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  1. Jesse Skeen

    General Discussion Caleb D: The cord cutting dream is officially over

    “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.
  2. Jesse Skeen

    3D Top 30 Must Own 3D Blu-Ray Releases

    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.
  3. Jesse Skeen

    The Official Disney Movie Club Blu-ray Exclusives Thread

    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...
  4. Jesse Skeen

    Amazon Prime Commercials Coming To Amazon Prime in 2024

    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...
  5. Jesse Skeen

    Vudu Aspect Ratios for Streaming

    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.
  6. Jesse Skeen

    3D Meet Bob Furmanek: HTF Golden Age 3-D Consultant

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

    Disney+ Disney+ Streaming Service (Official Thread)

    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.
  8. Jesse Skeen

    General Discussion SONY removing 1,000+ seasons of purchased Discovery content from Playstation video libraries.

    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...
  9. Jesse Skeen

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

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

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - No Hard Feelings -- in Blu-ray

    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.
  11. Jesse Skeen

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - No Hard Feelings -- in Blu-ray

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

    Hollywood Reporter on the possible resurrection of blu ray and DVD

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

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    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...
  14. Jesse Skeen

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    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...
  15. Jesse Skeen

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    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...
  16. Jesse Skeen

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

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

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

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

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

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

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

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

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

    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.
  21. Jesse Skeen

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    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.
  22. Jesse Skeen

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

    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...
  23. Jesse Skeen

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

    Right, I haven’t been as excited to buy new titles as I was when many 3D ones were coming out. It was a huge mistake to put out the 4k format with no 3D capability also, it’s a better 2D picture but still just 2D and not making me want to buy a lot of it like I was with 3D.
  24. Jesse Skeen

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    Best Buy already gave up any chance of making money on digital movies when they shuttered CinemaNow. Same with Target and Target Ticket. Now instead of getting just a piece of what’s left of physical media, they’ll be getting NOTHING. Sure wish it had been Best Buy that went under instead of...
  25. Jesse Skeen

    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    I hope they go out of business. They opened right next to our Virgin Megastore and killed them with loss-leader pricing, not to mention several other stores that would’ve stuck with physical media if they were still open. What’s even the point of buying quality AV equipment with nothing to play...
  26. Jesse Skeen

    Press Release WHV Press Release: Meg 2: The Trench (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    If no 3D disc comes out, this will be the very first time Warner has snubbed 3D excluding “They Shall Not Grow Old” which was a more art house title anyways. They had a lot of goodwill continuing 3D even through limited releases (Warner Archive) but that may be gone now :(
  27. Jesse Skeen

    Press Release UPDATED 10/3: WHV Press Release: Barbie (2023) (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    “May be hurting” physical? It is, and that’s just what the studios want. It’s the new DIVX (when exaggerations were made about big titles coming to that exclusively.)
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