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

[sapiendut]

Unfortunately that option is not available to get the full set I’ll end up paying approximately $45.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by Vilya

No one is taking you anywhere that you don't want to go. You do not have to use "social media infused crap." You, like me, like everyone, can watch movies however they choose. You always fear that our choices are being eliminated when in fact they are only increasing.

The problem is that so much of the invasive social media industry is using ads and cookies to build profiles of you on many sites.

If you want an example just clear your website data and use a non-private window and go to different web pages even search results and look at how many tracking and analytical cookies are suddenly there. There is no reason to see a Facebook cookie added for example when you do a web search but there is. So many of these social media companies have absolutely no scruples they just want to sell your information to 3rd parties like google does.

I also seen news links take you Facebook News sites that are cleverly identified as going to original source. So much for your no one is taking you anywhere you don't want to go!

[bhampton]

I think I'm a social media ghost.

I didn't like Facebook and ended my account. I never started SnapChat, Instagram, Visco ... Kik... I bet there's twenty more that I never heard of.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

The problem is that so much of the invasive social media industry is using ads and cookies to build profiles of you on many sites.

If you want an example just clear your website data and use a non-private window and go to different web pages even search results and look at how many tracking and analytical cookies are suddenly there. There is no reason to see a Facebook cookie added for example when you do a web search but there is. So many of these social media companies have absolutely no scruples they just want to sell your information to 3rd parties like google does.

I also seen news links take you Facebook News sites that are cleverly identified as going to original source. So much for your no one is taking you anywhere you don't want to go!

I am not talking about the general browsing of websites on the internet, but rather the watching of movies. You do not have to engage with social media when you watch streamed content. You do not have to watch anything with a bunch of other people talking through the presentation because there is a simultaneous video/audio chat going on. It is just an option; a word that scares some people when given more of them than they had before.

As for web browsing, I clear my cookies, caches, and search histories often. I am almost never taken to a website that I did not intend to visit, either, because I am careful what links I click on.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I am not talking about the general browsing of websites on the internet, but rather the watching of movies. You do not have to engage with social media when you watch streamed content.

Before they were called apps they were identified as widgets. That is defined as "an application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service." Programmers are recreating accessing a web site via a app now rather then the user accessing everything though a browser.

While it is not interactive, the paid access streamer host is capturing your viewing habits usually maybe not sharing anything to other parties, but not to the same degree web sites tie that web crawling history to targeted ads. Still for those free sites, not the subscription sites are way different.

The Tubi Service uses advertising to provide you with a free service. The use of targeted behavioral advertising, which is one type of advertising Tubi uses, may constitute a sale under the definition.

They have to make money in other ways then just streaming content.

[JohnAV]

UCI physicists exploring use of Blu-ray disc lasers to kill COVID-19, other viruses - UCI News

Irvine, Calif., May 19, 2020 – A new weapon in the arsenal against the coronavirus may be sitting in your home entertainment console. A team led by physicist Chris Barty of the University of California, Irvine is researching the use of diodes from Blu-ray digital video disc devices as deep-ultraviolet laser photon sources to rapidly disinfect surfaces and the indoor air that swirls around us.

Barty, UCI Distinguished Professor of physics & astronomy, said that such UV light sterilizers would be cheap compared to current medical- and scientific-grade systems and that it’d be possible to deploy them almost anywhere.

“If these sources are successful, I think you could build them into a mask and clean the air that’s coming in and out of you,” he said. “Or you could set these things up in the air circulation ducts of major buildings, and the airflow that goes through could be sterilized.”

They could also function in hand-held wand devices, Barty said, or as a “light curtain” through which people walk as they enter a room, exposing them to UV-C radiation. He noted that at this wavelength – between 200 and 260 nanometers – UV radiation will destroy viruses and other pathogens but poses minimal risk to humans.

See Blu-ray is healthier for you then streaming!

[bhampton]

My Neighbor is my movie buddy lately but she checks her phone too much and sometime responds to TXTs while we watch.

I think she likes to tell her crew she's over watching a movie but then she can't put it down.

We are fighting for the preservation of movies and soon no one (young) will have the patience to watch one.


-Brian

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Before they were called apps they were identified as widgets. That is defined as "an application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service." Programmers are recreating accessing a web site via a app now rather then the user accessing everything though a browser.

While it is not interactive, the paid access streamer host is capturing your viewing habits usually maybe not sharing anything to other parties, but not to the same degree web sites tie that web crawling history to targeted ads. Still for those free sites, not the subscription sites are way different.



They have to make money in other ways then just streaming content.

None of which has anything to do with what I was talking about.

