28 Years Later

[Mr.NoCredit]

My DVD and Blu-ray collection is now just like my thousands of bagged comics: things I never open but can't bear to part with.

I sold the majority of my comic collection a while ago. Did pretty well with it. Hadn’t touched them in years other than to move them around. Sold my dvd collection even longer ago. Kept some important films, oop and other gems and still buy a Blu-ray every once in a while.
Thousands of comics!?! I only had a few hundred. I can’t imagine the level of collections you must have. Vast numbers of figures, books, comics, movies…What else ? Got a car collection in a museum too?

 

[Asta]

I sold the majority of my comic collection a while ago. Did pretty well with it. Hadn’t touched them in years other than to move them around. Sold my dvd collection even longer ago. Kept some important films, oop and other gems and still buy a Blu-ray every once in a while.
Thousands of comics!?! I only had a few hundred. I can’t imagine the level of collections you must have. Vast numbers of figures, books, comics, movies…What else ? Got a car collection in a museum too?

I sold off a lot of stuff years back to a toy dealer when I decided to concentrate on newer 1/6: got rid of my vintage Star Wars collection along with numerous other action figure lines; my Britains and Timpo collection; my 1/6 Dragon/BBI etc figures, and most of my wargaming figures.

Boxes and boxes off stuff went and it was quite liberating.

I still have my Hasbro Indiana Jones collection; militaria collection of badges, medals etc, and my wall of guns (black powder, deactivated, replica, etc).

There's masses of Lego that I'd rather be shot of, though I'd keep the Indiana Jones and Scooby-Doo sets.

The only car collection is the Deagostini James Bond one.


The only thing I collect now is 1/6.


EDIT:

My aversion to using DVDs and Blu-rays started to grow when it looked as though they were going to become a dead format with eventually no means of playing them, so for future proofing I've been replacing some of them with mp4 files. I've become so accustomed to mp4s that the DVDs and Blu-rays have become more of an art collection.

Now it appears that discs may be going the way of vinyl, so there may always be a means of playing them.

 

[crows]

 

[crows]

yep. I see you reacting Asta my friend , yeah I stop buying DVDs and Blu-ray when this YouTuber describes his collection of TV shows rotting brand new inside packaging



yep
he describes it.

some companies are worst than others
entire tv show cases are all rotting sealed

 

[Asta]

yep. I see you reacting Asta my friend , yeah I stop buying DVDs and Blu-ray when this YouTuber describes his collection of TV shows rotting brand new inside packaging



yep
he describes it.

some companies are worst than others
entire tv show cases are all rotting sealed

I've only heard of this before with blank DVDs, that they have a limited lifespan, and even then it wasn't "rot" but data loss due to age.

Years back it seemed most PCs no longer came with DVD drives, which I took as an indication that the format was dying out. I chose my current PC because it did still come with a DVD drive, though I have little use for it nowadays since I was already moving away from discs.

At first it was a bleak thought that all those discs would no longer be able to be played if Blu-ray players themselves were no longer going to be produced. Even if my current players carry on working, it's the hand sets that die first as the buttons stop working. You can get replacements, but if general demand disappears then they wouldn't be made either.

Years later and there are still players to buy, so my panic wasn't warranted.

However, now there's DVD rot instead.

 

[crows]

I've only heard of this before with blank DVDs, that they have a limited lifespan, and even then it wasn't "rot" but data loss due to age.

Years back it seemed most PCs no longer came with DVD drives, which I took as an indication that the format was dying out. I chose my current PC because it did still come with a DVD drive, though I have little use for it nowadays since I was already moving away from discs.

At first it was a bleak thought that all those discs would no longer be able to be played if Blu-ray players themselves were no longer going to be produced. Even if my current players carry on working, it's the hand sets that die first as the buttons stop working. You can get replacements, but if general demand disappears then they wouldn't be made either.

Years later and there are still players to buy, so my panic wasn't warranted.

