Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Blu-Ray isn't going away any time soon, but it's going to continue to be a niche product until most folks get the 46+ inch 1080p HDTV's and 5.1/7.1 surround sound systems needed to show a noticeable improvement over upscaled DVD's. Even on a new 32" 720p TV, it's hard to see the difference unless you're really close to the screen.
I'm hoping that the need for physical movie media dies off once almost everyone can get 30 Mbps FIOS or DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem service in their neighborhood for 1080p movie streaming, but that it's going to happen for at least another 5 years in this country.
I agree with this pretty much. I was really impressed with a good 1080P source on 46 and 52 inch LCD's which is why I went with my Samsung LN46A650 and PS3 BR player. I have watched some upscaled DVD's and found them to be very decent and some BR movies (depending on quality) are marginally better. Others are amazingly crisp and sharp.
As for physical movie media dying off... While I don't own very many movies, and tend to get them from the library, Blockbuster or Netflix, many people do like having their own copies in a library rather than have to pay some service every time whey want to watch a movie. There is something about owning and not having to pay over an over.
Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Obviously most empty, shallow and soulless people who are buying an expensive home also value their enormous self worth, gigantic self esteem and incredible vanity in direct proportions to the expensive house they really can't afford that the bank actually owns. Of course, if you lose the high paying cushy job you use to buy the nice expensive home, you are pretty much screwed to living in your spiffy new SUV, down by the river, next to my rusty paid off van.
I could never figure out why so many spiritually confused and emotionally conflicted people buy bigger houses than they need or can afford just to impress other strangers in the neighborhood who don't give a crap about them or what they own in the first place.
Wow, tell us how you really feel. But I think you are making it way too complex. It's simply human nature to want more than you can afford. This is a high percentage of the population with mulitple credit cards all charged to the max because of this - talk to any financial advisor - they will tell you story after story.
You are no saint for not being like the rest of the greedy bastards in society. Yes, its a combination of many facters that has sent the world economy into the shitter after the housing debacle. Mainly bank rules have been too loose, investers have been too fast and greedy with financial assets they manage, and people have been all to happy to let the banks loan them money to buy houses they have no business buying and can't really afford in the long term - only the short term. ("sure we can put you in a bigger house!"). The chickens of our greedy matieralistic society are coming home to roost, but I believe there is nothing magical about Americans, any person from any race or country would do the same thing, on the average, if put in similar circumstances.
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