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Back thirty years ago, I was an audiophile, and we were all in this pissing match on who had the best THD (Total Harmonic distortion). Finally realized that once you got to a certain level the ear couldn’t discern the difference. Looks like the same kind of deal.

It's like the old argument I heard back in the 1980's on stereo systems. If you buy a $100 ghetto blaster, it sounds OK, but a $250 stereo system would sound a lot better. If you shell out $500, that system will even sound better than the $250 one. When you get to $1000, it sounds so great at that point. Now if you take it to $5000 to even $10,000, you will still get improvements but they are not as great sounding over the $1000 system as the $250 is over the ghetto blaster, the $500 over the $250 system or even the $1000 over the $500. There is a point you get to where you ask, "is it worth the money, computing power, bandwidth, effort," to get from 99% to 99.9%?

As an example, DVDs were clearly a major step above VHS (except for not being rewritable), but Blu-Ray hasn’t done that well because it’s not as big an improvement.

DVDs will work on essentially any TV ever made (I saw a website where a guy was using one with a Dumont from 1948), plus any PC made in the last decade. Blu-Ray needs a 1080p HDTV to work properly (smaller sets are only 720p) and can’t be used in computers.