ha
Money well wasted, once HD is mainstream you'll be buying it all again :)
( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:34, archived)

Oh do shut up.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:35, archived)

This

( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:36, archived)

once HD is mainstream?
Shit. I've only got ten or so years to get my act together!
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:35, archived)

please tell me how HD is going to look better
than the original grainy film?

*ooh look, i can see the grain clearer!*
( sex and dougs and rock n roll, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:35, archived)

I like the lower definition
Only cartoon/computer animation stuff looks good on HD, IMO.

I am not interested in seeing the makeup errors on actors' faces.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:37, archived)

any new films will be superb on HD,
older stuff transferred to HD will not be any better.
( sex and dougs and rock n roll, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:38, archived)

Not really true.
A 35mm print in a cinema has much higher definition than a standard DVD and standard TV. So a good transfer of that to HD would be better than current DVD versions.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:41, archived)

I'm not fussed really.
I suspect I'd love it once I had it. But I'm not going out of may way for it, as I know it'll all be £1000 cheaper later on.

I do want a nice big TV though. 32" is not big enough.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:41, archived)

Clearly
you think that HD is superior to 35mm.

You're wrong, completely wrong.
( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:41, archived)

HAHA PWN3DDD!!!!l

( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:35, archived)

This is what people said about DVD players.
To those people I say HA, because they are paying mostly between £5-15 for a DVD, while I pay about a quid for a video. Granted not much gets released on video now, but for everything that was ever released before is, & that's a lot of watching.
( ImNotRightBotheredMe fool, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:37, archived)

Poppycock.
DVDs are good enough quality for most people, and it'll be 20 years before high-res displays are the norm for TVs. People who get a hard-on over "home cinema" will probably go out and buy a Blu-ray player and a HD-DVD player and everything they already have on VHS and DVD again to watch on their 359" plasma LCD TVs, but everyone else couldn't give a shit.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:40, archived)

How is this the case?
Did anybodies collection of vinyl albums become obselete once CD was the popular format? I can still watch videos I recorded more than fifteen years ago - the technology only becomes obselete for me once I stop using it.
( FoldsFive, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:40, archived)

the laser burnt through my 78s...
:(
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:41, archived)

pfffft....!

( FoldsFive, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:42, archived)

Thisitty this this this.

( ImNotRightBotheredMe fool, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:42, archived)

this
/still plays laser discs
( flurokitty 3, 2, 1 lets jam! (+.[___]·:·), Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:45, archived)