Dave Kehr, it turns out, has written an excellent article in the NY Times on the current state of home-viewing technology. In it, he mentions that Blockbuster is in bankruptcy, something I didn't know when writing my own post on the death of video stores, below. It makes sense.
Since I wrote that piece, I've said my goodbyes to the bulldogs at Reel Bulldog and wished the owner luck. His last day is Sunday, and, dying medium or no, I may go down and pick up a few more titles, as the prices drop even lower. I don't plan to ever buy a Blu-Ray player, anyhow... and my giant clunky RCA TV, bought in the early 1990's, still works just fine; short of having to move, I can see no good reason to replace it.
Meantime - there's another pending video store closure in Vancouver, one which I knew nothing about when writing my piece below. But I don't want to go public on it just yet... more soon...
2 comments:
If you were the film buff you claim to be, you'd save money and buy a Blu-Ray player as well as an HDTV set and see how amazing movies truly look. But I guess that doing that is too hard for most people, or too difficult.
...and if you had read the above more carefully, you would have seen it was from 2011. I upgraded in 2012 or so. All the same, film buffs exist at various income and class levels, and i would suggest you not judge people based on what they can afford at a given point, especially in a public forum.It mostly just makes you look like an asshole (or maybe shames people for being broke, which is kind of an assholish thing to do).
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