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I have a great Blu-ray player at home, but it's unused owing to the ridiculous prices of the media. Sure the detail is great, but it's got to compete with Netfl

• roc 14y ago
  Not to mention the anti-consumer nature of blu-ray and dvd these days: the unskippable commercials, trailers and anti-piracy warnings? These are also not present on Netflix. Some commercials are present in some content on Hulu Plus. But even that is far, far less than what you have to deal with when renting or buying a retail disc. To say nothing about new releases trying to push people into 3D prints that were rarely good (let alone worthwhile), more-often sloppy and always carried the negatives of eye-strain, dimness, unnecessary cost, etc. [1] Which is all just to say that the economics of film are changing because film-going and retail discs have been continually decreasing their value proposition while their digital alternatives have been continually increasing theirs. [1] Not letting people BYOGlasses is absurd. Even if theatres allowed it, most film-goers would inevitably forget and just buy them anyway. They're really only punishing families with that kind of policy. Families who already have plenty of good reasons to ignore the theatre.
• senthil_rajasek 14y ago
  Or you could rent it at a local Redbox Or stream from vudu.com or a bunch of other places.