• Media storage for general storage and moving

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Tue Aug 6 13:44:54 2024
    I still like to buy movies & TV shows on physical media. I still have all of my music CDs as well. These days I tend to rip it all and keep it on my media server, as well as keeping copies of my music on my phone & a USB drive for my car, etc..

    I have most of my CDs still packed in boxes, but for my movies (blu-rays and DVDs), I currently have them in a few plastic drawers. Lately I've thought about buying some movie storage containers that I can store them in, as well as containers that would make it easy to move them when I move to a different apartment/house. I'm curious if anyone might have some recommendations?

    I've looked on Amazon and have seen these, which look interesting: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZJJMZGX/
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HG36Y1P/
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V97KF7F/

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Sun Aug 11 16:27:56 2024
    Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: Nightfox to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 01:44 pm

    I still like to buy movies & TV shows on physical media. I still have all of my music CDs as well. These days I tend to rip it all and keep it on my media server, as well as keeping copies of my music on my phone & a USB drive for my car, etc..

    I have most of my CDs still packed in boxes, but for my movies (blu-rays and DVDs), I currently have them in a few plastic drawers. Lately I've thought about buying some movie storage containers that I can store them in, as well as containers that would make it easy to move them when I move to a different apartment/house. I'm curious if anyone might have some recommendations?

    I just put my DVDs in their cases, and the cases on shelves. I no longer have many visits, but when I do I can impress them with my DVD and book collection sitting on the shelving.

    For moving them from a plac to another I would go with regular cardboard boxes, but then I am the cardboard box King since I have so many for my store :-P

    For the record, my father keeps his optical media on special carriers. They are like folders loaded up with sleeves into which you can insert your CDs and DVDs. Think of them like books in which each page is a CD carrier with capacity for 4 or more disks. They are for the media only and do nothing for keeping the original cases, though.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Arelor on Mon Aug 12 10:43:31 2024
    Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Sun Aug 11 2024 04:27 pm

    I just put my DVDs in their cases, and the cases on shelves. I no longer have many visits, but when I do I can impress them with my DVD and book collection sitting on the shelving.

    Several years ago, I listed my house for sale, and I had a shelf in my living room near the TV with my DVDs and blu-ray discs on it, and there was a real estate agent who looked at it and said the DVD shelf was an eyesore.. To each their own - I didn't really think of that being an eyesore, as I thought it was fairly normal to have your movies near the TV for when you want to watch them.

    For the record, my father keeps his optical media on special carriers. They are like folders loaded up with sleeves into which you can insert your CDs and DVDs. Think of them like books in which each page is a CD carrier with capacity for 4 or more disks. They are for the media only and do nothing for keeping the original cases, though.

    Yeah, I've seen those disc booklets, and I'm not a big fan of them. I like to keep the cases for them, along with any booklets or anything else that comes with them, so usually I just keep the discs in their original cases.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Fri Aug 30 17:02:45 2024

    On 06 Aug 2024 at 01:44p, Nightfox pondered and said...

    I still like to buy movies & TV shows on physical media. I still have
    all of my music CDs as well. These days I tend to rip it all and keep

    I'm with you and I suspect there are more (and younger) folks feeling the same way as time moves along :)

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Avon on Fri Aug 30 08:19:59 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: Avon to Nightfox on Fri Aug 30 2024 05:02 pm

    I still like to buy movies & TV shows on physical media. I still have all
    of my music CDs as well. These days I tend to rip it all and keep

    I'm with you and I suspect there are more (and younger) folks feeling the same way as time moves along :)

    Yeah, I've seen more people these days saying they've started to buy more physical media as they get frustrated about streaming services removing content.

