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Post by brutalis on Nov 22, 2020 11:28:22 GMT -5
4K quality is great but do I really need to upgrade my home video collection to it?
Well maybe some of it....
There, I 4k'd it.
Why upgrade? Our eyesight only gets worse as we age. Will the difference be that much more noticeable and/or appreciated or important? Now if I could afford a television to cover an entire wall, maybe I might buy in. Otherwise, not that big a deal to me. Recorded straight from television, VHS, standard DVD quite fine by me. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 15:03:08 GMT -5
I have one like it but can't play it.
Never owned a laserdisc player and don't know exactly when the format went out of style.
There, I said it on a shiny disc.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 22, 2020 16:11:40 GMT -5
This excerpt, from General Mark Milley's (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) Veterans Day remarks, at the dedication of the Army Museum, sums up not only my view of the oath I took, in 1984 and 1988 (as a midshipman and then as a commissioned officer); but the majority of those who took that oath...
"We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution, for the United States of America."
There, our forefather's said it!
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2020 18:01:38 GMT -5
A guy tried to sell me an overpriced book. So I sent him a pic of the variant he didn't know about...and he wanted it, so then I used his own crazy price algorithm back on him, not expecting him to bite...but he did. So I sold a variant for 2.5x ($150) what I would have sold it for to anyone else ($60). I got it for free when we ordered books a few years ago.
Overpriced books (including Mile High Comics) serve me well that way....I most likely don't buy them, but use them to base my own competitive price...
There, i sold it.
You could sell an Eskimo ice cubes. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2020 18:04:44 GMT -5
I wanted to see what the fuss was about , so this morning I watched the first John Wick movie. It was like watching a Terminator Movie. I liked it.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 22, 2020 18:09:59 GMT -5
I have one like it but can't play it.
Never owned a laserdisc player and don't know exactly when the format went out of style.
There, I said it on a shiny disc.
There are plenty of good videos about the format on youtube. It started to go out of style once DVD started to get popular, so around 99 or 00 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 18:11:36 GMT -5
I wanted to see what the fuss was about , so this morning I watched the first John Wick movie. It was like watching a Terminator Movie. I liked it.
Me too, although I'm not the biggest Keanu Reeves fan. There's a Part 2 and 3, and a 4th that was supposed to be underway until 'rona came along.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2020 18:53:33 GMT -5
I wanted to see what the fuss was about , so this morning I watched the first John Wick movie. It was like watching a Terminator Movie. I liked it.
Me too, although I'm not the biggest Keanu Reeves fan. There's a Part 2 and 3, and a 4th that was supposed to be underway until 'rona came along.
There were 4 movies made but I started with the first one. |
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Post by berkley on Nov 22, 2020 20:09:43 GMT -5
They're all good, and they get even more over the top and unrealistic as the series progresses.
There's also a connection with the Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde - I think they shared a fight scene choreographer, something like that, and Theron and Reeves trained together at times for their respective roles.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 0:21:47 GMT -5
In most years, this forums' Twelve Days of Classic Comics Christmas is a highlight of the season and brings cheer and joy to this member, After the year that 2020 has been, I am particularly in need of cheer and looking forwars to Kurt's announcement of the topic, which usually occurs Thanksgiving weekend.
Bring on the comic Christmas cheer!!!
There I typed it.
-M
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Post by impulse on Nov 23, 2020 8:34:36 GMT -5
Yeah, 4K over 1080p and frankly even 1080p over DVD were nowhere near the quality jump from VHS to DVDs. They are definitely an improvement over the prior format, unmistakably, but not so much as to go out of your way to replace everything you own. I've just kind of upgraded organically. Started getting Blu-Rays after I got my PS3 because why not. By the time I bought my newest TV, everything was 4K, so I'll get an occasional 4K digital movie. Honestly, though, 1080p is already so good that when upscaled to 4K, it's virtually indistinguishable to my eyes, so I'm not fussesd.
