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Forum: Store Forum
01-21-24, 02:24 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 758
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Ebay Rips Off Sellers Worse Than I Thought

That is so screwed up, I don't even know what to say.

Thankfully, I stopped selling on Ebay more than a decade ago, before the sales tax monopoly got started. I never paid a cent of tax on Ebay as...
Forum: Blu-ray Bargains
11-30-23, 07:23 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 17,220
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Vinegar Syndrome -- Black Friday Sale

Great grindhouse film. And, now we know where the underscore music for "The People's Court" came from! (Actually, it's a library music track).
Forum: HD Talk
11-15-23, 03:29 AM
Replies: 60
Views: 2,763
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Oppenheimer -- 4K, BD and digital -- 11/21/23

Good for Nolan! I support that notion fully. But, "our kind" is sadly, incontrovertibly in the minority.
Forum: HD Talk
10-13-23, 04:04 PM
Replies: 344
Views: 34,880
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Best Buy Finished w/ Physical Media?

Pretty soon, the only place to buy your $100 copy of a film on actual physical media will be from the Amazon monster. Competition needs to exist or we're rapidly into the slippery slope of monopoly...
Forum: Store Forum
10-10-23, 07:43 PM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

You're out of the loop. I haven't watched "regular" TV since the bugs started appearing in the lower-right bottom corner of the screen in 1992-93. And the ads were already too numerous and too...
Forum: Store Forum
10-07-23, 04:00 PM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

... which is precisely why I avoid streaming, at any cost. Even free, or "negative".

It is evil incarnate. Reduced quality (low bitrates), contact tracing (they "know" you and exploit you), crappy...
Forum: Movie Talk
08-30-23, 10:24 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,923
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Favorite vampire movie?

Blood for Dracula
Near Dark
The Hunger (1983)
My Best Friend is a Vampire
Blacula
Old Dracula (1974)
Vampire Lovers (1970)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (with brighter color timing ala Superbit DVD...
Forum: Video Game Talk
08-23-23, 03:17 PM
Replies: 344
Views: 39,048
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Arcade 1UP

... but it's all done through emulation, correct? With lag. There aren't any MOS-6507s or Intel 8080 CPUs in those cabinets.

Or is the magic accomplished by means of FPGA-based cores as the MISTer...
Forum: Store Forum
08-14-23, 06:11 PM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

... which is why shopping on Amazon with its daily stock-market pricing has become a fool's errand almost all of the time. You can't time the Amazon market, temporally or spatially. CamelCamelCamel...
Forum: DVD & Home Theater Gear
06-16-23, 07:09 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,911
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Rubber-backing on remotes eventually turning sticky?

I've got a couple of those, but I made completely sure to get the *metal* versions, which will hopefully outlast me. I think they were only $2.

So, spending $2 for a quality item that won't...
Forum: Movie Talk
06-11-23, 08:50 PM
Replies: 193
Views: 8,552
Posted By zyzzle

Re: French Connection Censored on Streaming Platforms

So did I, and there were children there (I was one of them), but more adults stoned on LSD and dope than kids! It was an eclectic mix to be sure. Right from 2001 stoned into FANTASIA!

As to...
Forum: Movie Talk
06-09-23, 09:37 PM
Replies: 193
Views: 8,552
Posted By zyzzle

Re: French Connection Censored on Streaming Platforms

That's true, or at least it was 20 years ago with many of the Disney treasure DVD tins (several of which I proudly own). I doubt they'd re-release those "forbidden" ones like the WWII gem "On the...
Forum: Movie Talk
06-09-23, 09:31 PM
Replies: 193
Views: 8,552
Posted By zyzzle

Re: French Connection Censored on Streaming Platforms

FANTASIA is absolutely *not* a children's movie. It wasn't in 1940-41, but over the last 40-50 years, it has been "gentrified" / sanitized by Disney into a cashcow and that of course means that they...
Forum: Movie Talk
06-08-23, 08:50 PM
Replies: 193
Views: 8,552
Posted By zyzzle

Re: French Connection Censored on Streaming Platforms

It's Disney... This should surprise no one. They've been happily censoring for 50 years now, the bastards.

I'm glad I have two of releases of FRENCH CONNECTION. The horribly 'revised' wacky color...
Forum: DVD & Home Theater Gear
06-08-23, 08:41 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,911
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Rubber-backing on remotes eventually turning sticky?

In other words, complete and total planned obsolescence, to force you to buy new remotes and new products.
Forum: Movie Talk
05-26-23, 07:51 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 4,321
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?

David Cronenberg's TOTAL RECALL. (early-mid '80s?)
Forum: Store Forum
04-18-23, 09:49 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 6,461
Posted By zyzzle

Re: RIP Netflix disc rental service 1998-2023

Not surprising. I stopped using them around 2010, back when they actually had a great turnaround and catered to even the most discriminating film buffs.

This just means physical media are totally...
Forum: Comic Book Talk
04-10-23, 11:29 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 981
Posted By zyzzle

Re: MAD Artist Al Jaffee dies

He was great! Lots of gaffaws provided. A very wise fellow obviously doing a labor of love even into his 100s.

It has been at least 20 years since I've read an issue of MAD, but they were...
Forum: Store Forum
03-29-23, 07:09 PM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

I was being tongue-in-cheek in my child exploitation comments, but seriously, this isn't very professional. What if the kid tripped on my property? What happens then? I'm sure Amazon doesn't actually...
Forum: Store Forum
03-29-23, 02:45 AM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

Child labor! Underage exploitation! Quick, we need to shut down Amazon for exploiting our poor, abused children! Seriously, this would be a complete "What the FUCK" moment for me... It would be so...
Forum: Store Forum
02-20-23, 05:37 AM
Replies: 161
Views: 22,543
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Fry's Electronics is dying

40 years?! Huh! Try the last 60+ years. Shopping malls really got started in 1957-58 timeframe. Here's a blast from the past: Hillsdale mall opened in 1957 in San Mateo:
...
Forum: HD Talk
11-05-22, 12:24 AM
Replies: 189
Views: 38,488
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Hard Talk - Let’s discuss getting rid of physical media

I've often thought the exact same: Well, they're *really* scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of those SOV "special-edition BDs" (which are just crappy glorified VHS-level transfers). There's...
Forum: HD Talk
11-03-22, 03:27 AM
Replies: 189
Views: 38,488
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Hard Talk - Let’s discuss getting rid of physical media

I'll certainly grant you that, and accede to the fact that, yes, for single-viewing streaming is perfectly fine, convenient, and "better" than cable or renting. I was also pointing out, however, that...
Forum: Store Forum
11-02-22, 05:21 AM
Replies: 2,205
Views: 255,244
Posted By zyzzle

Re: The complaining about Amazon thread

Don't be an apologist, especially after what you were promised, never received, yet had the good fight in you to battle them by complaining until they made it right!
Forum: HD Talk
11-01-22, 05:13 AM
Replies: 189
Views: 38,488
Posted By zyzzle

Re: Hard Talk - Let’s discuss getting rid of physical media

Most of this is admittedly very true. You've written an excellent summary of home video over a nearly 50-year timespan. My God, 50 years, hard to believe it's been that long. (I remember getting a...
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