movies that i love. Having them already on Laser disc and DVD is quite fine. There are still a few DVDs I have yet to get as replacements for some of my laser disc titles. There are some that will never get released as well. Note that the frame stop access discs have yet to be replicated in DVD form. I have a laser disc of overhead US shots that I know will never get made on DVD as one can simply log on to google earth to get even closer views! But when I had that ****er... I had the ****... and was the only one that could show folks their house! I had many an eye popped moment... :-] Unlikely that (a) they'll get to it anytime soon and (b) that it will look any better. But with a higher bit rate and not macroblocking, maybe it would look better? I don't know... maybe. With the huge capacity involved, one would think that they could make discs with no compression at all. You are screwing yourself to dump a collection of discs because something new will be coming out. Especially when you don't even know the time line for it. DVDs are going to be around for quite a while, and they are quite high enough in resolution for nearly all applications. I agree with this sentiment. My collection was made for a reason. There is no reason or desire on my part to sell them for a fraction of what I paid for them in some lame effort to recoup some tid bit of cash to start my next collection. I will start said collection (maybe). But my current libraries go nowhere. I ALSO have every computer I ever assembled or bought. From my first to my current. Several thousand dollars worth of gear. Hehe... you'd know I would pick the one hobby in all the world that has the worst depreciation rate known to man! Computers! I do have an original 10MB Tandon Hard drive though. MAYBE one day, it will be worth something even close to half its original cost of over $800. Doubtful though. |
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:59:54 GMT, Justin Gave
us: wrote on [8 Dec 2005 19:41:52 -0800]: It's spelled "Wal-Mart" and their website has Red Dragon for $10.87. This does not mean the other poster was wrong, as their stores and website often have different pricing. It's too bad you never visit Wal-Mart, because they have some really great DVD deals, especially on movies. It's a shame Wal-Mart is evil. True that. |
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Goro ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
This is too true. The first SEVERAL YEARS of BR, you will have to be extremely careful when replacing a DVD with a BRDisc. Likely, you'll have to check to see if it's from a HDMaster or whether it's from the previous master. Probably not. Many movies released on laserdisc in the 1990s were from HD masters (everything THX certified had to be), and almost everything today gets the same treatment, because it doesn't really cost any more than telecine to SD. -- Jeff Rife | | http://www.nabs.net/Cartoons/OverTheHedge/Chainsaw.gif |
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NunYa Bidness wrote: On 9 Dec 2005 06:30:54 -0800, "Goro" Gave us: OTA HDTV already shows a potential noticeable (to me) increase in picture quality. HDTV right now suffers from motion artifacting, but i assume this is from bitrate issue. Nope. It's the conversion that takes place for the DLP. I have a CRT style HDTV, and there are NO artifacts EVER. I go look at even the best FPDs and see it in even simple motion. General Instrument (the inventors of the HDTV format) used 16 processors on their motion estimator board alone. I know that TVs cannot incorporate that. You will all see huge improvements when companies like faroudja (sp) start using cell cpus in TVs for such things as motion processing for the down conversion that gets done for DLP renderings. Even a standard LCD display sports the same problems... but not my CRT. CRTs STILL RULE! And this is one reason why. NO downconversion! Wow. Interseting. I DO agree that CRTs (direct view) have better picture than DLP/LCD/LCos/SCRD/etc and was a major reason i didn't buy my DLP. BUT the size, weight of CRTs are formidable. The tradeoff is not so bad, but it is interesting to note that the artifacting i see on (say) NFL Crowd scenes are a result of the DLPs... I'll have to check out a CRT HDTV sometime soon. -goro- |
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NunYa Bidness wrote: On 9 Dec 2005 06:37:27 -0800, "Goro" Gave us: NunYa Bidness wrote: On 8 Dec 2005 07:07:11 -0800, Gave us: Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he won't have a lot to watch for a while. If the current resolution of DVDs and *that* library of transfers took as many years as it did, how long do you think that re-transferring that same library to a new, higher res, longer capture time per frame masters will take? There were long lines at the companies which performed the original DVD library of transfers. You pretty much screw yourself pitching away titles that you don't have any clue as to when they will be appearing in the new format. Several years, it will take. Many titles will not even get a new transfer treatment as well. There will simply be a BR or whatever release of the same source media at no improvement in resolution. Count on it. This is too true. The first SEVERAL YEARS of BR, you will have to be extremely careful when replacing a DVD with a BRDisc. Likely, you'll have to check to see if it's from a HDMaster or whether it's from the previous master. In the latter case, it's likely to look the same as (or very close to) an upsampled 480p SD DVD (sans macroblocking, htouhg, right?) Still, for newer movies and latter day movies (some DVDs tout "From an HD master") it might be worth it. MIGHT. That is the thing. The telecine studios that do the current conversion will take even longer to do these conversions and the new movies always get to butt in line. This means that a LOT of current media will get re-released from the same