“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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 :(
“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.)