John Wick movies - first is BY FAR the best, and the only one approaching anything resembling "realistic" and I use the term loosely. If you want a story, consider the story done after the first one, and the sequels as Elseworlds/What-If continuations. If you are down for bombastic over-the-top live-action cartoon insanity, make some popcorn and throw on the sequels. They are fun, brainless, dual middle fingers to suspension of disbelief action movies.
That said, I am looking to number 4 when they make it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 14:12:58 GMT -5
I went to the bank this morning, and took a number to wait my turn.
While waiting, a dude had to leave....and he voluntarily gave his number to me. It's happened a couple times before, someone passing a number to me if they leave.
A lady, who was chewing gum the way a cow chews grass, began to grumble when I went to the counter before her...and began to mumble something about my 'privilege'.
Should I feel guilty I got an earlier number (37) compared to the (48) I had on me?
I middle-fingered her on the way out.
There, I got my bank service.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 23, 2020 14:27:43 GMT -5
I respond more to the audio than the video so I've never been enticed by high definition images. Recently there was a Laurel And Hardy restoration release on Blue-Ray and DVD and some people totally trashed it for the picture quality simply not looking exactly like pristine film (which rarely exists for film this old and loved). I was very excited that they restored the audio though... it was a huge upgrade and made the films much more enjoyable. I probably can't enjoy a lot of the modern movies though because of what I call whispers at whisper levels and explosions near explosion level. I don't want realism, even in a theater where they were designing this approach for, I want to hear as easily as I can all the information. Plus there are loads of people with hearing issues who miss all the very quiet stuff. So I walk out of a movie theater with a headache from the naturalistic sound (and the perpetually moving camera whether handheld or CGI can play a part as well), others probably walk out not having been able to fully follow things. With the tv I have to watch with a finger on the volume for many modern ear shows, turning up the whispering, turning down the 'background' music or super loud effects. It sucks. I have extremely sensitive hearing but even I can't hear some of the quiet talking bits of modern movies... and yet so much on tv is shrill yelling voices to me. I've tried all the audio setting to minimize some things but still I'm in a battle with sound on DVDs and tv so often while almost never made unhappy with the picture quality. HD is nice for some things, but on your average tv show or story-centric movie superfluous. This is why I tend to enjoy older films and shows (when they are in good condition) the most. For modern action I did like the Jason Statham Transporters, and the Pitch Black Vin Diesel films. Also Pacific Rim (just too bad the sequel wasn't by enough of the same people), and Guardians. These all had solid writing though. I hate the things with people (John Travolta) shooting and killing while making supposed 'funny' running dialogue, Tarantino pulls it off but that's been it... most are too much like really bad Howling Commandos, not Spider-Man. I hate the Lobo and similar grinning killer characters in comics, with them acting like it's all a big laugh, maybe even killing thinly disguised real people 'for fun', It makes me too aware I'm reading a ridiculous comic about unreal characters. First Blood was not a superhero movie to me, I couldn't believe it when Rambo PJs and cartoons started popping up. Something went real wrong back there, all those historic 'deaths of's in comics... I understood it as anger. Remember Boris The Bear #1? Oh, hah hah, Boris kills everything and everyone, ha.  A part of the fanboy roleplaying body count zeitgeist I never connected with? A reaction against the junk culture itself while supporting it? I may never know...  Said it and said it and said it.   That Boris, so funny, so angry... at everything. 'Fun'. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 23, 2020 18:30:42 GMT -5
I was looking at a modern language version of the Bible and it has the beatitudes as "If you are meek, congratulations to you, you will inherit the earth!" For all it's faults I definitely prefer the King James "Blessed are the..." version, nothing worse than Jesus sounding like a piece of junk marketing.  I said it while wondering if I've ever seen a Shakespeare Classics Illustrated adaptation. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 23, 2020 19:02:22 GMT -5
That page is sacrilegious! (But also funny as hell!!!) |
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A part of the fanboy roleplaying body count zeitgeist I never connected with? A reaction against the junk culture itself while supporting it? I may never know...
