01-31-2010, 04:38 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
BluRay will never take off. It is dead out of the gate because the industry has tried to abandon too many formats too quickly. The population feels betrayed and bewildered.
I wouldn't say that I feel betrayed and bewildered. I'm just sick of format changes. I can see reasons to update some of the stuff I have on VHS, but there is no way that I am willing to replace the DVDs with over-priced Blu-Ray versions and buy an expensive player for the new format.
I finally caved in last night and signed up for a NetFlix account; it seems preferable to accumulating more video content for which I would have to find room on my shelves.
On a related note: last week I bought a JVC DVD-VCR combo recorder and have been transferring some of my old VHS tapes to disc. It works pretty well, and will allow me to free up a chunk of shelf space.