You weren't alive back then. The summer of 2000 was when they were already around $199 or so. Most middle class families already had a DVD player in the living room by the time your children's toy came out.
>$199
Wrong you moron. Thru were $299 and then the ps2 came put and everybody realized ps2 was the way to go because it was more than just a DVD player, then the morons came out with HD-DVD. moronS
Alright so they were even more expensive that proves what exactly? The majority of the people had ps2 not DVD players especially since vhs was still pumping out tapes.
>Alright so they were even more expensive that proves what exactly? The majority of the people had ps2 not DVD players especially since vhs was still pumping out tapes.
Hi moron. US sales of DVD players in just the month of October of 2000 sold more than the PS2 did it's entirety of that year worldwide. You are fricking dumb.
HD-DVD was years after all of this in the 360 era. Also just reading shit like this is making me remember how old I fricking am. I used to shitpost about blu ray players with Cinemaphile memes on FB in highschool, eugh.
PS2 was the sequel to the console with Final Fantasy on it, AND a DVD player, that was the appeal and bargain. If you just wanted a DVD player they started crashing in price after The Matrix hit home video. But it needed another price drop to convince old people to abandon their VHS collection
No. Lots of people had DVD players. Even people that got the PS2 had separate DVD players. More people watch movies than play games
False. I had a machine that could play both dvds and VHS before I had a Ps2.
Yeah I had a tv with a DVD vhs combo built in back in 04. Thing was a beast. Got rid of it a few years ago cause the TV would turn off by its self and when I unplugged it you could hear it de energizing. Tape player ate terminator 1 and then was toast. DVD player did great
Limited? You had multiple video output options, YPbPr and RGB, 480p, Toslink output
I have played this gen in 5.1 and Surround
Nothing was better than a PS2 for the price
Lmao, no, you couldn't. Stop fricking pretending zoomie. DVD players were a status symbol of the late 90s and even a lot of upper middle class "rich kids" might not have had a PS2, especially because their parents would have already bought them a dreamcast. My family had a dvd player before we ever had a PS2, in fact I think I only got a PS2 once the slim came out and I bought a friends old one then later bought my own slim later on.
I had both and the Dreamcast was vastly superior in every aspect. It was the first system with actual internet multiplayer. PlayStation didn’t have that until years later
>It was the first system with actual internet multiplayer.
Dreamcast was the first to have multiplayer functionality built into the console however the Saturn was the first to officially support it. I bring up official because if you wanna get super pedantic there were multiple consoles before those that had third party online capabilities as well that can be traced back to the Atari 2600.
I don't know, but I'm a physical media chad that still uses DVDs. I haven't even made the switch to Blu-Ray and won't. lol
You are correct and I completely agree with you. The Dreamcast was the first console I ever bought (along with Sonic Adventure 1) with my own saved-up pocket money as an 11-year-old back in 1999. Good times.
After 2002 or so, if your PS2 was your chief DVD player you were either a 13-24 year old or probably cheap as frick. I realize both describe the average Cinemaphile user, but even then people in those demographics knew the PS2 kind of sucked as a DVD player unless you got a remote, which at that point you might as well get a real $100 DVD player.
Only Black folk and white trash used the PS2 as a DVD player. Upper class families had their own DVD player and a Sega Dreamcast because they understood quality>convenience.
I had a gamecube and a regular dvd player. kek. the dvd player could player burned CD's. I learned how to burn movies on to cd's that would play in the player.
Around $400 when the movie just started development, fell to around $200 by the time the movie actually released.
New releases tend to be fairly barebones, and even when they do have special features, you don't get shit going into real detail about how things get made or issues with production, and it's even a gamble if you get commentary tracks. Releases through boutique labels tend to be a lot better in getting extras, but you're also usually paying a $10-$20 premium since they're more limited releases.
Yeah, that was how they would wean you off of DVD and move onto the new format. Since physical media became niche in the streaming age, they didn't repeat that shit with 4K Blus.
Zoomer here, my family used glass tube televisions until 2012. The main television was a Sony Trinitron, then there was a Zenith and a Panasonic CT-27.
It was not that we were poorgays or anything, we just liked glass tube televisions.
Also, I still use a 20 year old Panasonic DVD Player, if that matters. (The other televisions we have right now also have DVD players wired up to them).
i remember when my dad got me a portable dvd player for my birthday as a kid and it was a game changer
I am actually looking at buying one of these, DVDs are free to check out from my local library and we have a ton at home. Currently looking at Sony, Zenith, RCA, Audiovox and Panasonic. I might be interested in a Jensen, but I do not think they make them. I have been seeing Craig pop up, we used to avoid them as a company, but are they any good?
