What's so great about High-Def. discs? - Page 2

Re: What's so great about High-Def. discs?

Hi there!

I am not talking about quality. I am telling you that High-Def. discs are not good enough because the problems we already have on DVD discs are still present. We don't have enough space to store all the data. In fact we may have and retain a good quality.

But when it comes to store the data, High-Def. discs are a very dated technology. We should have much more larger discs today, capable of store an entire season of a TV show.

If we are in fact storing a TV show like Star Trek, using 2 more discs than before (HD-DVD vs. DVDs), then what's so great about it?

Are you happy with the idea of having tons of discs? Nevermind about the image/sound quality, or even the packages, these are not being discussed here.

No argument here. That's why I hate these companies. They keep promising super-discs and new HDDs and didn't keep their promisses.

It's obvious no one will store everything in one place.

A good comparison:

The library of Alexandria. Lots of books, docs and manuscripts destroyed by fire.

A super-disc, lost because someone dropped coffee all over the place.

The most logical thing to do is to split the entire collection in many discs.

That way, if something goes wrong, your entire collection will not be destroyed. I was planning to store all my almost 1.000 discs on a single place and let the originals safe on another location.

Unfortunately, no one seems to care about this.

That's why I can't enjoy my entire collection the way I really want to.

You expect that everyone will start watching videos only using a PC monitor? Please.

You might connect your video card from ATI into your television, using any HDMI cable or something similar and start watching them anytime. It's very simple. Or you might have your entire collection accessible from your HD-player at any time.

I don't see what's the problem. I've never been a huge collector in my life. In fact, my collection is very simple. But I will not lie to you. I find annoying and stupid to store tons of discs. Because it is stupid. It's hard to keep, find and not pratical. And it is expensive.

The packages are not important to me, and I don't see why people have this need to be called "collectors" if they are buying photos and covers (which are not so good as they were used to be in the laserdisc and Long Play era). But I respect those who like it. However, I want the option to choose if I want to buy them or not.

Today, we don't have a choice because everyone accepts what is throwed in the market, even if it's dated technology like these High-Def. discs.

Re: What's so great about High-Def. discs?

Just a sad note, since this thread makes me remember something that I regret even today.

Two decades ago, when I was recording things that were (and will never be) available again (or in a better way), I was forced to use the worst way of recording my VHS tapes, instead of the SP quality (2 hours). I knew the SP mode was better, but I didn't care.

I never realize that everything was going to vanish for good (another reason to make backups of anything you got, unless you have a way to access a free worldwide "movie library" with all your needs, and that way you don't need to collect anything.).

I was dumb that time and never realized that one day was going to regret my decision (since many things are not being showed anymore on TV), that was pure economic. That's right, VHS tapes were far more expensive than a single DVD-R. And recording things on SP was a bad choice mainly because of the risk of not have enough space. Some VCRs didn't have support to the LP (4 hours) format.

However, even in the old days we were used to record different things and programs on a single tape (if we were using the EP/6 hours quality). The diversity of things you were able to record on a single tape was a trademark of that time.

Now we don't have to record anything that is available for sell, packaged the way the companies want it. We might convert our old VHS tapes to DVD. But we can't buy new High-Def. recordable media yet, it's very expensive compared to Hard Disk drives and even DVD-R discs.

And we can't use our HDDs to store anything we have, they don't have enough space since we are already using to store many movies, musics and other stuff, even compressed, might be downloaded videos you're watching when you have time.

So, one problem is solved. No more lack of space to record something retaining the best image/sound quality (a huge issue those days). Even by using a capture card (instead of a DVD-recorder that retains some quality only if you use the same 2/2.5 hours on a single media/4.7 GB). However, we exchanged one problem for another.

But hey, what the hell!

Nevermind.

It's useless to keep fighting against ideas and concepts forced over many years by all companies. The damage is already done. I have to live with that.

Resistance is futile.