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

My wife has been tolerating my electronic fixations for years. (You should have seen the mess in my living room back in the old quadraphonic days!) The only thing that really irritates her is all of the remotes. Both she and my daughter keep on messing up the macros on my Logitec Harmony when they use the individual remotes. She is not opposed to me buying a BD player...she just doesn't want another remote. And yes, she can see the difference in pq and has commented on it occasionally. She also thinks everything is too loud (well, sometimes it is). When she watches a movie by herself, I can hardly hear it.

I'm gonna have to vote no. It took an act of God for the BF to part with his VCR when I brought the TiVO over to our place about a month ago. Only when the picture is really REALLY bad will he notice. He doesn't much care and puts up with my...unhealthy motion picture addiction.

Jason

Jason that is totally unacceptable. You probably should consider replacing that BF of yours!

Skyhawk,

Considering I just moved in with him, I don't think I'm going anywhere for a while. Besides, I'll be buying a 40 or 46 inch HD TV in the very near future. Maybe that'll get him on board.

Jason

You mean you're living in sin Jason?
Tsk.. tsk... don't you think you guys should be married first?

On a more serious note, prices are coming down on those 42" panels. For example, the LG 42LB5D 1080p is now going for $1,140 at Future Shop: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0770HDS0010086860&catid=23524&logon=&langid=EN

Something like that should move him to the "righteous" side.

Sin Schmin. We all live in sin in some way, don't we? (As for getting married...well, that's a conversation for another thread, isn't it?)

I'm thinking the minute he sees something like National Geographic in HD, we'll be all set to go. (He's HUGE into nature and the like, so it's a big selling point.) I'm looking one of the Sony models, actually. Probably the KDL40V2500 or 46V2500. And, even better, within the next month with a little luck.

Jason

Well I just asked my girlfriend and she said, I can't really see the difference but I know you like them so I let you buy them. I don't think she'll let me buy a Blu-Ray player for quite some time.

My GF notices the difference but she says it'sreally not that big. She thinks DVD's look and sound good enough.

She also the type girl that doesn't care what type of car we have as long as it gets us from point A to point B.

StevePro said

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My wife has been tolerating my electronic fixations for years.

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The only thing that really irritates her is all of the remotes.

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She also thinks everything is too loud (well, sometimes it is). When she watches a movie by herself, I can hardly hear it.

StevePro, our wives must be related some how because everything you said is the exact same for me.

My GF of three years thinks it's nerdy when i go on this website. However she is happy that I chose the winning format and thinks i'm smart for doing so. I tell her it's research. She also enjoys when we are out with friends and a discussion moves towards mac vs PC or computer parts and like things. She enjoys how I can rattle off model numbers and great hidden codecs or updates that increase performance by 1%. When i start talking and it's so quick and confusing, she loves it. I do the same the BR now and, while she doesn't enjoy me going on this site too often, she does laud my insight on the whole future market of BR. I'm also a business major so when i start talking about market caps and economies of scale in tandem with firmware and potential capabilities,she damn near wets herself.