Does your significant other enjoy Blu-ray/HDDVD as much as you?

I was lying across the bed typing a another new thread here at DVDTOWN when the wife came in. She saw that I was typing away on my laptop when she asked, "What are you doing, let me guess you're on DVDTOWN." I just looked at her and smiled. Then she said something that rocked me to my core. "I don't see anything special about HD just as long as it's a viewable movie and I bet you that none of your buddy's on your site wives or girlfriends care either." Then she ask me to start a thread asking if you guys significant other enjoys HD as much as you do?

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 24, 2008]

i don't think shes into it as much as i am.. but she doesn't mind it either ... shes got her hd-dvd's/blurays in our collection that she really likes like shreck ect ect.

I asked her just now, and the Wife-O-Meter says she "sees a significant difference" in the picture and sound quality of high-def transfers over standard-def ones. However, I doubt that she would have gone out and bought an HD home theater on her own. She enjoys teasing me about my liking anything with buttons on it. I think most audio and video matters are male-dominated interests, for good or for bad and for whatever reasons. For instance, it's why we have so few (any?) women posting here at the Message Board.

John

Finally a thread that I can respond to and actually add to the discussion!!

My answer to the question would have to preceded by commenting that my wife enjoys movies as much as I do, and we still enjoy sitting down to watch one on occasion (having a 2 year old daughter makes such opportunities slim as of late

Now to the HD side of the question, while we do have an A3 with about 20 HD DVD's, currently it is not hooked up to an HD display of any kind (both of us being recent college graduates in Theatre Design and Illustration respectively, the price points of a screen that would serve our discerning creative eyes is way out of our budget. BUT we will have a nice 30" Panasonic Tau 1080i screen here in a week or so that I did plug my A3 into via HDMI and test out Beowulf on and we both agreed that it was glorious to behold. Thankfully the pawn shop where I found this old beast of a television at offers layaway, and the price was very doable (aroud $350)

Now anytime a film comes out my wife asks if there is an HD version of it (which we all know will not be a question that I will be able to answer yes to for long) She's the one that suggested we double dip on planet earth and get the HD BBC version as well (found it for 22 wooo hooo) so I think that in and of itself answers the question fairly well.

But does my wife like the 450+ dvd's taking up a ton of space, or my seeming unending desire for more, even though I rarely spend more than $10 on a single title anymore (having worked in the "used" market for a while back in college I got first dibs on more wonderful deals/rarities that I could care to list)??

The answer to that would be no. And my constantly hogging our powerbook to look at dvd town or amazon or whatever other such site, that is a definite NO.

So there is a nice long answer to a seemingly very simple question, and now i must relinquish control of the powerbook so that it may be used for something productive, as it should be.

I'm interested in others thoughts on this one!

JN

[Post edited by kudesignguy on Mar 24, 2008]

I also buy movies on blu ray just for her, now that I know her true feelings about HD I will buy all of her wishlist movies on SDVD.

My wife says she can see/hear a difference but she doesn't require it to enjoy a movie. That sounds like a pretty typical wife/girlfriend answer to me. She still watches movies on a VCR as well though.

My girlfriend certainly can tell the difference.

My wife and I watched both Hot Rod and The Fountain (could you pick two more different movies?) on HD DVD, and I said to my wife, "So, the HD DVDs are pretty impressive, right?". Her response was, "Sure.". She said she noticed a slight difference between those movies and others we have watched, but she really couldn't care less whether or not a movie is in HD in terms of buying or watching anything. We have a ridicuously large collection because we both love movies, but she never understood the need to upgrade to HD, and still doesn't. SDs look good, even at 120", so she would say, "Why bother? Regular DVDs look fine.".

My wife notices the difference so well, that's she'll often comment on the quality of HD transfers. And she'll often comment on the actresses - how their skin doesn't look so good, how their hair is full of split ends, or pointing out visible makeup, or how much older they look than she thought.

It's a curse I tell ya!

My wife feels the same as most here so far. She can see the difference but really doesn't care either way. To her a movie is a movie...

-JS
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