So, I got a couple of Blu-Ray movies. In case you don't read Gizmodo as often as I do, Blu-Ray is the proposed replacement for DVD. It's got brilliant 1080p high-definition video and up to 8 channels of uncompressed audio. It is to DVD just about what DVD was to VHS, a giant leap ahead in terms of quality.
But...you may be wondering why I ordered movies for a player I don't have, and probably won't have anytime soon. Well, I had CDs well before I owned a CD player. I also possessed several DVDs before I got my first DVD player.
I guess I don't want to come home the day I finally get the device and not have anything to watch :)
I only buy the flicks I really love and want to watch over and over. Movies like The Seven Samurai, and Unforgiven and The Big Lebowski. And I'll only buy a movie on Blu-Ray of it is significantly superior to the DVD version.
Yesterday I saw a sale on Amazon and ordered one of our favorite "Holiday" movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, on Blu. My trusted reviewer at Digital Bits says it looks incredible. And also the brand-spanking-new digital restoration of Sleeping Beauty, which by all accounts looks better than the original prints shown in theaters in 1959. The 6-million dollar movie that Walt himself was most proud of.
So, one day when we do get the player, we'll be ready to go.
Until then...well...um...they'll just sit here looking shiny and cool and inert.
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Blu-Rays now down to 299, another 100 on the downside and one has my name on it.
I should get one of those. My thumb is getting tired from flipping those pages of my little notebook to make that guy dance.
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