And no, I am not doing this because "le heckin' 2000s nostalgia". I tend to travel a lot and I want to watch some DVDs, last time I tried doing that, the hotel did not have a DVD player in the room, which I found shocking a for a resort-style location.
Most places have updated to have basic smart tvs. Why not just put what you need on your phone and cast it? Carrying around DVDs is a little silly these days.
Yeah, the closest stores to me are a Dollar General and a CVS, both sell Craig.
Put some fricking MP4 files on a tablet or laptop moron
My CAD Software takes up 3/4 of the storage, so I am very limited in storage. Plus, porting 300+ DVDs onto a laptop with no disc drive will suck. I could probably get an external disc drive, though. (I really wish I bought a Toughbook instead).
It is 250 GB, it replaced my 1TB laptop after a ribbon cable kinked and ruined the keyboard. Now it is my father's, after I took it to the shop for repairs. I am stuck with this laptop, since it is only about six months old at this point. (The battery is swelling and warping the lower cover already, FRICKING BEST BUY!!!!!!!)
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A 1tb drive is like $25.
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Can I buy it from Dollar General? I still kind of prefer the DVD Player idea, because how am I going to hook the laptop up to the television when I travel?
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HDMI cable.
I want to believe you're not trolling because it'd just be so adorable for you to be this stupid.
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All I could muster was eh ah eh sounds at the question.
That's not the point people will not pay full price for stolen shit, 60% tops
And fence has to make a profit so he will pay less, especially in bulk
So each unit isn't that much of a profit and the truck wasnt even stacked full
Could a store owner buy there in bulk and then sell it in his shop at full price? I imagine the tax man would catch on but I'm sure there's a way for someone like that to cook the books.
My first one needed a decoder card in my computer and cost $200 in 1999. It came with Riven.
This movie was post 2001 since it's not even the first one. Also electronics aren't made in Mexico.
how did a movie series about an undercover cop going after electronic thieves turn into whatever the frick these movies turned into? basically capeshit with cars?
how did a movie series about an undercover cop going after electronic thieves turn into whatever the frick these movies turned into? basically capeshit with cars?
It's like Zombie Jason Voorhees where the series doesn't "codify" until surprisingly late - the Car Superhero shit really only goes into effect in Fast Five.
It was necessary; Tokyo Drift nearly killed the franchise.
That said, bloating budgets and box office decay are doing it again - Fast X's receipts do not justify its absolutely absurd budget
7 will never be dethroned from the Dead Paul Walker hype, and honestly it deserved that success
Look at any movie car chase from the 70s. Westerners already knew cars could slide sideways you dolt.
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powerslide isnt drifting, you Black person.
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What's the difference?
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powerslide is just mostly sideway braking AFTER hitting the apex of a corner while drifting means you still step on the throttle while you car going sideway and still in control of it BEFORE hitting the apex of a corner. drifting is smoother and faster while powersliding is rough and slower.
It didn't introduce jap drifting to the West (more like the opposite), but it definitely repopularized it, which means Tokyo Drift was a bigger hit on home video
It also introduced drifting to Westerners on a large scale
It didn't introduce jap drifting to the West (more like the opposite), but it definitely repopularized it, which means Tokyo Drift was a bigger hit on home video
tokyo drift saved the franchise morons, it revived it, and gave justin lin and han.
After the huge success of the 4th and 5th movie the studio went full fricking moron and decided to change the tone of the films from a franchise about car racing and underground car culture to an action series. Watch the 5th one then the 6th and you can notice a dramatic change and the batshit insanity just ramped up more every film after that
so a dvd player in 2001 was around $500 for a high end player. 300 mid shit
one semi has 28 pallets of goods. so like 40 DVD players per pallet. something like 1200 players. that's like $600k retail.
obviously you're not going to get retail value so you sell them off to a fence for 100k. the stolen truck has value too. the fencer obviously has a network of pawn shops, merchants at the flee markets/swap meets they're probably selling it to them for $200-$300 and then they turn around selling them to the public for $300-$400 dollars.
you have to remember in 2001 100k is more like 200k today with inflation. 200k for a pretty simple job isn't that bad.
This shit was the weirdest to me. The import scene was full of whites, asians, and latinos but practically no Black folk. Ja Rule and his crew felt really out of place.
