>4 streaming services 20$ each, indeterminate rotating catalogues
People wasting enough time to justify the outlay are better suited to watching radically less with discriminating physical media purchases (with extras and commentary), and it being actually "on demand" at any time (literally, with the usual digital copy comping)
If you help build the Beast System, they will attempt to stop physical media production all together. Then you will have the availability limitations of pre-DVD lag times for home release, but worse. God forbid you have shit internet or rationed data caps/power.
Not lately. I might be moving in a few months so I think this is a good time to chill. And I'm supposed to be selling stuff anyways. I'm still doing low bal bids though on hot items. I just bid $45 for the Ilsa She Wold box set but I didnt get it. One other bid got it for $46. Been on my wish list for a very long time. But also like 3 or 4 of them got dumped in a wekk and that things been on my list forever so I know for a literal fact that somethings up but I couldnt find anything. I also took quite a few hits recently on blind buys. $18 total for Doctor Detroit and it was atrocious. I'd seen it before but like 15 years ago and specifically remembered being quite displeased. And there have been a few others recently. Most all by Shout Select. Absolutely rancidly horrible movies.
>why not?
Obsolete medium, I still have a shelf with some dvd's but I no longer own a device that can play them, why would I in 2022?
I find the high quality torrent for every disc I own(ed) and every other thing I want to watch. Don't know why I hold on to them really, just can't be fricked throwing them out I guess.
Just books because I prefer that to a kindle. I sold all my dvds. Internet is too shit to not have physical games right now but don't play too many anyway
How many times do you rewatch these fricking movies to even need them on your shelf permanently? At least things like comics and records actually give you a different experience physically, even regular old books have advantages physically with bookmarking and note taking but what the actual frick shit is the use of a DVD? Just pirate it, never mind the fact that they expire
I'm not a dumb consoomer watching my dumb american theme park rides over and over again no. I like real movies, I don't need 100s of DVDs to watch constantly to stimulate my brain
>DUDE LOOK AT THIS BOX I CAN PUT ON MY SHELF I TOTALLY LOVE MOVIES AS YOU CAN TELL FROM THIS BOX I PUT ON MY SHELF
have a nice day please. DVDs were always meant to be a disposable medium, they eventually expire or even become obsolete when better technology comes along.
What about Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray?
Physical media will probably never have another format. I'm not future proofing. I love the tangibility and extra features.
I even buy press kits and and promotional items like Kindergarten Cop pens.
I love movies.
Don't yuck my yum.
>DVDs were always meant to be a disposable medium,
yes, i remember for a brief time they even sold self-destructing DVDs that were like a rental, but you would just throw them away instead of returning them.
I have a home library (with books). I don't buy dvds or blu-rays because the corporations will just switch to something else in 10-20 years and I'll end up with a bunch of plastic that I can't play on anything.
>I don't buy dvds or blu-rays because the corporations will just switch to something else in 10-20 years and I'll end up with a bunch of plastic that I can't play on anything.
thats only true for non-disc media. you will be able to play your dvds and blurays all the way until disc rot sets in
why would I not buy physical media? streaming services lose access to series all the time and even if I buy a perpetual digital licence that doesnt mean I will have control over which version of that series/film I get to see. if im going to download movies i'll just pirate them
plus streaming services have shitty fricking quality
If you buy a digital movie chances are you will not get all of the extras that you have on a physical copy. The behind the scenes stuff alone makes it worth it. Sure you COULD try to pirate that as well but it isn't always available and can be a lot more annoying to get
When it is a movie or TV show that I especially like yes. That way I do not need to care about the internet or whether it's being edited by a streaming service.
Books and music, and second hand only. Other than that I pirate movies. No exception. >inb4 vinyl hipster
I just enjoy getting very rare records and rip them and put them on the internet. I think internet should remain as a placr where information flows freely.
thank you for ripping records, I have some nice records of my own but since I only started collecting a year ago, I have missed out on some big stuff so it's nice to be able to at least listen to them online.
