I'm in Love with the Wrong Format

I don't know what it is or why it is but I always seem to have a weird love affair for obsolete media formats, especially when it comes to movies. Sure DVD's were a big innovation for home entertainment but I remember still watching VHS's long after DVD's were released and liking them too. When the next generation movie media format war started I went with with HD DVD over Blu Ray where only a few months later I was eating my words as HD DVD was declared dead and Blu Rays ended up becoming the number on high def format.

I don't really mind though. I still have my VCR and I still have my X-Box 360 HD DVD player. In fact last night was spent watching the Bourne Ultimatum on HD DVD with the awkward HD DVD player attached to my 360 like some kind of tumor grown out of control. It looked fantastic on the tv screen and sounded just as great as any Blu Ray. I didn't care the format was dead. I didn't care that they no longer are being made. I was watching high def movies on my X-Box 360 and I was happy, fate be damned.

The same thing happened to me with Laserdisk. I never owned a laser disk and I never watched one but I want to own one. There is no logical explanation me wanting one and even less of an explanation for me needing one when clearly better options exist. I just have this weird fascination of video formats long gone. Maybe it's the tech indie cred that is subconsciously lying in the back of my brain where I can prove how cool I am by watching an older more obscure format, I don't know but I am constantly fascinated by these failed and dead formats. I hope one day I can figure out why but for the time being the reason is escaping my mind.

Either that or when we get into the future and we're uploading movies in our brain ala the Matrix I'll be the crazy old guy who still watches movies on the ancient formats of DVD and Blu Ray.

Ain't no machine jacking into my brain!