Interesting, Scott. Every institution has its own culture with regards to classroom technology. I'll have to find out more what our directions are here, but cinema studies used to have its own classroom and with specialized technology—so there may be a justification to support this on a small scale and evaluate it success. So maybe bBu-rays haven't been on reserve in your library, which is why they are not being viewed there? Are people watching Blu-rays on their laptops instead?
I had been on the fence regarding Blu-rays for awhile, and now I feel I'm just playing catch-up. Can of worms, for sure! Debra From: scott spicer <spic0...@umn.edu<mailto:spic0...@umn.edu>> Reply-To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:38:08 -0400 To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Blu-ray Hi Deb, I think your last point describes our strategy. We have 1 Blu-Ray player in our media viewing room that almost never gets used. Also, I meet with our Classroom Management folks regularly, and within the next several years they would prefer to be out of the physical player support business all together...a/v funds for classroom players are limited, and besides there's a lot of other cool classroom tech to invest in these days! Therefore, Blu-Ray players are not in many classrooms that I aware of and I'm not inclined to enter the classroom management business (i.e., checking out Blu-Ray players). That said, we have developed our program being content focused (in part due to Gary), so if we get to the point where the content faculty need is only available on Blu-Ray, we would likely purchase it and figure something out. For the time being, we are in a holding pattern with the film/video status quo, with an eye on the digital future..a review our organization is undertaking currently. -Scott On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, <videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu>> wrote: Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu> You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of videolib digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Blu-ray (Mandel, Debra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:13:47 -0400 From: "Mandel, Debra" <d.man...@neu.edu<mailto:d.man...@neu.edu>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Blu-ray To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>> Message-ID: <c9e57764.19a6e%d.man...@neu.edu<mailto:c9e57764.19a6e%25d.man...@neu.edu>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi- Thanks for your feed back?I guess I erred?Blu-rays don't play in DVD players, and our players in Libraries and classrooms are currently VHS/DVD combi players. From: Dennis Doros <milefi...@gmail.com<mailto:milefi...@gmail.com><mailto:milefi...@gmail.com<mailto:milefi...@gmail.com>>> Reply-To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu><mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu><mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>>> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 08:59:09 -0400 To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu><mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu><mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Blu-ray Dear Debra, Just a quick note that regular DVDs do indeed play in Blu-ray players and there are several now that can play all regions of both. And in terms of feature films, there is no comparison in quality. Blu-rays look significantly better. So if you're playing a talking-head documentary on a monitor, that's no big deal. But if you want to project Terence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN on to a screen, the investment is fairly small in terms of players and discs relative to the increased experience. 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Follow Milestone on Twitter!<http://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms<http://twitter.com/#%21/MilestoneFilms>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Mandel, Debra <d.man...@neu.edu<mailto:d.man...@neu.edu><mailto:d.man...@neu.edu<mailto:d.man...@neu.edu>>> wrote: Hi- What is the current theory on whether it pays to be adding Blu-ray feature films, even when Blu-ray isn't a campus wide standard, or where there are not classrooms dedicated for cinema studies viewing. (Northeastern has at least four Blu-Ray players available for reservation). Also we have no Blu-ray players in the library yet. I'd appreciate hearing about what folks are doing with this conundrum. I am sure there have been conversations about this before, but I wasn't paying attention. Unfortunately Blu-Ray players do not play regular DVDs, a major issue. I'd love to hear from you! Debra Debra H. 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