Physical Media purchase thread - because some of us don't like to be at the mercy of streaming sites that delete content regularly

[MirrorNoir]

Thread for posting about digital media purchases (DVD or Blu-Ray) and upcoming releases of note and such.

Criterion did a 24 hour flash sale recently and I got Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, La'Aventurra, Equinnox, and Blue Velvet.

Also, picked up at Walmart, a copy of Shout Factory's Complete Billy Jack; which I bought on a whim purely for the self-indulgent crack fest that is Trial of Billy Jack and the Complete Filmation She-Ra; a release I've been wanting to get for ages but had kept putting off.

Anyone else purchase anything new or interesting?

 

[Caesare]

Also, picked up at Walmart, a copy of Shout Factory's Complete Billy Jack; which I bought on a whim purely for the self-indulgent crack fest that is Trial of Billy Jack

I don't care if it cost 10 cents for all 4 of them, that was a waste of money.

 

[Absolutetense]

Finally got my Tsui Hark classic "time and tide" on Blu-ray by released by eureka and the Directors cut of "payback" which turns into quite different movie. Thankfully the Blu-ray has both versions on it.

 

[White Devil]

Finally got my Tsui Hark classic "time and tide" on Blu-ray by released by eureka and the Directors cut of "payback" which turns into quite different movie. Thankfully the Blu-ray has both versions on it.

I have both versions of Payback and love them both. It's insane how different the cuts are.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I posted about this here a few months ago; I concluded about a year and half ago that streaming 'services' were not going to work - too many companies got greedy and want their own 'service', splintering it between many different services/sites, making it no longer a good value. You end up paying more for them in total than you might for cable TV (which I don't miss). Then on the other side, "just pirate it lol" warez kiddies are full of shit, everything on torrent sites is reduced in quality compared to the uncompressed video file on a bluray (a good file size for a single 44 minute episode of a 1 hour tv show is around 7-9 GB, not whatever 700 MB mp4 is being passed around on piratebay). If you like shows that nerds/losers don't care about, there is a good chance you may not be able to find what you want anyway.

Solution then was to go back to physical media, what I buy what is actually good and something I want to watch and I don't need the permission of some jew to watch it, unlike a streaming service that regularly pulls entire shows/episodes that have 'problematic' elements.

As for the purpose of this thread, I think my taste in movies is pretty close to what Kino Lorber puts out. There is a mega sale on the site that is supposed to start in about a week, so keep an eye out. I just bought the silent version of Phantom of the Opera off of them, probably going to watch it tonight. With silent movies, they are really dependent on a good score.

 

[Travoltron]

I've been buying Disney Blu-rays from a used book store near me. This means I get to preserve the original versions of these movies and The Mouse doesn't get a dime from me. But I think I've got all the common movies now and he rest of them that I need are the less popular and thus rarer ones.

 

[RollerGator]

A friend told me that they digitally added negros to a scene in one of the Godfather movies.

 

[White Devil]

A friend told me that they digitally added negros to a scene in one of the Godfather movies.

It was probably III. No one rewatches that one anyway.

 

[byuu]

I want to buy some physical porn just for the novelty of it.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

I honestly want to get into physical media again as I sort of miss it and my minimalist nature can leave my rooms barren without it.

Peak Zoomer moment, but I really just want to grab up some nice animation from the 90s-2010s, or more like Nickelodeon and CN content. I really want Adventure Time on dvd again as I have fond memories of my elementary days watching old dvds on the PS2 in my room.

 

[Standardized Profile]

You can get physical media covers autographed by actors on the convention circuit, which is kind of fun and cooler than whatever random headshots and production stills they have at their tables. It adds a bit of character to one's collection, though probably not any value.

 

[El Goblina]

Then on the other side, "just pirate it lol" warez kiddies are full of shit, everything on torrent sites is reduced in quality compared to the uncompressed video file on a bluray (a good file size for a single 44 minute episode of a 1 hour tv show is around 7-9 GB, not whatever 700 MB mp4 is being passed around on piratebay).

Your first problem is using TPB. Sure, yes, you're at the mercy of whatever encode people have chosen to provide, but there are plenty of 20+GB untranscoded Blu-Ray rips. Between IPTorrents and PassThePopcorn, there isn't much that I don't have access to. Way better than any extant streaming service, anyhow.

 

[murph]

Save your favorite porn to a thumb drive, you'll need it when the apocalypse comes.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Your first problem is using TPB. Sure, yes, you're at the mercy of whatever encode people have chosen to provide, but there are plenty of 20+GB untranscoded Blu-Ray rips. Between IPTorrents and PassThePopcorn, there isn't much that I don't have access to. Way better than any extant streaming service, anyhow.

