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  • OleBoot
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  • Kex
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    For all my fellow physical media fans (you know who you are… and aren’t, lol).

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    I’m not a physical media guy, and haven’t used physical media in years for audio or video, but I can still appreciate the potential veracity of this statement. 😂

    Apple TV makes it a lot easier than Google, and I don’t subscribe to seven services, but there are still limitations to how it works. 🤦‍♂️

    Some services like Netflix won’t even let users manage their subscription from within Apple TV (a Netflix website login is required instead). Sling is similar. I can understand that they don’t want to pay Apple the 15-30% of subscription fees for that, but the end result is that I rarely activate my subscription at all because I can’t turn it on or off conveniently with with my Apple ID. The end result in my case is that they are definitely losing tons of potential revenue. 🤷‍♂️

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  • msg
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    For all my fellow physical media fans (you know who you are… and aren’t, lol).

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    It used to be so much easier to browse and make selections on streaming platforms. And then they started trying to get creative, and completely ruined everything with their stupid UI redesigns, limited content while letting you see what you could be able to watch if you upgrade upgrade-upgrade, or accept ads.

    Over the past two or three years I've realized that I exhaust myself just browsing crap content in a tedious, inefficient browser, to the point that I'm no longer in the mood to watch anything at all, by the end, and so I don't.

    I wondered at times whether it's the same business model as overselling a gym to just get your money, while making it unpleasant enough to make you stop using it, and they can sell more memberships.

    Netflix DVD at least you got what you wanted to watch. Owning physical media, though? While I have some favorites, I prefer not to amass a catalog. One thing I do miss is bonus content and accurate pause rewind and frame advance. Can't do that with streaming.

    This world's de-evolution is accelerating. The handbasket industry must be booming, though. I just hope I get a nice quality one for my trip to hell. Not one of those poorly made Amazon import jobs to give me splinters, jab me, or have the bottom fall out. I prefer going to hell in comfort, enjoying nuanced refinements.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    Who would have ever thought that getting in your car and driving to Blockbuster was an easier way to find a movie?
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • Kex
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    Well… the choice at Blockbuster was more limited, and they could run out of some titles, whereas streaming is almost unlimited for choice and availability.
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    Physical media all the way here. My fellow installers when I worked at Bjorns A/V called it direct media.

    Streaming is convenient for sure but I'll always dig my BR and CD players.
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    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
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  • daddyjt
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    One of the other things I like about physical media is that I can loan it to friends & family.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    Kex wrote: »
    Well… the choice at Blockbuster was more limited, and they could run out of some titles, whereas streaming is almost unlimited for choice and availability.

    Well, most people probably realize I wasn’t being literal. Kind of a tongue in cheek statement that sitting on your couch and finding a movie should be miles better than having to drive and pick out a movie, but it’s not miles better, it’s only slightly better. I honestly don’t watch many movies because finding something to watch is such a beating.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    One of the other things I like about physical media is that I can loan it to friends & family.

    And then get upset when they don’t return it🤣🤣🤣
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  • Willow
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    OleBoot wrote: »
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    Guaranteed happy ending
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    2018 Chevy Cruze! Plenty of room in the backseat for Big girls! Has a completely built Chevy 454 twin turbo  with two nitrous tanks!  never been wrecked before clean Carfax! I don’t need to sell prices firm. I know what I got.!
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  • mhardy6647
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    The streaming posts above got me to thinkin'.
    Do you have to rewind the streaming videos when you're finished? You know, like videotapes -- and DVDs?
    Askin' for a friend.

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    Oh, while I'm thinkin' about it. Is it OK to use a regular DVD rewinder on Blu-ray DVDs?
    I hope so! :#

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  • Geoff4rfc
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    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
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    2018 Chevy Cruze! Plenty of room in the backseat for Big girls! Has a completely built Chevy 454 twin turbo  with two nitrous tanks!  never been wrecked before clean Carfax! I don’t need to sell prices firm. I know what I got.!

    Wow.....been in TX and out of WA for just shy of 3 years now.....miss me some Fred Meyer fried chicken......
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    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    ^ automotive cellulite.
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  • F1nut
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    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
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    2018 Chevy Cruze! Plenty of room in the backseat for Big girls! Has a completely built Chevy 454 twin turbo  with two nitrous tanks!  never been wrecked before clean Carfax! I don’t need to sell prices firm. I know what I got.!

