As in 'not paying any more to watch something'
Amazon Prime streaming video recommendations thread
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ah ok, will have a look later when I'm back at home
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
First Man is on Amazon but you'll need to rent it for 4 quid.Molly's Game doesn't look like something that would interest me tbh, but tother one does, ta
I loved the Salyut 7 film cos I'm a bit obsessed with all things space.
Let us know what you think of Land of Mine. One of the best "war" films made, imo. I started a thread about it here.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I, Tonya is fantastic
What We Do In The Shadows is a very funny Kiwi movie
Hereditary has just arrived on there if you like horror
You Were Never Really Here is brilliant
You might like Funny Cow
Mike Leigh's best film, High Hopes is up there now.
One film i haven't watched yet, but will watch soon is Beast. That looks great if you like people with accents brooding whilst outside.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Beast is right good. It has that dectorist singer bloke as the male lead and he's not a great actor though.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Really?
Even as a fuly paid up member of the Margot Robbie fan club I haven't been able to click on that yet. Suppose I'll have to now.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
mate...it says Prime diagonally across the top left corner of the thumbnail...means it's included in the price
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Actually this is an excellent list. No 4k on amazon yet though, is there?
Reno
The In Kraut
How many of us do you think have 4K TVs ? I’m still content with regular HD and will be for the foreseeable future.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Well not you obviously, from your reply.
Netflix does 4k hdr with Dolby Atmos sound, amazon doesn't, and you pay more for it if you want it. Just sayin. It wasn't that long ago people were complaining there wasn't enough stuff in HD.
btw 4k hdr is awesome, you are missing a trick there
Reno
The In Kraut
Maybe some of us just don’t have the money to upgrade every few years.
Reno
The In Kraut
Obviously I’m known for hating movies around here.I like movies and sacrifice other things
Financially I have more to worry about than whether I can afford a 4k telly right now but just keep rubbing it in...Isn’t Amazon 4K dependent on the method you are using to watch it? I’m sure I read that at some point when I was researching these things about 6 months ago. So if you’re using Roku, for example, no 4K. But I think if you’re using a native Amazon app on a 4K TV you might be in luck.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Pretty sure you can get HD movies on Prime. Not that i can tell the difference.
Well you wouldn’t do on that cathode ray tube telly
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've got a flat HD telly. You can hire films in HD or SD.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
A friend of mine had just bought a 4K tv. I’m massively underwhelmed. You can see the difference if you really try but it’s not huge. Same as SD/HD. Yes there’s a difference, but not enough to affect my enjoyment of the program significantly.
That’s because your eyesight is shot to pieces from all that self-abuse
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Aye, I'd have to see two different TVs next to each other to tell the difference and that only happens in shops
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Even then you have to try quite hard to convince yourself of its value. That chap's just spent 2 grand on his telly! Each to their own but it's not 4x better than my 500 quid job.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
But not 4k.
I’ve just bought an all-singing, all-dancing top-rated Samsung 4K TV for £500. It’s something like 50inches I think. I wasn’t bothered about getting 4K, but there wasn’t really a choice if I wanted something that also had the features I did want. You can jump to £1000 at that size but none of the expert reviewers seem to think it makes any difference to picture quality at 50 inches. So if you’re spending £500 these days, you’ll be getting 4K anyway, unless you’re buying something truly enormous. If you’re spending £2000 these days it must be a really enormous telly. And if you’re getting a 60 or 70 inch TV, for example you will certainly notice a difference in picture between SD, HD and 4k
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
His is 55" which isn't much bigger than ours (49 I think), but it's OLED apparently, which I'm led to believe is the current thing.
My understanding is that OLED won’t really make much difference until you get to 60 inches. Maybe 55 inches just about. Pointless at 50 inches
It’s a separate thing from 4K though
Reno
The In Kraut
4k is another step up from HD, but the difference isn't nearly as obvious as the difference between SD and HD.
I've got a massive Blu-ray collection and I watch everything on a projector. It all still looks great to me. 2k is still the standard for digital projectors at the cinema, so as long as the definition close to that, I'm fine. Genuine 4k projectors are unaffordable to me at this point as are large 4k TVs. 4k only really pays off if your display is massive, on a smaller (affordable) telly it's fairly pointless.
Most of the films I watch are older and they aren't going to benefit hugely from 4k. The colour spectrum will be more subtle, the film grain will be delineated a bit more, but there isn't the huge jump in quality as there was from VHS to DVD and then from DVD to Blu-ray.
Most of the classic and vintage cult movies I'm into are probably never going to get released on 4k blu-ray anyway as physical media is going the way of the dodo. I'm not going to upgrade my entire collection again. A lot of it took ages to get a release on blu-ray already and most of this stuff isn't available for streaming either.
The content which benefits the most from 4k it is regular modern TV content (I don't watch broadcast TV) and recent films shot in the format, not the type of movie I'm really passionate about.
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Brill, thanks so much Orang Utan
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't care what that is
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