Turned out way better than I thought this thread, thanks all 👍
The more convenient and plentiful all media, music, art etc. is, the more most will take it for granted and that lessens the value on multiple levels.
I'm as guilty as the next person, but I really want to start making an effort with making minor things into more of an event and being mindful of what it is I'm actually doing, I may even head to a shop next time to buy something instead of mail ordering 😂 You can't get that with digital, it's just there 🤷♂️
I'm probably in the minority, but I really miss Blockbuster and local rental stores, it wasn't renting a film/game, it was an event. You physically had to go to the store, you'd have the same bundle deal argument with your other half or mates on what two or three to get, snacks etc. You'd have a chat with the staff on what's new, you'd have to check the clearance stuff too... it was a trip out. The chippy was the same, now, order it, turns up 20 minutes later and you're at risk of sitting there endlessly scrolling or being told what to watch by an algorithm. It's a loss 🤷♂️
Going to our local video rental shop in the 80's and seeing all the VHS cases rowed up, posters of the latest ones, it was a great experience, just like going in the arcades and seeing all the cool machines. it's something that's stuck with me and probably why I like to see them all on shelves, can look through and choose, read the covers etc
If you only watch a film once then there is no point buying them, mate of mine only ever watches them once, myself there are many films I'll keep watching once a year or every few years, so kind of rotate around, having not watched one for a number of years like say Jaws, I think I've seen a many times so I'll remember it all but amazes me how much I don't remember and enjoy it just as much.
I didn't see a huge amount of movies at the Cinema in the 80's or 90's as my parents are not big movie watchers, when I started with the first projector in early 2000 it gave watching the new and old movies a whole new experience, 100" screen with 5.1 digital sound was pretty amazing back then when I found out about Divx and Xvid, I'd downloaded 300+ movies to watch so going back through Elm St, Jaws, Friday 13th, Halloween, Indiana Jones etc on huge screen like being at cinema replaced what i'd missed out on, In someways I prefer watching them in my own home Cinema because you don't have people laughing at things I don't remotely fine funny, people talking etc, we did go watch new Indy jones one, morons that couldn't help checking the phones every so often, 2 hours and you can't put it down for that long
so I enjoy watching them at home, was shocked how cheap cinema is these days, £12 for both of us, with 2 for 1 £6, at that price I'll go more often
When the old huge projector died spent a week looking at new ones, it was LCD one but 4:3 so spent a week looking at various makes, models and settled on one of the only true Widescreen projectors, Panasonic PT-AE100 (£1300) as I was watching through computer until the first players out that played divx, that let me to then replace all the downloaded movies on DVD, bought loads new from Play and Amazon of classics, I sold some of the VHS ones like Licence To Drive, Weird Science just before released on DVD while worth something, then started buying loads from Charity shops for £1, they just kept piling up, then finally upgraded to a later Panasonic projector that was 720p so I could watch Bluray, you could buy blurays of movies like Jaws back then for £2 or 3 on ebay, so got a few and then get used to better picture, also the jump in dual layer dvds you didn't really notice watching on a TV but on projector you did so not having that was bonus, then when Bluray 3D comes out I wanted to upgrade again, wait till price resonable 2nd hand and got full HD Panasonic 3D projector
Started getting more on blurays, some films were hard to even get on DVD, they brought many out on bluray before DVD like now they do same on 4K example 48 Hours/Another 48hours, only 2nd movie is foreign blurays ray yet release 4K and Bluray set together in UK, so it's just snowballed, the final push to replace DVD with Bluray was as much down to storage as anything, many of the older films you could barely tell difference with DVD and Bluray one, BMX Bandits an exception, that was much improved, but I can fit 4 rows of Bluray cases in, where as DVD only 3 and space for games, question then was what to do with DVD's, many now pretty much worthless, I thought why not keep them, keep the covers in a box, put the dvd's in the bluray cases like the ones you buy that have both formats, bluray cases are great for that but I needed tons of single, double trays, double cases, some 4 and 6 disc cases, mate a work got me 300 cases off facebook cheap so i've not got huge amount on bluray and dvd, not upgrading to 4k as it means new Projectors, Bluray players and everthing in 4K. it's fine as it is for me
The sound was also important, when bluray first out, could you stream movies in 7.1 and 3D, I doubt it so streaming just never interested me. still amazes me I have some old movies on DVD in 5.1 and you get the new 4k restortation transfer in bluray and sound is 2.0
quite a few have different aspect ratio between DVD and Bluray, House On Haunted Hill DVD is 1 85 1 and Bluray is 2 40 1 so depending if I watched on TV I'd watch DVD as full screen, watch on Projector I'd watch Bluray, I set screen to zoom in on 2 40 1 movies, I'm restricted to size because of loft with sloping of roof so panavision I can make it wider and higher, when they chop a 2 40 1 movie down to 1 85 1 you miss out parts each side
Only downside to these improvements in picture quality, it ruins some of the special effects on older films, I got the Friday 13th set out couple of years back, I held off buying it previous because they hadn't done Part 3 in Bluray 3D but this set has, when I watched the first one where the girl gets her throat cut, it looked really good on dvd, on bluray the detail much better it exposes whats now poor special effects you could't see with VHS/DVD quality
