Why can't I get into a TV or a movie?

[Bogie]

It seems like I get interested for a little while, and then...
 
RIght now I am trying to watch Stranger Things - I'm about halfway through the second episode, and I'm wanting to throw projectiles at the screen.
 
About all I can really deal with are action comedies where everything blows up real good...
 
I used to really dig doing movie nights, etc... Probably have a few hundred DVDs...

[Pb]

Maybe it isn't very good, and you should turn it off?

[Perd Hapley]

I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe it's time to read more books, or take up whittling.

[230RN]

You could pull a Presley.  That should be fun.

[WLJ]

I gave up on TV 15-20 years ago.

[zxcvbob]

Get a Roku.  Watch old reruns of The Outer Limits. (it's free on the Roku Channel)

[Andiron]

Gunsmoke and Farscape reruns it is!

Most new stuff is trash anyways.

[AZRedhawk44]

Watch Yellowstone, and 1883.  Good TV right there.

Watch Northman, and Everything Everywhere All At Once.  Good movies right there.

Then stop for awhile, read a book or learn something new or build something.

[230RN]

I gave up on TV 15-20 years ago.

What caliber?

[HankB]

Regular TV is getting worse.

They even brought The Orville back last week, but not on broadcast or cable tv, but on a pay streaming service (HULU+) . . . eff that.

I'm really having a hard time with keeping cable with its rising prices and reduced value content . . .

[Lennyjoe]

Started watching Billions on Showtime.  So far it’s been pretty good

[Ben]

Regular TV is getting worse.

They even brought The Orville back last week, but not on broadcast or cable tv, but on a pay streaming service (HULU+) . . . eff that.

I'm really having a hard time with keeping cable with its rising prices and reduced value content . . .

Yeah, I thought The Orville was okay, and was watching it, but it's not worth paying for yet another service to continue watching it.

I've heard Billions and Succession are both pretty good. My Nephew in law hooked me up on his HBO Max, so I might check out Succession.


I was going to rewatch The Last Ship, which was a great show, via Netflix DVD, but the DVDs sat in my queue with "long wait time" and then disappeared as available.

[Grandpa Shooter]

I haven't watched TV in close to 30 years, in part because my attention span is short, but mostly because there is only 30 seconds of content stretched out to 30 minutes or more.  Same with most movies in the last 20 years.  I don't want to be patronized by tasteless commercials, or trivialized by what passes for comedy these days.

[HankB]

I haven't watched TV in close to 30 years, in part because my attention span is short, but mostly because there is only 30 seconds of content stretched out to 30 minutes or more.  Same with most movies in the last 20 years.  I don't want to be patronized by tasteless commercials, or trivialized by what passes for comedy these days.

I DO have DVR service with my cable - there are a lot of old, classic movies that I DVR and then watch at my leisure, running through the commercials at 30x or so speed. Since some of the movies are in HD, I'm trying to figure out an easy way of transferring them to my PC, editing out the commercials, and burning them to BluRay.

Oh, and I see Lawrence of Arabia is now available in this country in 4K. The feedback on the Sony version from overseas has been positive - it was supposedly made from the original film and scanned in at 8k to preserve maximum detail. (Somewhere in the movie, there's supposed to be one frame where someone put a fingerprint on the film - which shows up in the 4k version.)

[MechAg94]

Regular TV is getting worse.

They even brought The Orville back last week, but not on broadcast or cable tv, but on a pay streaming service (HULU+) . . . eff that.

I'm really having a hard time with keeping cable with its rising prices and reduced value content . . .

Cable/Satellite TV is already dead IMO.  Anyone who has access to a good internet connection has much better options for less money (in total).  If you remove cable, you can sign up for 2 or 3 streaming services for less money and have all sorts of shows and movies to watch on demand.  I hear people say some of those services may add commercials, but we will see. 

[MechAg94]

I DO have DVR service with my cable - there are a lot of old, classic movies that I DVR and then watch at my leisure, running through the commercials at 30x or so speed. Since some of the movies are in HD, I'm trying to figure out an easy way of transferring them to my PC, editing out the commercials, and burning them to BluRay.

Oh, and I see Lawrence of Arabia is now available in this country in 4K. The feedback on the Sony version from overseas has been positive - it was supposedly made from the original film and scanned in at 8k to preserve maximum detail. (Somewhere in the movie, there's supposed to be one frame where someone put a fingerprint on the film - which shows up in the 4k version.)

Everyone has their preference, I think it would be better to make a list and acquire physical copies over time rather than waste time copying and editing out commercials.  A lot of those DVD's allow you to download a digital copy if you want. 

[AZRedhawk44]

Everyone has their preference, I think it would be better to make a list and acquire physical copies over time rather than waste time copying and editing out commercials.  A lot of those DVD's allow you to download a digital copy if you want.

The digital copy is DRM'ed though.  If you put the movie on one laptop, when that laptop dies or you retire it in favor of another device, the media won't play back on the new computer.

[Ben]

I just bootleg my movies straight from the theater.

https://youtu.be/3GAv2gnAXaI?t=29

[HankB]

I just bootleg my movies straight from the theater.

https://youtu.be/3GAv2gnAXaI?t=29

Funny story - that's how I first saw Jurrasic Park. In 1994, I was on safari in Zambia, and spent a few days in Lusaka at my PH's home. One day we went to a video rental store and he rented the movie - a bootleg copy on VHS. Someone had obviously filmed it with a video camera in the theater. Quality wasn't the greatest, but it was very watchable.

[Perd Hapley]

Funny story - that's how I first saw Jurrasic Park. In 1994, I was on safari in Zambia, and spent a few days in Lusaka at my PH's home. One day we went to a video rental store and he rented the movie - a bootleg copy on VHS. Someone had obviously filmed it with a video camera in the theater. Quality wasn't the greatest, but it was very watchable.

Since that came right after the Seinfeld reference, I at first thought you were channeling J. Peterman.

[Ben]

Since that came right after the Seinfeld reference, I at first thought you were channeling J. Peterman.