Were DVD players really this valuable?
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Were DVD players really this valuable?
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They were top of the line.
wouldnt it be easier to just wait until the truck driver pulls over at a rest stop?
more likely the cops show up
more witnesses
PS2 made dvd players cheap
They had a rewind function. High tech stuff.
early ones with hdmi and upscaling in 2005 and maybee certainly but not as valuable as the movie makes out certainly not in 2001
It was less that the players were valuable and more that they were living through the Global Financial Crisis.
A whole truckload would be, yes. Technology is expensive when new.
In todays dollar that would be over $1200. Insane, but also there wasn’t much entertainment to choose from then
>Wireless remote control
Yes Millennial, there was a time when remote controllers weren't wireless
Before wireless remote controls, remote controls never got misplaced or needed to have batteries changed. Is the future really as great as we think?
Yea never understood why they didn't just get an inside man to drive the trucks.
$3,500 DVD-5910
holy frick audiophiles are moronic
why would a truck driver have a shotgun on-hand
Are you kidding? I'd have two.
america is 3rd world so you need something to defend yourself
anon, I used to work in a port in argentina and I can tell you the waiting, loading and unloading areas are the closest thing to the wild west, if you are not armed it's because you are a complete idiot
DVDs and their players were expensive in 2001, anon. Shit, your cheapest option for playing them at the time was a PS2. It's part of the reason it sold so well.
>Why would the target of repeated attacks choose to arm themselves
A mystery indeed.
Oldgay here
My first DVD Player back in 1999 cost something like 800 dollars. So about 1,5k in todays money. Wasnt even full HD back then lol
dvds where never full hd
hd dvd was low bitrate shit
regular dvd was 480i 8mbit max
It's all profit
I remember paying like $500 for a region free DVD player back in 2000.
Doesn't Season 1 of The Sopranos start with some shenanigans concerning dvds?
Shit used to be expensive as hell.
didn't they do the same with ps3s? (real life robbers, not the movie)
>i remember about 2001
How old are you guys? Feels like I'm talking to fricking dinosaurs.
>How old are you guys?
So old that it's impolite for you to ask.
Imagine being mocked by a 5 year old child because he was born very recently lol
You can be under 30 and have memories of 2001 you insufferable zoomer.
hardly
>There are people on this board who don't remember 2001
i was a teenager when those towers fell.
>at school
>teachers make a big deal out of it but wont let us watch tv
>get home
>put tv on
>oh a plane hit a building
>big deal
>turn it off
>go to room to play grind my characters on PS1 rpgs
kys broccoli head
Yes. Bear in mind they weren't expecting to become millionaires from this heist
It's a meta thing.
Without dvd players, fast and furious wouldn't be this profitable, so they are making sure those dvd players dont get into the hands of old people and only people who buy dvd players out of a trunk who would watch fast and the furious.