“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” -Stewart Brand
Posted by Monkeymanx in Nerd stuff, Personal
We have not made the switch over to Blu-ray yet. I know that the Blu-ray/HD-DVD battle is very old news (especially in the technology race timeline), but for what it is worth I was rooting for Blu-ray back then. Now that Blu-ray has come out on top, I just can’t seem to get motivated to go out and get a new Blu-ray player, or start replacing all the DVDs that I have amassed. I began to wonder today, am I becoming one of those guys that stops caring about the tech advances? In twenty years, will I still need to have an old barely running DVD player, while my friend’s children are setting up their latest home entertainment technology? Or am I just a late adopter of some things? I know that I didn’t get a DVD player until the price was down around $100, and DVD movies were on average $15. I guess once Blu-ray players get into an affordable price range I’ll get one and start picking up Blu-ray movies. Since I’ll still be able to watch my DVDs on a Blu-ray player, I don’t see any reason to replace all my DVDs with Blu-ray discs. So I think that the answer to my question is no, I’m not yet one of those guys who stops caring about technology. (And no, this is not me trying to tell Candy that I want a PS3 because it has a Blu-ray player built in.)
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