Comments on: Blu-Ray alert: my first customer experience with Mission Impossible set

By: Xbox 360 HD-DVD player unboxing and first HD-DVD thoughts » Make You Go Hmm

Xbox 360 HD-DVD player unboxing and first HD-DVD thoughts » Make You Go Hmm — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:44:54 +0000

[…] soon be able to offer a customer opinion on which looks better on our Samsung HDTV at 1080p. Blu-Ray was first reviewed here back on Hmmcast #34, January […]

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Wed, 02 May 2007 13:39:41 +0000

[…] Hmm thoughts We don’t own an HD-DVD player or a single HD-DVD yet. Do own Blu-Ray player with the PS3 and bought the Mission Impossible set on Blu-Ray. That’s our one and only HD quality movie purchase to date. We haven’t even bought and downloaded through Xbox Live the HD quality movies. Might try one someday, but I’d rather save the Microsoft Points and use them for something else. […]

By: eric

eric — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:41:47 +0000

Ok I want to stop this fight! I work for a major retailer, who I will keep un-named. In my humble opinion there is nothing wrong with a Samsung LCD. Top of the line it may not be, but bottom of the barrel it is not. Also the PS3 has been rated as the best blue ray player on the market by such people as Sound & Vision, the Perfect Vison and so on. Here is the problem that I don’t think any one has done a good job of defining, so here we go! Mission Impossible was not filmed in ANY HD format, this blue ray disc has been up converted from film. You have to do your home work when you pick a movie whether blue ray or hddvd. I do lots of home theaters and crestron systems too, but I will never put any one down for buying what they can afford! I am sure that High Definitions is proud to have such employees out there making it harder to win customers over to new technology. David might have wanted to network his PS3 and have some other work done in his home, but because some one who has so much experiance has told him that his Samsung is a p.o.s. he now thinks that we (sales people and installers) are all too high to stoop to his level. If you worked in my store I would make sure you never spoke to any of my customers. What a goob you must be.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:05:24 +0000

Just realized that I’m also viewing this on a Samsung LCD monitor (my primary monitor) too. Guess we like the Samsung brand. We still aren’t completely switched over to all LCD monitors on computers and use older CRT monitors on some. We’re new age dinosaurs, I guess.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:59:22 +0000

Ric - Thanks for stopping by. Cocky jerk you may not be trying to be, but you are looking at a different market segment than I am.

I’m not a high end technophile, I’m a family guy technophile Stick around and read more and you’ll see that our family likely won’t spend over $2,000 on a TV which puts me out of the high end league. I never claimed the HDTV we bought was the highest quality or most expensive out there, in fact I admitted we like buying less expensive TVs, like most regular people will do. Ric, the problem with HDTV is that not enough people can afford the higher end ones yet — or if they can afford it like us, don’t want to pay the premium for something that will be outdated in a couple years for something bigger, crisper and better — but the lower quality ones are coming down in price and that will further spread adoption.

If I’m doing a review on a setup which costs over $5,000 ask yourself seriously how many families will be able to afford that? I’m writing this for the mainstream, hard working families, not for the upper echelon (mostly single) technophiles.

And while you might think the Samsung is a crappy TV, we’ve found it to be very nice and work quite well I’ve watched Blu-Ray on a $4,000 true 1080p monitor and while the image was definitely more vivid and crisp, it wasn’t that much dramatically better than what we’re getting on our new p.o.s Samsung

Different strokes, different folks.

By: Ric

Ric — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:42:56 +0000

Let me give you a little background before I start. I work for a home automation company called High Definitions. I spend countless hours installing products such as AMX, Crestron, Runco, Elite, Kalidascape, etc. I have done hundreds if not thousands of home theaters. From basic 5-10 grand systems to those in the millions. I am sorry, I don’t want to sound like a cocky jerk. Just need to supply my background for credibility.

You have got to be kidding! You did a review of this using mediocre to low grade garbage. Samsung makes a horrible television. Why bother with high def if you are going to buy this tv. It’s like puting a saleen engine into a model T. Try puting that playstation on a larger nicer screen, one that isn’t a p.o.s. Weather its native at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, you will notice an extreme difference in color and detail. It is not only about resolution.

Anyway, about VHS and DVD. The difference between them doesn’t have much to do with Rez but with the diff. between analog and digital.

By: Did you buy less DVDs/videos in 2006 than 2005? » Make You Go Hmm

Did you buy less DVDs/videos in 2006 than 2005? » Make You Go Hmm — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:24:16 +0000

[…] Tipping point for DVDs or no? Does this study above show we’ve reached a tipping point for DVDs? I don’t think so. Too many DVD players out there and as I noted in last Thursday’s Hmmcast, the difference between DVD and Blu-Ray isn’t as dramatic as it is going from VHS to DVD. […]