Originally Posted by skrjones:
“I can't quite believe you can misread everything I said.”
This is life with the written word - what you are thinking when you write and what the people reading what you wrote think you were thinking can be quite different. But I don't think it's quite as bad as you think anyway
Originally Posted by skrjones:
“I believe neither Bluray or HDDVD will take DVD out of the market, technology moves too quickly that I would expect in less than 5 years a new better version will emerge.”
In that case we are stuck with DVD for ever, because we will always be waiting for the next big thing. So I'm sorry, but I disagree. Once formats are sorted (be it a winner or dual format machines) HD players will become 'standard'.
Originally Posted by skrjones:
“Not many people have second DVD players.... what planet are you on! Do you know anyone with kids, as well as all the PC's etc. Very few people I know have a HD TV.”
HD Ready TVs have been selling for a while now, so their numbers in the market significantly outweigh HD players - they have a head start. So once players become reasonably priced people will start to buy them and then get the discs to play. So the kids have a TV/DVD player of their own?. "
Oh, damn, honey. We can't get a HD disc player and watch HD films in our living room, because little Johnny won't be able to watch them in his room!" I don't think so
We actually have a similar situation with our cars - one has a Radio/CD and the other, older one, has a Radio/Cassette. It's a bit irritating, but we work around it and eventually the older car will get traded for a new one (which will probably have Radio/MP3

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Originally Posted by skrjones:
“I re-encode my discs to back up the DVDs I have to avoid them being wrecked by scratching etc.”
Interesting. I've done that for gaming discs because they are in an out of the packing/computer many times in their life, but most video discs don't see anything like that much use, so I've never even thought of trying to do that (never mind the DRM hassles).