TheBaxter wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:TheBaxter wrote:however, no way am i buying any films in either format until this thing is settled. all the films i would want to buy, i already have on dvd. i'll just watch them that way until the war is over.
Yeah that is pretty much my stance right now as well. I seriously want to start buying some HD content though!
me too, but when i look at my DVD collection and see how many times I've been double-dipped, and sometimes even triple-dipped, already, i'm determined not to buy any movie if there's a chance i'll have to buy it all over again. i'm not even buying dvds now, i'm waiting til the format war is resolved so i can buy whatever i buy in an HD format. that means i haven't bought a dvd in over a year now, in the meantime i just rent what i want to watch on netflix or blockbuster.
i'm actually less worried about the player becoming obsolete, than about the media. we all know that a lot more money gets spent on the media than the player, no matter how much the player originally cost.
The only DVDs I have been buying lately are Criterions.