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

[alchav21]

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I'm keeping Vudu in the Chips. This Movie was on sale, so I bought it and watched it last night. This was a very good Action Packed Movie, and I love the Jurassic Park Franchise. All the original and recent Actors came back with a great story!

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by alchav21

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I'm keeping Vudu in the Chips. This Movie was on sale, so I bought it and watched it last night. This was a very good Action Packed Movie, and I love the Jurassic Park Franchise. All the original and recent Actors came back with a great story!

I will buy this eventually being the completionist sucker that I am, but when I do I will have the 4K disc, the blu-ray, and the digital code.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Do you have Human Planet? Not David Attenborough but still very interesting.

I haz Hooman Planut, and all but one of the others that Wendell listed, but it is another title awaiting my attention. This hobby keeps me busier than my job ever did.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I haz Hooman Planut, and all but one of the others that Wendell listed, but it is another title awaiting my attention. This hobby keeps me busier than my job ever did.

I dare you to watch The Wicker Man and Human planet over the weekend.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I dare you to watch The Wicker Man and Human planet over the weekend.

The Wicker Man and Midsommar would probably make for a better double feature.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

The Wicker Man and Midsommar would probably make for a better double feature.

Slide those bad boys in.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Slide those bad boys in.

I dunno, man. Swapping discs is REALLY hard work; I might need a Redbull to be able to do it.

[unberechenbar]

Originally Posted by alchav21

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I'm keeping Vudu in the Chips. This Movie was on sale, so I bought it and watched it last night. This was a very good Action Packed Movie, and I love the Jurassic Park Franchise. All the original and recent Actors came back with a great story!

Watched this a few days ago on disc. Thought it looked and sounded great. The second half made great use of Atmos.

[cheez avenger]

Watched "This is Gwar" documentary on AMC+ and it was terrific. It's technically from Shudder but is included with AMC+.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Do you have Human Planet? Not David Attenborough but still very interesting.

Yes I do, also have:

African Cats
Deep Sea 3D
Discovering Yosemite
Flight Of The Butterflies
Frozen Planet
Human Planet
Last Reef: Cities Beneath The Sea (4K DI) 3D
Life on Fire
Under The Sea 3D
Roving Mars
Wonders Of The Solar System

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Yes I do, also have:

African Cats
Deep Sea 3D
Discovering Yosemite
Flight Of The Butterflies
Frozen Planet
Human Planet
Last Reef: Cities Beneath The Sea (4K DI) 3D
Life on Fire
Under The Sea 3D
Roving Mars
Wonders Of The Solar System

Sweet.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by alchav21

I don't know if you call that a Win, having to run to your Player to flip the Disc several times. The Director's Cut at 3 1/2 hours of the Original Das Boot tells a good story with no Disc Flipping...Score a Win for Streaming!

let me get this straight, even though the director's cut on single disk is there in the package you would rather not have access to the 5h content that is also included because it means after 2.5h you might need to stand up walk 10 feet and change disks?

hell if it is that big of a problem (maybe it is for health reasons), get a second player and you won't need to get up.

[Steedeel]

Vilya (and others that replied), I was reading more about Time Of Use tariffs yesterday and one of the major concerns was the risk of price surging in peak hours. This is similar to Uber who increase prices by a considerable margin when demand is higher than the number of cars available. It’s been suggested the energy companies may try this. That would really bump up the prices of electricity use in peak times, even tv and display stuff.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Vilya (and others that replied), I was reading more about Time Of Use tariffs yesterday and one of the major concerns was the risk of price surging in peak hours. This is similar to Uber who increase prices by a considerable margin when demand is higher than the number of cars available. It’s been suggested the energy companies may try this. That would really bump up the prices of electricity use in peak times, even tv and display stuff.

Were you really expecting your power rates to do anything other than go up whatever the pricing scheme? So long as the power supply is stable, you'll be fine. We rich home theater owners can handle measly ol' rate hikes (especially those with projectors and TVs both.)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Were you really expecting your power rates to do anything other than go up whatever the pricing scheme? So long as the power supply is stable, you'll be fine. We rich home theater owners can handle measly ol' rate hikes (especially those with projectors and TVs both.)

