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[Tom Foolery]

Just curious, since it's seven years later... How many of you who were "Aww mannnn, $*%# that jive Blu-Ray sheet!!!" on the first page now have Blu-Ray players?

I don't, since I use my XBox as my DVD player. But I'm sure whatever nextgen gaming console I get will have BR on it, so I'll start getting specific movies in BluRay. Just the essentials. I don't need to rebuy my entire 1,000 DVD collection all over again.

[Ran]

I don't own an actual Blu Ray player, but I have a PS3. In the time that I've owned it, I may have use it as a blu ray player once or twice.

[anarky]

I have one, but didn't buy it. My in-laws (the same ones who got my daughter an iPod) thought we were depriving the kids because we didn't have one and got us one for Christmas. (Needless to say, they think we're insane because we still have flip phones and once went several months without TV service because we just didn't want it.)

I had actually started getting combo packs because the DVDs simply didn't have special features anymore, and the combo packs were cheaper for the same fucktarded reason CDs are cheaper than MP3s. I'd gotten Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, and John Carter because there were store exclusive discs I knew wouldn't be around long, and then got The Dark Knight Rises for the price. Our main DVD player was a 5-disc changer and kinda shitty, lacking some features that were supposedly made up for by the 5-disc thing that was pretty useless. (We'd gotten it for our wedding, planning to play 5 CD-R's of music in sequence, then found it didn't play fucking CD-R's at all and we hadn't checked for that because we didn't even know that was a possibility.) So we were more or less planning to upgrade eventually, and there was no point to getting another DVD player when blu-ray cost the same.

My first blu-ray played was John Carter. The image was crisper than a DVD, but the sound fucking blew me away. So far, I've only double-dipped on Speed Racer (because it's so cheap since most people have no taste, and it's also visually stunning, fuck you in advance Diabolical) and Star Wars (when Best Buy and Amazon had it marked way the fuck down the week before Father's Day, I got Target to price match knowing I'd get another 5% off of that--not to shill, but their store card has probably saved me a ton just on toys, diapers, and electronics).

I also really dig the HD video through Amazon Prime. I see a lot of people complaining it's not worth the price for what they have, Netflix is better, etc, but getting free shipping on all my graphic novels and the videos for less per month than Netflix goes for is okay by me, even if there aren't as many movies.

[Diabolical]

I really don't give a shit about either format.

I have no intention on buying either format until:
A) There is a clear winner.
B) I have an HD TV.
C) The prices drop.

And there is no way in hell I'll repurchase a few hundred DVDs. There might only be a handful I'd rebuy on the new format.

A) Yep, we've got a winner.
B) Got one.
C) Kinda. They did drop, but I got a PS3.

And I have only repurchased about a dozen flicks. Most, if not all of them were crazy cheap.

I do prefer Blu-Ray over DVD now, because of the superior audio/visual quality, but buying on Blu-Ray isn't a must for new stuff for me.

[vynsane]

Just curious, since it's seven years later... How many of you who were "Aww mannnn, $*%# that jive Blu-Ray sheet!!!" on the first page now have Blu-Ray players?

nope, i still labor on with a CRT TV and DVD player like some homeless person.

i do have to say i was fairly surprised that SONY actually won this one, given the history of format failures they've had.

[Tom Foolery]

CRT?!? Holy shit dude!!

I mean, I've heard stories. But I just thought they were bullshit. Urban Legends, 'friend of a friend' Keyser Söze type shit. Like the LochNess Monster or Bigfoot. Wow.

[Negative Boy]

Even Philo T. Farnsworth has upgrade at this point.

Do you play your Coleco on that shit?

[Ran]

Just curious, since it's seven years later... How many of you who were "Aww mannnn, $*%# that jive Blu-Ray sheet!!!" on the first page now have Blu-Ray players?

nope, i still labor on with a CRT TV and DVD player like some homeless person.

i do have to say i was fairly surprised that SONY actually won this one, given the history of format failures they've had.

We have a flat screen in the living room, but the tv in our bedroom is an old Sony boob tube. One of my friends gave it to me when he was moving, probably back around 1998. It has survived 5 moves. I'd like it to die to give me a reason to upgrade, but it still works perfectly.

[vynsane]

CRT?!? Holy shit dude!!

I mean, I've heard stories. But I just thought they were bullshit. Urban Legends, 'friend of a friend' Keyser Söze type shit. Like the LochNess Monster or Bigfoot. Wow.

yep, i'm that one guy who still has a CRT tv - and it's our only tv in the house, to boot! it's a 36" or something squarescreen, so to get a new wideflatscreen TV and not feel like i'm looking at a postage stamp we're talking more cheddar than i have readily available, like, ever. honestly, we haven't paid for a TV in a decade, we just keep getting hand-me-downs. i'm banking on getting a free used flatscreen any day now. either that or checking out the open-box specials at bestbuy the day after the next superbowl.

[Ran]

Just curious, since it's seven years later... How many of you who were "Aww mannnn, $*%# that jive Blu-Ray sheet!!!" on the first page now have Blu-Ray players?

nope, i still labor on with a CRT TV and DVD player like some homeless person.

i do have to say i was fairly surprised that SONY actually won this one, given the history of format failures they've had.

