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I honestly think The Red Shoes is going to be the sleeper stunner on UHD. There's only a few classic B&W films on UHD so far - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, Psycho, Dr. Strangelove, plus the upcoming 30s Universal Monsters films - so, I think A Hard Day's Night won't exactly be a revelation since the 2014 Blu-ray is from the 4K restoration (primarily from camera negative, plus fine-grain positives for the first and last reels). Maybe an Atmos track will be added since Giles Martin has been supervising new mixes for the Beatles albums, even though the songs were only recorded in 4-track.
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It took less than a week after Trevor Moore died for WKUK DVDs to go from selling for 15-30 bucks to 80-200.
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Aug 13, 2021 05:46
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Thankfully they put up a bunch of the show on YouTube
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Aug 13, 2021 05:56
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dorium posted:Thankfully they put up a bunch of the show on YouTube Yeah but not a lot of it. If you want to watch full seasons you're poo poo out of luck. Occasionally the bubble bursts on poo poo like this so I'm going to wait a while.
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Aug 13, 2021 06:26
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CPL593H posted:Yeah but not a lot of it. If you want to watch full seasons you're poo poo out of luck. Occasionally the bubble bursts on poo poo like this so I'm going to wait a while. i think the whole first three seasons are up actually
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Aug 13, 2021 06:38
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Those Simpsons sets with the Michael Jackson episode are all back down to $20, right?
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Aug 13, 2021 06:40
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DeimosRising posted:i think the whole first three seasons are up actually Nope. Just various sketches. Antifa Turkeesian posted:Those Simpsons sets with the Michael Jackson episode are all back down to $20, right? Even less and since about a month or two after all the whining. I wish I'd gotten in on that scam because that season mostly sucks anyway I was just too lazy to put it up on ebay. Fingers crossed that this happens with WKUK but that's less likely because those DVDs weren't in the kind of supply supply as Simpsons DVDs and you can get that poo poo on Disney +.
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CPL593H posted:Nope. Just various sketches. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMQ6hczK1IrdFAhed40OlQfyJ5Nh6TLO https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMQ6hczK1Iqk6thrKuYE-TcX5hRxRXKJ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMQ6hczK1IqLEsxppSHMU1SNtm6-4JyT They also have playlists for all full episodes with commentary, which is pretty awesome.
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wa27 posted:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMQ6hczK1IrdFAhed40OlQfyJ5Nh6TLO Wow, I'm stupid. Anyway I thought you were talking about the official WKUK channel. This is good. Thank you.
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Rageaholic posted:Just finished watching the 4K UHD of The Matrix The first UHD I watched was Transformers and I was just fixated on how clear and crisp the detail was the entire time.
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Considering I didn't see it when it was in theaters, that's the best I've ever seen that movie look. No green tint or anything! And that detail, omg.
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Spacebump posted:wait, isn't the green tint supposed to be there? Origami Dali posted:Nah they added it for the first blu ray to match the sequels and it looked like poo poo. Even neo's beard stubble was green. So for the original run of VHS/DVD, they added or cranked up this jaundice green filter for all the in-matrix scenes. I had the widescreen VHS tape because I was a huge nerd but we didn't have a DVD player yet, and specifically remember it looking weird compared to how I remembered it in the theater. We were all so starved in the early DVD era for good-looking home video that "Matrix DVD looks great!" still managed to be the prevailing wisdom. For BluRay, they kept it, but tweaked it in an effort to make it fit with the coloring of the sequels. It looked less bad but it was also obvious why they did it, and as someone indifferent to the sequels I found it frustrating. Very glad it finally looks right.
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Rageaholic posted:Just finished watching the 4K UHD of The Matrix Yeah, that's basically feelings on UHD summed up. It felt like watching DVD or HD in the era of VHS. Just such a jump from my Blu-Ray's. Even MY GIRLFRIEND, who never gave a drat about video quality admits that UHDs look really good. Hell, I've even shown her the benefits of discs by watching Sopranos on BD vs streaming. I've never actually seen Citizen Kane, but my dad is probably gonna grab the UHD so we'll watch it together and that will rule.