Thepiratebay was just an example; I previously had a IPtorrent account. I should have mentioned the other half of that; I am far beyond the age of wanting to maintain large warez libraries. When I finally killed mine off, it allowed me to go all SSD. It's nice to be able to own something I can just put in the player and have it just work and not have to think too much about.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Solution then was to go back to physical media

Then the problem becomes "it's out of print".

The real solution is having a bunch of little Blu-Ray factories in the US instead of Taiwan or wherever, so any time a niche movie needs a new run they just order it up. But the death of Western industry ripples out and affects everything including our ability to buy obscure lesbian nun movies.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I'm like addicted to thrift stores like Half-Price, I almost always walk out of the stories with something whether it's a DVD or books (mostly weeb shit), sometimes CDs. Despite the convenience of digital streaming and the Internet is, I've learned very early on to not rely on it and while I'd like to have a digital torrent library, I can't seem to seed where I need to seed and also don't have a lot of hard drives where I could just store them on. Plus I'm a weirdo who actually likes looking at special features and it's easier to just pop in a disc to check them out than trying to surf the web to look for them. Also, it's just an awesome feeling to find out-of-print stuff for a steal at these stores or used on Amazon/eBay.

As for recent purchases, found Crest of the Stars and Cowboy Bebop at the local thrift, and took pity on the big-tittied nurse/maid Nanako because I can't stop picking up these large box sets when I see them. In which most of those box sets are from ADV, it turns out.

If I manage to find something actually cool, I guess I can show it off.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Your first problem is using TPB. Sure, yes, you're at the mercy of whatever encode people have chosen to provide, but there are plenty of 20+GB untranscoded Blu-Ray rips. Between IPTorrents and PassThePopcorn, there isn't much that I don't have access to. Way better than any extant streaming service, anyhow.

Aren't both of those places invite only torrent sites, let alone A. sites that haven't allowed new sign ups since the early 10s (effectively turning them into glorified private warez sites for a select few) and worse of all, have obscene seeding requirements that require you to have an OBSCENE amount of hard drive space for all of the shit you are expected to seed combined with having to seed 24-7 AND, if they don't ban you outright for not seeding to their obscenely unrealistic seeding requirements, require you to basically pay huge money every month to get stat boosts so that you say above the arbitrarily high level of seeding to avoid being banned?

 

[El Goblina]

Aren't both of those places invite only torrent sites

Yes.

let alone A. sites that haven't allowed new sign ups since the early 10s

No. IPT is balls-easy to get into. PTP is harder, but I have several invites. "haven't allowed new signups" is absurd nonsense.

obscene seeding requirements

IPT is a joke. Download anything recent, or one of a huge list of freeleech, and you're gonna make ratio. Seed for a week or to 1.0 ratio and you're done, and you can bypass that using points earned by additional seeding. I don't think about IPT ratio. At all. Currently have 6TB of "buffer" (6TB more upload credit than download).

I won't say that PTP isn't more of a challenge, but it doesn't take that much to earn ratio there either.

that require you to have an OBSCENE amount of hard drive space for all of the shit you are expected to seed

Haven't used more than 1TB for 10 years.

require you to basically pay huge money every month to get stat boosts

Never paid a penny.

The only thing obscene here is the incoherent whining by people who don't know what they're talking about.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Picked up the Ray Harryhausen bluray box set over the weekend

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Ah, just remembered something. I kinda forgot about it since I don't have it on me because I gifted it to my boyfriend for Christmas, but the anime series Descendants of Darkness, as forgettable as it is and the dub wasn't anything to write home about unless you wanted to hear Eric Stuart sound more foppish, was something that I think was kinda important to get like this:

Discotek Media I believe still has the license for it and released it in one DVD collection, but I have a feeling that the Discotek Media copy doesn't have the special features that Central Park Media (under their U.S. Manga Corps label) incorporated into their DVDs. They weren't anything important, but it was kind of nostalgic to see since DVDs were huge in the early 2000s and companies could do all sorts of wacky shit they wanted on their menus or what they would include as bonus features. I kinda wonder if the fujoshis back in the day were ever appreciative about that or not. You just don't get stuff like that anymore, DVDs are made so cheaply and on the fly that seeing beautiful casings like the ones above is almost like finding actual treasure.

I paid more than I probably should've looking around online, but Half-Price had it at like 95 bucks and it was on the shelf for months that I was surprised no one, not even some rando fujoshi (though they probably avoid public spaces), wanted it. I took pity on it even though I wasn't going to personally keep it, but bought it out of love for my boyfriend 'cause he's worth the price and he, too, has been wanting his own physical media library for ages.