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

[bhampton]

I subscribe to the UHD plan of Netflix but I still don't like Netflix.

My kids get use out of it and that's good enough.

They like 100 and Arcane. I did watch and enjoyed Adrift .... I need to check in with S4 or Cobra Kai maybe now is a good time for that. I want to watch the bad Cowboy Bebob series before they decide to hide it or something. I kind of enjoyed the first episode but I understand it didn't progress well.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I subscribe to the UHD plan of Netflix

So do I but that may change soon. That plan will soon increase to $19.99 a month. May cancel or drop to 1 user at a time. Other streamers are now spoon feeding us 1 episode a week of their new series just like linear TV.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I subscribe to the UHD plan of Netflix but I still don't like Netflix.

My kids get use out of it and that's good enough.

They like 100 and Arcane. I did watch and enjoyed Adrift .... I need to check in with S4 or Cobra Kai maybe now is a good time for that. I want to watch the bad Cowboy Bebob series before they decide to hide it or something. I kind of enjoyed the first episode but I understand it didn't progress well.

I love Afterlife with Ricky Gervais, I also enjoy Cobra Kai. I’m on episode 4 at moment.

[Wendell R. Breland]

After almost 50 years I have stopped my sub to Sound & Vision magazine. It started as Stereo Review. Last fall I got a notice saying my sub was auto renewing for $44 dollars unless I canceled auto renew. Get this, could not do online at the time so I called and cancelled.

But they did not cancel and charged my CC $50 for two more years. So I contacted them via online, explained what happened, requested they cancel and refund my money to my CC. They never responded so I contacted my CC and they credited my CC for the amount charged.

Off box.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

After almost 50 years I have stopped my sub to Sound & Vision magazine. It started as Stereo Review. Last fall I got a notice saying my sub was auto renewing for $44 dollars unless I canceled auto renew. Get this, could not do online at the time so I called and cancelled.

But they did not cancel and charged my CC $50 for two more years. So I contacted them via online, explained what happened, requested they cancel and refund my money to my CC. They never responded so I contacted my CC and they credited my CC for the amount charged.

Off box.

I used to subscribe to Home Cinema Choice (12 years or so) but it was becoming more adverts and less content.

[kfbkfb]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

After almost 50 years I have stopped my sub to Sound & Vision magazine. It started as Stereo Review.

I bought my 1st copy of SR in 1972-01, the previous publishers of S&V offered 1yr for $5, so I bought several of those, then they went from 12/yr 10/yr 6/yr so I'm subscribed until 2027-01 (I'd be surprised if there's still a paper version mailed out by then).

(I miss Audio, High Fidelity, Video Review, Video [all except Video Review are combined into S&V])


Kirk Bayne

[Lee A Stewart]

Netflix Generated $200 Million in 2021 Disc Rental Revenue, Unchanged From 2020

Netflix’s legacy by-mail DVD/Blu-ray Disc movies rental service continues to generate incremental revenue for the SVOD behemoth. The streamer reported revenue of $200 million for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2021 — unchanged from $200 million in revenue in 2020.

Netflix doesn’t include packaged-media rental revenue or subscriber data in its financials, categorizing disc rental as separate revenue. The company reported $400 million in disc revenue in 2018 — underscoring the ongoing decline of its packaged-media business. It last reported about two million disc-rental subscribers in 2019.

Regardless, with Family Video calling it quits, Netflix and Redbox remain the only packaged-media rental services operating nationwide.

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/netfli...ged-from-2020/

[cheez avenger]

Speaking of Netflix, final season (Part 1) of The OZarks is live in 4K DV / ATmos. I believe it's the first 7 episodes.

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Speaking of Netflix, final season (Part 1) of The OZarks is live in 4K DV / ATmos. I believe it's the first 7 episodes.

Hope to hell this series gets a disc release.

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Speaking of Netflix, final season (Part 1) of The OZarks is live in 4K DV / ATmos. I believe it's the first 7 episodes.

Originally Posted by gotmule

Hope to hell this series gets a disc release.

Yes I love this Series, it took a while for Season 4 and they broke it up in two parts to discourage those people that drop out. I was rewatching the last Episode of Season 3 last night to refresh my memory of what happened. The Cartels are unforgiving!

As far as Disc Release, Netflix wants the Subscribers but down the road I hope you are happy with DVD!

[bhampton]

Anyone have a movie diary ?

So, my ship came in last week and I received a new projector that is awesome.

The new display has a laser driven light source with a finite lifespan and that has me thinking about the ways I use it.

I'm thinking my best option is to start and keep a diary or journal or log of what I watch and when. Anyway, it sounds like a fun thing to do. I've very into the home theater hobby and should be more organized about it.

-Brian

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Anyone have a movie diary ?

So, my ship came in last week and I received a new projector that is awesome.

The new display has a laser driven light source with a finite lifespan and that has me thinking about the ways I use it.

I'm thinking my best option is to start and keep a diary or journal or log of what I watch and when. Anyway, it sounds like a fun thing to do. I've very into the home theater hobby and should be more organized about it.

-Brian

I have done this for 21 years. Just Excel, movie name, date I watched and star rating.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I have done this for 21 years. Just Excel, movie name, date I watched and star rating.

Awesome. Since the new PJ arrived Tuesday I've watched a handful of movies and started a document to log them.

Wednesday I hosted Last Night in Soho. Thursday I watched 47 Meters Down and Casino Royale and Friday Quantum of Solace.

I don't want to go forward with my new theater without keeping simple records. Someday before long, I won't know what any of it means but at that point it will be fun to try to remember.

