Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread - Page 2553 - Blu-ray Forum

BluBonnet · 06-03-2025, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mwynn

I tried shake shack recently, it was decent.

I have tried a few Shake Shacks, quality varies by location, imho. The best one I know has the best burgers ever

Steedeel · 06-03-2025, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by crutzulee

Honestly...quite the opposite!

I'm just sitting here in my backyard, putting the final touches on my upcoming vacation - emailing AIRBNB hosts, booking tours etc... after last year's great experience, my natural inclination would have been to space out too good of a thing...but we're just going to go for it and enjoy the things we can while we can...

Of course, that doesn't mean I've abandoned the HT alltogether... I just put in a bid on a DENON A1H to potentially go 9.4.6

...Having access to the internet wirelessly in one's backyard is both a blessing and a curse LOL... Hopefully the wife will be home soon to distract me from spending more money..LOL

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Originally Posted by Ender14

My signature agrees with Crutzulee.

If it was me saying all this, Vilya would be on my case!

Seriously, in a scenario where we don’t care about the things that makes us happy now, family holidays, film, music, food, gaming, etc.. I would rather not be here anyway, life is tough enough without the good stuff.

Steedeel · 06-03-2025, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Vilya

I hope that everything went well for Anthony P's dad today.

Yes, hopefully he gets beck to us when he is able, I forgot to mention to him my dad had a quadruple bypass ten years ago, and he is doing well now (he is 85)

Steedeel · 06-03-2025, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Vilya

Some longtime forum member, who is completely unknown to me, sent me a PM asking:

"do you happen to have any extra Disney Movie Club blus available?"

I don't know for certain what they mean by "available", but I would not be surprised if they are looking for free blu-rays- and OOP ones at that. They did apologize for sending a "random message", but seeing as they sent it, anyway, the apology rings hollow.

For the record I do not sell my blu-rays nor do I just give them away for the asking.

Anyone else getting similar PMs?

I hate scroungers.

Vilya · 06-03-2025, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Steedeel

If it was me saying all this, Vilya would be on my case!

I am sure that I have no idea what you are on about.

Vilya · 06-03-2025, 10:09 PM

There must be lots and lots of good people still in the world. It would be one hell of a statistical aberration for me to know so many of them personally and yet have it be some rare anomaly. While good people endure, hope endures.

Warm Gun · 06-03-2025, 10:25 PM

Future-proofed my movie server with an SAS expansion card, an externally powered E91267-203 supporting up to 20 devices. The HBA is a 9207-8i. I have four hard drives (or three HDD and one SSD) connected directly to the HBA and the other four through the SAS to the HBA. Don't need the SAS yet, but now I know that I will not be limited by my next hard drive. I could connect up to 24 drives.

Motherboard and CPU are an Asus B350-F and Ryzen 5 2600X that I once used for gaming. Bought that Corsair RM1000x two weeks ago. Very overpowered for a NAS, but I like how many drives can be plugged directly with the Type 4 cables. The old PSU was sometimes not powering on a random drive anymore.

[Show spoiler]

No RAID, no mirrors, nothing. I only make copies. Have a few external hard drives and naked drives that I connect with a docking station. I prefer the docking station method. Should have switched to it sooner.

Gotho(redux) · 06-04-2025, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by crutzulee

emailing AIRBNB hosts

Haven't you seen Barbarian?

Wendell R. Breland · 06-04-2025, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Warm Gun

No RAID, no mirrors, nothing. I only make copies. Have a few external hard drives and naked drives that I connect with a docking station. I prefer the docking station method. Should have switched to it sooner.

Are cataloging what movies are on what disk? IOW if a drive fails will you know what titles have been lost?

Warm Gun · 06-04-2025, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Are cataloging what movies are on what disk? IOW if a drive fails will you know what titles have been lost?

Most movies divided between drives alphabetically. One drive for director collections. Foreign (not including the UK and Australia) movies on one drive, which has some shortcuts to the director collections. Example, Japan folder has a shortcut to Shinya Tsukamoto in the director collection drive. Animated movies in one drive, TV shows in another. Wouldn't take me very long to find out what's missing. I should take screenshots, though.

Wendell R. Breland · 06-04-2025, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Warm Gun

I should take screenshots, though.

A just in case you forgot, use the Dir command to list all your info to a text file. Example, Dir/s/w > D:\Westerns Drive.TXT. This will list the contents of the Root and Subdirectories in the Wide format to a text file.

Dir/? Shows all the switches available.

crutzulee · 06-05-2025, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Gotho(redux)

Haven't you seen Barbarian?

Absolutely love BARBARIAN ... would snap up a physical release in a heart beat...

