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Blu-Ray envy....
	Topic by: Vanamonde Posted: March 8, 2009 - 2:44 PM PDT Last Reply: March 9, 2009 - 9:33 PM PDT

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Vanamonde	post #1  on March 8, 2009 - 2:44 PM PDT   Every now and zen, I get an attack of Blu-Ray envy, I dream of a nice home theater with nice 80' screen and 10.1 sound. But I just took a gander at the Greencine HD-DEF section and man, you guys have a lot "request rental" buttons where I would want a "rent" button, if I did have that system. Have people been skipping out on Greencine with the goods? Or maybe they have a shorter lifespan that normal DVD? Or maybe you do not have enough interest to justify the expense? Is anyone else worried about the future of Blu-Ray? Think it may die even though it did survive HD-DVD? okay, enough questions - Sarge, bring the prisoner up for air.
Catullus	post #2  on March 8, 2009 - 7:07 PM PDT   even if it dies as a "movie" format it will survive and be resurrected when burnable media becomes cheap. I know id love to bur 25GB bluray discs to back up my files. They are supposed to last longer than regular dvds but who really knows.
weezy	post #3  on March 9, 2009 - 11:44 AM PDT   We keep Blu-Ray discs as "request" until we see there is an interest in acquiring them, it just so happens that Blu-Ray isn't very popular in our rental community just yet. But we do try to get all the Blu-Ray discs that seem like must-sees, like the Godfather and Planet Earth collections. Suggestions can always be send to catalog@greencine.com as well and are welcome!
Cinenaut	post #4  on March 9, 2009 - 1:20 PM PDT   For me, getting the 40" flatscreen TV was really cool, but Blu-Ray was ho-hum, as long as you have a DVD player that can "upsample" regular DVDs to HD. Maybe if I had a 80" screen, Blu-ray would be cool.
doozer	post #5  on March 9, 2009 - 9:33 PM PDT   I didn't care about blu-ray til I got Firefly, I was easily swayed.