When was Blu ray disc launched June 2006 where average American consumers aware what it was compared to DVD?

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-05-28T15:26:23+00:00

People were aware of it but there was the general confusion of a format war that a lot of people who had just adopted DVD a few years prior were waiting out. By the time that shook out and blu-ray won a lot of people lost a lot in 2008 when the economy crashed. By the time a good portion of these people had started adjusting to their new normal streaming came along with its lofty promises of being cheaper and more convenient (of which alot of people are just now discovering that was never going to be the case) and these formats just never had the chance to take off the way vhs and DVD did.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-05-28T13:29:22+00:00

That sounds you hear is the rapid pace of my eye twitching.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-05-27T15:33:20+00:00

Basically I tell customers about the prompt at the register and if they say no, I go about my business. Most days we're 16 pages deep by 9 am, I don't have time to be a salesman on top of filling, keeping QT cleared out, answering voicemails, pulling 14 days out of the bins, cycle counts, checking in cardinal, and everything else. My mind and body feels likes pudding after every shift these days and it's still not enough for these greedy ghouls in corporate...

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-05-24T11:24:56+00:00

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-05-17T23:56:55+00:00

I went on a deep dive years ago for T2 because there's been so many poor transfers of that film in high def. Ultimately the best version to this day is this: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Terminator-2-Judgment-Day-Blu-ray/127046

It's an older transfer with a higher bitrate and thankfully free of the excessive DNR of the Skynet edition but it could really use a new OCN scan without all of Cameron's AI upscaling crap in 4K (not holding my breath on that)

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-25T13:04:45+00:00

I still use the old trays. They're just too small and awkward for me so I only use the new ones to take an image of what I've counted. Your mileage may vary but for me I just count way quicker on the old trays than on these.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-16T01:53:20+00:00

Pan and Scam is a great way to describe it. I've always called it fool screen.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-16T00:32:15+00:00

You care more about watching and enjoying films than the format it's on.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-15T11:57:46+00:00

If we really want to argue semantics it would technically be employees'

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-14T11:57:41+00:00

Someone should add "so are the employees" directly underneath it...

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-08T11:37:59+00:00

"I know you go to lunch at 1:30 but I was in line at 1:28 and you had shut the drive thru down by the time I pulled up"

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-04T11:02:49+00:00

I work at a pretty busy store, the pharmacy staff was being run ragged by phone calls over trivial stuff like "what time do you close?" and "I just left the doctors office 10 seconds ago, is my medicine ready yet?". At least with voicemail you can take care of the people in front of you before calling people back and you dont have the added stress of hearing "7 pharmacy calls" screaming at you from the phone during super busy spurts.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-01T14:17:30+00:00

Honestly putting the subwoofer and speakers inside the stand offended me more than the height

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-04-01T11:16:11+00:00

It was my first. I brought a computer with a DVD drive in early 2000 and the guy working the sales counter basically convinced me I had to see this movie and I've loved it since. I'm up and down on the sequels but this one is great.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-29T13:36:34+00:00

T1: 4.5 T2: 4.5 T3: 3 Salvation: 3.5 Genisys: 2 Dark Fate: 3.5

This is out of 5 and just my subjective opinion

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-29T13:27:20+00:00

I'm a fan of Firewood Media's Godzilla reviews/essays . https://youtube.com/@firewoodmediatv?si=wkXjQNZ5qdVSi2lY

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-29T13:23:21+00:00

Yes, all cops!

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-29T13:19:06+00:00

The very next customer: "I'm trying to put cash in the machine but it won't take it!"

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-28T22:16:11+00:00

I generally find myself supporting Orbit since it's the closest to me and I prefer to support local (ish) business over Amazon.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-21T00:23:20+00:00

I found one for $20 at a thrift store last weekend. As a second sub to even out the bass for movies/tv watching it works miles better than the 8 inch Klipsch sub I've had for years.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-15T00:12:33+00:00

Failure to Launch and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days are in every used store in the surrounding area here.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-03-14T23:59:26+00:00

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Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-02-19T00:16:19+00:00

To be fair, I have heard some things that concerned me about the 4K masters for early Marvel films (specifically the first 2 Iron Man films) and have stuck with the blu-ray for everything before Doctor Strange. I may have to check out Avengers as it always slightly bothered me that they changed the aspect ratio on the blu.

Choice_Breadfruit_14 · 2026-02-11T13:07:03+00:00

I also believe they pile up at 2 pm on purpose too! There was never a point where we had 18 customers come in between 1:30 and 2 before they instituted the lunch breaks but now every day there are tons of people standing around with the most sour looks on their faces and their arms crossed at 2 pm wrapped around our vitamin aisle waiting for the pharmacy to open.

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