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  • From Ganiman@21:3/174 to Avon on Wed Sep 4 12:50:10 2024
    I'm with you and I suspect there are more (and younger) folks feeling
    the same way as time moves along :)

    My 16 year old kid likes to buy DVDs and watch them on a CRT TV in her room. Her friends think its really cool too. She thinks its the best way to watch anything from the 80s to early 2000s era. And we have a Jellyfin server with many terabytes of media easily accessible anywhere in the house. Even with that, we are still a physical-forever house. I'd rather watch a new full 4k movie with quality audio off an Ultra HD disc than stream it locally too.

    We almost never purchase digital games either, we have shelves with hundreds (a thousand?) games. I do enjoy a faster load time when I game, so I will install games right on to a console (and if necessary, mod the console to support it or at least swap in an ssd) and fill up a drive, but there is always a disc for it on the shelf for a source copy.

    Vinyl is popular all over again too, and I admit I have a small collection and look for very specific things, but who saw that coming?

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Ganiman on Thu Sep 5 08:35:23 2024
    My 16 year old kid likes to buy DVDs and watch them on a CRT TV in her
    room. Her friends think its really cool too. She thinks its the best
    way to watch anything from the 80s to early 2000s era. And we have a Jellyfin server with many terabytes of media easily accessible
    anywhere in the house. Even with that, we are still a physical-forever house. I'd rather watch a new full 4k movie with quality audio off an
    Ultra HD disc than stream it locally too.

    Older things, too, especially those not made for the wide screen. Some
    people swear up and down that old shows look better in HD but, unless
    they've been remastered or something, I just think they don't look quite
    right.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Blue White on Thu Sep 5 07:10:00 2024
    Blue White wrote to Ganiman <=-

    Older things, too, especially those not made for the wide screen. Some people swear up and down that old shows look better in HD but, unless they've been remastered or something, I just think they don't look
    quite right.

    I'm glad we all have wide-screen TVs, so we don't need to watch
    pan-and-scan on 4:3 TVs anymore.

    I think it's interesting that some TV shows that were shown in 4:3
    apparently were filmed in widescreen format and they've been able to
    remaster them in widescreen.

    Someone put together widescreen "screencaps" of Star Trek TOS, and it's interesting to see what it would have looked like on a modern screen.

    https://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Blue White on Thu Sep 5 10:33:44 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: Blue White to Ganiman on Thu Sep 05 2024 08:35 am

    Older things, too, especially those not made for the wide screen. Some people swear up and down that old shows look better in HD but, unless they've been remastered or something, I just think they don't look quite right.

    Yeah, in order to really take advantage of HD, it's best to remaster it, including re-scanning the film in HD, if possible. That's what they did with Star Trek: The Next Generation (and probably the same process for TOS), and I think it looks great in 1080p HD. It would be great to also see Star Trek: Voyager and Deep Space 9 remastered in HD, but it looks like that might not happen. I've heard the process would be even more expensive due to how they made those shows, and they feel like the cost can't be justified due to low sales of the TNG blu-rays etc..

    There is software to do AI upscaling, and it "works" to an extent, but for now it's not capable of outputting something like a high-quality remaster. Maybe some day software will be able to do it though.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Sep 5 10:37:17 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Blue White on Thu Sep 05 2024 07:10 am

    I'm glad we all have wide-screen TVs, so we don't need to watch pan-and-scan on 4:3 TVs anymore.

    I agree.

    I think it's interesting that some TV shows that were shown in 4:3 apparently were filmed in widescreen format and they've been able to remaster them in widescreen.

    Someone put together widescreen "screencaps" of Star Trek TOS, and it's interesting to see what it would have looked like on a modern screen.

    https://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama

    Those screen caps look cool. It would be interesting to see more older 4:3 TV shows in widescreen. I'd heard that when they remastered TNG for blu-ray, they didn't make it widescreen because it wasn't filmed for widescreen - so if they did that, you'd end up seeing things like the edges of the sets, equipment, etc.. I thought TOS had the same issue (and may be why TOS on blu-ray is still 4:3).

