Blu-ray of Hope (It's Beta vs. VHS II)

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[marajade]

Walmart is selling out of their HD DVD players what are you talking about?

[marajade]

The Toshiba player is 499; not 600.

[marajade]

Buy on line you can get discounts of the MSRP.

[Ciexyz]

I grew up with a B&W TV, console, twelve inch screen. Later we got a bigger screen that sat on four thin legs - the dog used to sleep under the TV set. All the shows were in B&W: Combat, Have Gun Will Travel, The Man From UNCLE. Sometime around '66 we got our first color TV.

[marajade]

Man... I can't wait to get the Man from UNCLE on DVD. You?

[andy58-in-nh]

Boy, does that sound familiar. I don't think we got a color set until 1967 or so. Only a 13" screen (all my dad could afford, I'm sure), but I remember vividly the first time I watched it, and it was for Saturday morning cartoons (remember those?). It was like Dorothy opening the door to gaze upon Oz. And having only seen that movie in B&W at the time, it opened up a whole new world to see the Yellow Brick Road as intended, and the Wicked Witch in color (green, as I recall).

[Revolting cat!]

Man... I can't wait to get the Man from UNCLE on DVD. You?

Me? Dr Kildare, of course. (Before we ever knew D'Artagnan was a poofter too.)

[RSteyn]

>Remember when we had only three or four channels and needed rabbit ears to get those semi-clearly? <

I remember turning an outdoor antenna to bring in stations 50 miles away to get some variety...

...curiously, there seemed to be more to watch in those years.

[RSteyn]

>I can't wait to get the Man from UNCLE on DVD. <

Looks like there is a legal dispute about the ownership of the rights. Somehow, Warner is involved and the planned release of S1 DVDs has been delayed.

[higgmeister]

Blu-ray, a format championed by Sony, has ... backers, Apple, Dell, Disney, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, MGM, Panasonic and Pioneer.

I don't think that is enough to cause PC's to install it instead of HD-DVD.

[Republican Wildcat]

Right. I've heard people compare it to the days of black and white TV being replaced by color when people complain about it. It's a rather ridiculous argument - you can still use a black and white TV to watch color broadcasts - they are just in black and white!

[Wiz]

ping

[reg45]

No, the oppposite was the case.

[Sofa King]

Actual PS3's don't exist yet. Everything we've seen up until now is a dev/debug kit.

[AntiGuv]

IMHO, Blu-ray will definitely win the format war: “several major players in the porn industry going the Blu-ray route.”

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I've still got my Sony Beta. It's the best format, you know.

The Beta tapes are about 15 years old and still record beautifully. Those were the times when Sony used Mylar as a feed and high quality iron oxide/iron pentacarbonyl as recording media. Ahhhhhh, those were the days.