Do you watch only Blu Rays just because?

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Maybe your income level or current status of independently wealthy is different than mine or my retirement goals. I chince out on many things in order to be prepared for what will no doubt be an ugly time when my wife and I get old and need help and care.

Every FIFTY CENTS I save adds up to DOLLARS in the bank. But, it's not just about the money. Like I said, a chick flick in HD is still a chick flick. I don't give a rats ass about the grain of the film if there is no real action or sound effects to display. I'm not an HD snob.

No, you are an anti HD snob.
Is CASABLANCA a "chick" flick"? CHASING AMY? And so on. And if a difference in fifty cents is a deal breaker for you, you don't have a retirement problem, you have a survival problem. THAT extra fifty cents is the biggest bargain in HT right now.

When I bought this unit, I had every intention of watching Blu's. As I have repeated, there are not many in RedBox that I care to bother whether it's just a little bit better just to say I did.

MAYBE, but purchased BLU discs can now be had for six bucks, close to what A BLOCKBUSTER RENTAL used to be. Watching DVD makes less and less sense.

I do like convenience. I also happen to have a huge hard drive full of movies a friend of mine ripped from his collection. I guess you would just trash the drive and run out and re-purchase them all.

NOT WITH STORAGE so cheap these days. I like to rip stuff to disc and take to work.
But would having a DVD or other SD copy keep me from replacing the title with BLU?
ACTUALLY I am in the process of replacing a bunch of old classics and giving away the
DVD copies to friends. If you are a penny pincher this is actually a good time to do so,
what with video stores shutting their doors. I have picked up several hardly used discs for as little as four bucks.

I only have my whole house wired because I picked up trashed PCs and rebuilt them. I work in the field so keeping networking skills honed is something I need to keep up on. I have helped friends wire their whole houses when remodeling or building.

And THAT has to do with the price of eggs how?

Well here is where I am still old school. I don't have a portable player of any kind. I will not put dirty little ear buds in my ears to listen to inferior sounding audio. I do have and NOW listen to some of the music I have on hard drives but ONLY because of the ease of the streaming features of the OPPO. I listen to Pandora or LastFM at work very low on crappy little PC speakers.

Time to join the 21st century. With a file player you can plug it into your car unit, the aux on a decent sounding portable. AND those bootleg movies you were talking bout?
WATCH them on a file player.

But, I listen to 95% of my music from a CD on a real audio system.
Can you say that?

MORE LIKE 70%, and the rest of the time , records and lossless on my computer.
You could never tell the difference. My chief playback device cost eight hundred bucks, can you say that?(see below).

I am an Audio Snob!

GOOD for you. I am an audio lover, which is why I paid the ridiculous price of four
c-notes for a clock radio type device that actually sounds decent for occasional listening,
and have three players in my system that are dedicated to disc audio playback.
Which brings up something else, mainly hi-res audio, like Sheryl Crows Sound STAGE,
Diana Kralls Rio, etc. DO YOU LOVE music enough to spring for some audio
discs in BLU format? JUST CURIOUS.