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What's the most expensive thing you've come to own that you've never gotten to fully use? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I got a pretty nice Yamaha bluray player that was an appropriate match to my home theatre amp.

Put a bluray in it, got a piracy warning, a few unskippable ads for other movies, an obnoxious excessively drawn out animated menu screen that stuttered like hell and was laggy to use.

Pulled the bluray back out of it, stuck it back in the DVD drawer and proceeded to download a copy of the movie to watch. Been doing that ever since.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wanted to re-watched something I couldn't find on torrents in good quality, so I bought a cheap Blu-ray player and holy shit it was painful.

I'd forgotten how annoying all the warnings and menus were; JUST PLAY THE BLOODY SHOW!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

As great as just playing the show is, I actually really like DVD/Blu-ray menus because of the little extras you get on some of them. It makes the disk feel more special compared to straight up video files on a storage device. The warnings can be a little annoying, but otherwise I don't mind as much.

Also, I'm lucky enough to have yet to find a DVD/Blu-ray that stutters or has audio glitches on the Vizio Blu-ray player I got at a thrift store, so I'm lucky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I haven't watched the extra content in years, just don't care, Matrix was probably the last time I watched that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The deleted scenes and commentary audio tracks were cool, but idk if I'd actually watch any of it now. I heard years ago that there's a whole system for "MST3King" a movie manually with community commentary tracks that effectively do the same thing and I've never cared enough to figure out how to set it up and try one, so I don't know if I'd ever actually watch a DVD commentary even if I had the option.

Maybe it would be cool for Taskmaster, since I've seen every episode so many times and continue to rewatch it? But I rarely re-watch anything anymore. And I don't think TV shows got commentary tracks anyway.

And deleted scenes could probably just be found on YouTube, I assume? I don't know because I haven't cared enough to search, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Sell it, dude

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Sony really knows how to fuck up an experience and shove their own consumer around

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That's why I only buy collector's edition blurays. At least it has the extra stuff that's worth the money.