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In Reply to: RE: it's a funny place posted by tunenut on December 07, 2007 at 09:25:30
Unless they want to watch TV with black bars all the time! :)
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and I may well buy an HDTV screen as part of the move, as I probably will get cable or satellite for the first time. And if so, I will probably check out the choices on bluray and HD-DVD to see whether I want one or both. But this is all very low priority for me. Here is why. I love to watch movies in theaters on film. This is much higher resolution than any consumer video format. Once I've seen a movie in a theater, and there are few I miss unless I choose to miss them, then I've seen it. There just are not very many movies I want to watch more than once. I have collected directors like Bergman and Fellini on DVD- I do enjoy their work repeatedly. I also collect film noir. But almost none of the DVDs I own are likely to be available on these new formats. I couldn't care less about Pirates 3- I was dragged to that and it was easily the worst movie I've seen this year. I couldn't care less about Transformers or all these other special effects movies that I chose not to see in theaters. I liked Disturbia a lot, but probably not enough to ever see it again. Same with Superbad. Death At a Funeral is one I will get on DVD. Will it come out on HD or bluray? Not likely.
The mandate to switch isn't to switch to High Definition or widescreen; it's merely to switch from analog broadcasts to digital broadcasts. Nothing will force any program content that's currently in 4:3 to switch to 16:9. Nothing will force higher resolutions.
So - people with 4:3 screens will see black bars on widescreen content; people with 16:9 screens will see black bars on 4:3 content. Same as it ever was.
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