The Dark Knight {Spoilers Abound}

I am going into town with my grandparents to buy this DVD! I am willing to spend at least an hour isolated with these two escapees from a mental asylum in order to get this film!
 
Dr.Strangefate said:
Bah, I am cooler than everyone anyways because I already have this on DVD. Came in the mail early.

Also: Planet-Man is still crazy, but now that i am not in a bad mood, i won't be a ***** about it. :heart:
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DVD?! That's sooooo 2005.
 
You guys are right, those of us with DVD players are living in the past. Why don't you send me $300 so I can buy a Blu-Ray Player and be as cool as you?
 
We too are getting the DVD.

We have a big, good-quality TV in our homemade home-theater. It's not worth spending the money on both a new machine AND a big new TV for a slight improvement in picture quality that I can barely even discern any time I've seen it in stores(admittedly Batman Begins was noticibly more detailed, but Iron Man looked virtually identical as did Cars, 300 and Tropic Thunder). People go on and on about how great a difference it is and how it's sooooo worth it. News flash: It's not some bull**** past-grippiness. We can barely afford our current set-up.

The DVD is fine. It's still got all the special features, except for maybe "record your own video commentary". When it becomes economically sensible, then we might do the whole Blu-Ray thing. Or just skip in entirely because I can't see it taking more than a couple years for things to go completely digital.

What's really funny is that when DVD players became mainstream you were paying about $300 for one machine that completely revolutionizes home video, with better picture, hours of content and special features, and the ability to go to anywhere in the movie at any time instantaneously. With Blu-Ray you're paying upwards of $800 for slightly better picture and nothing else. It's not a leap. It's a ploy.
 
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keep in mind DVD was introduced in the early nineties... It'll be a while before things switch over to being solely digital.
 
Dr.Strangefate said:
keep in mind DVD was introduced in the early nineties... It'll be a while before things switch over to being solely digital.
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It took until the end of the 90s for them to become "mainstream" though. Blu-Ray's become mainstream in under a year since it beat out HDDVD. The whole industry's moving faster and most of all, we're practically there anyway with every DVD and Blu-Ray disc coming with a Digital Copy. Can you really see it taking another decade before they realize that people will still pay them the same without them having to press a lasting disc?

Edit: Future spec always runs the risk of looking ridiculous, though. The bottom line is we just can't afford it, won't be able to afford it for what looks like a while, and even if we could barely afford it the change is absolutely ridiculous in proportion to what it costs.
 
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By the time I get Blu-Ray, people will be beaming films directing into their brains.
 
Planet-man said:
It took until the end of the 90s for them to become "mainstream" though. Blu-Ray's become mainstream in under a year since it beat out HDDVD. The whole industry's moving faster and most of all, we're practically there anyway with every DVD and Blu-Ray disc coming with a Digital Copy. Can you really see it taking another decade before they realize that people will still pay them the same without them having to press a lasting disc?
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It won't take a decade, but it will take a while... People want something they can hold, they can touch... CDs are slowly becoming irrelevant, but they have been since Napster first came around when I was in Grade School. Blu-Ray is remarkably different than DVD, a great improvement and a triumph for all cinephiles, but its not going to become irrelevant quickly. I'd give it five more strong years, but the shelflife will be longer than that... I mean, once you've got an HDTV and a Blu-Ray player, its not like the discs are just going to crumble to dust when you put your digital doohicky right next to it and the cable-box.
 
Planet-man said:
We too are getting the DVD.

We have a big, good-quality TV in our homemade home-theater. It's not worth spending the money on both a new machine AND a big new TV for a slight improvement in picture quality that I can barely even discern any time I've seen it in stores(admittedly Batman Begins was noticibly more detailed, but Iron Man looked virtually identical as did Cars, 300 and Tropic Thunder). People go on and on about how great a difference it is and how it's sooooo worth it. News flash: It's not some bull**** past-grippiness. We can barely afford our current set-up.

The DVD is fine. It's still got all the special features, except for maybe "record your own video commentary". When it becomes economically sensible, then we might do the whole Blu-Ray thing. Or just skip in entirely because I can't see it taking more than a couple years for things to go completely digital.

What's really funny is that when DVD players became mainstream you were paying about $300 for one machine that completely revolutionizes home video, with better picture, hours of content and special features, and the ability to go to anywhere in the movie at any time instantaneously. With Blu-Ray you're paying upwards of $800 for slightly better picture and nothing else. It's not a leap. It's a ploy.
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Yeah, I agree with just about all of this.

I'm mainly just offended by the notion that everyone is expected to buy a Blu-Ray player or be ridiculed for being behind the times. My family doesn't have that kind of money for something that seems insignificantly better than DVD.

And all the special Blu-Ray only features I've seen - special on-screen stuff during the movie, interactive content, video chat - look insanely stupid. Wouldn't all that just be a really ridiculous distraction while you're actually trying to watch a movie?
 
Wouldn't all that just be a really ridiculous distraction while you're actually trying to watch a movie?
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Please like we have the attention span to watch a movie! I'm watching a movie, a TV show, typing here, answering an e-mail, Twittering, Skyping, IMing on my iPhone, talking on my cell phone, and I think my kid sister's here somewhere but until she logs on I don't know where she is.

Who the **** watches movies anymore? :)
 
I just got the 2 disc special edition of this. is anyone else pretty underwhelmed by the special features? i was a little disappointed.
 
E said:
In all seriousness, there are a number of Blu-Ray players down to $100-150 this Christmas.
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Wow, I could probably find that much just sitting in my couch cushions!

I'd still need hundreds of dollars more for an HDTV, and one big enough that it isn't a downgrade from our current good family one which we already payed a lot for at that, but who cares! Slightly better picture!
 
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