Yeah it means I have them forever and don't have to worry about them dropping off streaming services. Also in the future things like netflix will probably be 50 dollars a month. Cheap streaming won't last
I think Bandcamp changed everything for me. I pirated massive amounts of music 20 years ago but once bandcamp etc. all got into full swing it became very clear that if the musicians wanted me to have it for free then they would provide it. Don't wanna pay for it? Then listen to something else. And that just kinda carried over to movies.
I think some people here have made excellent points though about hoarding. Whether it's purchased or pirated. That's kinda the issue.
What's moronic about that? It's their stuff. They can do what they want with it. Without honesty anything is a house of cards. One band I recently saw who I had only discovered a few days before and fell in love with, I excitedly told her that their bandcamp already locked me out after a couple days and she said oh yeah I need to change that because I don't wanna lock people out. That's how civilization works. I would've never said that if I just stole her shit. And conversely it's throwing it in her face. Like oh well I don't care if you olive it for free, I'll just steal it anyways. What kind of attitude is that? For someone you like?
RIAA officially stated 15 years ago they stopped suing users. If you wanna know personally, I have no friends or family at all. Consuming is literally the closest thing I have to relationships. And that's likely not gonna change so I'm just playing my hand but I insist it's a fair hand.
I exclusively buy 4K blurays since you actually get a true 4K picture out of it with great sound quality. Netflix, Amazon, and D+ don't actually stream in 4K so you miss out on a lot
Bluray is lossless sound. Which is the extent of my knowledge. I've never even seen a 4k. Offhand I just want to though for movies where the 4k fixes things that are wrong mostly problems from film grain. I wanna see the film grain and on some movies there's so much the bluray or dvd can't handle it. So it turns to literal pulsating static.
Offhand I would say no because as I understand that's why the remaster exists for Predator. 100% to deal with the pulsating static aka film grain or the problems resulting from it. And that editions old. Long before 4k hdblu. And I insist it was just an experiment. John McTiernan and that entire crew was so genius that I insist that literally every single shot of that masterpiece is absolutely meticulously composed. Right down to the film grain. And who did that remaster knew it. They knew it wasn't inherently necessary because of their genius but they knew it was still there so it was a good one to experiment with. Among other good reasons like money.
That may be because it's just being noticed less because the "film grain" on regular bluray etc is actually just pulsating static. It's the mediums interpretation of the film grain. Supposedly 4k is the only one good enough to actually have literal film grain.
Well it's not something I turn on but the most difference I noticed was when I was watching vhs. It looked better with the sharpness turned down. The pulsating static is even evident on dvds though so it's just a problem from the scan. Hopefully 4k fixes movies like Weird Science, Jaws 3, etc because if not they're fricked forever. And John Hughes knew it and apparently the rest of that crew knew it but he didn't really give a frick. And the dp apparently tried to stop him. You can see in that first scene someone opened the blinds. Which didn't fix the problem but indicates somebody knew something was wrong. John thought he could just save time on the lights and open the aperture literally all the way like he's filming fricking Predator in the goddamn jungle.
>88 Films >Shameless
I'll check them out. >Arrow
I'm in the US, so their library here is fairly limited to genre films. I bought a ton of their Japanese monster movies though. >Vinegar Syndrome
I bought Ilya Muromets from them, but I didn't see anything else that really interested me. >Shout/Scream Factory
I've never bought anything from them, but I know they have Escape From New York which is based.
Reflexive contrarian brand loyalty is still brand loyalty. No label is infallible, and nothing Criterion does is particularly worse than Arrow or VS selling bargain bin B-flicks for 40 dollars.
That's a shoop that was being spammed by either: >an autist with a vendetta against criterion for some reason >an actual shill trying to cover for Disney
Criterion has their classics of world cinema that everybody buys, but then you have their fans who buy any piece of shit movie just because Criterion slapped their label on it. Now Criterion is even selling new movies from the past couple of years like Uncut Gems and Parasite. I thought the whole point of their label was to sell restorations of classics, but I guess they are trying to broaden their customer base.
