Happy New Year to all of you!
I am about to play the devil's advocate, plus an interesting story for past movie formats!
I have been a movie fan since the mid-80ies, before I was even 10. We didn't have a TV in the house (and as I recall back then there were only 3or 4 channels on-all public, so no real choice...) , and my dad used to give me and my sister money to catch a movie in the cinema. Athens was a great city to live back then, the crime rate was near zero, so after the first couple of times we watched movies at the cinema near home we used to go to far away cinemas, at the center of the city (1 hour walk). Later in the early nineties, I started buying VHS tapes, with my favourite movies, and then came the DVD, which seemed a nice option to upgrade, and then, 15 years later we are called yet once again to buy the same movies. Someone might say that it is the same with music, cassettes, vinyl, CD, SACD, DVD or whatever. I am sticking to vinyl and only buy CDs that don't have a vinyl edition or with extras, or the ones that I really take with me to listen everywhere. What I mean, is that I am a sucker for better picture or sound, but I am not going to fall for it that easily. After all DVD does a fine job. And believe it or not, I somehow feel lucky that I wasn't in the USA, because two more video formats were available in the 80ies and 90ies, before the DVD and I would probably have fallen for them. One of them was the Laserdisc (DS released Alchemy and On the night on Laserdiscs) and SelectaVision Videodisc or CED. Both started out in the late 70ies, both came in 12'' format, playing at both sides and both of them contained ANALOG pictures and sound.Laserdisc was more common, and successful, lasted until 2001 (last 3000 players were actually manufactured in 2009) was made of aluminum and read with a laser beam, much like the CDs and DVDs. Selectavision on the other hand, never really made it outside the USA (UK and Australia were the other two countries that actually tried it a bit), lasted only until 1986 (last movies for that format were made in July 1986). The truly interesting part for the SelectaVision disc is that it was made of vinyl, similar to the music LPs and the content was read with a stylus-a needle, just like the LPs!
See more about this format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Dischttp://w.cedmagic.com/home/cedfaq.html#threetwentyThese are my 10 favourite movies that come to mind now. I don't know if they are released in Blue ray and if they worth their money in this new format, but if and when DVD becomes obsolete, I might have to get them.
1.Brazil - Terry Gilliam
2.Taxi driver - Scorsese
3. The Blues Brothers - j.Landis
4. The life of Brian - Monty Pythons
5.Blow-up - Antonioni
6.Annie Hall - Woody Allen
7.Singin' in the rain-G.Kelly
8.Blade runner - R.Scott
9.Network - S.Lumet
