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Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by nnodley - Mar 26, 2024, 04:47 PM
finished 3 body problem this weekend.  It was pretty great.  Last half was a bit slower and i have only ever read the first half of the book so I don't know how that last half stacks up.  But the first half seemed to be a pretty faithful adaptation.
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Gaming Community / Re: The Gaming Community Threa...
Last post by Legend - Mar 26, 2024, 04:24 PM
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I do not understand
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Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by Legend - Mar 26, 2024, 04:19 AM
Sora: First Impressions

Cool videos. They all have plenty of issues but a few of them have enough creativity/energy to be interesting in their own right, not just as a product of ai.
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Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by Legend - Mar 26, 2024, 01:57 AM
Yea for sure. If vinyl was somehow able to make a resurgence and survive, bluray will definitely survive.

I just hope video games can get lumped in with it. There's a great collectors market for physical games but right now that can only exist off regular games being sold physically too.
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Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Mar 26, 2024, 01:46 AM
I've said this like 4x already, but physical media is in such a weird spot today.

There's been an uptick in articles like these:

Why I still buy physical media -- and bought a $450 Blu-ray player in 2023

The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming

Physical Media Still Matters in the Streaming Age and It's Time for Streamers To Embrace It

The streaming apocalypse is nigh. Some are preparing their storm shelters now.

Protecting physical media in an age of streaming


Disney has finally been putting out blu-rays and 4ks of a lot of their streaming exclusives.

Warner Bros is putting out a complete series of Succession on blu-ray, despite only the first season getting a blu-ray in the first place.  


This was neat. Apparently The Sopranos is getting remastered into 4k

Someone posted a bunch of pictures of pallets of film apparently from The Sopranos. They claim it will take quite a while before the process is done, although scanning the film was a very short process.

r/4kbluray - The Sopranos in 4K!


I'm interested to see where this all goes.

My hope is that this is the physical movie/TV space transitions into an enthusiast space. Big enough that companies still put out blu-rays. I think that's where things are heading.

Unless it's one last hurrah for physical media. But it certainly doesn't quite feel like that.


Warner Bros apparently has a Warner Archive Collection. I know it's not an interest of anyone else.  But I think it's pretty cool that Warner Bros is putting out blu-rays of 30+ year old Scooby-Doo movies. They've already announced a fourth and fifth Scooby-Doo blu-ray release just this year; coming next month. And apparently a lot more to come.  

 https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Scooby-Doo-and-the-Ghoul-School-Blu-ray/185750/#Overview

It's been a little nice with Best Buy getting out of physical media. Walmart has been able to gobble up a lot of their exclusives. The Walmart in my town for the first time ever actually has a selection of 4k movies and blu-rays.

I'm hoping that the Sony/Disney deal also impacts Fox.

I feel like Fox is in the worst space of physical media. At least for me personally.
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Game News Discussion / Re: Multiple insiders talk abo...
Last post by kitler53 - Mar 26, 2024, 12:57 AM
Yeah why port a game unless you expect to be on gamepass at some point?

I really hope the same doesn't happen with ps+.
ps sells a lot more software than Xbox.  it was the right choice not to do day-1 games on ps+.   

gamepass dies with Xbox (imo) and will be good for the industry at large.  especially 3rd parties. 
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Starship flight 4
Last post by Legend - Mar 25, 2024, 11:42 PM


May is looking good!
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Game News Discussion / Re: Multiple insiders talk abo...
Last post by Legend - Mar 25, 2024, 09:54 PM
Yeah why port a game unless you expect to be on gamepass at some point?

I really hope the same doesn't happen with ps+.
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Game News Discussion / Re: Multiple insiders talk abo...
Last post by kitler53 - Mar 25, 2024, 09:26 PM
well duh
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