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Mark, you know I like you, but I don't understand you at all. :D;) So you return the rental and then swing by Best Buy or Circuit City and buy it, I don't get the dilemma.

I'm just curious as to why renting is looked upon as being this bad thing? :confused: It's just another option, that's all, just like waiting for a film to come on satellite. It may be an "old way" to see movies as people have been renting movies since the inception of the video store, but it...

Dammit, I hate when I do that! ;) I can understand wanting to wait until the right time to watch a movie, but the cool thing about Netflix and Blockbuster online is that you can keep them as long as you want. Generally I find that Friday night is the night that I mainly like to watch movies...

Your philosophy is a tad scewed, one will never see anything new if they avoid renting new releases. It's the old saying, you'll never know until you try it. If I rent a new release and it turns out bad, than I only wasted a couple of bucks, but if I buy it and find out it's bad than that's...

Doing research doesn't guarentee anything, either, because peoples tastes vary so much. A film can have all the critical and public acclaim in the wrld but *I* still may not like it. I mean 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most acclaimed films of all time but I can't stand it. You never...

I really hate to bring this up, but i'm still worried about studios using HD masters that were created for over the air HD that are cropped and/or zoomed. It would be very tempting for them to use an existing 1.78:1 master of, say, Moulin Rouge(just an example) for the HD DVD or Blu-Ray...

But renting does have it's place. How else is one supposed to watch a dvd of a film they haven't seen yet, buy it blind and then get burned if the movie ends up sucking? I rent to see if I like the movie, than I buy it if I enjoy it. Waste of money? On the contrary, renting SAVES me money...

Also, SDVD remains a format that still delivers a satisfying HT experience, sure the A/V quality is much better on HD and Blu-Ray, but SDVD is still very acceptable IMO. It isn't like the jump from VHS to SDVD, although the jump in quality is considerable from SDVD to the new formats, that's...

I saw my very first demo of Blu-Ray the other day at Circuit City, it was a trailer for Ultraviolet and my jaw was on the freakin' floor! :eek: However, that being said, I will not be upgrading for some time, i'm waiting to see who the victor is in this war. I have 0ver 800 titles and my...