Hector is gonna be running three Honda Civics with Spoon engines.
On top of that, he just came into Harry’s and ordered three T66 turbos with NOS and a Motec system exhaust.
The first DVD player available in Europe around 1998/1999 cost 1000 euros, which back then was 2k dollar.
I know this because I was dumb enough to buy one. Watching Heat, Blade, Matrix, the Mummy in "hd" with 5.1 Dolby was amazing though. Compared to VHS tapes it was so mich better.
nah they were shit because moisture could get to the cardboard and they bent a lot easier too. Also those plastic clasps could break off easily. It was a bad design.
No and it's not really comparable, the PS3 launched just 5 months after the first Blu-ray players, while PS2 launched 3 years after DVD, when DVD players were already becoming cheap.
Though it did still give PS2 an advantage vs other consoles that gen because it was the only one that could play DVDs without any add-ons
If it were me, I would target fedex/UPS trucks that pickup from gold bullion wholesalers/manufacturers. Setup a proper observation post where I could get an angle on how many boxes the drivers are picking up to gauge whether or not it would be worth it to hit them. Gold being gold you can convert it to cash anywhere in the country extremely easily, and the volume to value ratio is MUCH more feasible than an entire 53ft trailer of dvd players.
I never expected phasing out physical media would cause people to share less in common over time. Everything digital makes it easier to memoryhole things. Region-free DVD players were valuable for movies not released in all markets.
nah in reality that would have been insured for more than the value of everything stolen unless for some moronic reason it's a guy spending $40k+ on a bunch of merch and hauling it himself trying to min/max profits, largely unlikely.
yes they were more expensive than ps2 which had a dvd player because sony owned the dvd format so they sold the console at lower price with the idea they would make it back in dvd sales long term.
sony also owns bluray format so every bluray ever made/sold sony gets a piece of.
It's fricking insane that these morons let themselves get cucked so hard they became American and then blew away their whole reputation on making lgbt propaganda.
Shitty DVD player owner here. We could afford one when they were like 80 eurobux. It rattled like hell all the time and DVDs had to be absolutely perfect for the player to read them. Everyone nostalgic for those times.. well it is kinda nostalgic switching to a random taped VHS on a movie night because the rental DVD could not be red.
>you know how DVDs sometimes come with extras like interviews, making of?
this was, like a huge selling point for the first decade. interactive menus!
then they just started releasing the generic press release interviews every movie does for promotional purposes (calling them "featurettes") where the cast and crew just dishonestly gushed about the film rather than an honest to god made-for-the-home-video-release-behind-the-scenes documentaries like the ones from LotR
It's a semi-tractor trailer full of DVD players. If you sell each one for $50 you're still making at least $50,000 because of how many are in there. Same reason the mafia would jack trucks full of cigarettes even though those sell for like $2.
it wasnt just their individual value, they were an in demand item that could easily be sold at a discount to retailers and to randoms etc as people wanted one and they were jsut coming down in price to where they were an inpulse item at the ~$300 mark so it was the turn over that was easy and a truck full of them was easy to move.
No, each was maybe like 200-400 dollars depending on brand. Obviously a really sleek high end Sony player would cost more than a cheap generic brand name one. However the point isn't that you can sell each DVD-player for a lot fo money, its that they're small enough to slip under the radar for most detection systems. There's no VIN numbers, they're not connecting to the cell phone network, even if there is a serial number its not like cops keep track of them, etc. Now those cheap DVD-players become a truck container you can easily sell to a fence with a mexico connection who wants to furbish his chain of hotels with DVD so he can rent out porn DVD through the room service system.
Stealing and fencing consumer electronics is bread-and-butter work for organised crime.
Mid-range items sold at a heavy discount will move much faster than higher-end, speciality devices.
yes, those parts had value.
Shit was like a PS5 when they came out
Not really, you could buy a ps2 for a fraction of a dedicated DVD player was. Nobody had them, everybody had ps2
You weren't alive back then. The summer of 2000 was when they were already around $199 or so. Most middle class families already had a DVD player in the living room by the time your children's toy came out.
>$199
Wrong you moron. Thru were $299 and then the ps2 came put and everybody realized ps2 was the way to go because it was more than just a DVD player, then the morons came out with HD-DVD. moronS
Nah, you can even look it up since you didn't exist back then.
They were already down to $399 in 1998, you need to take your meds schizo.
