Hey, A New Pooh Movie... Gilbert Gottfried... What The...?

[Magus]

GUYS VINYL IS WAY BETTER THAN CD CD COMPRESSES EVERYTHING VINYL IS WHERE IT'S AT THE HIGHS ARE HIGHER THE LOWS ARE LOWER THERE'S JUST SO MUCH MORE DEPTH

Actually that argument (supposedly maybe but not really) holds weight.

What Seil is doing though is kind of like listening to cassette tapes and saying they are better than CD.

Like I could argue the merits of dropping extra money on a Blu-Ray disc over a DVD but VHS over DVD? Are you kidding me?

Like if Seil was purchasing movies on actual film and playing them on a projector or something, maybe we could talk.

But yeah I have watched a few movies on VHS recently because I never got around to buying the DVD versions...would you buy the DVD version of Mortal Kombat?

[bluestarultor]

No, I can see where Seil is coming from. I play all my PS1 games on my actual PS1, despite having a PS2 and PS3 perfectly capable of doing so. Why? Well, nostalgia has a lot to do with it. The noise of the PS1 just feels right with the PS1 games.

I think Seil feels the same way with his old vids. They're old and crappy and he loves them for their character.

[RickZarber]

Originally Posted by Magus

Like I could argue the merits of dropping extra money on a Blu-Ray disc over a DVD but[...]

Actually, Blu-rays are considerably cheaper these days. I get a lot of mine for around $10. $25 max. (Unless it's something like a box set or a Criterion release, but those are gonna be expensive regardless.) Plus, many of them come with DVD copies.

And to me (again--videophile) the difference between BD and DVD is actually more marked than DVD and VHS. I pretty much only buy Blu these days.

The only argument against I can offer is that bad Blu-ray transfers are, unfortunately, far more common and obvious than bad DVD transfers. Some studios are still employing DVD authoring techniques on their HD transfers, and the results are terrible: waxen features resulting from excess Digital Noise Reduction (which cannot distinguish between dirt and a film's natural grain structure--a physical feature of the film itself which contains all of the image's detail); followed by overzealous edge enhancement resulting in haloed objects and black "jaggies", macroblocking from poor compression, etc. It always pays to do the research before buying.

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

They're old and crappy and he loves them for their character.

I guess I get that. It's just the insinuation that older films are inherently more suited for older formats that bugs me. (Not that that's what Seil is necessarily saying.)