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I still have a bunch of DVDs I'll probably never bother upgrading. Don't @ me.
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On a scale of 0 to Don't loving Do That, how wrong of me would it be to, say, put my Fight Club Blu-ray with its shameful cover art in that rad special edition DVD packaging?
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Apr 4, 2018 15:39
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Wait are we not all just putting the discs in binders and throwing everything else away?
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Apr 4, 2018 15:47
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My kids are gonna be so confused when they're not toddlers anymore and the physical media comes back out of its hiding places. They'll also be confused about the spines of the Fast and Furious movies and why they're so close to going together yet so far. TheScott2K fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Apr 4, 2018 15:53
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IUG posted:I've been taking all the paper and disks out of the case, and throwing the case away. I get these sleeves from Amazon, and put them in a box (also from Amazon). I finished my DVD collection, and just kept going from there. I've long since run out of room to display all of them. what the fu
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Apr 4, 2018 16:01
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The Pro doesn't play UHD.
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Apr 5, 2018 04:30
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King Vidiot posted:This is weird, it's like somebody went back in time to the 90's with a GoPro. Think of how big that camera must have been
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Apr 6, 2018 00:03
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EL BROMANCE posted:Ha, then we’ll have the ‘Disney black diamond tapes are worth a fortune!’ craziness again, when they absolutely weren’t. I wish whoever wrote the clickbait article that made all those moms think that would use their powers for good, like telling them they need to run Windows Update or that the antivirus trial that came with their HP isn't doing anything anymore.
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Apr 7, 2018 16:44
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My first DVD was the non-anamorphic widescreen/fullscreen flipper of True Lies that somehow had anamorphic menus. One special feature: a trailer. I believe it is still the reigning North American home video release.
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Apr 12, 2018 02:24
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First HDDVD was Goodfellas. First BluRay was Bullitt, which is a profoundly boring movie when it's not the car chase.
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Apr 12, 2018 02:39
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CPL593H posted:If it wasn't for that chase scene no one would give a poo poo about Bullitt. I can't even remember anything else that happens. The movie spends 5 minutes cutting between men standing motionless in a room and a fax printing a picture line by line.
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Apr 12, 2018 03:04
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Divx very impressively got wrong everything that was possible to get wrong.
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Apr 12, 2018 05:01
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Edward Mass posted:The Divx’s lasting legacy will be as a minor Penny Arcade character. Also the pirate codec of the same name
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Apr 12, 2018 14:59
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Detective No. 27 posted:Remember that weird temporary DVD format? I remember there was this alternate DVD rental service that tried to take off where the DVD self deteriorated after being watched once or opened (I can't remember.) What weird times. I don't remember what they were called and I don't even know how I'd parse it in a Google search to find an ancient article about them. Making disc rot a feature
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Apr 12, 2018 15:46
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Blockbuster once lost the DVD copy of Sneakers that we definitely returned and charged us $39.99 for it. It was at Target for like $12. gently caress Blockbuster.
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Apr 12, 2018 16:04
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The "rental price" bit was a VHS thing.
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Apr 12, 2018 16:29
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Egbert Souse posted:What would be the right things to look for in a laserdisc player? I’m thinking of getting one, but I have no idea where to start. A good CRT to hook it up to, because Laserdisc looks like assssssss on a modern TV
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Apr 13, 2018 22:35
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xarph posted:People forget that Laserdisc is literally composite video (the yellow RCA jack). The advantage in picture quality at the time was relative to VHS, which degraded with use. As opposed to laserdisc, which degraded even without use. I've always been curious about MUSE LD but that's a whole other thing you're not gonna find at a thrift store. I got a Laserdisc player in college (~2005) and used it to be the one guy who checked the Laserdiscs out from Newman Library, but we all had CRTs then and they looked fine. I really don't see any value in first-timing the format now. I'm sure Techmoan has some fun YouTube videos that'll give a prospective buyer all the experience they need.
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Apr 14, 2018 00:54
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Timby posted:They were indeed sourced from the laserdiscs. They're non-anamorphic and they look like swamp rear end. There's some pretty atrocious interlacing there, if memory serves.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:32
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I think Speed belongs on the same pedestal as Die Hard and it really seems like a forgotten blockbuster. Jan de Bont had so much potential.
