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can we just make multi-disk UHD DVDs? I don't mean HD-DVD I mean just slap a 4k output on the DVD player and fit as much of the movie as you can on each disk. I remember some ultra quality VHS tapes that you had to swap mid movie. god that sucked, but multi-disk CD players exist so I guess you just put in like a 4-5 disk rotator and let the machine do it's thing. (All to avoid paying Sony) okay now I'm involving special playback devices this might not be profitable.
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Cojawfee posted:Because the old people buying tv shows on physical media only have DVD players. The only people buying stuff on physical media now are collectors and they sure as poo poo have better equipment than a $20 DVD player. Sony charges $0.11 a disc for blu-ray licensing. DVD licensing is like $0.025. I'll pay the extra 9 cents. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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I don't care about the quality. I want the commentary tracks. Are those present? Cause if so, the box set is perfect. Jackson and Doc end up rewatching the entire series before they write each new season and the movie. The only copies they have are usually lovely promotional dvds. If this has the commentary, putting this on a dvd player plugged into an old crt is probably the closest we'll ever get to sitting in the room with them as they brainstorm the next release.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:50
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If I buy these, that's the niche I'm trying to hit. I can more easily pull up an HD version on my computer or TV faster than I can get something out of a box. But if these have the commentary, well, I have an old dvd player I'll hook up to a tv in the corner and just turn that on and enjoy it while I work. That's the gold, to me.
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pixaal posted:can we just make multi-disk UHD DVDs? I don't mean HD-DVD I mean just slap a 4k output on the DVD player and fit as much of the movie as you can on each disk. I remember some ultra quality VHS tapes that you had to swap mid movie. god that sucked, but multi-disk CD players exist so I guess you just put in like a 4-5 disk rotator and let the machine do it's thing. (All to avoid paying Sony) my original copy of Fellowship was on 2 discs, plus 2 discs of extras
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Jun 13, 2023 18:05
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Got my box set!
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Amazon says “Including all the bonus materials that have been lovingly created over the years, and carefully curated for you now. Buy this box of history today!”
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Jun 13, 2023 21:17
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Already on sale for $95.
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Jun 13, 2023 23:41
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I'll pick it up if it goes under 60
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Jun 13, 2023 23:48
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I want Best Buy to get their poo poo together and start preorders (they just have a placeholder page with "Coming Soon" at present) because I've got a $5 credit with them that expires on 6/30. -_-
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Jun 14, 2023 00:42
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Having worked there for a while, don’t hold your breath on that ever working correctly. I worked so many game releases that just got catastrophically hosed
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Disc 1 doesn't have the commentary. I only watched part of the first episode, and I can't remember if there even was commentary for that first one, so I'll have to compare it to the original. The aspect ratio is stretched, and whether or not you can fix that depends on your player or TV, so your kilometerage may differ. I slid in Season 7, Disc 1, and the commentary is available. Aspect ratio is normal. In both cases, the menu screens seem to be rips of the original DVD releases. Because it was the longest season, I checked out Season 4, Disc 1. Audio commentary is present. Special features are there, but I have the DVD and BluRay, and I think they have different special feature complements. So, I can't say for sure whether anything was added or subtracted. I'm guessing that this box set consists of direct rips of the DVD releases. If that proves to be true, then I'd only recommend buying it if you're a super-fan and want all iterations of the physical media for collection purposes, or if you just want DVD-quality versions of the show in one complete package for some reason, like to loan out to someone who has a player and is Venture-curious. Or, to keep in your cabin in the woods where internet speeds are either slow or non-existant.
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Yeah I mostly grabbed it so I'd have commentaries because streaming services and pirate sites still haven't figured that out Also that streaming services can just disappear shows
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moist turtleneck posted:Yeah I mostly grabbed it so I'd have commentaries because streaming services and pirate sites still haven't figured that out There's  with the commentary. Most episodes do not have commentary, it's probably a smaller post with just the commentary track episodes.
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DVD Netflix was a godsend for whitest kids u know commentaries And then wkuk just posted them all to YouTube like a month later (I wish more old shows would just do this)
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Have any of you ripped just the commentary by chance? I'd like to have it on as a podcast. I get distracted seeing the video and wanting to just watch the ep when I try to watch it from DVD. And I don't have a DVD Drive in a computer anymore.
