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All I Want For Christmas Is... LASER DISCS!

Thanks for sharing that video...
And yet, I still have my LaserDisc player, and it still plays like it did when I first got it. Have a nice collection of discs too!
 
"15 years later" long gone, and the laser discs still play well on my friend's laser disc player, but that particular player is one where you have to change discs half way through the movie...never did like that idea!
 
Blu-Ray will undoubtedly be surpassed at some point in time by a smaller, higher capacity device with additional capabilities. The problem in the past is that, as each device has been developed it has required a replacement of recorded material. People replaced their VHS tapes with DVD's and now have to replace them yet again to stay with the current technology. Since all my DVD's are SD I don't intend to replace them with Blu-Ray and might eventually buy a player only to obtain the upscaling capability. But I will not upgrade my video library again.
 
Well Blu Ray could already be replaced by HVD

But talk of this has been going on for years, I don't know if it'll ever take.

As compression gets better and download rates get faster, I think the way of the future will be to download the movie directly to a hard drive. I have seen 2tb hard drives as low as $89.00 this for Christmas sales.
 
LaserDiscs were ahead of their time. The picture quality was close to that of DVDs.
 
Mark said:
As compression gets better and download rates get faster, I think the way of the future will be to download the movie directly to a hard drive. I have seen 2tb hard drives as low as $89.00 this for Christmas sales.
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I'm not so sure the PC-connected TV will take off anytime soon. I would much rather watch movies on my TV than my PC (even with a ginormous monitor) and be sitting in my media room in a big easy chair. The PC is still in "office" mode and that will probably not change. I know I could go wireless from PC to TV but running to the other end of the house to fire up a movie is not exactly high-tech.

Maybe the TV's of the future will be able to store downloaded movies without an attached PC. That might work if the download speed is fast enough (and not a matter of an hour or two waiting for the download to complete). I'm not into streaming. The quality generally sucks, interrupts are common and unless you are DVR-equipped, you can't pause the stream to .....er, make a beer run.

Besides, owning a physical copy allows you to share with friends and relatives. OK, maybe not relatives....but I don't have to worry about paying re-rental or download fees if I want to watch the movie again and it won't "age" into destruction. Oh, and it will be a very long time before PC hard drives have the capacity to store the contents of my library.
 
nickelodeonfan97 said:
LaserDiscs were ahead of their time. The picture quality was close to that of DVDs.
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...provided the disc was properly manufactured. I had a CBS/Fox laserdisc of Phantom of the Paradise that was snowier than any VHS tape I've ever seen...
 
Ultimajock said:
nickelodeonfan97 said:
LaserDiscs were ahead of their time. The picture quality was close to that of DVDs.
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...provided the disc was properly manufactured. I had a CBS/Fox laserdisc of Phantom of the Paradise that was snowier than any VHS tape I've ever seen...
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Yeah, that's true. But I've seen some that look quite good even to this day.
 
Are people going to watch movies on any kind of disc player in the future? Or simply download onto their computer hard drive or a hard drive player of some sort?
 
nickelodeonfan97 said:
LaserDiscs were ahead of their time. The picture quality was close to that of DVDs.
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Laserdiscs at their best were very good -- far and away the highest image quality you could get at home until DVDs came along.

But I wouldn't call them close to DVD quality; the quality of DVD's digital component video (luminance and the two color channels all kept separate) is inherently much better than the analog composite video (luminance and color combined into a single signal) stored on laserdiscs. But the laserdisc format beat the quality of analog cable and broadcast...and completely blew standard VHS and Beta away.
 
"Anyone think BluRay will go the same route?"

Yes. BluRay is already an obsolete technology. Look at music technology. We don't use CD's anymore, we have ipods, or other devices. Same thing can already be done with video. Those small little usb flash drives for example. Make it an hdmi flash drive, put movies on it, and plug into smart tv's. Bam you got your movie.

The industry won't bother moving in this direction until they have their run with bluray. For me, I burned all my dvd's to a external hard drive, but since the industry won't make a sort of player that you can just plug in the external drive, and hit play, I have to use a backdoor method of running an hdmi from my computer to my TV, and use my computer as the player. Its worth it in the amount of space now saved.
 
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