Recent content by Jesse Skeen

Who is buying those new LPs? I’ve never seen anyone buying those, not even looking at them. I’ve even seen a bunch marked down at Target with red tags after not selling for a while.

I often go to Target for routine shopping and would usually impulse-buy at least one movie while there also, but lately there hasn’t been anything to impulse-buy with the reduced selection and higher prices. (Last time I was there I saw the Weird Al movie which I would’ve picked up if they had...

“Loss leader” pricing seems to be gone now with Best Buy out of the picture. I kept waiting for Top Gun Maverick to be under $20 but that hasn’t happened, you can hardly find the 4k disc at all in many stores. Back in the day that would’ve been practically given away. Since I haven’t been in a...

They really should just replace any defective or rotted title that gets sent to them, even if it’s out of print they should still have the disc images available to make more. This is just a ridiculous situation, and from the company that promoted DVD from the start also.

In a word, yes.

“Re-subscription fee”? You’ve gotta be kidding. They should be happy enough to have you back as a subscriber at all, not screw you out of MORE money. I know the high seas is a verboten topic here but that would be just one more thing pushing people to that.

RealD has been promoting movies lately only to have theaters run just one or two 3D showings per day or none at all, with tons of lousy 2D showings.

Done.

I ALWAYS said that early digital releases were the new DIVX. That’s one thing the “major voices” never really called the studios out on. It’s one thing to make digital available for those who prefer that over discs, but I’ve really resented their giving it such an unfair advantage, available...

I remember boycotting both Pepsi and Coke products for a year each because they put their commercials on rental-priced tapes, absolutely no benefit to the consumers. Remember Pepsi put a commercial on the “Innerspace” tape which was priced at $89.99 AND had Macrovision copy protection to keep...

It already did in Japan.

Vudu (and Amazon even longer before) used to let you play the first 2 minutes of any title for free but that stopped a few years ago. That was very good for checking the quality except for a few that had just the opening credits in the proper ratio then switched to cropped afterwards.

That would be pretty sad. Anaglyph should’ve been a thing of the distant past by now. Projectors still support real 3D.

It looks like right now they’re still using the same inferior servers and encodes for Hulu content. I get the Atmos movies properly through Star using a VPN but they’re still just 5.1 on Hulu. Dancing with the Stars is on both services in the US but is in proper 60fps on Disney but 30fps on Hulu.