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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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Movie studios are hell-bent on having anything but DVD succeed. The reason is piracy. Copying blu-ray is much more difficult. Storing it takes a lot of space. Downloading it illegally, even after compressed into a smaller format (which degrades quality) is time consuming and has potential to be tracked. In addition, US companies are throttling bandwidth, and movie downloading is a main reason why they are doing so.
Pirates in China are already compressing blu-ray to a 720p DVD format for illegal sales in China. It's not quite blu-ray, but it's much better than DVD.
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/news/story.php?title=hong_kong_pirates_selling_bootleg_blu-rays_on_dvds&id=4245667 |
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bassexpander
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| If blu-ray players were $100 and movies were $5......I might just go for it. |
Only took three years, but this past Black Friday, I bought a crapload of BR discs for $5-10. 
The BR 3D discs are still around $30-$40, but the cheapie BR players are below $100. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Korea needs to lower its prices for Blu Ray, and I hear the market in Korea for home theater is dead, dead, dead. The last two Blu Ray titles I bought in Korea were "Scarface" and "West Side Story," and both were priced at 31,900 won each. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| madoka wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| If blu-ray players were $100 and movies were $5......I might just go for it. |
Only took three years, but this past Black Friday, I bought a crapload of BR discs for $5-10.
The BR 3D discs are still around $30-$40, but the cheapie BR players are below $100. |
Cheers for the update!
Can't see me getting a BR player though..........I've got 4 drawers full of DVD's that I never play.....it would be hard to rationalize starting all over doing the same thing with BR.
I think optical-discs, or any hard-format medium is on its way out.....the faster internet speeds get, the easier it is to just download HD, legally or illegally......it doesn't take a fortune-teller to see that's the way media distribution is going. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Downloading content here is just so easy that people don't want to buy a player and discs.
I saw the death of Blu-Ray back when HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were duking it out. I saw the death of Blu-Ray and all portable based media when I modded my original Xbox and had Xbox Media Player on it.
I could watch any one of 500 movies without getting up off of the couch. |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
Can't see me getting a BR player though..........I've got 4 drawers full of DVD's that I never play.....it would be hard to rationalize starting all over doing the same thing with BR.
I think optical-discs, or any hard-format medium is on its way out.....the faster internet speeds get, the easier it is to just download HD, legally or illegally......it doesn't take a fortune-teller to see that's the way media distribution is going. |
this.
i very rarely re-watch films so collecting discs makes no sense for me. i would gladly pay for a service that allowed me to stream/rent on-line if it existed, was reasonably priced, and of course worked in korea. hell, i pay $15 a month now for usenet and that's used entirely to download movies. i would easily pay double that to have access to a nice library.
until then, xbmc and usenet are my friends. |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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For the true cinephile though nothing beats building your own library. Although I am making the change from building mine on dvd to building it on ex hd.
Seriously, how long can this free torrents downloading thing continue for?
I love it but, the movie industry is losing hundreds, maybe thousands of USD a year from me alone and there really is no reason I should get to see anything and everything I want for free. |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| The Floating World wrote: |
For the true cinephile though nothing beats building your own library. Although I am making the change from building mine on dvd to building it on ex hd.
Seriously, how long can this free torrents downloading thing continue for?
I love it but, the movie industry is losing hundreds, maybe thousands of USD a year from me alone and there really is no reason I should get to see anything and everything I want for free. |
it will last as long as the internet last!
back in the 80's I had a twin deck ghetto blasta, would copy my friends tapes
back in the 90's when I wanted to build my little library of my favorite movies I would go down to the video shop, and rip the video back at home as I had two sony vhs players
when DVD's came out, it was like.. OHH NO, now what...
then the internet came hahahahahaha
movies , tv shows, music they still make their money from TV, advertising, movie, concert, radio, sydication.
batman is coming out summer 2012. you gonna download it or watch it in cinema? yeah I am watching it in the cinema. they got my 10 bucks.
the days of paying 15 bucks for a cd with 1 song and 11 fillers on it are over, and so too are the days of paying 10 bucks for some stupid movie which the studios produce just to make money.. |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
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| Batman, yeah I'll watch it an the cinema. Wont be the same on the small screen. I'd see movies like 'the skin I live in' from top rate directors at the cinema too if I could watch them here. But then for posterity, I'd download it to ex hd though, when once I would have bought it on vid / dvd after watching it at the cinema and deciding it's a keeper.... |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| I do agree that I tend to watch a film once and then not again, BUT I do have the Blu Rays of the Godfather series, Scarface and Trainspotting. I do like certain movies to be around when I want to see them. |
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Rahul0282
Joined: 20 Dec 2011
Location: India
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| I just have one movie in Blu-Ray.. Avatar!!!!!!!! |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Avatar is good to have if you have a good home theater setup. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| Out of all the 3D Blu Ray discs I own, Avatar is hands-down the BEST by a country mile. With many of the other titles, you sometimes wonder if the 3D glasses are even turned on. Not with Avatar. Near every scene uses a ton of 3D. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Yaya wrote: |
| I do agree that I tend to watch a film once and then not again, BUT I do have the Blu Rays of the Godfather series, Scarface and Trainspotting. I do like certain movies to be around when I want to see them. |
I guess I have more of a collector mentality. I own several thousand DVDs and a few hundred Blu-Ray/HD now. Plus I spend around $5,000 per year on itunes purchases. I like being able to watch what I want, when I want. |
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