Does anyone have any info on when we might be able to see TRT or any other Wes Anderson film in high def?

this whole thing is bullshit. iduno if we've talked about this before, but i was under the impression 5 years ago that new movies on dvd were typically shot in HD, and that with the right dvd player and television you could produce high def picture for yourself. then it's 2006 and theyre like 'you should buy this dvd player and these dvds that are in HD. wtf??

thats technology for ya

but really 5 years (in tech terms) is a long time. 5 years from now there will be all sorts of new tvs that can produce the 10x better picture for cheaper, and bluray/HD-DVD players will be $40.

It's irritating that within a few years (or already?), I am going to have a few hundred DVDs that are obsolete.

i'm not so sure they will catch on. like vhs vs beta, i think it was? they better find a way to make discs that can be hd, but will play lower quality on a normal dvd player, and old dvds will play on up to date ones.
maybe i am the most pissed about this

Technology pisses me off too. I wish everyone could just come to a consensus that enough is enough and stop making new shit. That won't happen, because they make too much money on the new shit. Also, everyone likes to convince themselves technology makes their lives better. It's funny, because I'm typing all this on a computer... Still though, I'm fed up with the blackberries, little cell phones/ computers you can hold in your hand, it's really getting out of hand I think.

Miss Chang, I'm not going to say much in response to your post for a couple of reasons...I don't want to get to off-topic, and, well, I just don't know where to begin, so I'll just say this: technology doesn't end, and if you want to miss out on technological advances that are going to save you time and energy while making your life more efficient and hell, healthier and longer as well, you are certainly free to do so. Hate blackberries? Don't buy one. It's pretty simple.

As for HD-DVD/bluray, I refuse to buy them as well. If others want them, fine. But the industry hasn't settled on a standard, which I don't like, and more importantly, even though I'm still willing to buy DVDs, I'm not going to upgrade to a newer, more expensive technology that really is obsolete already as well. If the studios had been smarter and not waited for peer-to-peer programs to corner the market, we'd all be downloading just about everything by now, and that's what we'll be doing in the years to come. And I'm really, really looking forward to that.

Kumarstouch- I know you didn't want to get into this too much but, come on, make our life healthier? What about those tanning booths that are 'all the rage' now, that are more likely to give you skin cancer than the actual sun? What about obese people who don't even have to get up to go shopping now thanks to the internet? What about television, which thanks to interupting the program every seven minutes to show advertisements, have programmed our attention spans to be that limited. People getting into car accidents because they don't know how to not be in constant communication anymore. People staying in unsatisfying carreers and relationships because instead of listening to their bodies and changing their behaviors, they just correct themselves with anti- depressants, anti- anxiety medication, etc...

Don't get me wrong- I'm not Ted Kazinski or anything. I'm OK with living in a modern world, but I think technology has been a sort of a double edge sword. The only reason we think it's so great, is because we don't know life any other way. Has it made our lives longer? Yes, undoubtedly. But healtheir? In some ways, with medicines, yes. But a lot of bad has come out of it as well. The problem, I think, is that technology seems to be maturing faster than people. All of this stuff is only helpful when you know how to use it, and most people think they do and don't.

How awful that internet is, since fat people can order groceries using it.

Eh, technology has its downfalls, but it is overall worth the adventure. I think Kumar is right.

I love the fact that I can instantly communicate with anyone with a computer and the Internet, across the globe. It opens up connections.

I love being able to instantly load up directions to the place I want to go, without a lengthy consultation with Mr. Rand McNally.

I love that I can wake up and look at the New York Times, the Guardian, or virtually anything else I want to read, learn about, or know.

To suggest that technology and modernity are MOSTLY bad is to romanticize the past. All technology has its downfalls, its social problems, etc. We have amazing drugs, but they have helped create super-viruses. Handloom weavers were 'replaced' by automation. etc etc.

And, I LOVE books, and I *know* that, the Internet has its limits RIGHT NOW. But, it could open up a new era of OPEN KNOWLEDGE. Look at Google Books!

I tend to see modernity and technology as an easy out. What we do with things... what we do with our technology... that truly determines its value. Are we going to build nukes or cure polio? Are we going to build a true democracy or use the Internet to manipulate the political process?

I just wanted to note that I still watch my DVD and VHS on my 13" color that came with a set of rabbit ears, and my cable comes out of my wall.

If everything goes High-Def, and obsoletes me, then ***k art. I can't afford it.