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One pretty important difference with UHD for me is that I still watch plenty of stuff in 1080p, so I'll have a day or two where I watch nothing but 1080p stuff and then after that when you jump back up to 4k there's still a novelty to it. My eyes have adjusted back to 1080p so now the 4k is hitting me the same way it did when I first got into the format. Blu ray wasn't like that. During the blu ray years I was watching everything in 1080p, including sports and most of my t.v. and streaming stuff. It was almost all 1080p for years straight. So after a while your eyes kinda just get used to it and it was harder to be wowed by it.
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TheScott2K posted:We were all so starved in the early DVD era for good-looking home video that "Matrix DVD looks great!" still managed to be the prevailing wisdom. I feel like there's more to it than that. There really was a perfect storm surrounding The Matrix. The millennium was ending, the internet was new and exciting, and DVDs were a brand new technology. It was probably one of the last block buster movies. I mean you had the sequels, and the star wars prequels, but those were more of a death knell. This movie was really the last movie I remember having a "must see" status while in theaters. I'm pretty sure it was also one of the first DVDs that took full advantage of the format, by filling it to the brim with special features. Older DVDs were pretty much just VHS on a disc. A combination of this disc and larger TVs becoming cheaper, helped usher in the home theater. In other words the reason the Matrix was more than just a movie everyone considered to look good, it really represented the future. It really was the catalyst for DVD to take off, which in turn. brought other things with it such as 5.1, and 16:9 becoming home standards. Not that any of that wasn't inevitable, but I think The Matrix is what elevated DVD to what it was back then as opposed to being a more niche format like laser disc. Looking at the list of movies from 1999 I really can't see another movie that could have been that monumental. I do have to wonder what movie, of any, could have taken it's place if The Matrix hadn't happened, and what things would be like today.
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To me, watching a 4K UHD is the experience of not noticing the picture quality. When I watch something on streaming or even most Blu-rays, I'm constantly noticing smearing, blotchy banding in dark scenes, DNR artifacts, etc. But with every 4K I have so far, everything just looks right and I can fully lose myself in the immersion from a picture quality standpoint. That being said I still get up real close to the screen sometimes to marvel at the detail.
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Aug 13, 2021 14:34
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If The Matrix hadn't happened "you gotta get Blade" would have lasted a little longer and then it would have been something else. I remember The Fast And The Furious being a lot of people's first DVD.
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One home video advancement that I think counts for a lot but flew under the radar is TVs that can do 24p. The horizontal pans finally look right. I miss the poo poo out of that when I'm watching something and the display is doing variable repeats. Does a lot to make film look like film.
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feedmyleg posted:To me, watching a 4K UHD is the experience of not noticing the picture quality. When I watch something on streaming or even most Blu-rays, I'm constantly noticing smearing, blotchy banding in dark scenes, DNR artifacts, etc. But with every 4K I have so far, everything just looks right and I can fully lose myself in the immersion from a picture quality standpoint. Yup. The lack of banding is a big one for me. I haven’t seen the Las Vegas sequence of BR2049 on anything but UHD (and cinema), but I just know that orange haze would have tons of banding on lesser formats. The UHD is just… perfect. However for some older movies shot on film it also makes that fact very, very clear. With Blu-Ray I don’t think the mechanics of how the film was made shine through as much, for better or worse.
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My first DVD's were The Fast and the Furious and Road Trip
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Those Simpsons sets with the Michael Jackson episode are all back down to $20, right? I got that season at a Goodwill for $2 last year.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I got that season at a Goodwill for $2 last year. There was a very brief period of time when people were paying anywhere from 50-100 dollars for that set because it was announced that the episode with Michael Jackson was permanently being taken out of syndication. Then about a month later no one gave a poo poo anymore and they went back down to about ten bucks.
