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- Comment on Warner Bros. will be releasing "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on March 4. 1 week ago:
That was me asking about thoughts on the film, not literally if you have left your house to go the theater and then return, lol
- Comment on Warner Bros. will be releasing "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on March 4. 1 week ago:
Has anyone seen it yet?
- Comment on Is this the end? 1 week ago:
Ain’t happening. I finally bought a region-free 820 yesterday after talking myself out of the price for years.
- Comment on Is this the end? 1 week ago:
When’s the last time they updated them, 2018?
- Comment on Stop taking physical media fans for granted 1 week ago:
Most (not all) games run fine without downloads or patches. It’s not very common for a game to ship with game breaking bugs like Cyberpunk 2077 did.
Anyway, it doesn’t really matter, because if the Internet disappears due to some disaster, we’ll all have much bigger problems than playing video games.
- Comment on Stop taking physical media fans for granted 1 week ago:
The thing that gets me is that for films I’m really invested in, I’m always paranoid that the initial limited release with all the paper filler and the 2x, 3x, sometimes 4x (!) price point will contain a film cut not present in the subsequent releases.
For example, let’s say I prefer the theatrical cut of a film and the extended/director’s/some other cut is the only thing that seems to be able to get a release. The 4K limited edition comes out and it has both cuts on 4K. What are the chances subsequent releases aren’t just the revised cut?
Or take it the other way, preferring an extended cut you saw long ago but you can only get the theatrical now.
There’s only a handful of movies where this makes a difference for me, but I confess that I’ve paid the premium for the peace of mind of not having to wait for a follow-up release that may never come.
- Comment on Stop taking physical media fans for granted 1 week ago:
Your comment about PS5 games isn’t correct, except for obvious ones like online games. PS5 and Xbox Series (not hybrid) games come with the entire game on the disc with a relatively small number of exceptions. Switch is even better about it, and in those cases where it does need to download something, it’s called out on the case. Xbox dual releases (Xbox One and Series) come with the Xbox One release on disc and the other version must be downloaded.
- Comment on The average life of a Blu-ray collector 1 week ago:
I just picked up this. Why shouldn’t I buy it?
- Comment on I built a Home Theatre for the Price of a Soundbar, and it SLAPS! 4 weeks ago:
Almost anything sounds better than TV speakers, but if you’re going to spend the money, it really is better to just go to 5.1.
I’ve had a 5.1 setup for 20 years. Back then I was playing the original Xbox on 720p widescreen and surround speakers, and it was glorious. My first setup was the cheapest all-in-one speaker/receiver set available for a fresh college graduate earning next to nothing and deep in credit card and student debt.
I think I’ve gone through three sets of speakers now, three receivers, and two subwoofers. I like to stay up on technology, but you don’t really have to upgrade very often or at all, if you like. I currently have some pretty nice Pioneer speakers with towers for left and right, and I wired my room for 5.1 outlets when I renovated my basement earlier this year.
I thought about doing 7.1 or 7.2, but ultimately I didn’t want to cut holes and try to fish wire across and down with how my ceiling is. 4K and 5.1 will probably always be enough for me.
- Comment on 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Dominated October Disc Sales, Jumps to Top of Year-to-Date Chart - Media Play News 5 weeks ago:
I watched this on Disney+ tonight but didn’t really care for it. The multiverse stuff really ruins just about anything it touches, and the movie just seemed a little too mean spirited toward the classic characters.
- Comment on Filmmaker Oliver Stone on studios releasing older films on 4K Ultra HD 5 weeks ago:
Tom Cruise is a bit like Harrison Ford. They’re both good actors, but most of the time they’re playing themselves. Or maybe they both have such a force of personality that you only see the actor. Harrison For has had similar roles where he does a good job disappearing into the role, like Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry.
- Comment on How Fans Saved Star Wars - Laserdisc Bootlegs (Part I) 5 weeks ago:
But those were like 1.0.1, 1.0.2… where the Special Editions would be 2.0. I don’t know that anyone really cares about the “mini” version changes. When they talk about the original, they mean 1.0.x.
