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The one thing about modern TV that genuinely angers me is looking at those boxes of vhs tapes and dvd box sets sitting in my house useless that I spent God knows how much money on. poo poo, some of it wasn't even that long ago. Forget the absurdly priced vhs sets from 15 years ago, I can't believe I spent $100 for The Wire just like five years ago when it's streaming on like three services for me now. But I'm sure there's some dude looking at a box of laserdiscs or beta tapes who has it way worse off.
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STAC Goat posted:This is where I am during everyone of these debates. I still have vivid memories of messing around with a VCR timer to record six hours of shows on a VHS one show at a time and wearing that tape so thin I couldn't see anything. Even worse is before cable having to make sure you remember to set the antenna in the correct position for the station you were recording or else all you would get is static. I'm only 35, but that was my experience up to the beginning of high school when cable finally became available on our street. DVRs were in their infancy and only about two years old after I graduated college and started adult life, so the fact that I can record 6 things at once in HD and then use a SlingBox to watch it anywhere I drat well please still boggles my mind a bit. We live in a day and age where for only a handful of dollars, you can watch pretty much anything made anytime anywhere. That, by itself, is incredible. Yes, some experiences still stuck and even the ones held up to a golden standard misstep (I don't expect HBO to fix their android app until 3-6 months after the release of 5.0.) But things change a lot, very quickly. HBO going and making a streaming only package available next year is HUGE and will let a lot of people who have been hanging on to a cable sub just for it to cut the cord. When others follow suit and aren't able to monetize to the levels of HBO, there's hope that they'll get the idea that stuffing ads down our throat isn't the way to go. Alternatively, the future is this. http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/22/technology-changed-product-placement/ bull3964 fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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STAC Goat posted:The one thing about modern TV that genuinely angers me is looking at those boxes of vhs tapes and dvd box sets sitting in my house useless that I spent God knows how much money on. poo poo, some of it wasn't even that long ago. Forget the absurdly priced vhs sets from 15 years ago, I can't believe I spent $100 for The Wire just like five years ago when it's streaming on like three services for me now. Yeah I feel like a bit of a dumbass for paying HBO's absurd prices for Deadwood, especially since I logically knew I could just torrent it but I wanted to have the physical discs for whatever reason.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:01
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hope and vaseline posted:Ugh, I still remember the first DVD season sets I saw for sale were those X-Files ones that sold for $110 a pop. I will never forget the anime boom starting just as DVDs were becoming a thing, and a local Suncoast having one series in a $400 set. It was something like 10 discs, it was nothing but random one-shots, one per disc, and it didn't even come in a box, it was 10 discs in a transparent plastic chain. They hung it on the wall with a price tag. It was absurd to a degree I would never see again, and thank gently caress.
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I like boxsets  I mostly bought them on sale though.I dunno, I prefer to watch series on tv rather than stream it on my laptop. Edit: In my defense, there aren't many streaming services available in France for now, Netflix became available last September and that's it. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 20:07
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bull3964 posted:HBO going and making a streaming only package available next year is HUGE and will let a lot of people who have been hanging on to a cable sub just for it to cut the cord.
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bull3964 posted:With the advent of the $35 Chromecast and the fact that Google Play Video is available on every single platform out there, the only literal excuse for torrenting rather than buying is simply "I don't want to pay for it." I just wanted to respond to this part. We are almost there, but there is still one reason remaining and that is time of availability. If I could buy the show I want to watch on Amazon and have it available the same night it airs, I would be in. But in almost all cases, anything like this is delayed by a day. Alternately, I'd also be fine streaming the show with the same commercials it got over the air for free as long as I don't have to pay for it if it was on a normal free over the air channel. In most cases, neither of these things is actually available. That is what it would take for me. Now, there are plenty of shows that I don't feel I need to watch the moment they air, and for those shows, the existing options are actually great. I do buy some stuff on Amazon for that reason, or in some extreme cases wait till they show up on Netflix/Amazon Prime. But there are some shows I want to see and talk about at, or at close to, the same time as everyone else and for those, torrenting is pretty much the only option.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:31
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Kurtofan posted:I like boxsets Of course, you can get a Blu-Ray player or something and easily watch streaming services on your TV (when more become available in France).
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Lycus posted:Of course, you can get a Blu-Ray player or something and easily watch streaming services on your TV (when more become available in France). How does that work? Would I need an ethernet cable or something?
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Kurtofan posted:How does that work? Would I need an ethernet cable or something? I think most if not all Blu-Ray players have WIFI now. Lycus fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 20:42
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Lycus posted:I think most if not all Blu-Ray players have WIFI now. Really? That's amazing.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:43
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There are so much that have built in services now. Wii, Wii U, PS3, Bluray, Roku, etc. Hell my TV can stream Amazon Prime and has wifi built in.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:17
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I don't know why you wouldn't just move to America. America's the greatest country on earth and our tv is like a million times better than anything Europe has ever, or will ever, produce.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:17
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What do you think they watch in Europe Joe?
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Oct 23, 2014 21:18
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The UK has those silly panel shows that I like. They got that going for them.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:19
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GreenNight posted:There are so much that have built in services now. Wii, Wii U, PS3, Bluray, Roku, etc. Hell my TV can stream Amazon Prime and has wifi built in. For some reason my PS3 maintains a better quality stream from Netflix than my computer does. 