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I'm pretty sure Season 2 is when they have commentary for every episode. Season 1 only has maybe half the episodes with commentary. At least on the DVDs that were released in the past.
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Yeah I seem to remember at least one episode missing commentary in Season 1
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They also released a "lost commentary" for Home Insecurity online some time between S1 and S2 which is, amazingly, still up: http://asitecalledfred.com/2006/06/23/quickcast-commentary-the-venture-bros/ e: Now that I re-found this I am 100% just listening to this at work. Omnomnomnivore fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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The Monarch mentions at one point his henchmen prefer to be called minions. This is most likely because, just like the minions from Despicable Me, they are yellow and wear goggles.
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Here's a review of the set Google updates suggested, sounds like there isn't a lotta bells and whistles https://paulsemel.com/the-venture-bros-the-complete-series-dvd-review/
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Machai posted:The Monarch mentions at one point his henchmen prefer to be called minions. This is most likely because, just like the minions from Despicable Me, they are yellow and wear goggles. That line is from season 3 which came out in 2008. Despicable Me came out in 2010. Jackson and Doc would not debase themselves by riffing on something like Minions. 
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If you love Venture Bros you should watch the Minions movies. I get why you wouldn't think so but they are actually pretty in line with Venture Bros humor to the point some Minionsheads think one or both wrote for it under a pseudonym, since most of the writers lead to IMDb pages with only that one movie. If you don't believe me just spend the time watching the franchise, some of the more Venture Brosish jokes are only apparent on a second viewing mind you.
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It’It’s going to take a lot more than that to get me to voluntarily watch a minions movie much less watch it twice.
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No they're right, at some point on my third (or fourth?) rewatch of Minions: The Rise of Gru I noticed that the film's second act lined up almost beat-for-beat with Venture Bros. Season 7's arc. And the third act? Bet you money it's essentially Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.
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Khanstant posted:If you love Venture Bros you should watch the Minions movies.  but you should probably watch the Harley Quinn animated series.
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What I've seen of the Minions movies is actually pretty good. They're not exactly ambitious but Illumination does great physical gags, and there's the same self-awareness of genre conventions. Also they did a better job at explaining why they didn't work for Hitler than some franchises do. I do like the explanation as to why no one considers them particularly weird or notable is that they've been around since long before humanity and everyone is used to them.
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This thread got me watching Harley Quinn. Probably the best thing DC has created.
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I keep forgetting to finish it but yeah probably the only Batman cartoon I've liked since the 90s one
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Khanstant posted:I keep forgetting to finish it but yeah probably the only Batman cartoon I've liked since the 90s one Same here
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I'm not really a fan of DC as a whole and I really love the Harley Quinn show. In my head it's a pretty good VB successor
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DC's animated offerings are actually pretty great all around, shout out Zeta Project.
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Gaius Marius posted:DC's animated offerings are actually pretty great all around, shout out Zeta Project. I tried to watch that last year. I couldn't tell you if it was any good or not, because the animation was so ridiculously amateurish that I couldn't watch much.
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feedmyleg posted:I tried to watch that last year. I couldn't tell you if it was any good or not, because the animation was so ridiculously amateurish that I couldn't watch much. It’s extremely 1999.
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So, when the moppets are watching tv in home is where the hate is, that's an interesting conversation. They're talking about gassing someone, presumably the henchmen so the monarch won't suspect something? I assume it's foreshadowing for the limb plot which happened quite a bit later. Very cool
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Whilst watching a stolen copy of Nell, assuming it was a skin flick.
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Something I noticed after watching Operation P.R.O.M. with my gf. The suit that hatred puts the Monarch in is Rusty’s best man suit from his wedding.
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Harley Quinn is the lemon La Croix to Venture Bros state fair lemonade, but it’s definitely better than a lot of the alternatives.
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Yeah, it's a fun show, but it's no Venture Bros. To be fair they're going for different things, but watching HQ I couldn't help but miss the emotional groundedness VB somehow manages to maintain despite all the craziness of their universe. HQ has a throwaway "gag" lightness that undercuts any stakes.
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