Disney fires Chapek, brings Iger out of retirement

Mulfinator:

If you have a DVD or Blu-Ray ripper on a PC wouldn't PLEX serve a similar purpose?

I knew someone would bring that up. Yes, and my app could probably accommodate that with few modifications. But the storage cost would quickly get into the terabytes and I'd have to build a player for the TV (in this case, FireTV) and side load it. That also means circumventing DRM, which is probably not legal.

YouTube music is free.

Really? I thought there was some constraint, or forthcoming constraint. Google could have changed their mind (like they did with grandfather free G-Suite). I had ads between songs.

Mulfinator:

Did you upgrade to the Plex Pass or are you using the free version of Plex?

YouTube Music only plays ads between songs if you are streaming their music. Anything you upload yourself is ad free. The only thing you need to pay attention to is to turn off "auto play", and if you search for something make sure you select it from your uploads and not from their service.

Meh, I built my own. I own my playlists now too, forever.

I have a functional VCR in our basement that my daughters still use every once in awhile (read: whenever they have sleepovers in the basement) because they think it's "hip".

I own them.

Forever.

I have one that I bought in college that hasn't seen the light of day since 2005-ish. It's in a box with a high end Sony cassette deck. I thought about busting out the latter, just to show my kid what Lin-Manuel meant by calling it the Hamilton Mixtape.

OhioStater:

own them.

Forever

You may have them forever but when the tapes eventually degrade I doubt you will want them.

[Insert Picard facepalm from old DVD].

I was curious about Disney titles I have bought this year. I went back through my purchases and found four I have bought this year, with three of those from ebay. So, of all the titles I bought (which is more than my wife would like to know about), only one Disney was purchased through a retailer. I got Lightyear 4K for about $8 during Black Friday deals.

Of all the 4K titles released this year from all the studios and boutique labels, I believe Pirates of the Caribbean is the ONLY Disney title (back catalog) to come out, and like I mentioned before, it was botched.

Another thing Disney has been bocthing is the newer releases this past year. Many of the Marvel movies have IMAX-filmed scenes in them. But the physical releases do not have the enhanced scenes included, just the normal widescreen ratio. I have seen many reviews online about this issue.

I have one VCR that I break out every once in a blue moon if someone wants to see my old high school Battle of the Bands performance when we were introduced by Dave Grohl.

You need a digital transfer and put it on YouTube to share forever!

Shades:

but when the tapes eventually degrade I doubt you will want them.

I don't know how long that takes, but I just popped in my Star Wars OT VHS set (THX Widescreen box set, which was kind of a big deal back in 90's) just out of curiosity. Looked as good as ever. At this rate I'm pretty sure I'll be dead before the tape becomes one with the earth.

"Good as ever" isn't very good when we're talking about NTSC television.

No, it's not that great. At all. It's just interesting to think back when it was considered "high standard".

We've been alive to witness some significant leaps.

CoffinBoy:

Of all the 4K titles released this year from all the studios and boutique labels, I believe Pirates of the Caribbean is the ONLY Disney title (back catalog) to come out, and like I mentioned before, it was botched.

I will correct myself before someone else does. LOL. I forgot about Heat and Who Framed Roger Rabbit coming out this year on 4K. So Disney has released a whopping 3 titles from back catalog this year!

OhioStater:
We've been alive to witness some significant leaps.

It has been amazing what we have seen. I remember bcak in the day when video-on-demand was just a pipe-dream! It is great to an extent. The big downside is the amount of services out there. Sure, some of them are cheap, but they add up to a boat-load of money every month! We currently have Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock and Discovery+. We did have Showtime for a short time through Best Buy deal. May sign up again due to recent BB purchases. We also had HBO Max for short time and canceled. Waiting to see how the the merger goes with Discovery. Recent reports say Spring 2023. We don't watch Hulu & Paramount much. We keep them for back-up for when cable doesn't record properly. We added Disney for just a couple of shows, mainly for Willow, which we still need to watch. After that, we plan to cancel. Most of their content is uninteresting to us.

I remember back in twenty aught seven (“gather ‘round children”) when my friend told me that you could watch stuff on your computer if you had Netflix. My first thought was “That can’t be right.” and then “This is magic!”

OhioStater, is that the original trilogy, or the (not-so) Special Edition?

This is the original in Widescreen. Each movie also has an interview with Lucas.

It comes in this box:

They released another widescreen version in 1997 that was the special-edition of each.

I suppose maybe one reason it's in such good shape is that to be honest I haven't watched them all that much; it was a gift from the owner of the Regal Cinemas I worked at through high school when I "retired" to go off to college, so it's been taken care of.

I had that. I'm not sure if it still lives in my garage or not