and nothing is better than holding things that have a presence all there own, especialy for live performances
to be fair, plenty of live stuff, with video is now availible to anyone with a phone....and a solid signal, that would otherwise stay buried
and lots of stuff from the last 20 years, never got pressed
and then there are the mad men blinking furiously terabite drives stacked up, torn between doing whatever they were supposed too, and filling any drives you might have handy, with 1500 hrs of various and sundry bootleg recordings, with of course there own personal sound track,playing....
"you GOT TO HEAR THIS!"
> And still it didn’t sound quite right. So we dug out our Blu-ray and popped it in, and there it was: the pristine sounds of Junkie XL’s warring drums and guitars coming out of our soundbar.
Pretty laughable commenting about how 'bad' the audio quality sounded coming from a soundbar.
> You might be asking, if I am so annoyed by watching movies on Max, Disney+, Netflix, and the rest, why don’t I just watch them from my film snob collection? Funny you should ask, because it’s a not-so-funny story: I moved during the pandemic and someone stole our physical media collection—save for one box of our absolute faves. That’s right, somewhere in the Valley someone acquired a film school’s worth of greatest movies on Blu-ray and DVDs right off the curb next to a moving truck. Rude.
Funny, this is a point in favor of streaming media. Nothing to steal, nothing to get lost, nothing to keep or move or take up space.
> Our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizza box collection? Gone. How did we realize? Shortly before watching Mutant Mayhem we looked through our box. It wasn’t there...
How much time is the author wasting rummaging through her boxes of movies/TV looking for stuff?
I'm all for 'original content' not muddied by constant re-compression and reauthoring, but rip the physical media and get rid of it.
What does Atmos compatibility have to do with anything? You can find a $80 soundbar that Dolby Atmos.
And sure, you can get okay sound from a soundbar. Perhaps even decent if you spend a lot... but it's going to pale compared to a proper surround sound system.
I don't watch many movies, but I 100000000000% agree that this is happening on streaming music platforms.
It's straight up impossible to get a non-remastered version of many titles on any platform, and having albums that you stream but don't own yanked out from under you at any time is common. Triply so if you're into niche stuff.
Shit, even the mono recording of Beach Boy's _Pet Sounds_ is the 2001 remastered one!
This is problematic when producers or studios decide to conveniently remove or replace tracks in re-releases, though I fortunately haven't run into this too often.
Those albums were made with the equipment that was available at the time. In most situations, listening to remasters of those is like watching old movies with motion interpolation (or whatever it's called) on. It's _technically_ the same movie (or album), but it's also not.
Try watching Popeye or any classic animation movie on a modern TV with its default settings. It's unwatchable (at least for me).
The other frustrating element about this is that TVs were not designed with backwards-compatibility in mind. While I get that there are differences between CRT and LCD technology, you shouldn't have to buy a ton of hardware to use S-Video or RCA inputs these days. It's understandable for this to get cut in a market where cost matters more than anything else, but it still sucks shit that I can't "just" buy an old VCR and plug it in.
Fortunately, audio hasn't changed very much in the last 50 years and audio equipment _was_ designed with backwards compatibility in mind. I can plug in some old big box speakers from the 70s into my Sonos Amp because it takes copper input, for example. Because of this, it's easy to get a record/cassette/CD player and get vinyls/tapes/CDs of important albums.
Regardless, it's a shame that streaming became what it is today (ultra convenient, but easy to manipulate and alter), and complaining about details like this feels like screaming into the void and it sucks. (Audio quality is at the bottom of the list of things that people listening to 10s samples on TikTok through their iPhone/Galaxy/Pixel front speaker give a shit about)
Seems like it’s just someone whining about their internet connection, in which case, I can see why streaming would be frustrating.
But I’m lucky enough not to experience these issues, and boy oh boy, is streaming better.
No searching through physical disks that could be in the wrong cases, no time delay (going to get the physical disk or waiting days for it to show up) instant switching based on whatever I feel like watching. I’m more likely to look at new types of content because if it sucks it’s easy for me to change.
If you have a decent connection, streaming is so, so much better
>If you have a decent connection, streaming is so, so much better
This, pretending otherwise is just silly. I can understand that people enjoy the ritual with things like vinyl, but no one enjoys flipping through DVDs or the like.
nothing is worse than a skypy music stream
and nothing is better than holding things that have a presence all there own, especialy for live performances
to be fair, plenty of live stuff, with video is now availible to anyone with a phone....and a solid signal, that would otherwise stay buried
and lots of stuff from the last 20 years, never got pressed
and then there are the mad men blinking furiously terabite drives stacked up, torn between doing whatever they were supposed too, and filling any drives you might have handy, with 1500 hrs of various and sundry bootleg recordings, with of course there own personal sound track,playing.... "you GOT TO HEAR THIS!"