I'm a weeb, so probably 75% or more of the Criterion blu-rays I bought are samurai movies and the Godzilla box set. The only reason it's not more is because I wanted some variety with a few English films and some other international stuff.
those are initially how I got into criterion, the samurai shit. now they only throw out some rando gregory peck film here or there for the "film buffs" and the rest is "liberal arts study" crap and dull modern student films (personal shoppers and tiny furniture come to mind)
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The last film they released that I actually wanted was Double Indemnity, since it's a genuinely good movie I had to watch in college for film class.
It's a business, of course they have to buoy themselves with movies people actually buy. You and I might think it's pointless for criterion to he releasing newer mainstream films but every time they post a lineup of mostly old/obscure films there are more people complaining that they're wasting their time on shit nobody cares about.
In any case, brand loyalty is cringe
I don't see how they're making money that way when I can buy the regular blu-ray of Parasite for $10 from Amazon vs the same movie on blu-ray in a Criterion box for $20. But yes, their fans are cringe. I tried searching youtube for recommendations during the Barnes & Noble sale, and so many of those homosexuals were just buying random shit like The Worst Person in the World.
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I also don't understand why anyone would ever pay full price for a criterion knowing that there's always two sales at barnes and noble and occasional ones on the criterion website
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Yeah I like Cary Grant as much as the next guy, but I'm not going to spend a fortune on a bunch of his light comedies. They still have lots of movies trapped on DVD that need to be upgraded before they add a bunch of new shit.
It's a business, of course they have to buoy themselves with movies people actually buy. You and I might think it's pointless for criterion to he releasing newer mainstream films but every time they post a lineup of mostly old/obscure films there are more people complaining that they're wasting their time on shit nobody cares about.
In any case, brand loyalty is cringe
they have a definitely more based film catalog like the cannon films and a lot of the fun 3D movies from the 80s they've put out. I just wish they did special features as well.
I have four bookshelves full of them in my study. Literally tens of thousands of dollars there based on what I originally spent.
I wish I could go back in time and not have spent it.
Are you like those homosexuals on youtube who just compulsively buy every new blu-ray release, every steelbook, every Target/Best Buy exclusive, every 4K, etc.? Like these grown men going nuts buying every edition of Disney cartoon movies and every Oscar nominee just to have the "best" physical releases?
It's not so much about the medium, physical or digital, but it's about the restrictions that are imposed on the medium.
For example, I don't have anything against digital books e.g. in PDF format, but I would never buy an ebook from Amazon because they have the ability to remotely delete it from your kindle (which they have done before).
The pdf file on the other hand, I can save on my computer or a USB drive and nobody can take it from me.
>It’s gay to have it all on one giant ass shelf for everyone to see.
I agree that the OP pic is cringe and an eyesore. Cabinets like pic related look much better.
Physical media's good if you take good care of it. It's also nice to own something before scenes are removed and rereleased or removed strictly for the digital version. I just don't have the money or space for it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
>La Strada, La Haine, L'avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Les Vampires, Le Samurai and La Dolce Vita under the letter L >The Lobster also under the letter L
I still buy blu-rays every once in a while.
a lot of stuff is pretty cheap (like 5-6-7 euros each) so if I find a classic or a film I particularly like I don't mind spending money to own a physical copy.
i have plenty of my dads cds from the 80s and not encountered one with rot yet. it can vary wildly
some laserdiscs for example rotted out super quickly and others are completely fine
it's all up to the disc manufacturing plant. I have tons of stuff from the 90s that still work fine but a notoriously bad release of devil's rejects on blu ray didn't work at all because the factory that made it did a shit job so you can find a lot of forum posts about how a lot of people had to get exchanges or just throw the disc out
Speaking of this, did any of you ever send in those coupons they'd always have in DVD cases for special offers? It's neat finding a used DVD with one of them and an expiration date of like 2009 or something. Always wondered what would happen if I sent it in. A lot like the coupons & offers you'd've sawn in the back of comic books from the 1970s; that whole early 2000s era was sort of like that.
