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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.

With some of the shows that have been available for purchase, I’ve wondered how many people actually bought them and how practical it’ll be to keep them online for eternity. Vudu used to have tons of free episodes of “disposable” shows, I got all of them when they were out and periodically check...

I prefer watching everything with my screen turned sideways. All the cool kids are shooting videos that way anyways.

There isn’t any legitimate one. My Oppo still feels violated from it. Sony refuses to comment on this and reviews such as this one won’t call it out. I have no choice but simply stop buying their discs.

This has Sony’s forced pop-up menu when the end credits begin, so it should never be “recommended.”

There was a lot of old and obscure stuff on Netflix when they started.

All I can say is “Wow, just wow” to that post there. Stretching a 4x3 picture is worse than cropping it- a lot of equipment defaults to that and many people are too blind to see what’s wrong. The only proper use for that setting is to unsqueeze anamorphic video such as squeezed laserdiscs; DVDs...

I had a Best Buy credit card but haven’t renewed it in a few years, ever since their movie selection started to decline. The only time I would buy anything else from them after this is if it were something I needed right away and no other stores had it or were open. I bought a higher end HDMI...

I’ve never seen discs priced at MSRP at Best Buy, their whole point was to be cheaper than regular media stores which had to sell at MSRP or lose money. I don’t remember if they ever tried bumping up prices, I know for a bit Fry’s had some discs at $21.99 when they were formerly $19.99 but that...

Are any of the smaller pressing plants which usually made discs for the smaller labels (and porn) still operational or is Technicolor really it?

How many people are paying for standard-def streaming since it costs less and “they can’t tell the difference”?

There were basically just 2 distributors for laserdiscs- Pioneer and Image, each handled specific studios.

There used to be a name here for "most consumers"- it was "Joe Sixpack".

It really makes no sense to even keep putting new movies out on regular DVD now that 4k is out; that means there’s THREE levels of quality. They finally killed off VHS once HD-DVD and Blu-ray came out.

On Black Friday 2001 I waited outside Best Buy for an hour just to get their free Fox demo DVD. I’m going to watch that tonight and cry.

Point is, there’s been many innovations that have kept me excited to buy new movie releases, 3D being a big one, and with that “failing” I just don’t have that excitement anymore (I’ll buy 2D movies on 4k, but that’s just not as big a deal to me.) Agree it is frustrating to not find 4k discs in...