Roland Joffe Quotes

I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

I've always been a DVD geek and, before that, a laser disc fanatic, too.

What I love about DVD is that the quality is good.

Like most people in 1997, I hadn't ever even seen a DVD, much less watched one.

For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.

I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.

The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.

By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.