Why would I give money to corporations that hate me?
Yes but only films I really like, i don't see the point of collecting for the sake of it.
troony
I didn't ask how you cope with being a poor neet
>4 streaming services 20$ each, indeterminate rotating catalogues
People wasting enough time to justify the outlay are better suited to watching radically less with discriminating physical media purchases (with extras and commentary), and it being actually "on demand" at any time (literally, with the usual digital copy comping)
If you help build the Beast System, they will attempt to stop physical media production all together. Then you will have the availability limitations of pre-DVD lag times for home release, but worse. God forbid you have shit internet or rationed data caps/power.
Not lately. I might be moving in a few months so I think this is a good time to chill. And I'm supposed to be selling stuff anyways. I'm still doing low bal bids though on hot items. I just bid $45 for the Ilsa She Wold box set but I didnt get it. One other bid got it for $46. Been on my wish list for a very long time. But also like 3 or 4 of them got dumped in a wekk and that things been on my list forever so I know for a literal fact that somethings up but I couldnt find anything. I also took quite a few hits recently on blind buys. $18 total for Doctor Detroit and it was atrocious. I'd seen it before but like 15 years ago and specifically remembered being quite displeased. And there have been a few others recently. Most all by Shout Select. Absolutely rancidly horrible movies.
*Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS boxset by Anchor Bay
I don’t like clutter so no.
I buy TV box sets and not much else. I'd rather buy the TV shows I want so I don't have to pay a monthly fee to watch them.
I've been getting into limited VHS variant pressings lately.
>why not?
Obsolete medium, I still have a shelf with some dvd's but I no longer own a device that can play them, why would I in 2022?
I find the high quality torrent for every disc I own(ed) and every other thing I want to watch. Don't know why I hold on to them really, just can't be fricked throwing them out I guess.
Just books because I prefer that to a kindle. I sold all my dvds. Internet is too shit to not have physical games right now but don't play too many anyway
How many times do you rewatch these fricking movies to even need them on your shelf permanently? At least things like comics and records actually give you a different experience physically, even regular old books have advantages physically with bookmarking and note taking but what the actual frick shit is the use of a DVD? Just pirate it, never mind the fact that they expire
You don't really love movies.
I'm not a dumb consoomer watching my dumb american theme park rides over and over again no. I like real movies, I don't need 100s of DVDs to watch constantly to stimulate my brain
I'm glad.
>DUDE LOOK AT THIS BOX I CAN PUT ON MY SHELF I TOTALLY LOVE MOVIES AS YOU CAN TELL FROM THIS BOX I PUT ON MY SHELF
have a nice day please. DVDs were always meant to be a disposable medium, they eventually expire or even become obsolete when better technology comes along.
What about Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray?
Physical media will probably never have another format. I'm not future proofing. I love the tangibility and extra features.
I even buy press kits and and promotional items like Kindergarten Cop pens.
I love movies.
Don't yuck my yum.
>DVDs were always meant to be a disposable medium,
yes, i remember for a brief time they even sold self-destructing DVDs that were like a rental, but you would just throw them away instead of returning them.
divx
Based this movie slaps and I love me vinsyn slips
You just admitted to reading comics, so you're automatically more cringe than DVD collectors. Go back to your manchild capeshit thread please.
Yet you posted a comic
That's a political cartoon, not a comic.
i see two losers: the one on the left spent way too much money more than the one on the right
One has money to spend and the other is a poorgay.
I have a home library (with books). I don't buy dvds or blu-rays because the corporations will just switch to something else in 10-20 years and I'll end up with a bunch of plastic that I can't play on anything.
