What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)

[butchersapron]

blu ray disc -yuppie dvd.

 

[Orang Utan]

oh right - i never paid attention to that - how much better than dvd is it?

 

[kyser_soze]

Loads. Better definition (obv), better colours, if you've got an LCD telly proper deep blacks, textures and depth are far better realised...despite BAs disparaging comment, it's a real step up in picture quality on DVD, even if you've got a player that upscales (i.e. resizes the picture to 720p or 1080p up from 480p depending on your telly) DVDs.

 

[Orang Utan]

do they play normal dvds?

 

[kyser_soze]

Yup, most Blu-ray players will play normal DVDs, BRDs, will have USB ports. A few have got network ports on them so you can use your PC as a media server and stream stuff over a home network (then again, the most modern tellys have network ports for media servers too) too...

 

[Orang Utan]

time to get on the phone to radio rentals then!

 

[Voley]

I'm waiting for the price to come down on one of those Freesat+ boxes that plays Blueray as well. Very expensive atm but that'll be the next purchase for me if/when I get a bit of dosh coming in more regularly.

 

[Orang Utan]

i do not intend to ever buy that kind of hardware - i shall always rent

 

[pboi]

PS3!

 

[kyser_soze]

^^^

BR player, videogame console and media-server ready under-telly kit in one easy box.

 

[pboi]

and let me highlight the media server awesomeness for the average joe

 

[DexterTCN]

Last night I watched The Hurt Locker (mostly good) and The Hangover (mostly awesome).

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

it was one of my favourite films ever. i like where the mascot sets on fire, and also the drunk wizard ice skating.

I missed the first bit with the drunk wizard. I can't remember anything being set on fire. What were you doing when you watched it?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i do not intend to ever buy that kind of hardware - i shall always rent

Probably very wise at the moment. I got a cutting edge plasma a few years ago - I didn't buy it but it was worth about 2500 at the time. It is now basically worthless. No HD, no freeview, expensive to run, heavy as fuck and it has another big arse box that you need to attach.

Maybe when LED TVs come of age and are dirt cheap I will buy one. Technology is just moving too fast.

 

[Reno]

blu ray disc -yuppie dvd.

DVD - yuppie VHS ?

 

[pboi]

mascot on fire is Old School. another awesome movie

 

[kyser_soze]

Probably very wise at the moment. I got a cutting edge plasma a few years ago - I didn't buy it but it was worth about 2500 at the time. It is now basically worthless. No HD, no freeview, expensive to run, heavy as fuck and it has another big arse box that you need to attach.

Maybe when LED TVs come of age and are dirt cheap I will buy one. Technology is just moving too fast.

That was more true a couple of years ago than now tho. While the LED stuff all looks sexy, there aren't any new HD standards in the offing for TVs, and more importantly for media, in the offing for at least the next few yeas (OK, you've got some stuff like 2160p Projectors and whatnot, but BR is designed around 1080p). We got our Bravia about 18 months ago now, paid £550 for it, and guess that it'll still be usable in 3.5 years from now, giving us a monthly cost of £9.16 a month - pretty competitive with rental IME (providing it doesn't blow up anyway )

 

[Reno]

I watched Antichrist last night (on Blu-ray no less!). I hated is slightly less then most Lars Von Trier films, but its still failry rubbish. Looks quite pretty though.

 

[rutabowa]

I missed the first bit with the drunk wizard. I can't remember anything being set on fire. What were you doing when you watched it?

wait how do you know you missed it if you didn't see it? the mascot gets set on fire when they are fighting on the podium and fall off and knock the olympic flame thing into it. it\s my favourite will ferrell film i think i've watched it about 5 times, enough that i don't really like it any more.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

wait how do you know you missed it if you didn't see it? the mascot gets set on fire when they are fighting on the podium and fall off and knock the olympic flame thing into it. it\s my favourite will ferrell film i think i've watched it about 5 times, enough that i don't really like it any more.

I saw him sicking up into his suit before he was sacked, I 'm sure I saw a wizard somewhere. I assume all that stuff with the wizard came in before I did.
I did the same for Jay and bob strike back (and I hate smiths stuff) watched it until it just wasn't funny anymore.

 

[ViolentPanda]

keep it up Turbo

Learn how to punctuate, dipshit.

 

[pboi]

cArE;

 

[ViolentPanda]

DVD - yuppie VHS ?

Harder for the DVD player to maunge and crundle your recording than for a VHS player, though.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Harder for the DVD player to maunge and crundle your recording than for a VHS player, though.

When I watch a VHs tape these days I wonder how we put up with such crap quality.

 

[ViolentPanda]

cArE;

Of course you don't care. Dipshits don't.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched Premonition last night, but fell asleep 20minutes before the end - I'm assuming I didn't miss much.

 

[rutabowa]

I saw him sicking up into his suit before he was sacked, I 'm sure I saw a wizard somewhere. I assume all that stuff with the wizard came in before I did.
I did the same for Jay and bob strike back (and I hate smiths stuff) watched it until it just wasn't funny anymore.

that was a wizard suit that he was sick in, that was the bit. i watched that jay and silent bob film till it wasn't funny too, that was about 0.001 times.

 

[ViolentPanda]

When I watch a VHs tape these days I wonder how we put up with such crap quality.

Because it was the only way you could watch your favourite films more than once without spending a fortune at the cinema, and because it meant you could watch proper continental filth in the privacy of your own home.

 

[rutabowa]

mascot on fire is Old School. another awesome movie

there is a mascot on fire in old school too. it is a running theme. however, the one in Blades of Glory is funnier.

 

[pboi]

Of course you don't care. Dipshits don't.

the state of you acting as a grammar nazi on a forum! nice life