HD-DVD Doooomed! Doooomed I say

[Murgos]

I would suggest that you are not dl'ing 720p movies in an hour.  HD video uncompressed are a 21Mbit stream...either your cable connection is ~60Mbps or you're bullseyeing womp rats with your T21.

I mis-spoke, I thought the HD movies on XBOX live were 720p.  They are 480p.

Regardless they run 3.5 to 4.5 GB and DL in 1 - 1.5 hours.

Also look up what the words COMPRESSED and UNCOMPRESSED mean.  My T21 needs a wash so I'm taking her over to Tashi station, but if you want to hook up later to go womp-ratting with me you're welcome to ride bitch.

[naum]

But if you've got an overflowing shelf of physical content, you can donate it to the library and the less-fortunate in your community can all benefit from your disposal.

:)

Or send it to our soldiers stationed overseas.

Have done that, and have a big stack of books now I am going to box up and give away.

[stray]

One thing about that though...

I'm not the Amazing Criswell or anything, but I don't see the HD video standards being replaced for a long time. That would be the only way that a blu-ray disc went obsolete. The method of delivery will eventually change, but at the very least, you don't have to worry about a Blu-Ray version of a movie you have being usurped by something greater than 1080p/hd audio anytime soon.

As for dealing with room to store physical content, that's a valid point. I made a rule for myself awhile back when my DVD collection got too big: I only buy "lonely guy" movies. Any genre, but it has to fit that description. 

[Polysorbate80]

But if you've got an overflowing shelf of physical content, you can donate it to the library and the less-fortunate in your community can all benefit from your disposal.

:)

Or send it to our soldiers stationed overseas.

Have done that, and have a big stack of books now I am going to box up and give away.

I dunno, which do you think would appreciate the ol' porn collection more? 

[Merusk]

I never, ever understood the whole 'throwing porn out' thing.  Retire it because you're bored of it maybe, but it gets a revisit down the line. 

Perhaps it's because I've never had a LIBRARY of porn before.  I guess if i had wall after wall of mags, dvds and other bric-a-brak.. no, not even then.

You people confuse me.

[Venkman]

The method of delivery will eventually change, but at the very least, you don't have to worry about a Blu-Ray version of a movie you have being usurped by something greater than 1080p/hd audio anytime soon.

We'd never need more than 512k of RAM either. 

There's always more.

Then there's stereoscopic.

And then there's 3D

[stray]

Yeah, all of that shit is cool and all. On Demand star trekky shit. Holodecks. Etcetera.

But does it really need to be brought up now? It's really ironic besides.. You mention all of this future tech, yet you're kicking and screaming just to be dragged into the hd world. For now, you can get a good taste of what's to come anyways. Get a 50" plasma or lcd, a bd player, and pop in 300. Leonidas is practically in your friggin living room.

[Venkman]

I don't want practically!

And I wouldn't want it to be Leonidas either 

Nah, it's just more circlejerking off of the topic of the format war. I've got my HD-DVD and my crappy "HD programming" from my cable company, which in this neck of the woods is two channels I've never heard of, History Channel HD which usually just stretches shit, Discovery and two networks that just add bar graphics on the side. It rather sucks, but at least I can play the Wii in 16:9. Years ago I disconnected a better home theater system than any of the ones any of the people I know have. Kids and a small house.

If any of this stuff starts to matter to me personally again, it'll likely be when Bluray players are at the $100 range, throwaway money. There's a whole list of things between $100 and $500 I'd rather spend money on than any CE player or the PS3 (for which there is even less reason for me to buy than a second Wii).

Only reason I join the chorus of belaboring the point is due to the ideal and unrealistic world in which I have a bunch of VC money to throw against something. It'd never be media format. Not anymore. The entire end user experience is changing, as it already has been for music and will definitely for movies. If Netflix survives, I'd say they're mostly a digital broadcaster in 6 years tops.

[stray]

Actually, I used to think that the 300 transfer was kinda shit, but seeing it on a big lcd blew my mind. The way the foreground and actors overlay the scenery is kind of surreal on a giant lcd like that. Almost as if it were holographic.