Alright so they were even more expensive that proves what exactly? The majority of the people had ps2 not DVD players especially since vhs was still pumping out tapes.
>Alright so they were even more expensive that proves what exactly? The majority of the people had ps2 not DVD players especially since vhs was still pumping out tapes.
Hi moron. US sales of DVD players in just the month of October of 2000 sold more than the PS2 did it's entirety of that year worldwide. You are fricking dumb.
I can make up shit too anon.
>then the morons came out with HD-DVD
Xbox did HD DVD, Playstation did bluray.
>then the morons came out with HD-DVD. moronS
HD-DVD was years after all of this in the 360 era. Also just reading shit like this is making me remember how old I fricking am. I used to shitpost about blu ray players with Cinemaphile memes on FB in highschool, eugh.
STUPID Black person
Dumb fricking Black person. Hope you die painfully for being so stupid.
PS2 was the sequel to the console with Final Fantasy on it, AND a DVD player, that was the appeal and bargain. If you just wanted a DVD player they started crashing in price after The Matrix hit home video. But it needed another price drop to convince old people to abandon their VHS collection
You're black.
Nah dude like more than half the kids I knew had no idea about dvd player functionality. Many people for many years just got fricking dvd players.
Bro I definitely remember my family’s first dvd player being a ps2 and then an xbox. The frick you talking about?
your family is moronic
Zoomer identified
The fast and furious DVD I have came with my ps2
False. I had a machine that could play both dvds and VHS before I had a Ps2.
No. Lots of people had DVD players. Even people that got the PS2 had separate DVD players. More people watch movies than play games
Yeah I had a tv with a DVD vhs combo built in back in 04. Thing was a beast. Got rid of it a few years ago cause the TV would turn off by its self and when I unplugged it you could hear it de energizing. Tape player ate terminator 1 and then was toast. DVD player did great
stfu you have no idea how limited the ps2 was
I was there midnight release at my gamestop location to get my ps2 anon. I picked up final fantasy 10.
That's pretty impressive when FFX came out a year after the PS2 did
You're confused. You must have been at the launch for FFX, dipshit.
Limited? You had multiple video output options, YPbPr and RGB, 480p, Toslink output
I have played this gen in 5.1 and Surround
Nothing was better than a PS2 for the price
Zoomers are pathetic. Vhs players were like 500 dollars when they came out
Stealing Playstations would be more realistic
Lmao, no, you couldn't. Stop fricking pretending zoomie. DVD players were a status symbol of the late 90s and even a lot of upper middle class "rich kids" might not have had a PS2, especially because their parents would have already bought them a dreamcast. My family had a dvd player before we ever had a PS2, in fact I think I only got a PS2 once the slim came out and I bought a friends old one then later bought my own slim later on.
Nobody bought a Dreamcast because they were waiting for PS2.
t. the only kid in his whole high school who bought a dreamcast
I had both and the Dreamcast was vastly superior in every aspect. It was the first system with actual internet multiplayer. PlayStation didn’t have that until years later
Of course the Dreamcast was better. That's why I bought it.
But no one else did so it fricking died.
>It was the first system with actual internet multiplayer.
Dreamcast was the first to have multiplayer functionality built into the console however the Saturn was the first to officially support it. I bring up official because if you wanna get super pedantic there were multiple consoles before those that had third party online capabilities as well that can be traced back to the Atari 2600.
Where do you put the game in when you have this in?
the disc tray
I don't know, but I'm a physical media chad that still uses DVDs. I haven't even made the switch to Blu-Ray and won't. lol
You are correct and I completely agree with you. The Dreamcast was the first console I ever bought (along with Sonic Adventure 1) with my own saved-up pocket money as an 11-year-old back in 1999. Good times.
>he had a dreamcast
All I had was a gamecast
well la de da
Jesus Christ this post made some people sperg the frick out. Good job.
It's not a good job. It's just another case of a homosexual zoomer pretending they were there for something they weren't.
>nobody had dvd players
Yeah I was born in 98 and this is just false
After 2002 or so, if your PS2 was your chief DVD player you were either a 13-24 year old or probably cheap as frick. I realize both describe the average Cinemaphile user, but even then people in those demographics knew the PS2 kind of sucked as a DVD player unless you got a remote, which at that point you might as well get a real $100 DVD player.
Only Black folk and white trash used the PS2 as a DVD player. Upper class families had their own DVD player and a Sega Dreamcast because they understood quality>convenience.
