Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Buy an HD-DVD Player

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I must admit that I am only reading the tail end of this discussion. 
But here are some thoughts.

1.  I have an HD TV.  I have had it for about 7 years.  Even regular TV 
channels look a great deal better.

2.  I got into a discussion on a music listening group, and they claim 
that it is worth spending megabucks even for the solid-body electronics. 
 They were referring to the quality of analogue-digital conversion, 
which they said was a lot more important than I would have thought.

3.  If I had huge mega-bucks to spare, I would unashamedly by myself a 
quality espresso machine.  Low end seems to be $500, and it seems to go 
to $2,000+.


Vern Green wrote:
>     There are two ways to look at this. The first one is that inflation
>     took you into the above $1000 category, so you're okay by Vern. The
>     other way to look at it is that $700 was a ton of money to be spending
>     on a guitar back then (well over $1000 in 2007 dollars) and Vern can
>     be appropriately disgusted at you.
>
>  
> I am far from disgusted though, I have paid more than $1,000 for a bass, 
> and I am somewhat ashamed to say it, but I have done it more than once.
>  
> Its not a matter of disgust, it is a matter of value to the person who 
> is spending the money. As someone who appreciates the sound, playability 
> and just plain workmanship that goes into a quality instrument, I can 
> see where someone would consider the better quality of picture and sound 
> presented by an HD device.
>
>     I'm going to take a third approach, and disagree with Vern. I will
>     agree that more than $1K on a *solid body electric* seems pretty silly
>     if you're just talking about the sound of the thing. 
>
>  
> Instruments are a difficult thing, I have played $4,000 basses and hated 
> them, I have played $400 basses and loved them. Generally speaking the 
> quality of the instrument is going to be better the more you pay for it. 
> However, there are times when the subjectivity of the player rules out 
> one of these expensive instruments.
>
> --
> Thanks
> F Vernon Green
>
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