I’m thinking more the mainstream. We need them for a healthy display market. It would be disastrous if millions switched tophones, tablets and other mobile devices that are much cheaper to run, electricity wise (charging mostly) just because they were being exploited between 8-12pm or earlier.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I’m thinking more the mainstream. We need them for a healthy display market.

You are a nation of soccer fanatics; TVs will always be in demand to watch what you pretend is football.

[Panson]

Originally Posted by Vilya

You are a nation of soccer fanatics; TVs will always be in demand to watch what you pretend is football.

Or the best of two worlds, Monty Python Philosophy Football.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I’m thinking more the mainstream. We need them for a healthy display market. It would be disastrous if millions switched tophones, tablets and other mobile devices that are much cheaper to run, electricity wise (charging mostly) just because they were being exploited between 8-12pm or earlier.

OLED TV market share surpasses 50% in European premium TV market

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.ph...&id=1660733590

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Vilya

That's all well and good, but you can't stream that 5 hour TV version. Physical media wins again!

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Vilya (and others that replied), I was reading more about Time Of Use tariffs yesterday and one of the major concerns was the risk of price surging in peak hours. This is similar to Uber who increase prices by a considerable margin when demand is higher than the number of cars available. It’s been suggested the energy companies may try this. That would really bump up the prices of electricity use in peak times, even tv and display stuff.

Uber is a terrible analogy because the price is not fixed and it is very variable. This is fixed prices lower off peak and higher on peak based on cost reality.

Like I said before, here it is an option, but an option I lived with most of my life and one that when I was a kid was made by my parents. Since we can compare both (fixed and variable) here the off peak time < fixed price<on-peak. You can see it as more expensive at peak time or saving you money off-peak time (and if you are smart move stuff like laundry to off-peak time and save some cash).

It is new in the UK because you are now starting to have a large enough % of renewables to make it interesting here is the breakdown of UK electricity https://grid.iamkate.com/ this is real time so the numbers can change when you see it, but yesterday at 7PM 28.4 demand 14.22 from fossil fuel (around 1/2) at 1PM today it was 27.2 demand and 7.9 from fossil fuel (less then 1/3) even though you don't want to accept that because a much larger % is from NG at 7PM it is also a lot more expensive to produce at 7pm. I see peak pricing a s a win,win, win
1) it affords cheaper electricity off peak
2) it saves money to the electricity producers (in your case if people try and save on electricity less NG electricity is needed and less NG needed)
3) even though it might miss the mark (i.e. you blamed this on renewables instead of the constant increase of the price of fossil fuels) it gets people more conscious to the reality that not all electricity costs the same to produce
4) helps the world a bit (less fossil fuels used

Now don't get me wrong. I don't think it will mean that your electricity will be cheaper. Just that the off-peak electricity price will be more stable (not grow as fast).

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

Uber is a terrible analogy because the price is not fixed and it is very variable. This is fixed prices lower off peak and higher on peak based on cost reality.

Like I said before, here it is an option, but an option I lived with most of my life and one that when I was a kid was made by my parents. Since we can compare both (fixed and variable) here the off peak time < fixed price<on-peak. You can see it as more expensive at peak time or saving you money off-peak time (and if you are smart move stuff like laundry to off-peak time and save some cash).

It is new in the UK because you are now starting to have a large enough % of renewables to make it interesting here is the breakdown of UK electricity https://grid.iamkate.com/ this is real time so the numbers can change when you see it, but yesterday at 7PM 28.4 demand 14.22 from fossil fuel (around 1/2) at 1PM today it was 27.2 demand and 7.9 from fossil fuel (less then 1/3) even though you don't want to accept that because a much larger % is from NG at 7PM it is also a lot more expensive to produce at 7pm. I see peak pricing a s a win,win, win
1) it affords cheaper electricity off peak
2) it saves money to the electricity producers (in your case if people try and save on electricity less NG electricity is needed and less NG needed)
3) even though it might miss the mark (i.e. you blamed this on renewables instead of the constant increase of the price of fossil fuels) it gets people more conscious to the reality that not all electricity costs the same to produce
4) helps the world a bit (less fossil fuels used

Now don't get me wrong. I don't think it will mean that your electricity will be cheaper. Just that the off-peak electricity price will be more stable (not grow as fast).

It’s only the price cap here that prevents the energy suppliers charging more. If it was ever removed (it has been suggested) they would have the power to raise prices as they choose.