We all know that websites track what we do while at their websites and even where we go when we leave them. This has nothing to do with Scener or the usage of social media in general while watching streamed content. No one has to use Scener, or any form of social media chatting functions, when viewing streamed content. Engaging in any kind of chatting while watching movies is OPTIONAL.

[bhampton]

Remember iTunes music that you would buy ? ... Then iTunes Match... and now iTunes music subscription gives you everything iTunes used to have for sale for a monthly fee.

ATV+ came along with a handful of original shows ... but now Apple is buying content to add to ATV+ making it more like Amazon Prime.

I suppose people still can buy stuff using Amazon's movie service.... but I think things are changing.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a...090001170.html


More people will rather subscribe. Or better yet, use someone else's subscription. There's a TON of people who think movies should be free or close to it.

-Brian

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by bhampton

My Neighbor is my movie buddy lately but she checks her phone too much and sometime responds to TXTs while we watch.

I think she likes to tell her crew she's over watching a movie but then she can't put it down.

We are fighting for the preservation of movies and soon no one (young) will have the patience to watch one.


-Brian

It has nothing to do with patience, but rather of interest. Social interactions are sometimes more interesting and more important than what is being watched. Not everyone places the same importance on viewing movies that we do. What is nigh unto a sacred ritual for some of us is nothing more than a way to pass the time for others.

[JohnAV]

Tom Hanks WWII Film ‘Greyhound’ Alters Course In Apple Deal: Film Will Premiere On Apple TV + - Deadline 5/19/20

EXCLUSIVE: In a real shocker, the WWII battleship drama Greyhound that Tom Hanks wrote and stars in has abruptly changed course and will berth at Apple. Originally on the Sony Pictures theatrical calendar for Father’s Day weekend, the film instead will become the biggest feature film commitment made by Apple to premiere on Apple TV+. It is the latest in a growing indication that Apple is making its move, and becoming as aggressive as any streamer or studio in auctions for the acquisition of films and TV projects.

The project was assembled by CAA Media Finance and FilmNation, with Get Low helmer Aaron Schneider directing and Hanks’ Playtone partner Gary Goetzman producing as a Playtone Production from Sony Pictures/Stage Six Films. Sony Pictures acquired world rights just before the Berlin market the following February, where the picture was poised to be the big acquisition title. It was going to be a major theatrical release for Sony — first slotted for May 8 but then moved into Father’s Day weekend June 19, until the pandemic washed out every studio’s plans and shuttered movie theaters around the world.

That’s when the decision was made to alter course. The picture quietly was shopped in stealthy fashion, and it became a bidding battle between the big streamers. I’m told a deal closed in the $70 million range, with the auction brokered by CAA Media Finance and FilmNation.

GREYHOUND - Official Trailer (HD) |Â*Apple TV+ - YouTube

[Vilya]

Nothing Apple gets first will convinve me to buy into their eco system.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Nothing Apple gets first will convinve me to buy into their eco system.

Sure sure, as he is always acquiring his new toys.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Sure sure, as he is always acquiring his new toys.

My new toys are typically 120 millimeters in diameter.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

It has nothing to do with patience, but rather of interest. Social interactions are sometimes more interesting and more important than what is being watched. Not everyone places the same importance on viewing movies that we do. What is nigh unto a sacred ritual for some of us is nothing more than a way to pass the time for others.

Attention spans my friend, attention spans.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Attention spans my friend, attention spans.

What were we talking about?

You can't lose patience with something that you are not even aware of.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

What were we talking about?

My long standing point of millennials and their ever shrinking attention spans.

I think, I can’t quite remember!

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

My long standing point of millennials and their ever shrinking attention spans.

I think, I can’t quite remember!

I wasn't talking about your long standing point; I do not feel that I should be discussing the prominent feature atop your noggin' as a matter of principle.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I wasn't talking about your long standing point; I do not feel that I should be discussing the prominent feature atop your noggin' as a matter of principle.

That’s not where my long standing point is based.

[JohnAV]

Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge - Bloomberg 5/19/20

Apple Inc. is acquiring older movies and shows for its TV+ streaming service, aiming to build a back catalog of content that can better stack up against the huge libraries available on Netflix, Hulu and Disney+.

The company’s video-programming executives have taken pitches from Hollywood studios about licensing older content for TV+ and have bought some shows and movies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move represents a subtle strategy shift for Apple TV+, which launched in November with a lineup of original programs. The company plans to keep TV+ focused on original shows, and hasn’t yet acquired any huge franchises or blockbusters for its back catalog, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.

Getting a bit more serious, I haven't bit the Apple TV+ but going old content route I think this might be viable as HBO, Netflix, CBS All access, Epic all have some old content but not a lot.