Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Technology, same old crap

Remember when VHS was popular? Then DVD came out as the new thing and slowly started to infiltrate the video stores and everyone was happy because you didn't need to rewind them or fast forward through all the stupid previews? Well I just paid good money for the newest and best? in video Technology, the 3D Blu-ray disc. Of course now this also includes the 2d Blu-ray disc the old format DVD disc and a digital copy you can use to get the video through Itunes. Blu-ray discs also come with built in online features that automatically get and store content on your Blu-ray disc player. The result? It takes 45 minutes to load the stupid disc and then another 30 minutes to get to the actual movie on the disc. And unlike good old fashion analog you can't just fast forward. You have to do a combination of fast forward, skipping and slowing. It takes a magic formula of remote control button pushes to finally get to the movie and if you mess up? well just start right back on over fella, cause your screwed! So now my daughter and I are watching the old DVD format of the movie Tangled because the Blu-ray version taxed my patience to the limit for today. I commit therefore to not purchase another Video disc of any format here forthwith. Digital content is all you need and how many commercials and crap do you see when you watch the digital format? that's right none....for now. Someone needs to find the master of content for Sony Blu-ray and force him to watch looped previews that are 5 years old until he goes insane and stabs his own eyes out. k I feel better.

2 comments:

  1. I think we can all take a big deep breath after that one, Hulky Joe. What a perfect example of the benefits of venting. Stupid technology. It claims to make our lives better but after stabbing our eyes out, I think we can all agree that in the long run it only hurts us.

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  2. It is ironic eh? I just am sure to mute the TV and stick the movie in well before we want to watch it. ;-) Work around it if you can't beat it, and life will be less stressful.

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