Brown hands typed that post
They had TVs inside as well
What the shit are you talking about? PS2 was 2-3 times more expensive than a DVD .
DVD players? They were VHS players built into TVs.
The truck parts sure were.
Also better and bigger library, but let's ignore that.
naw i fricked up, was think of the bluray and ps3
it also won the bluray vs hddvd
I had a gamecube and a regular dvd player. kek. the dvd player could player burned CD's. I learned how to burn movies on to cd's that would play in the player.
Do they still put a bunch of special features on DVDs and Blu Ray or is it not worth it for them now?
No, it's not worth it anon. It's like basic shit from windows movie maker or whatever apple uses. No significant extras.
Around $400 when the movie just started development, fell to around $200 by the time the movie actually released.
New releases tend to be fairly barebones, and even when they do have special features, you don't get shit going into real detail about how things get made or issues with production, and it's even a gamble if you get commentary tracks. Releases through boutique labels tend to be a lot better in getting extras, but you're also usually paying a $10-$20 premium since they're more limited releases.
Not to the same extent
I have also seen cases where special features are blu ray only and DVD just gets fricked
Yeah, that was how they would wean you off of DVD and move onto the new format. Since physical media became niche in the streaming age, they didn't repeat that shit with 4K Blus.
those DVD menus were an art form of the early 2000s, you don't see that anymore.
Yes, back then theft was still illegal.
How barbaric.
das raycisssss mang
>Is current tech really that valuable??
In 20 years time you'll have gen alpha asking if the iphone 15 in 2024 was really that valuable.
or GPUs. kek
GPUs will still be expensive in 20 years. Every Cheng and Pajeet will be mining crypto.
Zoomers will never understand, this was considered gold
>ywn get to go back in time and rob this exact truck
it hurts, bros
Zoomer here, my family used glass tube televisions until 2012. The main television was a Sony Trinitron, then there was a Zenith and a Panasonic CT-27.
It was not that we were poorgays or anything, we just liked glass tube televisions.
Also, I still use a 20 year old Panasonic DVD Player, if that matters. (The other televisions we have right now also have DVD players wired up to them).
I am actually looking at buying one of these, DVDs are free to check out from my local library and we have a ton at home. Currently looking at Sony, Zenith, RCA, Audiovox and Panasonic. I might be interested in a Jensen, but I do not think they make them. I have been seeing Craig pop up, we used to avoid them as a company, but are they any good?
And no, I am not doing this because "le heckin' 2000s nostalgia". I tend to travel a lot and I want to watch some DVDs, last time I tried doing that, the hotel did not have a DVD player in the room, which I found shocking a for a resort-style location.
Put some fricking MP4 files on a tablet or laptop moron
You travel with actual DVD discs?
Most places have updated to have basic smart tvs. Why not just put what you need on your phone and cast it? Carrying around DVDs is a little silly these days.
Craig is some generic brand sold in drug stores.
Yeah, the closest stores to me are a Dollar General and a CVS, both sell Craig.
My CAD Software takes up 3/4 of the storage, so I am very limited in storage. Plus, porting 300+ DVDs onto a laptop with no disc drive will suck. I could probably get an external disc drive, though. (I really wish I bought a Toughbook instead).
>I am very limited in storage
a DVD quality movie file is 600MB
>porting DVDs onto a laptop
Just download them
Last time I downloaded shit myself, it was Malware. I just call a buddy of mine who is more computer literate to download stuff onto there.
How the frick are you on Cinemaphile
Because I like fora. Not a moron, just a little 'tistic, I am great with math and science, just not tech.
I don't like interacting with actual 60-year-olds online
It's uncomfortable
Go back to watching Matlock or something
Give me a sec, I will post my hand to show my youth. I just need to set up the webcam first.
My Zoomer hands typing this post.
Now what portable DVD Player should I get (probably will get a 1TB drive as well, is there anything larger, like 100TB?)
Going to be watching V For Vendetta now (on my DVD Player, since I do not think that it is airing on television).
Your hand looks fricking feminine
Just get an old laptop, man. It's portable and older models tend to have DVD drives
Alright, I found a Toshiba Tecra from the 1990s, I will probably get it. Might consult Cinemaphile first, though.
You should watch k for kys you zoomer homosexual with girl hands.
>baby pinky
>gigantic index finger
What the FRICK did they put in the water, bros? The young'uns are turning into freaks.
you can get 10+ TB HDD for pretty cheap, past 20TB they charge a premium for size.
