Is anyone else just not impressed with DVDs? - Page 2

[manitou]

It depends greatly on the DVD. My husband bought me "The Sleep" and there is NO table of contents. Same thing with a really beautiful thing we bought, "The Old Grey Whistle Test", which is a montauge of early BBC recordings of great rock artists - Bob Marley and the Wailers, Alice Cooper, all the way up to REM. NO TABLE OF CONTENTS. To move around you have to fast forward for an eternity.

[yoga]

I have a love/hate relationship with DVDs.

I definately don't let my kids touch them! I mostly buy kid stuff on VHS still (cheaper and less fragile).

I don't like that some DVDs (mostly Disney, I've noticed) won't let you go right to the Menu screen. You have to fast forward thru those crappy previews (I hate previews unless I'm watching a foreign film) and sometimes, I hit fast forward and it goes forward until it gets to the Menu screen, then stops and jumps right back to the beginning of the previews! OMG, that irks me!

Luckily, it doesn't happen that often, but I don't buy many DVDs anyway. Not unless they're less than $6.

[yoga]

Oh, I was gonna say: If you want to know where you left off, check the Chapter info before stopping the DVD. That way, if you want to continue watching it the next day or something, you know exactly what chapter to skip to. I like that feature.

My DVD player will remember where you left off watching as long as the machine doesn't get turned off and you don't take the disc out. I like that feature, too.

[daylily]

I just resent the fact that sooner or later, we're going to be forced to buy a DVD player if we want to rent movies, b/c the movie rental places are phasing out videos. We have a perfectly good VCR, but no extra place on our TV to hook up a DVD player, so we either have to trash the perfectly good VCR--electronics are bad for the environment--or buy a new TV--impossible--or hunt down some mysterious adaptor switch that you can buy on ebay that lets you hook up multiple appliances to your old-fashioned TV.

I'm really bothered by the idea of people throwing their VCRs away and buying DVD/VCR combos.

[Lucysmama]

Yeah, Daylily that does suck....part of technology growing, though. Think of all those tape players that went in our dumps after the advent of CD players.

We bought one of those adapters you are talking about....our TV was made in the late 80s, so we needed it. We just got it at Best Buy or something, though. I think it was like $20.

I know people resent stores and libraries not carrying tapes anymore, but that is the way it was with cassette tapes, too. Have you ever checked out the selection of tapes at Borders or Barnes and Noble? Teeny. They just don't have that large of a demand. I'm sure there where a lot of pissed-off people who had to convert to CDs, too.

[Greaseball]

Luckily our VCR was on its last legs when we got rid of it and got our combo. I still have a lot of VHS tapes and didn't want to throw them out. When we got our stereo, I also made sure to get one that had a tape deck.

Remember laser discs? I wonder if dvds are going to flop like those did.

[Lucysmama]

I highly doubt it....DVDs and players have been around for nearly a decade now, and are in mass circulation. I think DVD is way beyond its trial "is it gonna flop?" period. More people own and buy DVDs then VHS now...unlike laser disc, which never really caught on.

And so many people who try DVD are instantly hooked. It really is like the difference in quality between a tape and a CD. It's huge.

Maybe they will eventually be replaced by something else, but I don't think then you could call it flopping. They are already huge.

[lula]

In general I like DVD's however to comiserate...one thing I hate is that sometimes they start and you can't ff a section, opening warnings etc. I also miss the previews and hate having to go to a special section to get them, however I am a geek and most people like this about DVD's.

Hmmm...could we yell about digital projection in movie theaters for a while because then I could really get on board with you!

[Breathless Wonder]

I really hate how delicate they are.

REALLY REALLY HATE IT!