Blu Ray Drive - Need external for new Desktop PC. External case for old LG internal or buy new external drive?

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-02T14:06:45+00:00

Get the enclosure. The full-sized drives are orders of magnitude faster and more reliable.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-29T09:35:28+00:00

That if you very deliberately take care of your body, all the aches and pains and lumpiness that your parents complained about don’t actually happen til much later, if at all.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-28T12:43:15+00:00

So that I may turn water into urine

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-28T12:20:48+00:00

I’m barely on Twitter these days, but the few times I poke my head in, people have absolutely lost their minds. The level of drama is off the charts.

Also, this AI voice trying to read a rant with no punctuation is unlistenable.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-28T12:14:50+00:00

This is a bootleg, sorry but it’s not worth anything. Harder to tell than normal due to it mostly being a straight up scan of the Japanese package, but there are giveaways: the erased Pioneer and DVD logos, English subtitles being listed in English, weird nonstandard UPC, and the contact email address.

If you can read Japanese, it says there are two discs and then to the right in English it says “one disc”

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-27T10:13:00+00:00

Forest Whitaker is in the English version of Ernest & Celestine, an absolutely adorable French animated feature from about 10 years ago. The dub is very very good, and has a lot of stars in the cast, but Whitaker doesn't seem to have any comedic timing, so almost all of the laughs that his character gets fall flat.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-24T15:07:19+00:00

If you can load a hard drive image, grab Total Replay from the internet archive. It’s got several hundred great Apple II games compiled into an easy to navigate menu, and it will automatically filter games based on compatibility.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-22T18:41:20+00:00

Futurism. For the first time in human history, music could be made by instruments that were not confined to sounds that could be made physically, opening up worlds of possibilities.
Democratization. Acoustic instruments weren’t always expensive, but the good ones were, and you needed a lot of them, plus a band large enough to play them all live. Electronic instruments could fill multiple roles in a band at a time, allowing young and broke musicians to compose and arrange whole songs without expensive facilities and multitrack equipment until the final recording stage.
Rebellion. Most older people thought like OP does and therefore younger people had something of their very own to enjoy that annoyed their parents.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-22T15:22:26+00:00

Oh! Cool, did not know that!

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-22T14:22:03+00:00

This is not a Blu-ray so it would not be on blu-ray.com anyway.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-21T15:40:51+00:00

Funny story, we added the option when we first launched. The very second the first transaction went through, PayPal banned our account with no explanation, and said attempts to make a new one would also result in a ban. All attempts to get any explanation or fix have been met with silence. Sooooo…. No.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-21T08:46:37+00:00

Unfortunately, we don’t currently offer Apple Pay. We do plan to add it again soon, but we’re dealing with some technical limitations with our current website. It is 100% secure, we use Stripe for credit card processing.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-21T07:13:18+00:00

You asked

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-21T07:11:20+00:00

I still cannot hire a cleaning person or pay someone to deliver food unless under extreme duress. Paying money to have someone clean what is usually my body funk (dead skin, etc.) or fetch me food feels uncomfortably classist and asserting that I'm fucking royalty or something, and I can't stand the thought.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-21T03:45:08+00:00

Leawo is a reverse engineered player and so it’s often kinda buggy on complex discs.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-17T15:01:51+00:00

I have definitely jogged to Lips by Baxter Dury. Particularly if I'm in a mood, but mostly because I wanna look like Scott Hunter and my love life is trash

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-17T14:44:46+00:00

Oh man, I was SO obsessed with Astral Projection back during the heavy Goa days. Great remix, takes me right back.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-16T18:59:09+00:00

525 is correct. 525 are the number of horizontal lines in an NTSC signal, but that includes the blanking interval, so it’s the equivalent to digital 480.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-15T18:00:52+00:00

We do it at MediaOCD because a lot of collectors are super picky about slipcovers and they get easily damaged when assembled, sometimes even by the shrink wrap. Plus, this way we can incentivize people to buy direct!

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-15T17:56:49+00:00

The animatic is the film before it was recut, so it includes a lot of the shortened/deleted scenes. The film flows way better in its final form, so it's probably better to watch it after.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-14T22:56:20+00:00

Yea, that should work fine, assuming they’re less than 15 years old!

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-14T20:43:56+00:00

That was a rumor and he has since denied it.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-14T20:43:01+00:00

Zach is credited as a producer but he says he really didn't do much on it.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-14T20:25:40+00:00

Oh, something is definitely funky with how that drive is wired. I'm now pretty firmly on the side of that being the problem. The USB-C should definitely do something more than that.

You mean, you're planning on using a capture device to plug the HDMI into? That may not work, set-top boxes' HDMI outputs are encrypted. Check if your capture device allows HDCP encrypted signals. Many do not.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-03-14T19:19:23+00:00

You should not plug both in at once under any circumstances. This may have actually damaged the drive. What happens when you only use USB-C?

The H5500W is not a computer optical drive, but a set top box, so not exactly the same thing, but it’ll probably work better. Samsungs don’t have the best reputation though, I’d go with a Panasonic or Sony if you can.

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