๐ผ PHYSICAL MEDIA IS KING!๐ฟ
IT JUST IS.
shareAmen brother.
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Yes it is!
shareToo much clutter, I prefer streaming
Will you finish The California Movie Library project already!?!
I want pics
Without physical media you will eventally be watching highly edited and censored versions of movies.
Phyical media is the only way to keep them they way they should be.
Yes streaming is easier and as you say "less clutter" but you are at the hands of corporations who can do as i said above on a whim like we are seeing with some streaming services.
Spielberg cgi'd the Fed's shotguns into walkie-talkies in E.T. and Lucas famously defaced the Star Wars OT and those are physical media though
I don't disagree with you about corporations 'fixing' things that aren't broken and maybe someday Blazing Saddles could be scrapped...that would be a shame
So what if shotguns became walkie talkies or whichever order Han shot? They're just silly movies.
shareI don't like a director going back and switching things up years after the fact
And Han straight murdered Greedo, why wouldn't he?
"SILLY"?...YOU BASTARD!...THEY ARE ART AND ART SHALL NOT BE ALTERED...ALSO,AS SHOGUN MENTIONED...HAN MURDERED THAT FUCKER...ITS BEST THAT WAY.
shareWhy would art shall not be altered? Also they're just silly movies. Not a high art kind that deserved to be preserved in a museum anyway. Star Wars nerds are the worst! Took stupid things too seriously and ruining the enjoyment of stupid entertainments.
shareCOOL HAND LUKE KICKS MONET'S ASS ALL DAY,EVERYDAY.
shareStar Wars OT is a classic
Lucas tinkered with the content and left a lot of long time fans very disappointed
It was a dumb, ego-driven move and he was rightfully kicked around for doing it
Should the louvre paint over the mona lisa's decolletage?
shareLike I said, Star Wars and E.T. are not comparable to Mona Lisa. They are just silly movies for KIDS. Not a hundred years old one off masterpiece.
My son's doodles are arts too. But if he wants to change them up for no reason nobody would mind. Not all art is held in high regard.
Star Wars and E.T. are classic entertainment and should NEVER have been fooled with
The Mona Lisa is nice enough but sort of looks like my bitchy girl cousin sneaking a fart after Thanksgiving Dinner
Star Wars and E.T. are entertainments.
shareSo is all art.
shareAnd I don't care if THE creator (or owner) of said art is "ruining" their own product. It's theirs ffs! Don't like it? MAKE YOUR OWN ARTS.
shareI agree that if it's the artist changing their own art, so Lucas is within his rights. Fans may not like it, but as long as it's the director, or the artist who's doing it, it is their work. When it's not the artist, that's where the line is blurred for me.
I do make my own arts, and if someone else went and changed what I've created without my knowledge or permission for distribution, I would have a problem with that. Especially if the original wasn't available anymore.
> Without physical media you will eventally be watching highly edited and censored versions of movies.
And sometimes you won't have the movie at all. Song Of The South won two Academy Awards and was nominated for a third, had an original song that's still familiar seventy-five years later, was a hit at the box office, and although some blacks were offended by it even then many others weren't. Yet Disney won't stream it. There are some places one can buy it on DVD, but it's unclear whether they do so with Disney's permission or mere lack of objection.
Yes, I've read about this movie
Censoring or flat out burying old works because they are offensive is a crybaby move
You can still purchase Mein Kampf and I did, I read it and it was beyond absurd but it gives some insight into what a lot of people were willing to believe at a certain point in history
I OWN A "PREMIUM BOOTLEG" OF SONG OF THE SOUTH...ONLY OTHER WAYS TO OWN IT ARE THE UBER RARE EUROPEAN VHS OR JAPANESE LASERDISC.
