Re: Music to my ears

Not here. Tomorrow they're calling for rain and like 18 degrees.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on May 16, 2008]

It's a warm and rainy night here in the Big Crab Cake(Baltimore), just waiting for the wife to get home. Hey Fellas have you tried this one out yet, the wife loves it.

Hey Skyhawk, thank goodness I don't live where you live because I would have like 10 kids. And I say that with a serious .

[Post edited by tony1569 on May 16, 2008]

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Tomorrow they're calling for rain and like 18 degrees.

Isn't that snow? Hopefully thats celcius.

[Post edited by tony1569 on May 16, 2008]

LOL Tony, yeah it's 18C which equals around the mid to high 60's for those who live in the last country on earth to use the old English Impirial system

Besides, the tomato plants growing in our garden would seriously not like snow. It's just that we've been so spoiled over the last while here (like summer). Now we get spring weather? WTF?

BTW, remember that pic of my wife I took during that snowstorm thread awhile back? I took one just a few weeks later, with the snow suddenly gone and things starting to green up in the exact same place. I'm originally from a much warmer climate, and even though it seems I've been here forever, seasons still freak me right out.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on May 16, 2008]

And I'm basking in a nice, warm 92 degrees. I've been running the AC over the past month and have enjoyed nothing but sunny days for months. Man, I'm so happy to be away from cold, snow and rain! I grew up in Portland OR, and I'll take the 110 degree days of summer in Phoenix any day of the week!

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It's obvious that Blu Ray was not in time. VOD, as I and many others have been saying, will take over before very long cutting short the lifespan of BD. For renting I'd rather download the movie. For buying I prefer hard copy. But most people just rent (all the people I know). I'm the only one in my group of friends that buys a lot of physical media.

Wolvinator, DVD sales just in the U.S. were 1.092 billion units in 2007 and 1.144 billion units in 2006, so there are plenty of people buying physical media!

Those figures include sales to rental entities, of course, so VOD (and downloads) would have some impact on sales if they buy less copies, but I don't think anything approaching figures that would doom Blu-ray's viability.

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It's obvious that Blu Ray was not in time. VOD, as I and many others have been saying, will take over before very long cutting short the lifespan of BD.

LMAO!!!!

Yeah, and who are these "many others" that have been saying?
Whoever "they" are probably need to put the crack pipe down! lol
It's "obvious" that "they" need to have their head examined!
When it comes to movies, physical media has been king since the days of VHS, and it probably always will be. Again, and excuse me while I beat the dead horse and bring out the broken record, but VOD is simply . . . another . . . CHOICE! Good god man, do your research! The numbers for physical media are so overwhelming that it would take many years before VOD could ever make a dent, if even that!

[Post edited by Tim Raynor on May 17, 2008]

SD-DVD = main stream appeal
Cable or satellite TV = main stream appeal
Premium cable or satellite TV = main stream appeal
VOD = limited appeal
HD-DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, HD-VOD = niche market

That's it in a nut-shell people...by hanging out on a forum like this, we live on the technology edge of society...we have invested in a system or systems to give us a more realistic movie going experience in our living, TV, home theater rooms.

SD-DVD, cable and satellite have main stream appeal because the masses of society see or saw a benefit to this technology.

VOD and any of the HD formats on disc will remain niche markets until...

- John/Jane Q. Public sees a benefit to update his/her equipment
- the cost of this equipment comes down to be able to afford mass adoption
- the cost of cable or fios band width to drop to a point where more can afford the option (I pay about $60 a month for my 8meg cable internet)