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

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by gotmule

I use the My Movies Pro (4) app.

Originally Posted by Ender14

That's the one I use as well. Very easy to use and great sort features.

Most all these media databases appear much better than my early method of media tracking. On the Sinclair computer I defined a 2D or 3D array that I used to enter title and a couple of more items. Data was stored on a portable audio cassette recorder and printed on a 2" thermal paper printer.

With Movie Collector I create two list, one by type (Movie, Special) sorted alphabetically and another with several filters like 1.85, westerns, not viewed, 3D, UHD, immersive audio, etc. I export out as tab delimited text, import into WordPerfect using macros. These are printed as PDF which are transferred to a tablet that I use in the home theater. Did similar with DOS based FileExpress.

Movie Collector has a mobile app, it is on the spouses tablet and she keeps up with the viewing dates.

Sample page:

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[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by gotmule

I have not seen a few of the bigger titles as I (once again) am waiting on my decision to pick up a MadVR Envy before I pop them in. Still looking at you Wendell.

Have you auditioned the Envy? If so, thoughts?

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

It's one of the best films of the year that no one saw.

I haven't seen it, either, buy, hey, I do own it! I always like hearing good things about movies that I own, but haven't yet watched.

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Have you auditioned the Envy? If so, thoughts?

Just spending a lot of time researching and asking questions at the moment, but I am close to pulling the trigger.

[cheez avenger]

Gamefly is having a big sale on used 4K discs. I picked up:

Child's Play 4K
Massive Talent 4K
Friday the 13th 4K
Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K


They were $8.99 each and I had a $5 coupon , so it was $34 shipped.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Gamefly is having a big sale on used 4K discs. I picked up:

Child's Play 4K
Massive Talent 4K
Friday the 13th 4K
Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K


They were $8.99 each and I had a $5 coupon , so it was $34 shipped.

Recently picked up the Child’s Play boxset/remake and Chucky season 1 (going to risk it!)

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Recently picked up the Child’s Play boxset/remake and Chucky season 1 (going to risk it!)

I have been tempted to get Chucky season 1, but I have held off doing so. Please let us know what you think of it.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I have been tempted to get Chucky season 1, but I have held off doing so. Please let us know what you think of it.

Of course.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Recently picked up the Child’s Play boxset/remake and Chucky season 1 (going to risk it!)

I have a BD set that has all the movies except it doesn't have the newer one with Aubrey Plaza or the television series.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Of course.

See if you can get it watched before I get around to seeing what's it's name.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

See if you can get it watched before I get around to seeing what's it's name.

So that’s about 2024 then?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

I have a BD set that has all the movies except it doesn't have the newer one with Aubrey Plaza or the television series.

Yeah, I must have the same one. The remake I bought individually.

[cheez avenger]

OMG, I just started watching Bardo: False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths by Alejandro G. Iñarritu on Netflix and it is insane! It's in 4K DV / Atmos and it's a cross between Fellini/Gilliam/Jodorowsky, along with Iñarittu's trademark philosophical flourishes. 30 minutes in and I can already tell it's going to get nominated, at the very least, for cinematography. Gorgeous looking film. It's absurdist, surreal, expressionistic all in one.

[cheez avenger]

Finished Bardo and it was top tier. Mind blown. Highly recommended!

[Boccaccio]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Finished Bardo and it was top tier. Mind blown. Highly recommended!

Comparable to Birdman ?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Data was stored on a portable audio cassette

brings back a lot of memories.

When I was young I had a commodore 64 with the tape drive. I had created two games

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a RPG inspired by D&D: you created a party of 4 and the game would randomly create rooms in a cave. All you had on screen was player stats and part of the map)

a Risk knockoff based in space

both written in basic that came with the machine. How I got stated in programming.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Finished Bardo and it was top tier. Mind blown. Highly recommended!

Added to My List.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

brings back a lot of memories.

The Sinclair showed me that I would rather pay for software than write it. My first program was to calculate the azimuth and elevation of a receiving satellite dish based upon the desired satellite and the receiving latitude and longitude. The math was only about 3 lines of code but to get it to print the results, accept only certain inputs, etc. I had quite a few lines of code and a lot of time invested.

Once programed it was much more convenient than my HP-45 (still on my desk) and I could print the results. For quite sometime now spreadsheets have been used for most of my calculations. Used for finance, projector throw, media and electronic parts database, audio filters, etc.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Finished Bardo and it was top tier. Mind blown. Highly recommended!

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Added to My List.

I did the same. I should get to it by 2024.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Boccaccio

Comparable to Birdman ?

Sure, but even more abstract since it's autobiographical.