Very commendable of your employer for hiring morons
>uses CAD for work
>can't torrent
Literally how
CAD isn't some super tech literate software. It's mspaint for boomer engineers.
If software is taking up 3/4 of your drive storage try buying a drive bigger than fricking 64GB in 2024.
It is 250 GB, it replaced my 1TB laptop after a ribbon cable kinked and ruined the keyboard. Now it is my father's, after I took it to the shop for repairs. I am stuck with this laptop, since it is only about six months old at this point. (The battery is swelling and warping the lower cover already, FRICKING BEST BUY!!!!!!!)
A 1tb drive is like $25.
Can I buy it from Dollar General? I still kind of prefer the DVD Player idea, because how am I going to hook the laptop up to the television when I travel?
HDMI cable.
I want to believe you're not trolling because it'd just be so adorable for you to be this stupid.
All I could muster was eh ah eh sounds at the question.
>he bought his computer at best buy
You'll carry 300 dvds around travelling instead of buying a simple external hard drive?
>my family used glass tube televisions until 2012
I have a 1999 trinitron that still works and will see use in the foreseeable future as well.
>zoomer here
>larping as a zoomer on a fossil of a website by and for millennials on internet 1.0
What did he mean by this?
Every boomer had one of those crt+vcr combos in their RV
Nobody considered VCR gold in 2001
Young millennials are so funny, they desperately want to idealize a time they don’t remember.
The movie is from 2001. The youngest millennial was 7.
You mean 1.
Maybe if you were born on February 29, 1992.
Millennial is anyone who was school aged at the millennium. The oldest ones are like early 40s.
Millenials are everyone I don't like who is younger than a boomer.
>i'm a stupid moron that likes to live in my own headcanon over reality
suit yourself
Your reality < My reality. Cope seethe and dilate.
lmao this moron actually thought "millenial" meant "born around the millenium".
It means under 18 when the new millenium began.
Did I fricking ask
Millenials were already in highschool/college by '01 you dolt.
>he thinks people don't start retaining memories until they're 20
I needed my Hellraiser Special Edition.
People still rob trucks.
They were those ultra rare Panasonic gamecube ones
Overnight from Japan.
You can buy a broken one for only $500 on ebay
>e-waste
>e-waste, Japan
i'd literally assemble a team and rob a truck if it was packed to the brim with new-old stock of these
Take me with you.
>rare
Outside of asiaticland, yeah.
Like, if you still 10,000 of something and sell each one for even $5, you've made at least $100.
Can't argue with that math.
Thanks, did not expect to crack up.
Well, it would be like ten to hundred million, probably more than its weight in gold? Until you saturated the market. Maybe sell one in a year.
have you seen what the storage wars guys value them at? easy 100 dollar bill right there!
Weren't that many protests at the time
300$-400$ each
Where are you going to sell a stolen DVD player at that price, in bulk
eBay
this. ebay was a no-percentage fence back in the early days. i mean, it still is, but they've cracked down.
Apparently they have "markets." An acquaintance of mine works trying to catch them.
gotta know people lad. a guy around my area used to be a fence for stolen dirt bikes
That's not the point people will not pay full price for stolen shit, 60% tops
And fence has to make a profit so he will pay less, especially in bulk
So each unit isn't that much of a profit and the truck wasnt even stacked full
Could a store owner buy there in bulk and then sell it in his shop at full price? I imagine the tax man would catch on but I'm sure there's a way for someone like that to cook the books.
Sure it can but it's a stupid risk maybe in Romania
Out the back of a van parked in an alley in Chinatown.
local fence, the guy that always knows a guy
My first one needed a decoder card in my computer and cost $200 in 1999. It came with Riven.
This movie was post 2001 since it's not even the first one. Also electronics aren't made in Mexico.
when dvd players first came out, they were $400-700 each. look up what vhs players and tapes cost back when they first came out.
how did a movie series about an undercover cop going after electronic thieves turn into whatever the frick these movies turned into? basically capeshit with cars?
Vin diesel likes playing a super hero more than he likes playing a criminal
Toretto is Riddick, you'll see.
By the power of producer vin "my character has superpowers now" diesel
It's like Zombie Jason Voorhees where the series doesn't "codify" until surprisingly late - the Car Superhero shit really only goes into effect in Fast Five.
It was necessary; Tokyo Drift nearly killed the franchise.