masters. That means no improvement, or none that will be discernable. This is also built-in obsolescence which they love so very much. it actually encourages them to release a huge catalog with inferior masters so that they can provide an IMPROVED IMAGE SE version later. You know they had to be loving the Non-anamorphic to Anamorphic crossover. And then there's the diminsihing returns for (say) CASABLANCA and that huge catalog of classic movies that i love. Having them already on Laser disc and DVD is quite fine. There are still a few DVDs I have yet to get as replacements for some of my laser disc titles. There are some that will never get released as well. Note that the frame stop access discs have yet to be replicated in DVD form. I have a laser disc of overhead US shots that I know will never get made on DVD as one can simply log on to google earth to get even closer views! But when I had that ****er... I had the ****... and was the only one that could show folks their house! I had many an eye popped moment... :-] That is cool as hell. CAV LDs regardless of the material were inherently eye-popping to most people who've only seen VHS. My LD jewels were Crtierion Kurosawa THE BAD SLEEP WELL and DODES'KA-DEN as well as FIRES ON THE PLAINS and THE BURMESE HARP. ALso, a gold disc DRUNKEN MASTER II with original soundtrack and ending, and FIST OF LEGEND. A few more rare ones and some of which I've sold for quite a bit. I like HAVING them, but I rarely pull out my CLD-79 to watch any of them. Unlikely that (a) they'll get to it anytime soon and (b) that it will look any better. But with a higher bit rate and not macroblocking, maybe it would look better? I don't know... maybe. With the huge capacity involved, one would think that they could make discs with no compression at all. That's what I'm hoping. Espeically in the case of TV shows. I mean, I love video quality and the more prisitne the video, the better, BUT, I've also goten used to watching Xvids on my tv. 720MB/hr. I do notice the downgraded image quality, but for tv shows, i don't midn too much. For movies... a bit more. As an aside, you know there are actually a few DVD5s out there. Or at least DVDs where the movie itself fits on a DVD5. Sony's STEAMBOY and Dreamwork's TOKYO GODFATHERS dvds occur to me off the top of my head and I believe also BELLEVILLE RENDEZVOUS. STEAMBOY in particular deserves a Superbit-type full bitrate presentation. While i'm at it, i'd like to see edge-enhancement go away or at least be an option. There are some cases where it's quite noticeable and irritating (yes, i have sharpness turned nearly all the way down on the tv). THE RIGHT STUFF and Tetsuya Kumakawa's SLEEPING BEAUTY ballet are notable, iirc. You are screwing yourself to dump a collection of discs because something new will be coming out. Especially when you don't even know the time line for it. DVDs are going to be around for quite a while, and they are quite high enough in resolution for nearly all applications. I agree with this sentiment. My collection was made for a reason. There is no reason or desire on my part to sell them for a fraction of what I paid for them in some lame effort to recoup some tid bit of cash to start my next collection. Much of my collection is a "collection." I have my beloved Criterions. Truffaut, Kurosawa, Bergman. There's alot of Foreign films which i love, like Patrice Leconte stuff and the stuff from Korea. ANd some tv shows that i love like FUTURAMA, BATMAN TAS, FREAKS AND GEEKS, etc. But I've somehow managed to get a bunch of DVDs of movies that I've only watched once and don't really want to watch again. I think i bought them in a form of video-rental. I wanted to watch it so i bought it instead of renting it (stupidly). I will start said collection (maybe). But my current libraries go nowhere. DVD-BRD will be a very long migration process for me. It might be so long that i endup on whatever format follows BRD. -goro- |
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Not positive but I think I remember seeing Red Dragon in the bin at walmart
for 2 for $11, so that would be 5.50. But again, not positive, dug through it for bout 30-40 minutes and saw MANY different movies. wrote in message ups.com... It's spelled "Wal-Mart" and their website has Red Dragon for $10.87. This does not mean the other poster was wrong, as their stores and website often have different pricing. It's too bad you never visit Wal-Mart, because they have some really great DVD deals, especially on movies. -beaumon ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"Goro" wrote in message
oups.com... i can understand your sentiment, but isn't that basically ALL tv sets? I'm only aware of 2 HDTVs that take native 1080p in (HP DLP and there's one LCD, iirc). Top of the line Sony SXRD ($10k) doesn't. And 1080p is not even quite "complete" as a format, is it? IIRC, currently 1080p exists only in 24,25,30 fps and not the usual 50 or 60. What usual 50 or 60 fps? No material is transmitted at 60 fps. Current TV is transmitted at 60 FIELDS per second, not 60 frames. And since we're talking 1080p (as in PROGRESSIVE), the transmission will necessarily be frames not fields. |
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"Allan" [email protected] .org wrote in
message ... That's because DVD's now cost half as much as they did 5 years ago. All DVD's... interesting claim. New Sin City is $26.... don't remember paying $52 a year ago. He wrote 5 years, not one year. |
Dumping My DVD Collection on Ebay
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:40:32 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:49:41 -0500, Allan [email protected] b.org Gave us: Never been in a "Wal-Mart" ... and I no longer buy DVD's... so.... Ever been over a 40 IQ? What... your mother getting over time at Wal-mart this week? "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ |
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