Posted on 02/17/2019 2:51:20 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
I have a Sony UBP x800. It plays everything from4k, blue ray to regular DVDs. I love it and no problems.
I have Sony 4K TV too. No problems with that too.
Finally, we have an Apple 4K TV and Roku Ultra. There are all great.
There is no need to go to the movie theater anymore.
I just got to thinking about it and most of mine were probably gifts. Don’t have a bunch but the rest were probably bought from Amazon.
As luck would have it, most of the ones I like are older ones or old TV shows which also happen to be cheap.
Your cable company gives you a data limit?
I can understand a Wireless company.
Most of what I like was 4x3 and looks good on DVD.
Blu Ray never meant much to me.
Hard wire your TV with a Cat 6 may help. Although ideally you probably need to increase your speed.
I have 200m at the house with no issues.
Yep. Comcast in Jacksonville had a 1 TB limit with the ability to purchase 50 GB blocks for $10 once the limit was reached. I never reached it. They were also rolling out unlimited data for an additional $50. Now I am with Cox and they too have a 1 TB cap and no option to purchase more data, though they've said that they will also not penalize overuse unless it becomes egregious.
I've came really close with Cox. last month I used 988 GB. I have a big family and everyone streams everything.
Different regions are trying out different data plans as more and more consumers ditch cable for streaming services.
Some sitcoms from the 80s would also run afoul of the Thought Police. I liked the series Wings and my wholesale club had season sets for less then ten bucks.
One episode had the characters doing a play called Phantom of the Oprah. The cabbie Antonio plays an Oprah guest who falls in love with cross-dressers. He sings a song about “why do I like gals, who used to be my pals” and it cracked me up. Today there would be boycotts, firings and wall to wall CNN whining.
The streaming goes through a Sony DVD player over wireless. Hardwire from internet router to player is not feasible.
Point made.
whatever ever display mode FReepers prefer to watch in, just make sure ALL the lights are off in the room during viewing.
Actually no, and for reasons unknown you seem to have made this personal.
unless you’d like to experience an 8K digital presentation.
Yep, Blueray was a drummed up fad with no real need for it.
You mean apart from them being the *superior* formats for audio and visual quality? Well,Blu Ray is better but you get the idea.
To me if a song or film is worth owning it's worth owning in its best format...and I also like the fact that I can hold it in my hand.
A drummed up fad with more content, picture/audio encoding is uncompressed (Most of the content even when compressed higher quality than streaming), higher bit rates, Internet restrictions, no need to find content where the future will be needing a separate subscription service for Nextflix, Hulu, the Disney’s service that is coming, whatever Movie studio wants to secure their own service/IP, etc... each month, some people like the special features as well.
Not much of a fad if you ask me especially if the top movies of the year are still pushing over 1-4 million units sold (BR) in the US in the age of easy pirating and streaming options.
GSC
that post is deserving of a tall cold craft beer
Since I was a kid I've been a *huge* fan of National Geographic documentaries...particularly ones about Africa.
It was that love,and that love alone,which caused me to buy my first HD TV in 2004 and my first Bluray player not long after they came out.
Watching Goodfellas in Blu Ray is great...watching a documentary on the Serengeti Plains in Bluray is even better.
FOR YOU
Exactly - entertainment constantly changing their delivery.
First it was vinyl/LP, before cassette, 8-track and disk.
Betamax before VHS and disk
Libraries suddenly become useless- much like most of the crap Hollywood dishes out.
Upgrade or is it a con job raking in the dough? What to do with personal inventory that might never be played again?
DVD was just fine. There was no demand for Blueray. They invented this fad where it wasn’t even needed and fools fell for it. There was absolutely no reason at all they should cost twice what a DVD costs. It was a marketing scam from the get go.
I have the first Two seasons
Of WINGS!
In Storage.
I’ll hunt for That episode.
The “Add ons” are priceless!
I’m hooked on “Northern Exposure” now.
Also,
Married, with Children,
Seinfeld and
All in the Family
to many to mention.
I paid Penny’s on the dollar
and they should last Many years.
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