Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by alchav21

Like I told you guys a long time ago.....It's all Digital! The Restoration is for both, one is put on a Server for Streaming the other a Disc. You're right no Studio will put money into a Restoration unless it will make a profit. The big Studios have a bigger budget, but the cost are the same. The cost for making DVD's and BD are less, and UHD cost more that's why the Studios are budgeting for this. So don't shoot the messenger....It's not Show Friends it's Show Business!

the costs depend on what someone wishes to pay, many years ago I decided to buy a DVD of a show I liked when I was a kid for one of my nieces or nephews. Obviously the studio that released this on DVD paid 0$ and did no restoration what so ever and they used a very degraded film master for the disks. It was truly disappointing.

as for "It's all Digital!" yes it is, but it means nothing. VHS/LD/Beta/film where not digital but restoration was still needed for the presentation to look its best. DVD and UHD BD are both digital but but the presentaion from each of those will not be anywhere near the same? Any one can be a millionaire all it takes is a few cents US converted to the Venezuelan Bolívares. It s always the details that are important and that is what you are missing and making the false equivalence that it is all digital to pretend there is no difference.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

This might be too attractive too

The video might have been a joke but there are some stuff like that on the market

https://ca.bartesian.com/products/the-bartesian

https://www.drinkworks.com/product/the-drinkmaker

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by kfbkfb

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ie-tropes.html


Is it even worth watching movies (whatever the technology)?


Kirk Bayne

I don't get your point. why would some artificially written scripts mean that all other films are not worth watching further more let's play devil's advocate and assume that a good film script is artificially written. If it is good why wouldn't it be worth watching?

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Ender14

I don't have a problem paying $17.99, but it will mean I order less titles at once as opposed to the 10-20 I would order during the sales.

Great! because Quick Change (1990) just dropped to $17.99

Actually, I want this one around $7 to $10.

Oh nevermind .... ordered.

[cheez avenger]

There's a great sale going on at the Arrow Video site - "Easter Carnage" sale.

I ordered 10 titles and my total even with the shipping and no VAT taxes to the U.S. averaged about about $12.99 per title.

9 of them were BD's and 1 was 4K UHD:

Dressed to Kill
Obsession
Carrie
The Fury
Raising Cain
Videodrome
Time Bandits
Limits of Control
Crimson Peak
King of New York UHD


https://arrowfilms.com/

FYI

[Ender14]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

There's a great sale going on at the Arrow Video site - "Easter Carnage" sale.

I ordered 10 titles and my total even with the shipping and no VAT taxes to the U.S. averaged about about $12.99 per title.

9 of them were BD's and 1 was 4K UHD:

Dressed to Kill
Obsession
Carrie
The Fury
Raising Cain
Videodrome
Time Bandits
Limits of Control
Crimson Peak
King of New York UHD


https://arrowfilms.com/

FYI

Yeah, that one got me as well. Grindhouse in the U.S. and a couple of other storefronts are having the sale as well. I got:

From Grindhouse:



And from Arrow:

[cheez avenger]

Watched 3 more titles yesterday from my WAC haul:

Night Moves
Leatherface: TCM3
Dark Passage


Dark Passage looks and sounds phenomenal. It's my favorite of the Bogart/Bacall films that they did together. It feels like a Brian De Palma film, with the early POV cinematography shots.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Started watching and realized the 3-D version was anaglyph only (red & blue glasses), no frame pack so we could not use our active shutter glasses. Need some anaglyph glasses that can be used with our regular glasses. Recommendations? Anyone use these?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

@Steeldeel Have you seen either of Mandalorian or Clone Wars?

If you start um both I wanna know which you like better.

I’m hoping they drop on Blu-Ray in a few months.

[Ender14]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Watched 3 more titles yesterday from my WAC haul:

Night Moves
Leatherface: TCM3
Dark Passage


Dark Passage looks and sounds phenomenal. It's my favorite of the Bogart/Bacall films that they did together. It feels like a Brian De Palma film, with the early POV cinematography shots.

I have Dark Passage but haven't watched it yet. I'm slowly working my way through my Noir collection. The Big Sleep is my favorite Bogart picture after Casablanca but based on your statement I need to move that one up my watch list.

[avs commenter]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I’m hoping they drop on Blu-Ray in a few months.

Lol. Not happening

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by avs commenter

Lol. Not happening

Why wouldn’t it happen? Disney likes money.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by avs commenter

Lol. Not happening

Silly goose,

Clone Wars Series is already available on Blu Ray.

I actually found the "movie" version on Blu Ray at the dump (in the recycling section) and I never watched it but having seen a few episodes of the show I may go see what that is... I'm a little confused why it's both and show and a movie and they look a bit similar.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-...y/1169/#Review

-Brian

[avs commenter]

Over a year and a half in, nothing Disney+ exclusive has hit disc

But Mandalorian is on disc on EBay as a digital rip I assume

[Steedeel]

I am now 46! Don’t feel a day over 60!

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Why wouldn’t it happen? Disney likes money.

Keep it an exclusive of Disney+. That brings in the subs which brings in the money.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Keep it an exclusive of Disney+. That brings in the subs which brings in the money.

It also leaves guaranteed money on the table.

[avs commenter]

But are you going to buy a bootleg Mando on disc that is just a rip of an Hd stream?

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It also leaves guaranteed money on the table.

Yeah, but they are banking on making more money with it pulling people in. I can’t see it happening any time soon. I am with Lee on this one.

[bhampton]

It really doesn't matter. My daughter wanted the service for WandaVision now she likes winter solder. Most people will either rotate steaming services (hulu on month, disney another) or get with others to share them which makes it cheap enough that it doesn't make a big dent in the expenses. Splitting $8 with 5 people means it's cheap enough to just have it to find out what's interesting and what's not.

I would buy these shows on disc if they released them even if I have the active service so they are leaving money on the table and losing it to the counterfeits.

I pay for Amazon Prime and Disney+ for now but I have friends access to Hulu (with live TV), Netflix and HBO Max so it's not a big deal to pay full MSRP for D+ currently. I still collect movies which is my way to go.

I hate Netflix but I realize having it for free isn't bad ... I actually kind of like that. Got through 3 episodes of Cobra Kai and I'm interested in Queens Gambit.

One thing is for sure, it devalues the content significantly so hopefully content creators realize this. I watched Godzilla Vs Kong for free on release day which was great. Back in the days of Cable and PPV there was usually a window so that new stuff wasn't on there unless it was not market-able or if it was a sporting event/concert.

-Brian