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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 2, 2024 23:53:17 GMT 1
I'm going to use this thread to talk about anythign related to physical media and about my DVD/Blu-ray collection. I invite everyone to post anything here realted to the topic of physical media.
I'll start with some recent additions to my collection. For Christmas I got a few movies that I have been missing;
"Judge Dredd" 1995
"Demolition Man" 1993 (2 classic Stallone sci-fi pics)
"The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" 2008 (one o the best parody movies ever made)
"2 Days in the Valley" 1996 (this is one of the last movies that I still had on VHS. I have been trying to get a copy on disc for years)
"Double Dragon" 1994 (been hunting for this one for a while too)
I also recently bought the entire series of "The Andy Griffith Show" for my classic TV section.
A few weeks ago I went back and got all the movies I was missing to complete two franchise collections. I now have all of the "Fast and Furious" movies and all of the Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible" movies.
The latest new releases that I have picked up include "Indian Jones and the Dial of Destiny", "Strange New Worlds" season 2, "The Mandalorian" seasons 1 and 2, "Loki" season 1, and "Wandavision".
Yesterday I burned my own DVD of "The African Queen" off of Turner Classic Movies and last week I made one of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" from the same source.
I have been rewatching my DVD collection of "Star Trek" in preparation for our upcoming "Star Trek" review series. The collection I have has some great extra features on it. I've enjoyed rewatching those too.
Well, that's all the news for now.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 3, 2024 1:05:03 GMT 1
What I bought during the 30% sales here towards the end of 2023... Those^ last two I bought to feed my Hayley Atwell addiction (since she appears in both). So far I've finished The Winchesters and Farscape. Currently watching Season 1 of The Walking Dead: Dead City and Season 3/the final season of Pennyworth.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 3, 2024 17:19:32 GMT 1
I see a lot of stores reducing the shelf space devoted to DVDs/Blu-rays. However, I see them filling that new space with vinyl records. Go figure.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 4, 2024 19:28:23 GMT 1
What I bought during the 30% sales here towards the end of 2023... Those^ last two I bought to feed my Hayley Atwell addiction (since she appears in both). So far I've finished The Winchesters and Farscape. Currently watching Season 1 of The Walking Dead: Dead City and Season 3/the final season of Pennyworth. I've been trying to get around to watching "Farscape" for a long time now. Unfortunately. I don't have it on disc, so I will be streaming it in the near future.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Jan 5, 2024 2:02:13 GMT 1
Got a copy of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 5, 2024 6:30:02 GMT 1
What I bought during the 30% sales here towards the end of 2023... Those^ last two I bought to feed my Hayley Atwell addiction (since she appears in both). So far I've finished The Winchesters and Farscape. Currently watching Season 1 of The Walking Dead: Dead City and Season 3/the final season of Pennyworth. I've been trying to get around to watching "Farscape" for a long time now. Unfortunately. I don't have it on disc, so I will be streaming it in the near future. I watched probably the first season when it originally aired on TV here in Australia (where the show was made), and then I saw the odd episode from the next couple of seasons, but this was my first time watching the show from start to finish (plus the mini-series that capped it all off). It's one of the more imaginative sci-fi shows I've watched. The first two seasons were really good, I thought.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 5, 2024 16:09:21 GMT 1
Got a copy of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. I got mine too. Really fun movie. It's a shame that it didn't do as well in theaters as they were hoping.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 5, 2024 16:17:16 GMT 1
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Post by Merv on Jan 7, 2024 2:10:57 GMT 1
I will try and update this thread as I normally pick up several horror films on physical throughout the year. This makes me wanna see what ones I could acquire.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 8, 2024 18:19:56 GMT 1
"The Marvels" and "The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" come out on 13 FEB.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 12, 2024 17:33:25 GMT 1
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 12, 2024 17:40:59 GMT 1
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Post by Jayman on Jan 12, 2024 21:31:20 GMT 1
I have kind of avoided physical media in the last few years, but I did just pick up volumes 1 and 2 of the rockford files movie collection. These were not available for streaming so I picked up the dvd's.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 12, 2024 21:37:45 GMT 1
I have kind of avoided physical media in the last few years, but I did just pick up volumes 1 and 2 of the rockford files movie collection. These were not available for streaming so I picked up the dvd's. You can't have too much "Rockford Files".
