Any academy member that doesn't own a Blu-ray player by now should have their voting rights revoked. I know the general public may not be ready for 100% adoption with costs being what they are, but for people who this is their job - they can afford a $300 used PS3 by now...
Just because you adopted Blu-ray doesn't mean the academy members have to also, if anything it shows that some of the members actually make choices for themselves and don't let the dictations of the industry tell them what to do, like the bunch of lemmings thinking that Blu-ray is the cat's meow.
Nah dude, Paul Nick is right. If they are in the film industry, then theres no excuse NOT to want to see the movies you are considering in the BEST quality available for home viewing. Your comment is complete fail. They ARE the industry you moron.
I have to agree with Penguin on this one. The argument "They must use Blu-ray because it's the highest quality available" thing falls flat when you consider that the same argument can be used to force academy members to buy $20,000 projectors, build home theater rooms, etc. It ignores the fact that a fair percentage of the population, which will inevitably include academy members, cannot see a difference between HD and ED. And, to boot, it's completely ridiculous. If a movie wins over another because it looks better in HD than the other, then, well, methinks the wrong values apply to the voters.
And, just to be clear, I'd be making the same argument if Sony had withdrawn Blu-ray in February, giving the field to HD DVD.
This is just silly.
At one point the studios were shipping special DVD players to academy members so they could ship DVDs with a DRM incompatible with regular DVD players, in an attempt to deal with screeners being used for piracy. I'm surprised they're not doing something similar here anyway.
Academy members should either view movies in their original format or the best possible representation of it. Which at the moment means Blu Ray. I don't see why they couldn't ship two disks for screeners if it was such an issue, or ask each member for their personal preference. Hell, just buy the tight fisted misers an HD TV and a BD player to watch their free movies on.
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Any academy member that doesn't own a Blu-ray player by now should have their voting rights revoked. I know the general public may not be ready for 100% adoption with costs being what they are, but for people who this is their job - they can afford a $300 used PS3 by now...
Just because you adopted Blu-ray doesn't mean the academy members have to also, if anything it shows that some of the members actually make choices for themselves and don't let the dictations of the industry tell them what to do, like the bunch of lemmings thinking that Blu-ray is the cat's meow.
@Penguin,
Nah dude, Paul Nick is right. If they are in the film industry, then theres no excuse NOT to want to see the movies you are considering in the BEST quality available for home viewing.
Your comment is complete fail. They ARE the industry you moron.
I have to agree with Penguin on this one. The argument "They must use Blu-ray because it's the highest quality available" thing falls flat when you consider that the same argument can be used to force academy members to buy $20,000 projectors, build home theater rooms, etc. It ignores the fact that a fair percentage of the population, which will inevitably include academy members, cannot see a difference between HD and ED. And, to boot, it's completely ridiculous. If a movie wins over another because it looks better in HD than the other, then, well, methinks the wrong values apply to the voters.
And, just to be clear, I'd be making the same argument if Sony had withdrawn Blu-ray in February, giving the field to HD DVD.
This is just silly.
At one point the studios were shipping special DVD players to academy members so they could ship DVDs with a DRM incompatible with regular DVD players, in an attempt to deal with screeners being used for piracy. I'm surprised they're not doing something similar here anyway.
Academy members should either view movies in their original format or the best possible representation of it. Which at the moment means Blu Ray. I don't see why they couldn't ship two disks for screeners if it was such an issue, or ask each member for their personal preference. Hell, just buy the tight fisted misers an HD TV and a BD player to watch their free movies on.