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Post by The Doctor on Dec 14, 2020 9:23:43 GMT
The studio split was pretty even for a long time. Rival studios didnt want to be reliant on Sony. Microsoft should have been encouraged to have HDDVD built into the 360 instead of an add on. That would have at least prolonged the fight. Cost of Blu-Ray license means nobody will pack it as a built in option on a PC/laptop, so that has also contributed to the abandonment of physical media. One of the reasons I keep an older laptop running is that it's used to watch DVD's. I find it maddening that I can only watch streaming content on my newer one and not a physical disc! -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2020 22:27:45 GMT
External USB DVD drives are pretty cheap and might be a longer term option depending on how the old laptop is doing.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 1, 2021 17:42:11 GMT
I have mixed feelings in relation to steelbooks. They look lovely, but not very practical when they contain more than one disc. For some reason they don't seem to make them with one disc on the left and one on the right, but rather two on the right with one slotted behind the other. For someone with OCD about scratches and thumb marks on discs, this makes it rather tricky to get discs in and out without sustaining damage. I also give low marks to the Adam West Batman box set packaging for the same reason. Discs should never be one on top of the other. In the few months since I posted this I have got the steelbook bug bad, and acquired several more. Steelbook collection now includes Tenet, Back to the Future, Sleepy Hollow, a couple of Indiana Joneses, Stargate (film), Power Rangers (film) and both Wonder Womans. Most expensive one is the Labyrinth 4K steelbook. It will not be my watching copy (I have that film in so many disc formats), I just wanted to own it. Have just ordered steelbook Inception. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2021 18:50:57 GMT
I own one steelbook (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Specials) and that is only because the previous version of the contents as a set was out of print. I don't care for the steelbook format as such. Too easy to scratch.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 16, 2021 16:27:02 GMT
Somebody please stop me buying steelbooks.
My most recent steelbook acquisitions are the period martial arts movies Crouching Tiger, Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
And I am awaiting the arrival of a German steelbook of Stallone's Judge Dredd.
They are so nice and shiny!
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2021 16:38:13 GMT
Intervention required!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2021 18:37:12 GMT
I can't judge. I own Torchy the Battery Boy on DVD.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2021 11:03:11 GMT
Stallone Dredd is great fun, I approve this purchase.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2021 15:50:12 GMT
I am still angry about that film 26 years later.
-Ralph
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