Do you watch only Blu Rays just because?

[Hyfi]

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.

Casablanca is a 1942 Black and White no action no sound movie.

What is my survival problem? So you are advising me to spend extra money to watch an old B&W movie instead of adding money to a retirement account? Where is your logic in that? I may not have the same type of Law Enforcement Retirement plan as you, in fact the only one I have is the one I add to.

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.

So now you are advising me how to spend my money, and earlier you criticized me for how I already spent my money. I don't need to buy every movie I watch. I can't watch the same movie hundreds of times like I can listen to Music.

Your critisizing me is pretty funny since only 6 months ago you were crying about how broke you were and justifying why you purchased, and in your words, "cheap and questionably built" Emotiva Amp.

Now you are going to tell me how to spend my money?

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.

Again, you cry broke one week then tell us how you are repurchasing your whole library. Again, I do not have the desire to own every movie I watch. Just how many times are you going to watch all of the ones you buy? 5x in 15 years? May as well rent for $1 each time and it's still cheaper.

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

It was in reference to a comment that woochifer made about convenience. Try actually reading the posts.

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.

And what is wrong with watching the movies on my TV? Why would I want to watch a great movie on a 2" to 6" screen? Does 21st Century mean buying every little gadget the next guy has? Or just doing everything you do?

My chief playback device cost eight hundred bucks, can you say that?(see below).

Yes I can because if I would have paid List Price and Tax on my Rotel, it would have been close but when you add the $300/pair Synergistic cables in, well....

And it appears you wasted your money since you can't tell the difference between a record, a cd, and something playing in your car off of a ipod.

DO YOU LOVE music enough to spring for some audio
discs in BLU format? JUST CURIOUS.

I doubt it because the OPPO is not my main playback unit. I get pretty decent sound out of well recorded CDs already.

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,

What did you get? A Bose Wave?

[recoveryone]

What did you get? A Bose Wave?

WOW that was a shot below the belt

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Casablanca is a 1942 Black and White no action no sound movie.

and is considered to be one of the best movies ever, if not the best.
You need to listen to what a movie says, not just sit there and count the explosions

What is my survival problem? So you are advising me to spend extra money to watch an old B&W movie instead of adding money to a retirement account? Where is your logic in that? I may not have the same type of Law Enforcement Retirement plan as you, in fact the only one I have is the one I add to.

I DON'T have a "law enforcement plan" either, but in the great scheme of things
fifty cents is no biggie to enjoy a movie I might not be here to enjoy next week

So now you are advising me how to spend my money, and earlier you criticized me for how I already spent my money. I don't need to buy every movie I watch. I can't watch the same movie hundreds of times like I can listen to Music.

Maybe not, but concerts and video collections are timeless. And spend your money
any way you want. At the end of the day people always regret what they did not do,
not what they did.

Your critisizing me is pretty funny since only 6 months ago you were crying about how broke you were and justifying why you purchased, and in your words, "cheap and questionably built" Emotiva Amp.

WHICH turned out to be one of the best things I HAVE EVER BOUGHT.
Live and learn.

Now you are going to tell me how to spend my money?

At the end of the day it won't matter. I have been wiped out three times in the last 17 years.
"SAVING" money has only deprived me of experiences never to come again, while the
govt or some banker is enjoying my money.

Again, you cry broke one week then tell us how you are repurchasing your whole library. Again, I do not have the desire to own every movie I watch. Just how many times are you going to watch all of the ones you buy? 5x in 15 years? May as well rent for $1 each time and it's still cheaper.

THATS the point, broke as I AM I can still spring for a disc every once in awhile.
AS anybody can tell you, the really decent ones have to be purchased, they can't be found
to be rented

It was in reference to a comment that woochifer made about convenience. Try actually reading the posts.

THAT MIGHT WORK

And what is wrong with watching the movies on my TV? Why would I want to watch a great movie on a 2" to 6" screen? Does 21st Century mean buying every little gadget the next guy has? Or just doing everything you do?

to each his own, but I have crossed a lot of time wasters off my wish list by first
watching them during spare time

And it appears you wasted your money since you can't tell the difference between a record, a cd, and something playing in your car off of a ipod.

THATS not what I said. I said that you could not tell the diff between a lossless
audio file and a CD, which you can't. Try reading the posts.

I doubt it because the OPPO is not my main playback unit. I get pretty decent sound out of well recorded CDs already.

GOOD FOR YOU

What did you get? A Bose Wave?

Don't be insulting, please. Its a Yamaha tsx-130(see below).
I lug it to work to listen to, everybody loves it. I shouldn't have bought it, but fell in love with the sound. My eight gig USB drive has about 130 CD's, and whatever CD's I drag along.
IS IT "audiophile" quality? Heck no! But it is quality. MODERN tech allows
music lovers to listen to their tunes wherever they are, with or without "cheap" earbuds
(I take my Sennheiser cans on holidays). TRUE love finds a way.

[Hyfi]

and is considered to be one of the best movies ever, if not the best.
You need to listen to what a movie says, not just sit there and count the explosions

Great, so now your telling me I need to buy a 60 year old B&W film that has no visual or sound effects, in Blu, so I can listen to the dialog.

I guess if I had you logic, I would be broke 3 times in 17 years too.

Nice radio by the way. I have never seen or heard one but it is pretty. I still have an old Proton clock radio dual alarm in the Bedroom that sounds decent for what it was 18 years ago.