>I don't buy dvds or blu-rays because the corporations will just switch to something else in 10-20 years and I'll end up with a bunch of plastic that I can't play on anything.
thats only true for non-disc media. you will be able to play your dvds and blurays all the way until disc rot sets in
why would I not buy physical media? streaming services lose access to series all the time and even if I buy a perpetual digital licence that doesnt mean I will have control over which version of that series/film I get to see. if im going to download movies i'll just pirate them
plus streaming services have shitty fricking quality
If you buy a digital movie chances are you will not get all of the extras that you have on a physical copy. The behind the scenes stuff alone makes it worth it. Sure you COULD try to pirate that as well but it isn't always available and can be a lot more annoying to get
When it is a movie or TV show that I especially like yes. That way I do not need to care about the internet or whether it's being edited by a streaming service.
Yes and im glad I do. My internet has been out for 2 days and I've been watching my kinos instead of streaming
Books and music, and second hand only. Other than that I pirate movies. No exception.
>inb4 vinyl hipster
I just enjoy getting very rare records and rip them and put them on the internet. I think internet should remain as a placr where information flows freely.
thank you for ripping records, I have some nice records of my own but since I only started collecting a year ago, I have missed out on some big stuff so it's nice to be able to at least listen to them online.
Yeah it means I have them forever and don't have to worry about them dropping off streaming services. Also in the future things like netflix will probably be 50 dollars a month. Cheap streaming won't last
I think Bandcamp changed everything for me. I pirated massive amounts of music 20 years ago but once bandcamp etc. all got into full swing it became very clear that if the musicians wanted me to have it for free then they would provide it. Don't wanna pay for it? Then listen to something else. And that just kinda carried over to movies.
I think some people here have made excellent points though about hoarding. Whether it's purchased or pirated. That's kinda the issue.
>Don't wanna pay for it? Then listen to something else. And that just kinda carried over to movies.
moron
What's moronic about that? It's their stuff. They can do what they want with it. Without honesty anything is a house of cards. One band I recently saw who I had only discovered a few days before and fell in love with, I excitedly told her that their bandcamp already locked me out after a couple days and she said oh yeah I need to change that because I don't wanna lock people out. That's how civilization works. I would've never said that if I just stole her shit. And conversely it's throwing it in her face. Like oh well I don't care if you olive it for free, I'll just steal it anyways. What kind of attitude is that? For someone you like?
go to bed RIAA
RIAA officially stated 15 years ago they stopped suing users. If you wanna know personally, I have no friends or family at all. Consuming is literally the closest thing I have to relationships. And that's likely not gonna change so I'm just playing my hand but I insist it's a fair hand.
I buy dvds at yard sales and pawn shops. Only when I can get them for 1$ or less. Just to have stuff so I can feel better about being poor as frick.
I hate hoarding,i try to own as little as posible un my house
I exclusively buy 4K blurays since you actually get a true 4K picture out of it with great sound quality. Netflix, Amazon, and D+ don't actually stream in 4K so you miss out on a lot
Bluray is lossless sound. Which is the extent of my knowledge. I've never even seen a 4k. Offhand I just want to though for movies where the 4k fixes things that are wrong mostly problems from film grain. I wanna see the film grain and on some movies there's so much the bluray or dvd can't handle it. So it turns to literal pulsating static.
This is a TV issue
Offhand I would say no because as I understand that's why the remaster exists for Predator. 100% to deal with the pulsating static aka film grain or the problems resulting from it. And that editions old. Long before 4k hdblu. And I insist it was just an experiment. John McTiernan and that entire crew was so genius that I insist that literally every single shot of that masterpiece is absolutely meticulously composed. Right down to the film grain. And who did that remaster knew it. They knew it wasn't inherently necessary because of their genius but they knew it was still there so it was a good one to experiment with. Among other good reasons like money.
Some 4k discs weirdly have less film grain than 1080p Blu-ray. I forget the reason but it's a natural part of the scanning process.