Also love AIRBNB... We pretty much always stay with superhosts and have never had a bad experience..

The only place we're staying in a hotel this time around will be Dublin as I want to be walking (stumbling) distance from both the Guinness brewery and Jameson distillery..

Vilya · 06-05-2025, 03:27 AM

Busy day tomorrow. I have my cardiac stress test (CPET) at noon and then I will be seeing my transplant cardiologist later that afternoon. The stress test is riskier for me now, but it has to be done. It's going to be a very hard day.

Steedeel · 06-05-2025, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Vilya

Busy day tomorrow. I have my cardiac stress test (CPET) at noon and then I will be seeing my transplant cardiologist later that afternoon. The stress test is riskier for me now, but it has to be done. It's going to be a very hard day.

Best wishes, hope it goes as well as possible.

bhampton · 06-05-2025, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Vilya

Some longtime forum member, who is completely unknown to me, sent me a PM asking:

"do you happen to have any extra Disney Movie Club blus available?"

Some day it doesn't hurt to ask. But what a thing to ask! It boggles the mind.

That said, Does anyone happen to have any extra 1974 Plymouth Dusters available?

alchav21 · 06-05-2025, 02:55 PM

No but I had this 1966 Chevelle SS396 with Holly 4Barrel and 4 on the Floor in 1968!

1966Chevelle-ss396-2.jpg

bhampton · 06-05-2025, 04:44 PM

So cool 😎

Sometimes “the future” isn’t everything

Steedeel · 06-06-2025, 09:59 AM

Bhampton, are you going to see Dangerous Animals? Sharks and serial killers, oh my!

bhampton · 06-06-2025, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Steedeel

Bhampton, are you going to see Dangerous Animals? Sharks and serial killers, oh my!

I didn't even know about it until you mentioned it. Looks like they made if for me so yes I will see it and I hope to own it in time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32299316/

Steedeel · 06-06-2025, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by bhampton

I didn't even know about it until you mentioned it. Looks like they made if for me so yes I will see it and I hope to own it in time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32299316/

Same, blind buy for me.

06-03-2025, 10:09 PM	#51046
Vilya Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Sep 2011 Location:In the gloaming 4K collection:772 Blu-ray collection:5292 DVD collection:3918 Digital collection:1695 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:17	There must be lots and lots of good people still in the world. It would be one hell of a statistical aberration for me to know so many of them personally and yet have it be some rare anomaly. While good people endure, hope endures.

06-03-2025, 10:25 PM	#51047
Warm Gun Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Dec 2020 4K collection:127 Blu-ray collection:650 DVD collection:103 Digital collection:2 Trading Score:10	Future-proofed my movie server with an SAS expansion card, an externally powered E91267-203 supporting up to 20 devices. The HBA is a 9207-8i. I have four hard drives (or three HDD and one SSD) connected directly to the HBA and the other four through the SAS to the HBA. Don't need the SAS yet, but now I know that I will not be limited by my next hard drive. I could connect up to 24 drives. Motherboard and CPU are an Asus B350-F and Ryzen 5 2600X that I once used for gaming. Bought that Corsair RM1000x two weeks ago. Very overpowered for a NAS, but I like how many drives can be plugged directly with the Type 4 cables. The old PSU was sometimes not powering on a random drive anymore. [Show spoiler] No RAID, no mirrors, nothing. I only make copies. Have a few external hard drives and naked drives that I connect with a docking station. I prefer the docking station method. Should have switched to it sooner.

06-05-2025, 03:27 AM	#51053
Vilya Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Sep 2011 Location:In the gloaming 4K collection:772 Blu-ray collection:5292 DVD collection:3918 Digital collection:1695 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:17	Busy day tomorrow. I have my cardiac stress test (CPET) at noon and then I will be seeing my transplant cardiologist later that afternoon. The stress test is riskier for me now, but it has to be done. It's going to be a very hard day.

06-05-2025, 02:55 PM	#51056
alchav21 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Apr 2009 Location:ST George, Utah Blu-ray collection:1 Digital collection:2 iTunes collection:2 Trading Score:52	No but I had this 1966 Chevelle SS396 with Holly 4Barrel and 4 on the Floor in 1968! 1966Chevelle-ss396-2.jpg

06-05-2025, 04:44 PM	#51057
bhampton Blu-ray Count Member since:Aug 2007 4K collection:981 Blu-ray collection:2537 DVD collection:67 Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:18	So cool 😎 Sometimes “the future” isn’t everything

06-06-2025, 09:59 AM	#51058
Steedeel Blu-ray King Member since:Apr 2011 Location:England 4K collection:284 Blu-ray collection:1253	Bhampton, are you going to see Dangerous Animals? Sharks and serial killers, oh my!

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