I may pick up a small day planner to use for this when I'm in town.

Edit -

Samsung Freestyle get a great review at Projector Central ! I believe it may just lead to more people having more freedom with how and where they watch. Definitely relevant to the "Future of Home Video"

https://www.projectorcentral.com/Sam...tor-Review.htm

I kind of want one. I certainly want to know how possible it is to change out the bulb.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by bhampton

They are both adorable.

That was the first movie I watched with my new projector and here's my thoughts having had it for nearly 2 days...

I've had CRT projectors followed by Digital Projectors and most recently a 4K native Projector (Sony 285ES)

It's easy for me to say after only watching 2 movies (the other was 47 Meters Down Blu Ray) that the RS3100 is the best projector I've ever had and pretty easy for me to say it's all I expected and more.

It's bigger and heavier than the 285ES. It's also sharper with better color and much more capable signal processing.

The 2 stand out improvements are the lens memory and the HDR processing. I use a scope screen and so far have only setup 16:9 and 2.40:1. (I just zoom for scope, I don't use an anamorphic lens setup)

I haven't experimented much with 8K E Shift which is off for now (I didn't see or hear anything wrong with it but I'll try it again later. I've read it works good with sports broadcast and I will be watching sports this weekend.) I am using the filter for wide color and the laser dimming feature which results in pitch black in my theater. Even when I had the laser dimming off, black levels were better than any projector I have known and I saw no bright corners.

I think it's easy to see what will be next for projectors, Having seperate RGB lasers and possibly having a service-able light path are 2 goals projectors should have now.

I go to youtube and watch all the OLED and 4K demos I've seen in town on good flat panels at my Best Buy and they all look jaw drop stunning. The laser can be dimmed for full black and it's just that, I can't see my hand in front of my face of full black screen content.

I hope to keep this one for 10 years. I have been averaging a new projector every 3 years since 1999 but some of those skewed the average because they malfunctioned resulting in early replacement. Some of those were high milage CRT front projectors which were pretty fun back in the day. The best thing with CRT was low black levels and I think the new JVC aces black for video content. I've never known better.

-Brian

congrats and enjoy.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by slimdude

But why, is it because you're trying to save energy and money?

I am not Ender14 but those are two good reasons. But more importantly for me I find I sleep better at night when it is a bit cooler. and during the day you can be more productive

You must don't have any children in the home because if you did, you wouldn't be able to keep the house at 68-63 degrees, or the children will get sick.

people get sick from viruses and bacteria. Now you can get hypothermia and frost bite from the cold but the temperature needs to be a lot colder then that.

What do you do if it gets below zero outside - are you going to freeze to death?

not sure I understand that question. It is currently -29 here (Celsius but at that temp there is very little difference in numbers) all it means is my furnace needs to work a lot harder to keep the house at the temperature I set and not going outside seems like a good idea .

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Anyone have a movie diary ?

So, my ship came in last week and I received a new projector that is awesome.

The new display has a laser driven light source with a finite lifespan and that has me thinking about the ways I use it.

I'm thinking my best option is to start and keep a diary or journal or log of what I watch and when. Anyway, it sounds like a fun thing to do. I've very into the home theater hobby and should be more organized about it.

-Brian

No, sounds like too much work


Obviously not the same thing but lamps on other projectors have a finite lifespan (but cheaper and easier to replace). TVs also hav e a limited life span and so do we.

if I am not mistaken it is rated for 20k hours. if it does go for that long and we average (to keep the math easy) 10h/day that means 2k days or around 5.5 years.

Enjoy it, you bought a very expensive projector. Not using it so taht you can keep it longer won't help anything.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Anyone have a movie diary ?

Yes, started a long time ago on a Sinclair computer that used audio cassette for data storage, then a Commodore 64 and finally a IBM clone. DOS software was flat field database called FileExpress. When DOS came to an end all data was transferred to Quattro Pro.

In 2007 started using Movie Collector and scanned in all my DVD’s and Blu-ray’s. I continue to use Movie (and Music) Collector to this day but I only upgrade when I must.

Has many fields including purchase price, collection status, date viewed, notes, etc. There is a mobile app with sync that we use in the theater to note the date viewed.

[bhampton]

I got a day planner for $3.99 at TJMaxx.

It’s pocket sized. The goal isn’t to watch less but choose what to watch better and also know where the hours went.

So far I just jot the movie names down.

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I got a day planner for $3.99 at TJMaxx.

It’s pocket sized. The goal isn’t to watch less but choose what to watch better and also know where the hours went.

So far I just jot the movie names down.

Yes when I had a 62" Mitsubishi DLP Rear Projection HDTV, I would control my viewings to the evenings and nights. Turning the TV on/off once a day, to save on Lamp usage. The Lamps lasted me 3-4 Years, I still changed out about 5 Lamps in the 15 years I had the TV. Those Lamps cost and also required some skill in changing them out. So you are always thinking on conserving the usage of the TV. I guess I had that TV a while, good Picture but I didn't like worring about Lamp usage!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Yes, started a long time ago on a Sinclair computer that used audio cassette for data storage, then a Commodore 64 and finally a IBM clone. DOS software was flat field database called FileExpress. When DOS came to an end all data was transferred to Quattro Pro.

In 2007 started using Movie Collector and scanned in all my DVD’s and Blu-ray’s. I continue to use Movie (and Music) Collector to this day but I only upgrade when I must.

Has many fields including purchase price, collection status, date viewed, notes, etc. There is a mobile app with sync that we use in the theater to note the date viewed.

Sinclair Spectrum, ahhhh happy days!