That may be because it's just being noticed less because the "film grain" on regular bluray etc is actually just pulsating static. It's the mediums interpretation of the film grain. Supposedly 4k is the only one good enough to actually have literal film grain.
Do you have sharpening turned on on your TV? That will severely frick with grain
Well it's not something I turn on but the most difference I noticed was when I was watching vhs. It looked better with the sharpness turned down. The pulsating static is even evident on dvds though so it's just a problem from the scan. Hopefully 4k fixes movies like Weird Science, Jaws 3, etc because if not they're fricked forever. And John Hughes knew it and apparently the rest of that crew knew it but he didn't really give a frick. And the dp apparently tried to stop him. You can see in that first scene someone opened the blinds. Which didn't fix the problem but indicates somebody knew something was wrong. John thought he could just save time on the lights and open the aperture literally all the way like he's filming fricking Predator in the goddamn jungle.
I'm just going to come out and say it.
Kino Lorber is more based than Criterion.
Of course, and so are:
>88 Films
>Shameless
>Arrow
>Vinegar Syndrome
>Shout/Scream Factory
>88 Films
>Shameless
I'll check them out.
>Arrow
I'm in the US, so their library here is fairly limited to genre films. I bought a ton of their Japanese monster movies though.
>Vinegar Syndrome
I bought Ilya Muromets from them, but I didn't see anything else that really interested me.
>Shout/Scream Factory
I've never bought anything from them, but I know they have Escape From New York which is based.
Shout! Has the Werner Herzog collection which is a must-have for any aspiring Lord of Kino.
Reflexive contrarian brand loyalty is still brand loyalty. No label is infallible, and nothing Criterion does is particularly worse than Arrow or VS selling bargain bin B-flicks for 40 dollars.
Criterion is pandering to gays. If the others start doing that I'll call them homosexuals too.
When will companies learn that study after study of trigger warnings have shown that they make things worse? Actual morons.
That's a shoop that was being spammed by either:
>an autist with a vendetta against criterion for some reason
>an actual shill trying to cover for Disney
criterion has been bottom barrel since they put out the bergman set.
Criterion has their classics of world cinema that everybody buys, but then you have their fans who buy any piece of shit movie just because Criterion slapped their label on it. Now Criterion is even selling new movies from the past couple of years like Uncut Gems and Parasite. I thought the whole point of their label was to sell restorations of classics, but I guess they are trying to broaden their customer base.
I will go out of my way to find a movie on any label other than criterion. their extras now are worthless and even Eureka does a better job
I'm a weeb, so probably 75% or more of the Criterion blu-rays I bought are samurai movies and the Godzilla box set. The only reason it's not more is because I wanted some variety with a few English films and some other international stuff.
those are initially how I got into criterion, the samurai shit. now they only throw out some rando gregory peck film here or there for the "film buffs" and the rest is "liberal arts study" crap and dull modern student films (personal shoppers and tiny furniture come to mind)
The last film they released that I actually wanted was Double Indemnity, since it's a genuinely good movie I had to watch in college for film class.
I don't see how they're making money that way when I can buy the regular blu-ray of Parasite for $10 from Amazon vs the same movie on blu-ray in a Criterion box for $20. But yes, their fans are cringe. I tried searching youtube for recommendations during the Barnes & Noble sale, and so many of those homosexuals were just buying random shit like The Worst Person in the World.
I also don't understand why anyone would ever pay full price for a criterion knowing that there's always two sales at barnes and noble and occasional ones on the criterion website
Yeah I like Cary Grant as much as the next guy, but I'm not going to spend a fortune on a bunch of his light comedies. They still have lots of movies trapped on DVD that need to be upgraded before they add a bunch of new shit.
It's a business, of course they have to buoy themselves with movies people actually buy. You and I might think it's pointless for criterion to he releasing newer mainstream films but every time they post a lineup of mostly old/obscure films there are more people complaining that they're wasting their time on shit nobody cares about.