However, now there's DVD rot instead.

the guy i link to the video on YouTube had bought brand new sealed DVD of TV shows from 2010 that were fully rot. won't play. some disks were dead.

apparently it has to do with the factory used for the DVD. it has to do with the manufacturing, so even new sealed movies from some factories would have similar. problems.


as for getting a PC that has a DVD drive, you could always get a new computer without it and buy a portable DVD USB player. you just connect the DVD drive in the USB. they aren't expensive lol.

 

[Asta]

the guy i link to the video on YouTube had bought brand new sealed DVD of TV shows from 2010 that were fully rot. won't play. some disks were dead.

apparently it has to do with the factory used for the DVD. it has to do with the manufacturing, so even new sealed movies from some factories would have similar. problems.


as for getting a PC that has a DVD drive, you could always get a new computer without it and buy a portable DVD USB player. you just connect the DVD drive in the USB. they aren't expensive lol.

I got one of those portable players a few years ago when the previous PC's DVD drive stopped working properly.

However, sometimes it would take ages to recognise the disc and load it, and once recognised it often lost connection for no apparent reason. I couldn't trust it to operate normally.

Still have it but haven't tested it since I got the new PC.

I've successfully done away with reliance on discs to the point where they're the last resort.

 

[ironwez20]

I think the trailer is amazing and does a perfect job setting the tone for this new chapter. I loved 28 Days Later and also enjoyed 28 Weeks Later even if it is inferior to Days in many ways, it does have my favorite scene out of any zombie flick though.

I always love how the boondocks parodied this scene

 

[crows]

I think the trailer is amazing and does a perfect job setting the tone for this new chapter. I loved 28 Days Later and also enjoyed 28 Weeks Later even if it is inferior to Days in many ways, it does have my favorite scene out of any zombie flick though.

what was he supposed to do
I never understood the drama over this scene. the controversy.

 

[crows]

I got one of those portable players a few years ago when the previous PC's DVD drive stopped working properly.

However, sometimes it would take ages to recognise the disc and load it, and once recognised it often lost connection for no apparent reason. I couldn't trust it to operate normally.

Still have it but haven't tested it since I got the new PC.

I've successfully done away with reliance on discs to the point where they're the last resort.

mmm

 

[Wor-Gar]

They want the next generation to "rent" for life: movies, music, transportation, their living space, soon their clothes, and even their 'companion'...

No ownership means constant stream of income. That's the true value of 'streaming' -- perpetual rent.

 

[Asta]

mmm

LG was always my choice for players.

So the end really is nigh.

 

[ironwez20]

They want the next generation to "rent" for life: movies, music, transportation, their living space, soon their clothes, and even their 'companion'...

No ownership means constant stream of income. That's the true value of 'streaming' -- perpetual rent.

Capitalism lol. Don’t own just keep spending

 

[R_R_X]

That scene was about the only thing I remembered from the film during my rewatch since the idea of it is so dark, and so far from the normal behaviour you expect from what at first seems to be the 'hero' character.

There were a few elements in 28 Weeks Later that specifically made me think of TLOU. The obvious one is the immunity, making Tammy and Andy special, and Tammy being a proto Ellie. After Andy is bitten Tammy said they should wait and see what happens, just as Ellie and Riley decided.

Big difference is that they're deadly carriers.


Literally from beginning to end the film messes with your expectations of normality in a zombie film.

Indeed, the opening sticks with you because of how raw and true to life it feels. Everyone would like to imagine themselves as the hero in these type of scenarios, think Rick Grimes, Joel Miller, but the truth is most of us, it not all, would end up doing what Don did in the flick.

The film is very enjoyable but it does get downright stupid at many points. Why did Don have access to every part of the quarantine zone? Why wasn't his wife heavily guarded? Why did they even establish a quarantine zone in London and start receiving citizens from all over, when they hadn't finished up their clean up efforts in the surrounding areas? Why did the military think that the best course of action in the case of a breakout of the rage virus in the quarantine zone, would be to gather everyone and shove them in a dark basement? Why... Well you get the point!

I still enjoyed Weeks though, even if it misses that more personal, realistic and grungy tone of Days.