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Oct 23, 2014 21:20
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zoux posted:What do you think they watch in Europe Joe? Old black and white soviet propaganda films on CRT televisions yellowed from all the cigarette smoke.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:22
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Actually, they watch what we watch. Often in the same language thanks to the superior European school system.
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STAC Goat posted:The one thing about modern TV that genuinely angers me is looking at those boxes of vhs tapes and dvd box sets sitting in my house useless that I spent God knows how much money on. poo poo, some of it wasn't even that long ago. Forget the absurdly priced vhs sets from 15 years ago, I can't believe I spent $100 for The Wire just like five years ago when it's streaming on like three services for me now. My dad was cleaning out his garage and brought over a huge box of VHS tapes of movies I bought in college because I resisted upgrading to DVD as long as I could. Who needs that expensive new poo poo when VCDs look just as good on my TV!
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zoux posted:Actually, they watch what we watch. Often in the same language thanks to the superior European school system. Not in France haha. There's no Doctor Who like French dubbed Doctor Who.
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STAC Goat posted:This is where I am during everyone of these debates. I still have vivid memories of messing around with a VCR timer to record six hours of shows on a VHS one show at a time and wearing that tape so thin I couldn't see anything. I'm still in the high from how the DVR lets me follow shows each week without actually locking me into them at the same time each week or how missing one week's episode doesn't mean I'm screwed until it airs as a repeat. LMAO if you didn't use those 20-digit VCR Plus codes in the TV Guide to record what you wanted. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure my VCR let you schedule recording for certain channels at certain times. Man, I haven't thought about that in a while, those were dark times.
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GreenNight posted:There are so much that have built in services now. Wii, Wii U, PS3, Bluray, Roku, etc. Hell my TV can stream Amazon Prime and has wifi built in. I actually used my Wii U to stream netflix once, it wasn't bad.
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Arrow/The Flash producer Greg Berlanti is now developing a drama for Fox called Riverdale, which, if the name didn't clue you in, will be based off of Archie comics. 
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raditts posted:LMAO if you didn't use those 20-digit VCR Plus codes in the TV Guide to record what you wanted. I recall the dark days of piracy being 2 VCR's hooked together. I sure hope that doesn't count as telling anyone how to get  !
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IRQ posted:I recall the dark days of piracy being 2 VCR's hooked together. Banned for :tapez:
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hcreight posted:Arrow/The Flash producer Greg Berlanti is now developing a drama for Fox called Riverdale, which, if the name didn't clue you in, will be based off of Archie comics. Afterlife with Archie 
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hcreight posted:Arrow/The Flash producer Greg Berlanti is now developing a drama for Fox called Riverdale, which, if the name didn't clue you in, will be based off of Archie comics. I doubt it's going to be as good as Archie's Weird Mysteries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%27s_Weird_Mysteries
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUERtAe73NI This show came out the year I was born. For a time I existed on the same planet that hosted Supertrain.
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zoux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUERtAe73NI Looks better than the Love boat, to be honest.
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hcreight posted:Arrow/The Flash producer Greg Berlanti is now developing a drama for Fox called Riverdale, which, if the name didn't clue you in, will be based off of Archie comics. Hasn't Archie been doing some really weird/progressive stories in the past decade?
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They've been doing things like introducing gay characters and having storylines like an Occupy movement happening in Riverdale. They've also been doing weird What If/Elseworlds-type stuff where Archie marries Betty and Veronica and one where Archie dies. Apparently it's boosted sales of the comics and created enough awareness for Fox to give this a shot. I guess this isn't the first time they've tried live action Archie on TV though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie:_To_Riverdale_and_Back_Again
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raditts posted:LMAO if you didn't use those 20-digit VCR Plus codes in the TV Guide to record what you wanted. Yeah, my TV/VCR had a simple timer so I could just set it for 9 PM to 10 PM Tuesday or whatever. But God, those VCR+ things were hell personified. No one who didn't experience it first hand could possible understand what we went through. There's a real reason people used to joke about being unable to set their VCR timers. That poo poo was complicated! And Jesus, the TV Guide. Remember a time when the ONLY way for you to know what was on TV was by buying a TV Guide or a newspaper? No guides on the TV. Then somewhere along the line they introduced that channel that scrolled through all the channels for the next two hours and the game changed. Now I could see what was on TV for the next hour! As long as I had the patience to wait! Wait, gently caress! I got distracted and missed my channel! Ok, have to wait another few minutes for it to scroll around.
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When is that last man on earth Fox show supposed to debut?
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, my TV/VCR had a simple timer so I could just set it for 9 PM to 10 PM Tuesday or whatever. But God, those VCR+ things were hell personified. No one who didn't experience it first hand could possible understand what we went through. There's a real reason people used to joke about being unable to set their VCR timers. That poo poo was complicated! They still have that TV guide channel for people with super basic cable and no cable box/DVR, but by now it's just two lines on the bottom third of the screen with the rest of it being old movies and ads.
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hcreight posted:They've been doing things like introducing gay characters and having storylines like an Occupy movement happening in Riverdale.  Go on...
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Archie died saving the life of gay Barack Obama. Seriously.
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Modern Archie comics are literally the polar loving opposite of their reputation and that show is very likely to own.
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If they don't cast Will Poulter as Archie I just don't know what to say.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Modern Archie comics are literally the polar loving opposite of their reputation and that show is very likely to own. They still have regular Archie too.
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I hope the Archie show is crazy like the Dark Archie fan trailer where Jughead is gay, Moose is in roids, Betty blows Archie to keep up with Veronica and Reggie is a date rapist.
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