Posted on 12/06/2004 11:15:57 AM PST by ambrose
I'm glad you have other hobbies like riding motorcycles rather than watching movies.
I have a husband who is seriously ill and lives in a wheelchair and oxygen 24 hours a day. We seek enjoyment wherever we can get it... and that includes our library of LD movies.
The world is big..
I love the easter egg feature on DVDs. I think one of the best ever is Gollum accepting the MTV award for best CGI character on the LOTR TTT DVD.
Hitting "TITLE" usually will skip all of the junk and take you straight to the title menu.
There are also ways to even bypass region coding on some systems this way. Unfortunately when I tried it on a friend's system one time (to watch a Brazilian release of City Of God) his system would not let him access the subtitles (the movie would play). We had to connect up a region free player instead.
I think that most of the rest of the world uses region free players.
France locks in French subtitles (forced display) on some DVDs (although there "has" to be a way to defeat it, there are some pointers on DVD forums).
As I say, if they'd stop being so controlling (and creating BAD technology like discs you can watch twice or discs that will oxidize after they are opened) I would be more accepting of a digital media.
"Looking for" supplements is not the same as "watching supplements".
Especially when some of the supplements are advertised quite openly on the packaging. There are times where a supplement is mentioned on the packaging and does not even appear on the disc (oops).
Screw that. Here's your new car, have fun looking for the headlights switch.
I would certainly never suggest using this for anything other than discs you already own, but a program called DVDShrink will let you rip a DVD to your computer's hard drive and get rid of all of those pesky little things like region coding, FBI warnings, locked out menus, etc.
I use this to put together DVDs with trailers, cartoons, etc., for "old fashioned movie night" at home.
Oh man, don't get me started on Vinyl! I have two direct drive and one belt drive turntable and an extensive selection of vinyl. I enjoy listening to records. I still consider it quaint and quite dead as anything other than a small niche market.
And I will personally come over there and throttle anyone who, while describing the sound of vinyl, uses, in any way, the word "warm" or any of it's derivatives.
BTW, my buddies and I were talking about "chip based" playback in 1978. I do think the day of mechanical playback of ANY sort is quickly coming to a close. I am thinking maybe a music "skin patch" which the brain can be trained to read. Perhaps it could receive a satelite signal. Perhaps it could help you make up your mind on what to do in situations from time to time. You know, like what to buy, where to go - stuff like that...
>>I have a husband who is seriously ill and lives in a wheelchair and oxygen 24 hours a day. We seek enjoyment wherever we can get it... and that includes our library of LD movies.
The world is big..<<
...and if you have DVD's instead of LV's, your home will be "bigger" with the storage space you reclaim...
Sure worked for me.
That's why they have easter egg internet sites...
I still like to have a hardcopy of what I own (for backup, packaging, resale, etc.) but the new trend seems to be uploading a person's full library to a harddrive and using THAT for playback.
No scratching of CDs, no muss, no fuss. No discs getting lost, etc.
I own a small home... 1100 sq ft... Its all about priorities... I can store a lot of LDs vs that of owning a motorcycle parked in my garage...
And Easter Egg books, etc.
Novelty. Give me functionality. I'm not a child and don't buy "Citizen Kane" so that I can play games.
To clarify: If I still had an extensive collection of LV's and a player to play them on, I would continue using it, just as I did with my Beta machine and tapes.
However, I have a DVD player in my music studio for which I paid $39 new! I use it to play mp3's and CD's. On rare occasion I will play a movie through it. BTW, It is even progressive scan.
If I were you, I certainly wouldn't buy any LV's at this point. I would get a DVD player (for the price of a movie or two) and make sure all my new movies are DVD. And I highly recommend the Pawn shops for DVD's, the selection can be amazing and most will guarantee the playability. And you will notice from my posts that you can get some real classics as well as a lot (I mean A LOT) of modern garbage...
This is all assuming that you are not a "collector" of movies, but a person who likes to watch movies. If you simply MUST have such and such version of a movie,then all bets are off. I get the impression that is not where you are coming from. 8^>
I want to do something along those lines, I want to take the trailers of all the discs I have (trailers for movies I own, not just "any" trailers) and put them together on one disc. Makes it easy to ask someone, what do you want to watch, "here, decide".
You have a garage? 8^>
Agreed. I remember seeing it in the theater as a kid.
The real question is where can one find a DVD of Fahrenheit 9/11 with black bars covering the whole screen? :-)
In the movie it actually wasn't him singing! He was dubbed.
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