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feedmyleg posted:To me, watching a 4K UHD is the experience of not noticing the picture quality. When I watch something on streaming or even most Blu-rays, I'm constantly noticing smearing, blotchy banding in dark scenes, DNR artifacts, etc. But with every 4K I have so far, everything just looks right and I can fully lose myself in the immersion from a picture quality standpoint. I only just upgraded to a 4K-capable TV within the last year, and the first thing I noticed was the smudgy, pixelly banding in dark scenes with pretty much every streaming video and a few blu-rays. I actually thought my TV was hosed up, until I looked really close at my PC monitor (I split it between PC and TV for streaming) and noticed the banding there too. It's just harder to see on a smaller screen with a lower resolution.
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CPL593H posted:There was a very brief period of time when people were paying anywhere from 50-100 dollars for that set because it was announced that the episode with Michael Jackson was permanently being taken out of syndication. Then about a month later no one gave a poo poo anymore and they went back down to about ten bucks. Oh I'm well aware of that situation. Happens anytime an episode of anything gets banned or delisted or whatever. To be clear, I didn't get it specifically for the Michael Jackson episode. It was $2 for an amazing season that I just happen to stumble upon.
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People are exceedingly stupid when it comes to movies and TV shows. Consider how HBO Max taking Gone with the Wind down briefly so they can add a disclaimer turned into "OH NO THEY'RE BANNING IT FOREVER" and everyone jumped on physical copies all of the sudden. Which is kind of hilarious because if it was such an important movie to you, don't you think it would be in your collection already? It's not even one of my favorites and I've always had a copy in my collection since getting the flipper DVD back in 2001. Inversely, I wonder how all the idiots who burned their Beatles albums in the 60s feel now when they could use a little extra income...
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People freaking out when the Dr Seuss estate decided to let some racist old material lapse out of print.
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Casimir Radon posted:People freaking out when the Dr Seuss estate decided to let some racist old material lapse out of print. The real controversy should've been when the reprinted "The Many Mice of Mr Brice", a book that originally had pop-up, lift up flaps, pull tabs, etc., and the reprint removed all of these things
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Casimir Radon posted:People freaking out when the Dr Seuss estate decided to let some racist old material lapse out of print. The extra funny was when people decided they would protest those books going OOP by buying millions of dollars worth of other books from the people who took them out of print. The ensuing outrage earned the Dr. Seuss company more money in sales than they've made in a very long time. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing had been an very well orchestrated publicity stunt made to deliberately take advantage of the right wing perpetual outrage machine. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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Anybody have problems with the Back to the Future UHDs freezing? I’m 2/2 so far. It’s probably just this stupid POS Sony UBP-X700 acting up but it’s never been this bad before.
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Aug 15, 2021 03:08
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Ordered the UHDs of Alien, Die Hard and Prometheus a little while ago. Jesus Christ, someone take away my wallet please 
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Aug 15, 2021 20:45
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There’s a UHD of Die Hard? Welp looks like I’m spending more money. Did they release the whole series on UHD?
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Xenomrph posted:There’s a UHD of Die Hard? Just the original, it seems. I've already got the 5 movie collection on Blu-Ray, so I'm gonna keep that around for Die Hard With A Vengeance.
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Aug 15, 2021 21:03
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Speed 4k UHD is $17 on Amazon right now. It's the lowest price I've seen it, and it's the first time I've seen it available for Prime shipping. It's the regular case, not the steelbook.
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https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1427320025766055941
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Yeah thats gunna be a must
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Aug 16, 2021 18:42
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oh gently caress yeah.
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Aug 16, 2021 18:48
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I didn't realize there were 5 of those films, I'm pretty sure I've only seen the first one. I'll be getting that set for sure.
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Aug 16, 2021 20:29
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The covers for the new MVD releases of Jack Frost 1 & 2 (this Dec 14) are amazing: https://imgur.com/nkw0enK https://imgur.com/PqJ0aHz
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Aug 16, 2021 20:54
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Looks cool but I prefer the hologram ones I saw at Blockbuster back in the day.
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Casimir Radon posted:Looks cool but I prefer the hologram ones I saw at Blockbuster back in the day. I have the VinSyn Lenticular of the first one. I'll probably pick up the sequel because I haven't seen it since the VHS.
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This is the actual cover they're releasing.
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