- Comment on White Christmas (1954) just had its 4K release a couple days ago. Picked it up at Walmart for $20 CAD (about $15 USD) and I'm pretty impressed with it 1 month ago:
That’s a great price; I bought my copy for nearly double that. Remember that Bing also had another Christmas movie in 4K, Holiday Inn, although if you only have a handful of movies your collection would suddenly be very Bing Crosby and Christmas heavy, haha.
I’m really ready for the holidays with both of those plus It’s a Wonderful Life and Scrooged.
- Comment on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing "SEINFELD: THE COMPLETE SERIES" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 17. 1 month ago:
That’s fine by me. They give people options but preserve the best resolution for OAR.
- Comment on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing "SEINFELD: THE COMPLETE SERIES" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 17. 1 month ago:
This is an instant purchase if they preserve OAR instead of cropping to 16:9.
- Comment on Lionsgate will be releasing "KILL BILL: VOLUME 1" and "KILL BILL: VOLUME 2" on 4K Ultra HD on January 17, 2025. 1 month ago:
Gonna pick up the inevitable SteelBook to add to my Tarantino 4K SteelBook set. Only a handful left now.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-09-28: Who will Gru be tonight? That's the question. 2 months ago:
Who are the people buying Despicable Me 4 on 4K
- Comment on Lionsgate will be releasing "BORDERLANDS" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on October 22. (That was quick.) 2 months ago:
Oh man, I hope Claptrap says his iconic line, “I… am Steve”
- Comment on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has a fun feature: 2 months ago:
Acting in 1964: Practical sets, props, and costumes, the give and take of acting with other actors
Acting in 2024: Wear a spandex laser tag outfit with a GoPro pointed at your spotted face and run around an empty blue warehouse
- Comment on UNCUT with glue and broken glass? Lionsgate announces 4K Ultra HD SteelBook for Van Damme’s 1989 classic ‘Kickboxer’ 2 months ago:
Wow, Joel has been tireless in his effort to get the ultimate edition of this film on disc. He says in the linked thread that he even reached out to large JCVD fan pages on Instagram to ask them to put out the call to see if anyone owned an uncut print (so Lionsgate could produce the uncut 4K). Not a single one was willing to ask their subscribers.
- Comment on The Terminator 40th Anniversary 4K will also get a Limited Steelbook Edition as it reveals release details 2 months ago:
Yes, and I believe the Anthology set also comes with the Skynet version.
- Comment on The Terminator 40th Anniversary 4K will also get a Limited Steelbook Edition as it reveals release details 2 months ago:
Buy this version if you want it on Blu-ray.
- Comment on The Terminator 40th Anniversary 4K will also get a Limited Steelbook Edition as it reveals release details 2 months ago:
Both are pretty cheap. T2 is sort of infamous as one of the worst 4K discs, but some people don’t mind it. I own both and there are pros and cons to each, but there’s nothing wrong with the Blu-ray if you want to play it safe.
- Comment on Shout! announces ‘Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story’ arriving in November 3 months ago:
Now try importing a 4K from Japan
- Comment on Shout! announces ‘Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story’ arriving in November 3 months ago:
It’s UHD, so you can just import it if you want.
- Comment on The NeverEnding Story 40th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray 3 months ago:
Physical media is a niche industry now. A company like Imprint would have purchased the rights to this movie in a batch that included other movies that aren’t as popular. A movie with this much name recognition is like the Christmas season for them, so they need to produce deluxe sets like these to recoup their investment on the entire batch and turn a profit.
Don’t worry, there will definitely be a regular edition at a later date. They’ll want to sell as many copies of this as possible.
- Comment on Arrow Video announces November 4K UHD and Blu-ray release slate 3 months ago:
I preordered Shawscope 3. As for the rest, my wallet needs a break, so thank you Arrow for not releasing anything else I need!
- Comment on The Prisoner: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review) 3 months ago:
If you don’t have one already, I’d pick up this release. It’ll be about the same price as a preowned A&E set, and it comes in a neat box with a few Danger Man episodes in high def.
I’m just saying there’s no reason to replace an existing copy of the A&E set.
- Comment on The Prisoner: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review) 3 months ago:
For anyone tempted to double dip, except for the Danger Man inclusion and a handful of interviews, just about everything in this release was in the original A&E Blu-ray release.
- Comment on The Blair Witch Project Limited Edition Blu-ray 3 months ago:
