Re: semi OT: Utimate Avengers

On Jun 8, 2:09 pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Terrence Briggs wrote:

(CtToI, *I* could always rent it, but for some reason the Netflix copy
wouldn't play on my PS3, so I had to content myself with Lionsgate's
"Dr. Strange" on Blu, and Funi's DBZ Movies.)
This is what I'm talking about. Ratatouille, bring the Blu-Ray ***
on! But Dr. Strange?!?!

Okay, have YOU ever heard of him either?--
That didn't stop anyone from going to Rocket-*** Guy's movie, did it? ;)

Heh. I saw (most of) the Dr. Strange animated OAV on DVD. What am I
missing on Blu-Ray? Hence, the "Caveman on HD" smack :-)

And don't get me started on Iron Man (the movie or the Lion's Gate
direct-to-DVD).

Does that newfangled min-IMAX contraption
even *play* regular DVDs without turning them into a blurry mess, or
are you just test-driving the sports car around the school's track
oval cuz you already signed the lease? :-)

Are you asking because you don't know? ^_^

Would you feel better if I said that I saw the Happy Feet Blu-Ray on a
HD flatscreen at Sears? I know, I know: Computer monitors don't
count, either. I'm just making a disctintion between $200 coolness
with a DVD on a 1280-resolution computer monitor, $400 razzle-dazzle
on a DVD with an EDTV flatscreen and RGB cables, and $800 OMFG on a
Blu-Ray machine with

I don't know about you, but I like my TV, I like my DVD recorder, my
VCR, and my last-gen game systems, and they don't get $800 better with
an $800 investment. Just like Caveman doesn't get $800 better with a
$800 set. Neither does Jane & the Dragon. That's not what makes them
great. It ain't what made Deathnote great. Just saying.

(FTR, our biggest Have-Not "yeesh" to date has been those who say "But
my upconverted-DVD looks fine, why do I need a new disk?"--
As long as you were going with the old '06 cliche's, thought you'd be
riding *that* one like Teddy up San Juan Hill...)

FTR, your biggest Must-Have "yeesh" to date was "I sat through...
Pushies Daises, cuz the HD looked so good."

But yeah, the Porche Boxster looks great, even in a traffic jam :-)

Of course, thousands of "early adopters" will surely thrill to paying
the 50% premium, just to expand their Blue Ray collection.

Uh, we're not "early adopters" anymore, now that the War's over--
Now we're just *not* People Who Don't Have One Yet... ^_^

Ask me when I bought my first PS2. Of course, some of us didn't HAVE
to spend 300 clams for the privledge.

Ask me when I bought MY first PS2. It was when I bought my first PS3,
and it wasn't for the games.

Uh... I don't think the entire PS2 library is backwards compatible
yet, dude. That Blu-ray player of yours is a pretty expensive gaming
rig, if you have to play GTA3 and Resistance NOW, instead of after the
price drops.

Heck, I probably built my ENTIRE LIBRARY OF PS2 games for less than
the cost of your PS3, and that includes three brand-new RPGs and an
empty box of Smuggler's Run 1. Unless, of course, you won it in a
sweepstakes :-)

Derek Janssen
ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxx

Terrence Briggs, Luddite Computer Scientist
Peace to you...
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