Self-hosted streaming beats physical media all day every day. Currently at 3TB in my jellyfin server
> And still it didn’t sound quite right. So we dug out our Blu-ray and popped it in, and there it was: the pristine sounds of Junkie XL’s warring drums and guitars coming out of our soundbar.
Pretty laughable commenting about how 'bad' the audio quality sounded coming from a soundbar.
> You might be asking, if I am so annoyed by watching movies on Max, Disney+, Netflix, and the rest, why don’t I just watch them from my film snob collection? Funny you should ask, because it’s a not-so-funny story: I moved during the pandemic and someone stole our physical media collection—save for one box of our absolute faves. That’s right, somewhere in the Valley someone acquired a film school’s worth of greatest movies on Blu-ray and DVDs right off the curb next to a moving truck. Rude.
Funny, this is a point in favor of streaming media. Nothing to steal, nothing to get lost, nothing to keep or move or take up space.
> Our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizza box collection? Gone. How did we realize? Shortly before watching Mutant Mayhem we looked through our box. It wasn’t there...
How much time is the author wasting rummaging through her boxes of movies/TV looking for stuff?
I'm all for 'original content' not muddied by constant re-compression and reauthoring, but rip the physical media and get rid of it.
There are some really good sound bars on the market. They can even do Atmos!
What does Atmos compatibility have to do with anything? You can find a $80 soundbar that Dolby Atmos.
And sure, you can get okay sound from a soundbar. Perhaps even decent if you spend a lot... but it's going to pale compared to a proper surround sound system.
I don't watch many movies, but I 100000000000% agree that this is happening on streaming music platforms.
It's straight up impossible to get a non-remastered version of many titles on any platform, and having albums that you stream but don't own yanked out from under you at any time is common. Triply so if you're into niche stuff.
Shit, even the mono recording of Beach Boy's _Pet Sounds_ is the 2001 remastered one!
This is problematic when producers or studios decide to conveniently remove or replace tracks in re-releases, though I fortunately haven't run into this too often.
Those albums were made with the equipment that was available at the time. In most situations, listening to remasters of those is like watching old movies with motion interpolation (or whatever it's called) on. It's _technically_ the same movie (or album), but it's also not.
Try watching Popeye or any classic animation movie on a modern TV with its default settings. It's unwatchable (at least for me).
The other frustrating element about this is that TVs were not designed with backwards-compatibility in mind. While I get that there are differences between CRT and LCD technology, you shouldn't have to buy a ton of hardware to use S-Video or RCA inputs these days. It's understandable for this to get cut in a market where cost matters more than anything else, but it still sucks shit that I can't "just" buy an old VCR and plug it in.
Fortunately, audio hasn't changed very much in the last 50 years and audio equipment _was_ designed with backwards compatibility in mind. I can plug in some old big box speakers from the 70s into my Sonos Amp because it takes copper input, for example. Because of this, it's easy to get a record/cassette/CD player and get vinyls/tapes/CDs of important albums.
Regardless, it's a shame that streaming became what it is today (ultra convenient, but easy to manipulate and alter), and complaining about details like this feels like screaming into the void and it sucks. (Audio quality is at the bottom of the list of things that people listening to 10s samples on TikTok through their iPhone/Galaxy/Pixel front speaker give a shit about)
Seems like it’s just someone whining about their internet connection, in which case, I can see why streaming would be frustrating.
But I’m lucky enough not to experience these issues, and boy oh boy, is streaming better.
No searching through physical disks that could be in the wrong cases, no time delay (going to get the physical disk or waiting days for it to show up) instant switching based on whatever I feel like watching. I’m more likely to look at new types of content because if it sucks it’s easy for me to change.
If you have a decent connection, streaming is so, so much better
We have a 5Gbit fiber pipe, and our Apple TV has a gigabit connection. I've had Hulu and Netflix downscale or choke on me before.
>If you have a decent connection, streaming is so, so much better
This, pretending otherwise is just silly. I can understand that people enjoy the ritual with things like vinyl, but no one enjoys flipping through DVDs or the like.
I guess it’s better in the same way FM radio is “better” than a CD. But streaming is always worse, quality wise.
Regardless of connection quality, the streaming bitrate will be far below bluray media.
Every decision has tradeoffs, but I watch the HD netflix and it works flawlessly.
Would I trade all of the advantages above for the (to me) near imperceptible difference in quality? Nope.
Wait days for physical media to show up, or drive around and find a store? What is this? 1952? No thanks.
The title smells like "who cares". Do what you prefer, who gives a shit.