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Re: Samsung Blu-Ray player on display at my local Best Buy
I just got back from CircutCity (wife was in Old Navy) I was just burning some time not really looking at anything in particular. I saw a small display of Blu-ray titles and thought maybe they'd have one set up. At that point my kid took off and I had to chase him (2.5 year old) down an aisle towards the tvs. I saw the Samsung player hooked up to a Samsung 1080p display (if I had to guess @ 55 "). One word. Unimpressive. It was playing The Fifth Element and I actually got down on my hands and knees to make sure about what I was witnessing. I even saw the opened blu-ray case the disc came out of and had enough time to be unimpressed with that too. My son was taken by the movie so I had a little time to stand and look. I saw lots of problems, or distractions. I kept thinking there were scratches on the film. But more surprising to me was the lack of positives. I thought I'd see some sort of, well, fullness, that I perhaps had never appreciated was missing from DVD. ( I always marvel at those guys who talk about movies they saw in the seventies and how they can recollect all the minutia of its presentation.) Anyway, For anyone looking forward to all this, let's just hope this thing wasn't set up right. Personally, I think we're looking at the next "Laserdisc". I'll be surprised if any of this stuff ever achieves more than a niche market, and here's why. I believe the number of people willing to spend even 25 bucks on a title is significantly lower than the number willing to spend 15.99. And I'm at the point where I don't even want to pay THAT anymore. I don't know, I'm probably just an idiot. I only really looked at the thing for maybe two and a half minutes. I guess I was somehow hoping that the movie was going to somehow look different than on DVD. We'll see how it goes either way I suppose.
Matt
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