    Wow.....been in TX and out of WA for just shy of 3 years now.....miss me some Fred Meyer fried chicken......

    Look at all the fried chicken grease on the ground.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Geoff4rfc
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
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    2018 Chevy Cruze! Plenty of room in the backseat for Big girls! Has a completely built Chevy 454 twin turbo  with two nitrous tanks!  never been wrecked before clean Carfax! I don’t need to sell prices firm. I know what I got.!

    Wow.....been in TX and out of WA for just shy of 3 years now.....miss me some Fred Meyer fried chicken......

    Look at all the fried chicken grease on the ground.

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    Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • mhardy6647
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    (ASR)

    EDIT: Oh, and from hifihaven...

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  • mrbigbluelight
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    Corsairs and Hellcats

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    Corsair engine ?

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    Sal Palooza
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  • machone
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    That's a lot of aircraft. I wonder where that photo was taken?
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  • F1nut
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    machone wrote: »
    That's a lot of aircraft. I wonder where that photo was taken?

    In a hanger.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • nooshinjohn
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    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Corsairs and Hellcats

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    Corsair engine ?

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    His work attire is incorrect. When the F4U was being built, it was Chance-Vought. Goodyear and Brewster also built them under license. Engines were built by Pratt&Whitney, and also General Motors, also under license.
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    Maybe his Chance-Vought overalls were in the laundry and he had to resort to wearing an old set of Vought-Sikorsky overalls.
    🤔🤗
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  • mhardy6647
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    F1nut wrote: »
    machone wrote: »
    That's a lot of aircraft. I wonder where that photo was taken?

    In a hanger.

    A big hangar.
    Maybe of the dirigible kind, like the big ol' hangar(s) at Moffett Field in (next to) Sunnyvale, CA.
    They always fascinated me when I drove by on 101.

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  • F1nut
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    Moffett Field is a high probability
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • SCompRacer
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    Possibly Tustin, CA blimp hangar.
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  • Viking64
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  • Willow
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The streaming posts above got me to thinkin'.
    Do you have to rewind the streaming videos when you're finished? You know, like videotapes -- and DVDs?
    Askin' for a friend.

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    Oh, while I'm thinkin' about it. Is it OK to use a regular DVD rewinder on Blu-ray DVDs?
    I hope so! :#

    I make sure to rewind all my videos on Netflix and Prime once I'm done.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    ^^^^Love those Hellcats and Corsairs


    On display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola FL.
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    F6F-3 Hellcat
    The Navy’s front-line fighter during the final two years of World War II, the F6F produced more aces, including leading Navy ace Commander David McCampbell, than any other Allied aircraft. At peak production the airplane’s manufacturer delivered one Hellcat an hour around-the-clock. The aircraft on display is a combat veteran of the Solomon Islands campaign having flown with Fighting Squadron (VF) 38, including missions escorting a plane carrying Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey.


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    FG-1D Corsair
    Originally produced by Vought, the Corsair was in production by multiple manufacturers longer than any piston-engine fighter and flew combat missions in both World War II and Korea. Its most recognizable design feature was an inverted gull wing that was necessary to keep the blades of its 13-ft. propeller from striking the ground. During air combat missions in World War II, more than one Marine pilot downed a Japanese plane by chopping off its tail with this large propeller.


    Note: The best place to see the Blue Angels on their practice days all year at Sherman Field just behind the museum. A very special place.
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    Willow wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The streaming posts above got me to thinkin'.
    Do you have to rewind the streaming videos when you're finished? You know, like videotapes -- and DVDs?
    Askin' for a friend.

    1gqbchsuzqun.png

    Oh, while I'm thinkin' about it. Is it OK to use a regular DVD rewinder on Blu-ray DVDs?
    I hope so! :#

    I make sure to rewind all my videos on Netflix and Prime once I'm done.

    Can I get one of these pretty cheap??? My library contains near 400 discs.......by the way, will it rewind my CD's too??
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    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • Jetmaker737
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    The Corsair with those gull wings is one of the sexiest airplanes ever. I built the Monogram model of it when I was a kid, painted exactly that color. Also featured in that show Baa Baa Blacksheep.
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