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   From: mxg77@case.edu   
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   On May 6, 11:50 am, Wiseguy  wrote:   
      
   > > This bewilders me   
   > > Lady Di says in the hologram ad: "When I watch a DVD it's got to be   
   > > Blu-ray!" Why do people seem to think that Blu-ray is a subset of DVD?   
   > > I keep hearing that, often with the wording "[on] Blu-ray DVD". This   
   > > is just silly.   
   >   
   > DVD can mean Digital Video Disc.  A Blu-ray is technically also a digital   
   > video disc.   DVDs came first.  A Blu-ray is an improvement of that   
   > technology. Both are readily available. What's silly about it?   
      
   Skipping over the Video/Versatile quagmire...   
      
   It is all three of those words, but that doesn't mean it's a DVD   
   physically or in software. It's no less compact than a CD - does that   
   make it a compact disc? It's read with a laser - does that make it a   
   laserdisc or laservision? It's also a high definition digital v__   
   disc. So it's HD-DVD too?   
      
   Nowhere on a BD package does it identify as a DVD unless there is a   
   DVD included as well. That's because it's not one. I suppose a certain   
   casual blending is acceptable, if still silly. I wouldn't leap at   
   someone for pointing out a shelf of one's home video purchases as "my   
   DVDs" if there are some Blu-rays mixed in. I take certain usages as   
   intentionally funny thanks to incorrectness such as in a Community   
   episode where a foreign exchange student notices that Abed has a   
   Kickpuncher movie "on Blu-ray DVD!" (or DVD Blu-ray, I forget).   
      
   There's no way, though, that an advertisement like the one seen would   
   (or should, anyway) make that confusion, especially if it's actually   
   for the format and not a store that's selling them. They often even go   
   out of their way to use the exactly correct brand terms (Blu-ray Disc   
   doesn't really roll off the tongue but it's usually in there   
   somewhere). I find it pretty silly that a video store sticker   
   identified a recent purchase of mine with both terms, and that's just   
   the sort of usage I'm griping about.   
      
      
   >   
   > > Opening   
   > > This is a new one, mostly. After a regular clouds-driveway-couch short   
   > > opening, there was no TV! Why on earth?   
   >   
   > Because that's the way they wanted to do it.   
      
   That doesn't really answer "why". (A better question might be who made   
   that happen.) Last week it actually made some sense, since the couch   
   gag blended into act 1. Here it was like a time-saving measure when no   
   time needed to be saved at all.   
      
      
   > > And finally   
   > > For whatever reason, the NASCAR race this afternoon ran four hours   
   > > long, and here in Eastern Time it wrapped up and made way for the new   
   > > Simpsons at 8:25 pm, skipping both the Simpsons repeat (RABF07) and a   
   > > NEW Cleveland Show (Of Lice and Men). Could someone in the west fill   
   > > me in on what you get?   
   >   
   > Why refer to Simpsons by production number and Cleveland Show by title?   
      
   TO BUG YOU.   
      
   For what it's worth, Don Del Grande tells me that the west got the   
   Simpsons repeat and a Cleveland Show repeat as well (so the new   
   episode was shelved for everyone).   
      
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