Friday, July 10, 2009

I'M NOT CONVINCED...

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18 comments:

  1. CarterJuly 10, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    so wait... my house is going to blow up if i watch these so called dvd's?

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  2. Desuko.July 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM

    These things look pretty destructive. I'm afraid to ask what will happen if I watch a Blu-Ray.

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  3. Billy SusbuckJuly 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    DVD! DVD!

    McGuirk understands.
    http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=c0d4c437a3683b110d41016738084900

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  4. AnonymousJuly 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    X-TREEEEEEME HIGH FIDELITY! This is the first EIT video I distinctly remember seeing.

    Weird how the promise of audio commentary showed MST3K-style silhouettes on the screen. Did any DVD actually do that?

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  5. AngryvillagerJuly 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    Trailers!? Widescreen!? On my computer!? Where do I sign up?

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  6. Hester PrineJuly 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    If DVDs have the power to make an airplane crash into your face, I wonder what powers laser discs had?

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  7. AnonymousJuly 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM

    It'll never catch on.

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  8. CarterJuly 10, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    Laser Discs had the power to make you get off of your couch and flip the things over half way through the movie.

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  9. AnonymousJuly 11, 2009 at 7:12 AM

    Oh man, who doesn't remember when Don LaFontaine spelled it all out for us... A movie! On a disc! The size of a CD!

    I think it was the Ghostbusters DVD that did the filmmaker silhouettes. Also, on the UHF disc Weird Al uses a hidden 'alternate angle' function to jump on screen during his commentary, basically to surprise you.

    All pointless gimmicks, of course, designed to get the DVD menace into your home, much like 'Digital 3D' put subpar video projectors into all of our cinemas.

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  10. MatthewJuly 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    This video reminded me of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvvwcgGC8as

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  11. jmvJuly 13, 2009 at 1:17 AM

    why so many "swords being scraped against each other' sounds?

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  12. therandomizerJuly 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM

    "Digitizing all of our movies for DVD, what's the worst that can happen?" - MPAA circa 1999

    I second jv's comment why do I always hear an unusual amount of sword play while viewing hi-fidelity demos?...

    Did you hear those swords honey? That was frickin amazing, I'll take it!!

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  13. AnonymousJuly 14, 2009 at 2:45 AM

    WOW! OVER 3000!
    -desu

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  14. AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 10:14 PM

    The funny thing about this is that they used to put these DVD promos in with the trailers on VHS tapes. You're supposed to be blown away by the amazing visuals and sword clanking and think, "man, I wish my VCR could do THAT!" while you were in fact watching it on your VCR.

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  15. M. BarrettJuly 24, 2009 at 6:36 PM

    Welcome to the future! (circa 1999)

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  16. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 9:09 AM

    Apparently, DVDs make you tweak.

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  17. csJanuary 10, 2014 at 9:40 AM

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  18. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 9:41 AM

    d-d-did he just say wide screen?

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