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But wouldn't that mean that 2/3 of them don't?

78% voted in favor of the new contract.

This reminds me of all the talk that eventually dvd and even Blu-Ray will be extinct within just a few years.

Again I don't agree with that at all.

Let's see VCR's came out around 1975. LaserDisc came out around 1977 or so. Both existed very well for close to 20 years or so. LaserDiscs remained a niche market for videophiles.

DVDs came out in 1997. People forcasted the immediate demise of the video-cassette and LaserDisc. While software for those are no longer being produced, I think LD's were stopped being made likely around 2000 or so, videocassettes were being made well into the mid-2000's. VCR's are still available, all though usually as a built-in VCR/DVD Player combo. Even LaserDisc players were still being made until last year I believe.

The point is that even though new technology comes along, the old technology will still be around for years to come.

Blu-Ray came out in 2003. And again some thought it would spell the demise of standard DVD's. Even after 6 years, Blu-Ray is still somewhat of a niche market even today.

Now of course some are saying the all pre-recorded media will meet it's demise soon. I don't agree at all. It may replace the standard rental method, but not replace sold product. Perhaps for bare-bones releases and for those that don't care for extras. But until they have someway of producing all the extras found on dvd/Blu-Ray such as audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, trailers and other features then I don't think it'll ever replace the dvd/Blu-Ray.

Plus how about printing the disc artwork or the dvd case artwork? Yes people can do that, but not everyone has that capability or has the know-how.

Like I posted above, perhaps dvd download will replace rental and bare-bones dvds, but at present it can't replace the Deluxe/Special Editions with all of the extras.

Well at least as I know.

Sure, some people maybe left behind. But perhaps some of them don't care either. Even today there are people who don't own a tv, a computer, a cell-phone or other electronic gadgets.
Plus I wonder in today's worldwide economy how many people actually have much disposable income left if at all.

Like me, I don't own an MP3 player, an I-Pod, a GPS, a Blu-Ray player or a HDTV. I can live without an MP3 player - I would rather own a cd, an I-Pod, or a GPS -which maybe useful but I don't need or want it.
About the only two things I want is a Blu-Ray player and a HDTV, but both I can live without for awhile.

I have cable internet and it's still rather slow. I try to download video clips in the 150MB range and it takes upwards of an hour to download. And then sometimes just a minute shy of completion it just stops without any reason.

When I was able to view videos on Youtube and the like, the video & audio would sometimes be out of sync. Or it wouldn't load all the way.

My point is that they will have to vastly improve the speed of the internet before TV via the internet is really viable. Nobody would really have the patience to wait hours before they can watch something when they can just watch it immediately on regular tv.

I never really understood the desire to watch tv or movies on a small computer monitor. It's just too damn small. Like do I really want to watch a Youtube clip of someone falling down or doing some stupid stunt for 15 seconds or some movie split up into 20 clips or do I want to watch it on my regular TV?

Until the day when the computer/TV is all one unit and we have really super high speed internet that is 100% error free that allows immediate downloading of a tv show that is visible on a regular tv then no I don't think tv or cable tv is going to go away.

I do know that I don't record any TV shows anymore. I am just sick of all of those animated people at the bottom of the screen during the show, the elimination of the traditional end credits in favor of text based credits, the ads for junk that's on just a few seconds later, the stupid animated channel logos and the yapping of some announcer telling me what's on in the future or the local news saying what's on the news less than a minute later. I wonder if they do it just so people go out and buy the dvd on the show.

I think they were hinting at that it's wrong for him to be in love with an underage girl regardless of what his outside age appears to be.

I only like three vampire movies.
1. The original Dracula
2. Bram Stoker's Dracula
3. Interview with the Vampire

Just got this for just $5 at a garage sale this morning. Terrific deal.

Bought these this week.

From the new $4 display.

I have seen some comparisons of the dvd and the blu-rays and in some cases the dvd looks much better. In some scenes the Blu-Ray looks too dark, too the point where it's hard to make out anything in the scene.

Well, it officially bombed at the box office with an opening weekend of $19.5M.

It'll be lucky if it makes $70M domestically.

I was concerned from the beginning with Will being cast and the elimination of the family being stuck in the 'Land of the Lost'. I think instead of going with the comedy route they should have went with a more serious take of the idea.

I think they just changed the concept too much to please fans of the show and others simply didn't even remember the show to begin with. So the potential audience was limited right off the bat.

Anyways, I'll probably check it out on dvd when it's released.

Emile Hirsch to star in 'Hamlet'

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 … id=13&cs=1

When I was very little I saw a strange little furry creature that ran across the road into a field once. It stood about 3 to 4 feet and was completely covered with hair. I ran into the back yard and continued to see it run through the field and then disappeared into a nearby woods.

Now can I say for a fact that it was bigfoot, no. But it made me a believer in the idea of one.

Regarding ghosts. Now I have seen ghosts a few time in my lifetime. But never has one moved anything, spoke or touched me or anyone that I know.
When something like that happens I think it's the power of the person's mind that is experiencing that. In other words the person is the one that is actually manifesting the events completely through the power of their mind.

Which goes into my theory of demonic possession, that it's the power of the possessed persons mind that is creating these events.

It's just that they are completely unaware that they are doing it.

Like I noted before that I think that ghosts are just past images showing up in current time. Kind of like an imprint. I don't think they are spirits of the dead.

So I also don't believe in spirits at all. I think the entire idea of having a spirit is wishful thinking that this life will continue somehow after our death. I think all we have is our mind and that once we die that everything that we were is gone forever. So we only have one time to get it right and to live a good life.

So obviously I don't believe in reincarnation either.

Bought these from the $5 Walmart bin.