05-22-2008, 05:57 PM
For most people who care about the quality of what they watch, it's easy to see the improvement of BR over SD DVDs.
But that segment of "most people" is a much smaller segment of "Most People" who really don't care a *lot* about quality and who's "Good Enough" would be our "Can you really watch that after BR?!"
Most People will probably see the difference between VHS and SD DVD in a non-A/B comparison, but would be harder pressed to do the same with SD DVD and BR, in a variety of circumstances. Not that they *couldn't*, but that they probably wouldn't.
I agree that for those folks, the compact, easy to handle format was the bigger if not biggest reason to go to DVD.
For them, the expense of BR just won't be worth it. I've still got 4 BetaMax machines which are superior to my 2 much more modern VHS machine.
But then there's DVD...
But that segment of "most people" is a much smaller segment of "Most People" who really don't care a *lot* about quality and who's "Good Enough" would be our "Can you really watch that after BR?!"
Most People will probably see the difference between VHS and SD DVD in a non-A/B comparison, but would be harder pressed to do the same with SD DVD and BR, in a variety of circumstances. Not that they *couldn't*, but that they probably wouldn't.
I agree that for those folks, the compact, easy to handle format was the bigger if not biggest reason to go to DVD.
For them, the expense of BR just won't be worth it. I've still got 4 BetaMax machines which are superior to my 2 much more modern VHS machine.
But then there's DVD...