Re: Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray
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Originally Posted by Jay Pennington
Well, no, as this section is entitled "SD DVD - TV Shows and TV Movies" and a Blu-ray is in no way shape or form a SD DVD.
"HD software" is hardly generic--it's very specific, and the only section here where Blu-ray discussion belongs.
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Actually, Jay (and everyone else), I'd like to point out that last August there was a four-way discussion between Ron and Parker, and Gord and myself. Ron said he had a concern with this very thing. I hope he won't mind me quoting his e-mail to us:
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I could use your help on this. Right now all BD material is being posted in the BD area specifically. Should we post all BD TV product in the sDVD TV forum? Perhaps we should. We could also just expand the description of our current BD area to include TV, but I think that might take away activity from a TV forum that is working in conjunction with your site."
The "Insider's Area" was recently created at that time, and one solution discussed was to move all TV discussions, SD or BD, to a "TVShowsOnDVD" section of an insider's area. Neither Gord nor I thought that this was a good idea, though, because we didn't want to move TV discussion away from this rather firmly-established area. I think Ron was just trying to be nice enough to extend an offer for our own "insider" area, in any case.
Here is an abbreviated version of my (as-always wordy) reply to Ron:
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We don't need our own "Insider's" area, because the TV-on-DVD area seems to do just fine. Then again, it could potentially be a solution to the issue of "where do people go when they want to talk about TV releases, that are on both standard DVD and on BD?" On the third hand, if it's a film in question, like Iron Man for instance, then people will go to the DVD area to talk about it, unless they go to the BD area to talk about the hi-def version. So I ask myself "why should TV be any different?" Probably best in the end to leave everything just the way it is. It seems to be working well enough; just a tad bit of confusion for the BDs...but right now it's hand-able."
Gord agreed, stating that "
I'd rather see the TV section stay the way it is, with BDs added in to keep everything in one place."
Ron agreed with that solution, saying that BD discussion of TV shows would be welcome in the SD area (this section) if that's where the users decided to put it, and that it would also be fine in the BD Software section.
Neither Gord nor I get to hang out at HTF any more as much as we want...there's so much going on. I've been showing up a bit lately, but I know that it will tail off again soon. So, speaking for myself, I only check out the TV section (this one) whenever I do visit; although I love Blu-ray and I've always loved movie releases in standard def, too...you just don't see my name on posts in those sections because I never make it to them. I do lurk in the Bargain forum, specifically the Weekly Roundup (because I founded it years ago, before retiring and passing the baton to Mr. Frezon, and because Mike's work on it saves me money, of course!). But if you want me to discuss a TV release, SD or BD, better talk about it over here. I suspect Gord is the same way, but don't take my word for it...better ask him.
But yeah, unless something's changed in the past six months, Ron's cool with TV-on-BD discussions in this area. I doubt it will change until the TV-BD genre ramps up to be significantly larger than it is. Until then, I'm pretty sure that talking about it in either part of the HTF is cool enough with the owners...unless they say otherwise.
had such huge images of the cast and the ship. 
