@LN78 You’ll probably know this, any decent shows neutered by crap widescreen or ‘special editions’ that I should be grabbing on DVD rather than Blu-Ray? My first thoughts were Simpsons, Friends and Star Trek but there must be a few given how widespread that nonsense was about 15 years ago.
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Most shows would be neutered in widescreen, the issue is not a crap job being done to convert to widescreen so much as a lot of shows just never being meant to be visible in widescreen in the first place because they were made back when 4:3 was still the norm. This applies for example to just about every American series made from the 50s-roughly mid 2000s, they all have their issues when converted to widescreen, some more than others. Like the person above me said, Buffy is borderline unwatchable in widescreen, some HBO shows like The Wire look mostly okay but most shows just don't.
@LN78@PegasusActual93 Cheers, I actually have all of Buffy and Angel on VHS rather than DVD but I have absolutely zero way of playing it hahaha, my mum was mad daft for it back when it was on BBC Two and got the box sets. My first thought was a lot of those heavy hitters from the 90s, TNG and Twin Peaks and so on. Maybe The X Files too? Probably a bunch of the old sitcoms too.
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Wasn't Angel and Buffy both notoriously censored on BBC Two because the idiots in programming thought "hey it's fantasy therefore it must be for kids" so they cut out most of the violence?
After an afternoon spent banging my face against a wall trying to play anything at all off a USB stick on the PS3, I finally settled on Universal Media Server to play my stuff on the old CRT. It’s more just an experiment over the weekend, I use it for playing games but neglected it for watching actual stuff on it. Friends actually looks good on it, it’s nice to have the screen filled. I had a dig through my DVDs and found a bunch of clearly pirated DVDs (remember that?) from a great uncle who’d just turn up with some absolute roasters he’d gotten down the Barras. Like, these aren’t even good movies. We have Around The World In Eighty Days with Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan. That’s the level we’re talking here.
It’s been fun actually, enjoying the weird nostalgia from the crap TV even if I wish that the CRT boom from nerds hadn’t made an actually decent set a laughably extortionate endeavour. It’s always a bit weird using those wires with the PS3 though, seems wrong somehow. They even work with the Wii U, played Breath of the Wild on a 16” telly for a laugh. For a view of how stupid chancers can ruin a fun hobby though, I’ve seen my crap telly going for over £100 starting bid on eBay. It’s a f**king Matsui. That’s the faux-Japanese ‘brand’ Currys would use on their sh*tboxes. You might as well be buying an Asda Smart Price telly.
@JohnnyShoulder I’m pretty sure we didn’t own a proper TV outright until the grandparents bought us a Sony Bravia that was HD back in about 07! Remember being amazed by it, we’d only had sets on hire purchase before that or I’d been using a small portable set that was in our room. I’m actually surprised that I managed to play any games at all on it now I’m used to the massive screens, although Lego Harry Potter was much more playable on the CRT since it was super dark on the LCD set!
@nessisonett When i moved out from my parents, I still had my iccle TV and VCR combo! Was using it right up until after I got a PS2, then I could afford a bigger place and a TV. Got a 28" Samsung chunky fella, which was a right **** whenever I moved! When I moved in with a couple of mates, that became the main TV so was back to using my VCR combo in my bedroom with my PS2. Had those two until I got a 360 and text was really tiny on the Samsung, so had to get a HD TV.
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@JohnnyShoulder tiny text was a similar pain of mine. 7th gen games begun to drop CRT support around the turn of the decade. When I played dynasty warriors 8, I was really unhappy with how illegible the text was. Made me realize I’d need a widescreen asap which I did get sometime after I bought gta v (which surprisingly didn’t require it).
@nessisonett Agreed on all counts. The second season isn't entirely set in stone, as they are currently trying to figure it out, but I'm fairly confident that they'll probably put something out, so hopefully they can crack a good story and make it compelling.
What is everyone's thoughts on the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series? I just don't get what the point is of remaking the story. Sure, the movies cut a chunk of subplots and other things out that a tv show would have the screen time to properly explore; but the movies and especially the cast of them are just so iconic. Not to mention with a TV budget they will likely dial back the scale and spectacle and therefore make the WOW factor inferior to the movies. I just can't imagine the show replicating the original movies magic (no pun intended). Why wouldn't you have just done a tv series that was an original story. Make it a sequel or prequel to the books ala Hogwarts Legacy. Or even just set it in a part of the Wizarding World we have never seen, no Hogwarts, no Potters, no Weasleys, etc. That way you will (mostly) avoid comparisons to the movies, not have to worry about catching lightning in a bottle with the cast again, and the writers can flex their creative muscles and do whatever the hell they want. They haven't even finished casting much less shot a single frame of it yet so I will of course reserve judgement but I am divided on the very idea of it.
@PegasusActual93 my daughter is looking forward to them because she kinda hates the movies (in comparison to the books). and just from the little I've seen before falling asleep at every attempt watching them, they seem tonally all over the place. so that seems like it could be improved. is it necessary though, yeah probably not.
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@PegasusActual93 I’ll watch it… I mean the movies are pretty good but HBO’s batting average is elite and I much prefer the long-form storytelling of a season’s narrative arc than a feature film, so I’m down for sure.
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HBO is definently among the S-tier when it comes to quality track record but they also aren't perfect. I don't doubt they will employ top tier talent in this thing but I just don't know.
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The excellent Netflix animated series Arcane just got its second season release date. Well, dates, plural, actually.
Split into three acts, they will release Nov. 9, Nov. 16 and Nov. 23
Looking forward to it! I'm very glad I came to it late (first watched it just this spring) so I didn't have to wait too long for the continuation
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