    I've noticed they have widescreen versions of Friends and Seinfeld now. Friends is even being released on 4K blu-ray this month..

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Sep 5 19:35:00 2024
    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    Someone put together widescreen "screencaps" of Star Trek TOS, and it's interesting to see what it would have looked like on a modern screen.

    https://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama

    THAT is an interesting result.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Fri Sep 6 07:16:00 2024
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    interesting to see what it would have looked like on a modern screen.

    https://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama

    THAT is an interesting result.

    There's an interesting guy named Shem Von Schroeck who did a video about
    the score in Star Trek TOS. He focused on "The Doomsday Machine"
    episode, incredible to look deeper into the music and how the various
    pieces tied into the plot of the episode. You don't see that anymore...

    He also touched on the director's choice of cinematography. Shooting
    creatively in 4:3 must have been a challenge!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfEXDCsRmg&t=717s




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Fri Sep 6 07:57:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to Blue White <=-

    Yeah, in order to really take advantage of HD, it's best to remaster
    it, including re-scanning the film in HD, if possible. That's what
    they did with Star Trek: The Next Generation (and probably the same process for TOS), and I think it looks great in 1080p HD.

    I remember hearing talk that they destroyed the Enterprise-D in the
    movie "Generations" because the sets looked so bad on the big screen -
    they were designed for TV production and you could see all of the
    defects and materials when shot for a movie.

    It would certainly explain the lighting in the movie - it was so dark
    compared to the TV show lighting.




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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Sep 6 09:45:20 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Sep 06 2024 07:57 am

    I remember hearing talk that they destroyed the Enterprise-D in the movie "Generations" because the sets looked so bad on the big screen - they were designed for TV production and you could see all of the defects and materials when shot for a movie.

    It would certainly explain the lighting in the movie - it was so dark compared to the TV show lighting.

    I thought I had heard the reason they destroyed the Enterprise D in the movie was because the Enterprise D was originally designed for a 4:3 image for the TVs of the day, and they wanted to introduce a new Enterprise that was better for a widescreen image. I guess I can understand that (and the Enterprise E was indeed a longer ship), but I thought the Enterprise D still looked great in widescreen. I thought its sets looked fine in the movie too - and they actually changed the sets a bit for the movie. If I recall correctly, the bridge had a pronounced section that raised up a bit toward the middle, whereas in the TV show, it wasn't so pronounced.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Fri Sep 6 11:05:37 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Sep 06 2024 09:45 am

    was indeed a longer ship), but I thought the Enterprise D still looked great in widescreen. I thought its sets looked fine in the movie too - and they

    Who didn't get tingly when the Enterprise-D showed up in Picard S3?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Sep 6 12:26:41 2024
    Re: Re: Media storage for general storage and moving
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Sep 06 2024 11:05 am

    was indeed a longer ship), but I thought the Enterprise D still looked
    great in widescreen. I thought its sets looked fine in the movie too - and
    they

    Who didn't get tingly when the Enterprise-D showed up in Picard S3?

    I thought that was pretty cool.

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  • From halian@21:2/132 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Sep 11 22:49:00 2024
    Someone put together widescreen "screencaps" of Star Trek TOS, and it's interesting to see what it would have looked like on a modern screen.

    https://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama

    │ I love those widescreencaps. It'd be cool to see a widescreen or anamorphic
    │ remaster of /TOS/.
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Ganiman on Mon Sep 23 12:44:22 2024
    On 04 Sep 2024 at 12:50p, Ganiman pondered and said...

    Vinyl is popular all over again too, and I admit I have a small
    collection and look for very specific things, but who saw that coming?

    I guess the idea of what is old is new again holds true for a lot of stuff... that, and the notion of nostalgia and how it can seep into all of us as time goes by :)

    BBSing is certainly one of those things I love for it's ongoing endurance, the mix of nostalgic fun from my times using it in the 1990's and returning to the scene some 10+ years ago... golly time flies by.

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