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Post by Jayman on Jan 12, 2024 21:41:13 GMT 1
I have kind of avoided physical media in the last few years, but I did just pick up volumes 1 and 2 of the rockford files movie collection. These were not available for streaming so I picked up the dvd's. You can't have too much "Rockford Files". Yeah! Probably my favorite crime drama of all time
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 16, 2024 21:04:44 GMT 1
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 24, 2024 19:13:03 GMT 1
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Post by Merv on Jan 25, 2024 4:30:58 GMT 1
Picked up some... Hellraiser 6 movie collection. It's 3-8...so not peak Hellraiser, but I already had 1 and 2. I think I'll revisit this next October. Tremors the Complete Collection Its the first 6 movies in the franchise...which is plenty. I think theres 7 now but really I'm mostly here for 1 and 2.
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Jan 25, 2024 6:25:51 GMT 1
I love Demolition Man. It holds up so well still I think, and I often say "greeting and salutations...". If I know the person I'll say the whole "greetings and salutations, I'm associate Bob".
I like Double Dragon. I liked Double Dragon II for NES and I liked the movie. May even have it on VHS somewhere around here.
It's been a while since I've picked anything but, but I enjoy doing so. Closing video stores are gold mines for some movies. Convenience stores too sometimes bare rare treasures.
The last items I recall picking up are (were):
North by Northwest Memoirs of A Geisha
Punch Kiss of the Dragon Rachel Getting Married
At some point before that, I snagged Birds of Prey and Batman: Under the Red Hood, which I've seen almost too many times now. Enough that I still don't understand how Joker locked the Robin in the factory with a padlock inside the factory. It baffles me. I love it for it, but it baffles me. How do you secure a padlock on the inside of the door and then get out--
Regardless, I wondered into a convenience store near the top of my street and bought a copy of After Hours (1985). Woohoo!
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 25, 2024 7:37:00 GMT 1
Seeing the differences in how the gaming community and movie buffs regard physical media is fascinating.
Of course, plenty of gamers still prefer physical media to downloads; however, gamers are much more acutely aware of the digital nature of the products they consume. Games often receive patches to address issues and new expansions via DLC (usually only shipped digitally, more often than not via the internet). All of these factors make physical media collecting in gaming a weird affectation instead of a point of pride.
Game collectors I know only buy physical media to have a tangible expression of their hobby or out of some misguided ideas involving collectability.
I think gamers would more readily let go of physical media despite the inherent risks of relying solely on digital content.
It doesn't help that consoles - just costly single-purpose computers - are on their way out. They will be replaced by cloud computing and thin/hybrid clients.
Still, I empathize with the physical media collector trying to sidestep corporate skullduggery and have a more permanent record of the things they love.
One of the most impractical business ideas I've ever had would be introducing a "movie fab" service to the physical media market. Cinephiles would use my as-yet uninvented service to fabricate physical media to their own custom specifications - on demand. Choose your title, preferred bit rate, stereoscopic options, audio specs, aspect ratio, bonus features, artwork, packaging, and other wants, and a robot and some AI will "assemble" it for you and press it to the physical media of your choice (laser disc, DVD, Blu-ray, isolinear data rod, etc.).
You could, in theory, just "auto-build" according to the filmmaker's recommended specs, or, for the more discerning collector, you could roll your own. Save your builds to upgrade them later as color science and pixel density improvements become available.
Each collector would have a different build of a movie, and you could tailor your movie experiences to match your home theater setup. This makes physical media less sharable, but as a recovering physical media addict, lending things to people never came all that naturally.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 26, 2024 1:15:27 GMT 1
Picked up some... Hellraiser 6 movie collection. It's 3-8...so not peak Hellraiser, but I already had 1 and 2. I think I'll revisit this next October. Tremors the Complete Collection Its the first 6 movies in the franchise...which is plenty. I think theres 7 now but really I'm mostly here for 1 and 2. The first Hellraiser still hits like no other horror movie before or since. Only saw the first Tremors, are the others worth the time?