That said, bloating budgets and box office decay are doing it again - Fast X's receipts do not justify its absolutely absurd budget
7 will never be dethroned from the Dead Paul Walker hype, and honestly it deserved that success
>Fast & Furious movies have made $7.3 billion
>Tokyo Drift nearly killed the franchise.
But it was the best one and about cars/races. In Japan at that.
It also introduced drifting to Westerners on a large scale
Look at any movie car chase from the 70s. Westerners already knew cars could slide sideways you dolt.
powerslide isnt drifting, you Black person.
What's the difference?
powerslide is just mostly sideway braking AFTER hitting the apex of a corner while drifting means you still step on the throttle while you car going sideway and still in control of it BEFORE hitting the apex of a corner. drifting is smoother and faster while powersliding is rough and slower.
the ones you refer to in bullit is powersliding.
It didn't introduce jap drifting to the West (more like the opposite), but it definitely repopularized it, which means Tokyo Drift was a bigger hit on home video
tokyo drift saved the franchise morons, it revived it, and gave justin lin and han.
After the huge success of the 4th and 5th movie the studio went full fricking moron and decided to change the tone of the films from a franchise about car racing and underground car culture to an action series. Watch the 5th one then the 6th and you can notice a dramatic change and the batshit insanity just ramped up more every film after that
They should've jacked pokemon cards instead
That will be the plot of the next reboot of Ocean's 11 (starring Chalamet, Holland, and that israelite from Stranger Things.)
so a dvd player in 2001 was around $500 for a high end player. 300 mid shit
one semi has 28 pallets of goods. so like 40 DVD players per pallet. something like 1200 players. that's like $600k retail.
obviously you're not going to get retail value so you sell them off to a fence for 100k. the stolen truck has value too. the fencer obviously has a network of pawn shops, merchants at the flee markets/swap meets they're probably selling it to them for $200-$300 and then they turn around selling them to the public for $300-$400 dollars.
you have to remember in 2001 100k is more like 200k today with inflation. 200k for a pretty simple job isn't that bad.
Does this look like 28 pallets 40 units each
I looked it up and it depends on the product.
>media literacy
This shit was the weirdest to me. The import scene was full of whites, asians, and latinos but practically no Black folk. Ja Rule and his crew felt really out of place.
i remember when my dad got me a portable dvd player for my birthday as a kid and it was a game changer
I member renting this at the airport with kinos and extra batteries and returning it at the destination airport.
8th grade on the bus coming back from a cross country meet, under the blanket with a qt 3.14 watching a movie on one of these
take me back aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
My uncle got my cousin a portable DVD player like that. He returned it for cash.
Hector is gonna be running three Honda Civics with Spoon engines.
On top of that, he just came into Harry’s and ordered three T66 turbos with NOS and a Motec system exhaust.
Won't the engines just blow up if they're made out of spoons?
Funnily enough.
Spoon engines where the only real thing in that whole sentence.
Spoon makes great stuff for Hondas.
T66 as well
always with the scenarios
Yes, it was very unrealistic. Now if it had been a truck full of laserdisc players...
The first DVD player available in Europe around 1998/1999 cost 1000 euros, which back then was 2k dollar.
I know this because I was dumb enough to buy one. Watching Heat, Blade, Matrix, the Mummy in "hd" with 5.1 Dolby was amazing though. Compared to VHS tapes it was so mich better.
Anyone miss these style cases? I wish the full plastic ones didn't win.
nah they were shit because moisture could get to the cardboard and they bent a lot easier too. Also those plastic clasps could break off easily. It was a bad design.
They were pretty cheap.
Nah that wrap around tab fricked up stacking em on shelves
>lets rob trucks in the loudest, most recognizable cars imaginable
morons.
Weren't they driving Civics? Those were a dime a dozen in the late 90s.
That's not what happened in the movie though moron
they are driving black civic
moron
YES, i had a frickeded up vhs player that my older brother gave me when he went to college in 99 until 2004...
More than you can afford pal, LaserDisc.
Yeah.
I remember a time where the PS3 was the cheapest blu-ray player, so maybe it was the same with ps2 and dvd players? idk
No and it's not really comparable, the PS3 launched just 5 months after the first Blu-ray players, while PS2 launched 3 years after DVD, when DVD players were already becoming cheap.
Though it did still give PS2 an advantage vs other consoles that gen because it was the only one that could play DVDs without any add-ons
I looked up the RRP of the things visible in this pic once, they were like $500 each. there's camcorders and TV's there not just DVD players and VCR's
better pic
Bros..?
