Why I Don’t Want Blu-ray Media
December 27th, 2009“But it’s HD!” is your first rebuttal. I say: “I don’t care.” Sure I make movies and put them on YouTube in HD and all but that’s a different form of content (professional vs. amateur) and standard definition online actually does suck, a lot. Anyway, my reasons:
1. It costs more. Blu-ray is like the button on YouTube players that says either HQ or HD, the button that makes it higher quality basically, the difference between that and Blu-ray is that it costs to press that button. Let’s start with the basics to play this media, you need a Blu-ray (I’m already getting tired of typing that word). You need a TV and a Blu-ray player, but wait blu ray runs at 1920×1080 resolution, so there would be no point in having a standard definition TV, ok let’s buy an HD TV. Gee this sound is terrible on these stock speakers, because now they can put more audio information on the disk, let’s buy a better sound system. You see the train of thought here. Essentially I don’t want to buy all that stuff.
2. Most titles that are in Blu-ray aren’t worth it. Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen? c’mon. Terminator Salvation? ug. Until there are more and more movies that come out that I would actually consider buying I really don’t want a Blu-ray player. I’m going to hate the day they make holographic movies and the first commercially available title is something written by the Scary Movie people.
3. I don’t actually need the immense screen clarity it gives. Like hearing the white noise scratching on an MP3 file, seeing film grain in my opinion adds to the movie viewing experience. Seeing everything as if it was real-life would just be freaky and I don’t need to see more blood than there already is in District 9 (which I feel is the first actually good movie I’ve mentioned this entire post).
In short until HD TVs are a little cheaper, and Blu-ray burners are a lot cheaper like DVD burner cheaper, and then cheaper titles I might consider buying into one. Until then I am very happy with watching my standard def movies on a standard def television computer screen.