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

[cheez avenger]

Farewell My Concubine is $19.99 on 4K from Amazon. went ahead and snagged it. Great price.

[Vilya]

A couple of more titles added:



including my 700th 4K disc:

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Watched Gladiator 2 4K last night, what a stunning disc! I can’t imagine any disc looking or sounding better than this this year. Enjoyed the heck out of the film too.

It just made it through my cut off point. Any discs from April onwards go to 2026 viewing (yes, I’m eccentric)

You have to be rich to be eccentric otherwise you're just plain nuts.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Farewell My Concubine is $19.99 on 4K from Amazon. went ahead and snagged it. Great price.

Thanks I ordered too.

I was going to watch this on Kanopy and then decide if I wanted to buy it but I have a feeling I will enjoy it. I remember seeing a trailer for it in theaters long ago.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

You have to be rich to be eccentric otherwise you're just plain nuts.

Nuts it is.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by crutzulee

One in five Americans believe that the earth is flat. A further one in five is not sure... the numbers get WORSE for the younger generation with only 2/3rds of millennial Americans secure in the knowledge that the earth is spherical...

They believe that Ukraine is the aggressor in the current conflict and that there is actually a net INFLOW of drugs and illegals into their country from the north..

If you don't see where this is headed, then you are not a student of history.... this is nowhere near the first time we've seen this play... sadly it won't be the last... brothers one day... killing and scapegoating each other the next...

look I was just trying to reassure you by being as realistic as I can be.

Now as to this post. There is a reason the term village idiot exists, because it has always been the case that they existed. The difference is now we unfortunately have to listen to all the idiots and not just the easily avoided one in our village.

[Vilya]

There has never been a shortage of idiots. Social media just amplifies their voices making it all that much harder to avoid them.

[crutzulee]

I have been called worse...

[sapiendut]

The other day someone asked me about measurable difference in visual quality between disc and Kscape. It’s no better than asking for a “measurable subjective quality”. How do you measure shadow details? How do you measure motion artefacts? And I’m back to the hospital tomorrow.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by crutzulee

I have been called worse...

I think that we were both referring to the flat earthers and those like unto them.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

The other day someone asked me about measurable difference in visual quality between disc and Kscape. It’s no better than asking for a “measurable subjective quality”. How do you measure shadow details? How do you measure motion artefacts? And I’m back to the hospital tomorrow.

Just show them a demo of the two in action and let them decide which they like best; that's all that will matter in the end, anyway.

I am sorry about your return to the hospital. I hope that your stay will be a short one and that it gets you closer to a full recovery.

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

The other day someone asked me about measurable difference in visual quality between disc and Kscape. It’s no better than asking for a “measurable subjective quality”. How do you measure shadow details? How do you measure motion artefacts? And I’m back to the hospital tomorrow.

Hope the visit to the hospital goes well and you hear some good news.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Just show them a demo of the two in action and let them decide which they like best; that's all that will matter in the end, anyway.

I am sorry about your return to the hospital. I hope that your stay will be a short one and that it gets you closer to a full recovery.

I invite people to come to my home theatre and judge for themselves but these keyboard warriors and they have the mindset that everything is measurable. And when the measurements don’t jive with their opinions, they claim that the measurements don’t matter in the real world.

I hope my visits to the hospital can be reduced as time passes. It is freaking annoying that I pretty much have to be there every couple of weeks. That and I can’t work when I’m at the hospital all the time.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

I invite people to come to my home theatre and judge for themselves but these keyboard warriors and they have the mindset that everything is measurable. And when the measurements don’t jive with their opinions, they claim that the measurements don’t matter in the real world.

I hope my visits to the hospital can be reduced as time passes. It is freaking annoying that I pretty much have to be there every couple of weeks. That and I can’t work when I’m at the hospital all the time.

Careful with your invites...some of us live right around the corner from you..LOL...

Good luck tomorrow...

[sapiendut]

Feel free to contact me if you are in the neighborhood.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by crutzulee

Careful with your invites...some of us live right around the corner from you..LOL...

Good luck tomorrow...

And some of us are willing to travel, circumstances permitting.

[bhampton]

Every address in my town is being provided access to fiber optic internet. I can't wait to sign up because it's not starlink.

It is always the best time to make the better choice.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Every address in my town is being provided access to fiber optic internet. I can't wait to sign up because it's not starlink.

It is always the best time to make the better choice.

Finally... you too will be able to rid yourself of the scourge of physical media and realize the streaming nirvana that asymmetrical upload download had to offer..blah..blah..lol...

[bhampton]

I have a Florida house that has Fiber Optic internet since we bought it. There's a TV there not a proper home theater.

Kind of hate that it's in Flori duh but the beach nearby has Volleyball nets so that makes up for it.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I only stream at my Florida house which has had Fiber Optic internet since we bought it. There's a TV there not a proper home theater.

Kind of hate that it's in Flori duh but the beach nearby has Volleyball nets so that makes up for it.

A couple of years ago, I was very close to buying a place just north of Miami...I think about it sometimes when I'm staring at a few feet of snow in my backyard.. given the current state of my household, I'd be vacationing alone...