The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

Rich T

Rich T

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This, all by itself, got me to—just now—buy an XBox for the first time in my life. Preordered the software. Never had a computer capable of properly running the PC version.

Iger never should have poo-pooed Disney’s future in game development. A Disney-themed take on Planet Coaster or RCT would have sold millions and millions of copies this year.
 
Rich T

Rich T

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SplashGhost said:
The one area of entertainment that Disney has yet to conquer is video games. It is like they just don't understand the industry. If they knew the industry better they probably wouldn't have given Star Wars rights to EA.
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Disney had a great thing started with Infinity, and after all the hard work and foundation-laying, Iger pulled the plug because it wasn’t immediately profitable *enough.* If they’d stuck with it, they could gave been selling virtual theme parks all through this past year.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Captn EO said:
Looking at this just makes me realize.... What is current Disney doing to gain new fans or keep existing fans? What is Disney doing right?

Star Wars they messed up big time. Their themeparks they've continually taken every chance to screw them up.

I guess they have Marvel, which has been a success, and their recent animated films have been decent.

They show a lack of respect to their old time fans, by digital redoing the animation of their classic films and running them through a blur filter (instead of scanning the film prints).

But man, how can someone be a fan of the company "Disney" when half their products are garbage?

I am collecting Disney Masterpiece Collection Laserdiscs as of recent. Giant box sets with framed art prints, books, and tons of bonus featurues. Best part is the movies look normal and as intended, not weird digital blurry movies with desaturated colors. They are a premium product. Yet 30 years later Disney doesn't give any of their films the respect they did.

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That Masterpiece Collection look/ sound great! I might have to buy a few of those. Are these new? Do they play on a Blu-ray player. It’s sad that I’m probably so used to the desaturated blurry colors on some of these remastered animated films that I’ve forgotten what they were intended to look like.
 
SuddenStorm

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mickEblu said:
That Masterpiece Collection look/ sound great! I might have to buy a few of those. Are these new? Do they play on a Blu-ray player. It’s sad that I’m probably so used to the desaturated blurry colors on some of these remastered animated films that I’ve forgotten what they were intended to look like.
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My friend, those are Laserdisc. I think the only value of that set is the box art... even their blu rays that are DNR'd to oblivion probably have better picture quality and definitely better sound quality.

Disney's been putting out some of their classic animated films on 4K, and Best Buy often has Steelbook releases of these so I've been working on picking those up as they come out.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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SuddenStorm said:
My friend, those are Laserdisc. I think the only value of that set is the box art... even their blu rays that are DNR'd to oblivion probably have better picture quality and definitely better sound quality.

Disney's been putting out some of their classic animated films on 4K, and Best Buy often has Steelbook releases of these so I've been working on picking those up as they come out.
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What the heck is a laser disc? I thought it went VHS to DVD to Blu Ray. What did I miss? Yeah those steel books are cool. I bought the steel book for the last Sleeping Beauty that came out because I liked the art work more than the regular version.
 
SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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mickEblu said:
What the heck is a laser disc? I thought it went VHS to DVD to Blu Ray. What did I miss? Yeah those steel books are cool. I bought the steel book for the last Sleeping Beauty came out because I liked the art work more than the regular version.
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It's basically a DVD that's the size of a record. It wasn't as mainstream as VHS or DVD, but offered superior picture quality to VHS.

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SuddenStorm

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Rich T said:

This, all by itself, got me to—just now—buy an XBox for the first time in my life. Preordered the software. Never had a computer capable of properly running the PC version.

Iger never should have poo-pooed Disney’s future in game development. A Disney-themed take on Planet Coaster or RCT would have sold millions and millions of copies this year.
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If it helps, a few of the designs in this game are direct knockoffs of Disneyland architecture. You can accurately recreate Sleeping Beauty Castle. The Mine Train coaster's vehicles are exactly the same as Big Thunder. The pirate themed stuff is very reminiscent of WDW's Pirates facade.
 
George Lucas on a Bench

George Lucas on a Bench

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mickEblu said:
Cool thanks. So the standard blu ray today is better quality than those laser discs?
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LaserDiscs are inferior to DVDs. They were big analog non-anamorphic video discs that required multiple discs and sides for a single movie. They were popular with the film enthusiasts for their widescreen transfers and bonus features, some of which have not been ported to other formats.
 
SuddenStorm

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mickEblu said:
Cool thanks. So the standard blu ray today is better quality than those laser discs?
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Yes, as is DVD. It's pretty dated technology. Interestingly- it does have some value to avid collectors of certain films. I know Star Wars fans like the laserdisc since it's one of the only versions of the theatrical cuts... and was used heavily in the making of the despecialized edition of the film.

Blu Ray has considerably more visual detail, better color depth, and lossless surround audio. Not to mention it's far more compact and easier to store.

My father was an avid collector of Laserdisc, and eventually chucked all the discs themselves but framed all the artwork sleeves they came in. It's a pretty neat display.
 
Rich T

Rich T

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SuddenStorm said:
My father was an avid collector of Laserdisc, and eventually chucked all the discs themselves but framed all the artwork sleeves they came in. It's a pretty neat display.
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That’s me as well. Kept my boxes and sleeves for Snow White, Alice, B&W Mickey and the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORK IN PROGRESS PENCIL TEST VERSION OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which was released to Laser long before the “normal” release hit home video.
Laser Discs were great at the time, and really the only way to see films in widescreen format instead of the cropped, pan n’ scan treatment of VHS releases.

Unfortunately, they were subject to manufacturing defects due to the very nature of gluing 2 LP sized platters together to form the finished disc. It was “normal” to give any new purchase a complete play-through to make sure there were no major sound or picture glitches.
 
DrAlice

DrAlice

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You would buy laserdiscs and your favorite music (in the giant CD box) at your local Wherehouse music store. It looked like this:

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I remember when my local Wherehouse switched from vinyl to the giant CD boxes. It was weird. I also remember my dad complaining that everyone stopped carrying replacement needles for the record player.

tl; dr? I'm old.
 
DrAlice

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Speaking of old, and the change in how we consume media these days...

I realized that my daughter doesn't know what the call letters of a TV or Radio station are for. These days, our household only listens to satellite radio in the car or streaming music in the house. We only watch Blu-Ray or streaming shows and movies. We were watching something on the PBS streaming app the other day and it mentioned our local PBS station call letters. She said, "What is that? What do those random letters mean?". I tried to explain it and she just looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. I realized that she has zero frame of reference for that.

And then I shuffled off and grumbled about youth being wasted on the young. As you do.
 
Stevek

Stevek

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George Lucas on a Bench said:
LaserDiscs are inferior to DVDs. They were big analog non-anamorphic video discs that required multiple discs and sides for a single movie. They were popular with the film enthusiasts for their widescreen transfers and bonus features, some of which have not been ported to other formats.
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I still have a handful of laserdiscs and a player but it's not even worth hooking up. The quality is abysmal on an HD TV. Looked great on the old 27 inch tube TV though...I have the Star Wars box set below which was amazing at the time. Kind of a pain to flip and change discs constantly though. The book inside of it is probably the most important item now.

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