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Apr 23, 2018 02:37
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Seriously how did Watership Down get made
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May 3, 2018 15:17
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Timby posted:No. Reportedly the rights to Silence reverted to Martha De Laurentiis last August, and Fuller made noise about getting the band back together for a fourth season, but presumably the financing never came together. (Fuller's reputation also really took a major hit over the last two years or so.) Yea Fuller's really throw a lot of dirt onto his own grave lately
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May 6, 2018 17:40
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Almost Blue posted:Wait, what happened with Fuller? I haven't kept up with TV in the past few years besides Twin Peaks QuitFired from the Star Trek, not coming back to American Gods - getting a rep for being hard to work with and not super dependable.
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May 6, 2018 20:44
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Pushing Daisies was overrated
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May 6, 2018 21:00
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drat, the Britposters hit the jackpot today
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May 13, 2018 16:56
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wa27 posted:I've never heard of that but it looks interesting. I like Desperately Seeking Susan, which was apparently the director's followup to this. A surprising amount of boobs in that one.
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May 16, 2018 13:22
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Sir Kodiak posted:Today I learned that my Blu-ray copy of Take Shelter has tripled in value. Got The Raid 2. Thanks!
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May 20, 2018 18:21
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Ego-bot posted:John Wick 2 TFMNJTXPYH4M Are these UV codes or another service?
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May 20, 2018 19:42
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Liar Lyre posted:4k set of all the Predator films is coming in August. Hopefully this will be the definitive version of Predator. Not too grainy, not too waxy, just right. They're gonna put an Instagram filter on it or some poo poo.
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Jun 9, 2018 13:56
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Alec Eiffel posted:Is it worth it to get a 4K player if you don’t have HDR? No.
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Jun 10, 2018 18:37
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Today I found out my wife, with whom I saw Jurassic World, was completely unaware of the existence of The Lost World and Jurassic Park III. So now I have to sit through JP3 again.
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Jun 12, 2018 04:11
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I don't think LW is very good but it's interesting enough as a product of its time and the meta-narrative of getting the series off the ground that I still like watching it. JP3 is just like "well the last one made money and Sam Neill is game."
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Jun 12, 2018 11:26
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david_a posted:I can’t hate The Lost World because the ending is the closest we’ll ever get to a live-action Calvin & Hobbes film. I was certain they we're about to smash to "To Be Continued" when the trex roared into the horizon and the movie kept going.
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Jun 12, 2018 12:16
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Iron Crowned posted:I found the first Jurassic Park on Blu for $6 over the weekend, it's a decent enough blu-ray but it's hampered by the usual Universal disc bloat. After not having seen it in 10-15 years, and I think the seams are definitely starting to show. It's not that it doesn't still look good, especially considering how old it is, I can just now detect the CGI more than I did back in the day. I've noticed NBC spends more prime time air showing movies than any other network. They'll bust some out for Universal corporate synergy (like JP), but sometimes they'll just show, like, Fast Five for no discernable reason.
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Jun 18, 2018 13:59
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Kvantum posted:Fast series is Universal as well. Well yeah, I more meant that they weren't just doing it to push a new sequel since one wasn't coming out at the time.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:09
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The nice thing about getting older is knowing when you're off the train with a franchise. After Furious 7 was fine but tonally weird, and F8 was just bad, I know "my" end to the F&F movies was 6, so if I see a 1-6 boxset I can just jump on it and not give a gently caress.
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Jun 20, 2018 01:34
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Sir Kodiak posted:Justin Lin (who directed 3-6) is back for 9 and 10. P-Dubs isn't.
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Jun 20, 2018 16:56
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I'd like to thank HDR for making video as confusing and annoying as audio.
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Jun 20, 2018 17:58
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Egbert Souse posted:Kino Lorber is releasing Cabin Boy on Sept 18 See, this is the kind of poo poo I used to live for back in the DVD days. I'm having this.
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CPL593H posted:My brother had a PSP for a short time and I think it came with Spider-Man 2. It was a cool idea but in a world where you can stream video from 800 different devices that fit in your pocket it's kind of silly. The PSP itself was kind of a waste of money too because it was just a "meh" thing that didn't really have a very impressive game library. At least it wasn't the N-Gage. How dare you
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