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shareThis is how I picture KOWALSKI but that guy doesn't have a giant beard and a doobie๐
shareI APPRECIATE THE BEARD AND DOOBIE PART...BUT COME ON!...THAT DUDE IS LOOKS LIKE HE MIGHT DIE AT ANY TIME,AND HE PROBABLY WOULDNT NOTICE.๐ค
I ON THE OTHER HAND AM A 6 FOOT 6,MUSCLED,SIZE 16 SHOE,BLONDE HAIR,BLUE EYED SPECIMEN OF AWESOMENESS....NOT TO TOOT MY OWN HORN,BUT HITLER WOULD HAVE HAD TO HID HIS ERECTION IF HE EVER GOT A GANDER AT ME.๐
Although I went download/streaming-only some time ago. I admit the advantages of physical:
Bonus features/material
Larger selection of high-res titles
Works when the internet is down
The visceral feel of handling physical media
(Vinyl fans would add sound & cover art. But digital is very, very good these days, and cover art can be displayed via a player or computer)
But I went "discless" and really, for me, there is no going back.
For movies yes, but for music I'd have way too much clutter so it's mostly on MP3 and has been for years.
shareI STOPPED BUYING CDS MYSELF FEW YEARS AGO...ALTHOUGH I ALREADY HAVE LIKE 5000 IN SLEEVES ALPHABETIZED IN 3 HUGE DJ CASES.
shareI still buy second hand CD's, burn them to MP3, back them up and sell them on.
shareANYTHING PAST WHAT I ALREADY OWNED ON CD...I RIP IT OFF YOUTUBE AND BURN IT ONTO DISC.
shareTry using FLAC, way better than MP3. I recently dug out my old CD collections and ripped them into FLACs.
sharegigabyte hard drives and flash drives are so inexpensive now--a terabyte is pretty standard on home computers--there is no reason I can think of not to use flac.
shareIT SOUNDS DUMB...THATS A PRETTY GOOD REASON.๐
shareTrue. One disadvantage of FLAC is when you use Apple stuffs. Then ALAC would be more convenient. Not using Apple stuffs is even better.
shareFor me it was a 3 way fight between music, comics and films. Sadly, films lost.
shareI bet you have a room full of Vinyl! ๐
shareThe loft conversion (Manpad - 10metres by 5 metres ) houses my comic and music collection (over 40 years of collecting). I stopped counting when I hit 3000 vinyl albums and 10000 vinyl singles (the ultra rare stuff is held in storage. There's also some music memorabilia up there, along with my turntable, media stuff, instruments and home studio (from my music industry days).
The music memorabilia has now spilled out to the Kingshed pub at the bottom of the garden.
What turntable do you have? I have several but Iโve been wanting Technics 1200โs for years.
shareMarantz turntable / B and W speakers.
shareIโm not familiar with those but Iโll look it up.
shareWithout wanting to get too techy, what you'll find with sound systems, is that you'll reach a certain level both cost wise and audio wise. After that you have to spend a disproportional amount, in order to achieve a negligible improvement in sound quality.
My set up is the upper end of quality before we enter the realms of silly money (if that makes sense).
Indeed it does. ๐
shareGreat stuff! My brother has a pair of B&Ws and they sound excellent. He also has a pair of Dynaudio bookshelf speakers. The big B&Ws are better (and they look so freaking cool with the 70s spaceship tweeter design.)
shareMine are about 4ft high.
shareI've been into stereo equipment since the mid 1980s. I have very limited space now, so my current system is not the best I've ever owned, but still pretty good. Magnepan speakers probably remain my favorite, but need a bigger space than I have now. The most expensive system I ever owned was an MBL 7008 integrated amp, Krell Resolution 3 speakers, and Esoteric DV-50 universal player.
Currently
Totem Acoustic Arro speakers
Bel Canto C5i integrated amp
Bryston Pi digital music player
Ooooh, this is nice stuff.
sharethere's lots to be said for it.
you never have to worry about some streaming service losing rights to a movie you want to see & it becoming impossible to find.
but there's a lot to be said for living an uncluttered life with no pieces of plastic taking over your living area.
there's no right answer. just preferences!
For me, the problem was that I always managed to scratch my CDs.
Somehow, it has been much easier for me to keep my DVDs in a good condition.
Maybe I just have matured over the years.
But it was easier for me to preserve audio cassettes as well.
Likewise, I managed to keep a selection of old VHS tapes.
Nevertheless, it is hard for me to see any drawback with streaming services.
Except for maybe that you might lose Internet sometimes, like a different poster said.
However, it seems to not happen often enough to be a huge issue to me.