>CRT TV with VHS player built-in
In bulk, yes. The standard 53ft box trailer can hold a lot of goods.
there could easily be $70,000 worth in there
If it were me, I would target fedex/UPS trucks that pickup from gold bullion wholesalers/manufacturers. Setup a proper observation post where I could get an angle on how many boxes the drivers are picking up to gauge whether or not it would be worth it to hit them. Gold being gold you can convert it to cash anywhere in the country extremely easily, and the volume to value ratio is MUCH more feasible than an entire 53ft trailer of dvd players.
but that's just me
The truck and trailer were worth more than the crap in the back.
This movie was really stupid, what would they even do with that many DVD players?
sell them and buy car parts, like brakes for the Volkswagen
They were $500 when they came out. Which was a lot for these mfs back then before everything became flanderized.
how the frick baby torreto suddenly turns into a Black person? he was white in the last movie and both of his parent is white.
I remember this movie, one dude almost losing his hand made that scene look realistic.
I never expected phasing out physical media would cause people to share less in common over time. Everything digital makes it easier to memoryhole things. Region-free DVD players were valuable for movies not released in all markets.
These babies were region-free? There really was a lot of money in this truck.
Seasons of DVDs were just as expensive. Season 1 of X-Files was like 200 dollars when it first came out.
They were even valuable enough that truck drivers would resort to killing thieves with a shotgun in order to keep their stock safe.
nah in reality that would have been insured for more than the value of everything stolen unless for some moronic reason it's a guy spending $40k+ on a bunch of merch and hauling it himself trying to min/max profits, largely unlikely.
yes they were more expensive than ps2 which had a dvd player because sony owned the dvd format so they sold the console at lower price with the idea they would make it back in dvd sales long term.
sony also owns bluray format so every bluray ever made/sold sony gets a piece of.
It's fricking insane that these morons let themselves get cucked so hard they became American and then blew away their whole reputation on making lgbt propaganda.
Supra when it was 15k on the deprecation curve
We had a PS2 and a DVD player.
Shitty DVD player owner here. We could afford one when they were like 80 eurobux. It rattled like hell all the time and DVDs had to be absolutely perfect for the player to read them. Everyone nostalgic for those times.. well it is kinda nostalgic switching to a random taped VHS on a movie night because the rental DVD could not be red.
Given the time period, PS2s would have been more valuable.
I live my life a quarter hour at a time.
okay this seems like the best place to ask:
you know how DVDs sometimes come with extras like interviews, making of?
is there a database that has a list of all the relases and extras so I can collect all the extras without having to buy every release I can find?
Pretty much look for "complete dvd/blu-ray rip" and you will occasionally find it all
This will definitely be harder than finding tv torrents alone
>you know how DVDs sometimes come with extras like interviews, making of?
this was, like a huge selling point for the first decade. interactive menus!
then they just started releasing the generic press release interviews every movie does for promotional purposes (calling them "featurettes") where the cast and crew just dishonestly gushed about the film rather than an honest to god made-for-the-home-video-release-behind-the-scenes documentaries like the ones from LotR
VHS player>DVD player
It's a semi-tractor trailer full of DVD players. If you sell each one for $50 you're still making at least $50,000 because of how many are in there. Same reason the mafia would jack trucks full of cigarettes even though those sell for like $2.
it wasnt just their individual value, they were an in demand item that could easily be sold at a discount to retailers and to randoms etc as people wanted one and they were jsut coming down in price to where they were an inpulse item at the ~$300 mark so it was the turn over that was easy and a truck full of them was easy to move.
it wasn't the money it was about sending a message
No, each was maybe like 200-400 dollars depending on brand. Obviously a really sleek high end Sony player would cost more than a cheap generic brand name one. However the point isn't that you can sell each DVD-player for a lot fo money, its that they're small enough to slip under the radar for most detection systems. There's no VIN numbers, they're not connecting to the cell phone network, even if there is a serial number its not like cops keep track of them, etc. Now those cheap DVD-players become a truck container you can easily sell to a fence with a mexico connection who wants to furbish his chain of hotels with DVD so he can rent out porn DVD through the room service system.
Stealing and fencing consumer electronics is bread-and-butter work for organised crime.
Mid-range items sold at a heavy discount will move much faster than higher-end, speciality devices.
DVD players with region lock overwrite were the holy grail back then.
Back in the 80s some guy in Russia murdered an entire family just to take their cassette player.
Ok, this thread is pretty kino...we have to go back...
When they were very first released? Absolutely.