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Post by Merv on Jan 26, 2024 2:52:35 GMT 1
Picked up some... Hellraiser 6 movie collection. It's 3-8...so not peak Hellraiser, but I already had 1 and 2. I think I'll revisit this next October. Tremors the Complete Collection Its the first 6 movies in the franchise...which is plenty. I think theres 7 now but really I'm mostly here for 1 and 2. The first Hellraiser still hits like no other horror movie before or since. Only saw the first Tremors, are the others worth the time? Ive always really enjoyed the second Tremors film...but after that it gets a little dicey. And the first two Hellraisers were both great to me. I'm a big horror fan but not a huge splatter fan, so that aspect of the films doesn't appeal to me as much which is why I generally rank the franchise lower...but the lore around the Cenobites has always been really cool to me.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 26, 2024 19:09:53 GMT 1
Picked up some... Hellraiser 6 movie collection. It's 3-8...so not peak Hellraiser, but I already had 1 and 2. I think I'll revisit this next October. Tremors the Complete Collection Its the first 6 movies in the franchise...which is plenty. I think theres 7 now but really I'm mostly here for 1 and 2. I have the 7 movie Tremors collection. I enjoy them all even though the later entries do get pretty bad. The first 2 and the prequel are all quite good though. The original is of course a true classic in a class of it's own.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 26, 2024 19:12:21 GMT 1
Does anybody else have a DVD recorder? One of the reasons that I still have cable is because I am able to record off of it onto DVD. I have a growing collection of classics recorded commercial free from networks like TCM.
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Post by Merv on Jan 26, 2024 21:43:57 GMT 1
Picked up some... Hellraiser 6 movie collection. It's 3-8...so not peak Hellraiser, but I already had 1 and 2. I think I'll revisit this next October. Tremors the Complete Collection Its the first 6 movies in the franchise...which is plenty. I think theres 7 now but really I'm mostly here for 1 and 2. I have the 7 movie Tremors collection. I enjoy them all even though the later entries do get pretty bad. The first 2 and the prequel are all quite good though. The original is of course a true classic in a class of it's own. Agreed. I watched a lot of them back to back a year or so ago and I can’t remember all the sequels but I remember them getting generally worse as they went on. The first two are still highly enjoyable to me…with the first one like you said being in a class of its own.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 20, 2024 22:46:17 GMT 1
This weekend I got Blu Ray/DVDs for "The Marvels" and "The Hunger Games the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes".
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 21, 2024 0:02:17 GMT 1
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Post by Lord Death Man on Feb 21, 2024 2:13:07 GMT 1
That makes sense, as I believe Sony is the primary stakeholder in Blu-ray and DVD technology. It just occurred to me that I might not be as opposed to physical media as I once thought. I do know that I'm sick of the disk-type form factor. The experience is somewhat grating. The mechanical whir and hum of the spinning laser and the hiss of a disk being ingested into a machine for buffering/playback feel antiquated. We should move to next-gen optical… 10TB of storage, 600-year lifespan… Big data is being measured in Zetabytes, but the Blu-ray can still only handle a few crumby gigabytes. Would you protest to a format which lets you store every movie you own on a single disK?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 21, 2024 15:40:21 GMT 1
That makes sense, as I believe Sony is the primary stakeholder in Blu-ray and DVD technology. It just occurred to me that I might not be as opposed to physical media as I once thought. I do know that I'm sick of the disk-type form factor. The experience is somewhat grating. The mechanical whir and hum of the spinning laser and the hiss of a disk being ingested into a machine for buffering/playback feel antiquated. We should move to next-gen optical… 10TB of storage, 600-year lifespan… Big data is being measured in Zetabytes, but the Blu-ray can still only handle a few crumby gigabytes. Would you protest to a format which lets you store every movie you own on a single disK? Only if I can transfer all the stuff I already own to it for a very reasonable price. As for the future, I'm not sure how it would work when new movies come out. Would you download them to the super disk that you already own? Or would you just have a bunch of disks that only use a fraction of their space? BTW, I love the sounds my dvd and blu-ray players make.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 5, 2024 20:59:09 GMT 1
ANDOR, FALCON AND WINTER SOLDIER, OBI WAN KENOBI and MOONKNIGHT are getting physical release on 30 April.
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