We have a flat screen in the living room, but the tv in our bedroom is an old Sony boob tube. One of my friends gave it to me when he was moving, probably back around 1998. It has survived 5 moves. I'd like it to die to give me a reason to upgrade, but it still works perfectly.

So, one of our TVs went out. Care to guess which one? Nope, not the Sony CRT. It was our flatscreen. According to the repair guy from Samsung, it was the motherboard. He said considering how much parts an labor are for the motherboard, we may as well buy a new tv. I wasn't happy. Luckily my last truck payment was earlier this month.

We looked around. Target had a 39" Magnavox on clearance for $230, but it was the display model and it didn't have a stand. They would have given us an additional 10% off for it being the floor model and 5% more if we used the Target card.

We kept looking, and I ended up at Fry's. They had a RCA for $330. I looked up the model for reviews on my phone. It turns out Walmart had it for $298. They price match, so the sales guy did the paperwork. Somehow in the process, he must have clicked on the 32" tv on Walmart's website instead of the 39" model. The manager approved it, so I got the tv for something like $270 after tax.

The speakers on it aren't that great, but it is good enough for now. I finish my engineering degree in December and my boss already told me I'm getting a raise. After we save up some money next year, we'll buy an upgrade and move the one I just bought to the bedroom. What a pain in the ass, but I guess it worked out ok in the end.

[anarky]

We had a pretty kickass 52" Magnavox TV until a little over two years ago. One day, bam! the insides fried. This is apparently not an uncommon issue with this model. It would've cost more than a new TV, and was hardly cutting-edge anymore.

We used a small CRT from the bedroom for a few months, then Mrs. Anarky's school had a bigger CRT they were getting rid of, so we inherited it. Then one of her friends had a bigger Olevia flatscreen (maybe 38") with a couple of pixels burned out that she wanted rid of, so we inherited that one.

Flash forward, and I get a call out of the blue from Mrs. A's mom asking if we had gotten a new TV. I don't think she even knew about the Olevia one, but I'm not sure; I told her no, since we'd had it for about a year. She'd seen some Coby TVs on sale at the Navy Exchange, being blown out because (she was told) Coby was going out of business or at least the TV business, and she'd bought a 40" one as a combined birthday present for all four of us. Basically, she thought we were depriving the kids by not having a bigscreen. Plus, I suspect she has a mental condition of some sort: if she sees anything she judges as being a good price, even if it's something she knows nothing about, she has to buy it and give it to someone. (We can't visit without being saddled with a few boxes of shitty cereal.) I looked them up, and reviews were fucking awful; a lot of complaints with it not working in the first place, or blowing up within days of the warranty expiring. Also, the customer service was worthless; a lot of TVs sent in for repairs under warranty (with the customer having to pay shipping) seemed to get lost and their whereabouts weren't known months later (no exaggeration here). So no wonder they were going out of business. Also, the sound was universally panned.

We moved the Olevia into the bedroom, figuring we'd hang onto the other CRT in case this is one of the "day after warranty ends" TVs. The new one's not without issues; we absolutely cannot set the date and time (we know how to do it; the option is just completely greyed out no matter what we do), but that's no biggie since it doesn't have a timer that would require it. Also, the sound is quite hollow. But the picture is gorgeous.

As luck would have it, Mrs. Anarky's Amazon Vine thingy, which normally gets us advance copies of books and shitty crap we don't need, had a surround sound system a few weeks earlier, and she'd ordered it. With that set up and the TV volume turned down, it rocks.

Funny thing is, Anarky Jr was rather let down that her birthday present from Grandma was a quarter of a $200 clearance TV.

[Jargo]

We have an LG flatscreen. It's unbranded but somewhere in tiny embossed letters on the back it says so. LG make a heck of a lot of the TV's that end up branded by the big companies. y'know, those 'innovators' like Sony and Panasonic. Annyhoo, we've had it a few years now and the fucking menu screen has burned a horrible patch of murky onto the screen. a few lines and a garble of letters and a rectangle where whoever creates the menu software insists on showing a preview of whatever you're hovering on in the menu list.
The screen itself is about 30 inches but actually only displays at 640 dpi. it'd be pretty pointless getting a blu-ray player. Besides. about half of what we watch is downloaded stuff. WebTV rips or Blu-ray rips. Yeah it's terribly naughty of us but fuck it, we're poor and don't care.
I'm never going to get a TV any bigger than 40 inches. The really huge ones fuck up your eyesight. honestly, you have to sit so many miles away from them so you don't get headaches and bleeding eardrums and detached retinas that it negates the point of having one. might just as well stick with a smaller TV where DVD quality is good enough.

3D can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut too.

[anarky]

3D is a fucking joke. The shit required to watch it on a TV is insane, and, for what? Nothing's broadcast in 3D, and most of the movies are shitty post-conversions. Not that even the best 3D isn't just a headache-inducing mess.

[Zaphod]

me, i don't even have a tv. i just look out my window and watch my neighbors fucking. jargo, don't ever buy curtains!

[Snigtad Flornbi]

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