In any case, brand loyalty is cringe
they have a definitely more based film catalog like the cannon films and a lot of the fun 3D movies from the 80s they've put out. I just wish they did special features as well.
the music I like is often on vinyl and it's a good way to support an artist
I only buy CD’s
*Meaning standard regular bluray is lossless sound
I have four bookshelves full of them in my study. Literally tens of thousands of dollars there based on what I originally spent.
I wish I could go back in time and not have spent it.
post proof
I'm not taking photos of my study. Believe me or don't.
larp
Are you like those homosexuals on youtube who just compulsively buy every new blu-ray release, every steelbook, every Target/Best Buy exclusive, every 4K, etc.? Like these grown men going nuts buying every edition of Disney cartoon movies and every Oscar nominee just to have the "best" physical releases?
I don't need garbage
It's not so much about the medium, physical or digital, but it's about the restrictions that are imposed on the medium.
For example, I don't have anything against digital books e.g. in PDF format, but I would never buy an ebook from Amazon because they have the ability to remotely delete it from your kindle (which they have done before).
The pdf file on the other hand, I can save on my computer or a USB drive and nobody can take it from me.
I have a bluray copy of LoTR Extended cut, why would I need anything else?
Yeah but only stuff I love and happy to rewatch. Keeping shit on a hard drive is dull and streaming companies can frick right off.
I like to go to goodwill or other thrift shops and peruse the old dvd's. If I find something I like I'll pick it up.
Takes too much space
>It’s gay to have it all on one giant ass shelf for everyone to see.
I agree that the OP pic is cringe and an eyesore. Cabinets like pic related look much better.
>kills blu-rays
>kills cinemas
>goes bankrupt
psssh... nothin personnel... kid...
Then falls victim to their own BS. Sandman is their last chance to have a show that really sticks the landing. It totally won’t
Physical media's good if you take good care of it. It's also nice to own something before scenes are removed and rereleased or removed strictly for the digital version. I just don't have the money or space for it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, Drive My Car arrived in the mail yesterday.
>Apu trilogy
>La Strada, La Haine, L'avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Les Vampires, Le Samurai and La Dolce Vita under the letter L
>The Lobster also under the letter L
I don't speak any languages other than English so I use strict alphabetical sorting with foreign films.
it's not that hard: la, le, l', les, los, las are all articles in french/italian/spanish
are you a Black person by any chance?
I still buy blu-rays every once in a while.
a lot of stuff is pretty cheap (like 5-6-7 euros each) so if I find a classic or a film I particularly like I don't mind spending money to own a physical copy.
To buy birthday gift for my dad
I buy all my shit pre owned
outside of the occasional crazy sales online, I only buy used stuff as well
don't discs degrade after ten years?
Google claims they last 20-50 years.
i have plenty of my dads cds from the 80s and not encountered one with rot yet. it can vary wildly
some laserdiscs for example rotted out super quickly and others are completely fine
it's all up to the disc manufacturing plant. I have tons of stuff from the 90s that still work fine but a notoriously bad release of devil's rejects on blu ray didn't work at all because the factory that made it did a shit job so you can find a lot of forum posts about how a lot of people had to get exchanges or just throw the disc out
The only problem I've run into is with ripped audio CDs. No problems with DVDs.
After you rip a CD it degrades? lol did you literally rip it?
My apologies. The problems are with older burned CDs.
oh, so the quality of the blank disc itself, just like picrel back in the day
Speaking of this, did any of you ever send in those coupons they'd always have in DVD cases for special offers? It's neat finding a used DVD with one of them and an expiration date of like 2009 or something. Always wondered what would happen if I sent it in. A lot like the coupons & offers you'd've sawn in the back of comic books from the 1970s; that whole early 2000s era was sort of like that.
I am not Black or African American. White Euromutt, mostly Irish and English. Why do you ask?