yeah, @robinhoodie gets rid of the cases too, which I get - but what I believe @GigaSlime is doing is keeping ONLY the discs, not the art or anything else, correct? That‘s the one that’s wild to me, and the thing I referenced with that guy and his PS1 games. He throws out the manual, the back art, the spine, the whole thing. Takes the disc out and chucks the rest in the bin. It does not make sense to me.
I get not wanting to rely on digital versions of things, I agree there. But I've tried to pare it down to only those movies I know I'll want to watch again. Still several hundred movies though, which is UNWIELDY to say the least.
@andrewelmore I'm not ripping anything, no time!! The furthest I'm thinking right now in terms of preservation is just "if somebody has this stuff, it can get replicated somehow." I'm not trying to be thorough, but it has come up multiple tomes where somebody has been like "does anyone have X version of this saturn game, it's not dumped," and the answer is yes. So just expanding that a little bit. If I were really serious about it I'd be preserving all these vhs tapes with their hard-coded subs, too...
Also I didn't know that about dog soldiers! too bad indeed. I got this Descent blu-ray because I wanted to listen to the commentary and figured if I'm keeping it long enough to do that, sell the DVD and get the big boy. It's not a rare blu-ray but it never shows up in shops, so I had been looking for this one for about 6 months.
Last night I watched Winners and Sinners from my new haul here, and was reminded of why I enjoy HK comedy of this vintage - there's no straight-person funny-person dynamic - EVERYONE is a straight-person and the situation is what's funny or ridiculous. (of course there's almost always some problematic stuff in there too, weeee)
I know a guy who had a fantasy, as a kid, that one day they could collect all the Hucards and store them in a business card folder (since they conveniently fit). So they did exactly just that as an adult, and managed to get all card-based PC Engine games but either bought them “loose” or got rid of the cases afterwards.
I had a similar thought regarding Super Famicom games at some point, when I didn’t have many yet. Why not just focus on the carts? But in the end I bought them CIB.
These are pretty _neat_ Poska drawings, by the way. Love the Baby Godzilla.
Also, that Diabolique cover is wild haha. Not even sure it makes sense? I had to zoom in to confirm it wasn’t just some coincidental movie title doppelgänger that happened to be a completely different film, or maybe the weird 1996 remake.
@“exodus”#p52875 yeah, @robinhoodie gets rid of the cases too, which I get - but what I believe @GigaSlime is doing is keeping ONLY the discs, not the art or anything else, correct? That’s the one that’s wild to me, and the thing I referenced with that guy and his PS1 games. He throws out the manual, the back art, the spine, the whole thing. Takes the disc out and chucks the rest in the bin. It does not make sense to me.
Like I said, I keep it if the packaging is cool and it comes with like booklets or whatever! But if it's just the generic walmart cover art with two actors photoshopped in front of a stock image background, like, I don't have room for that
So I had a little argument with the guy who threw all his stuff away because he said all the packaging was wasteful. I agree that creating new packaging is wasteful, even if I do buy new packaged things myself (oops), but I argued with him that throwing away all that stuff is what turned it into waste. Especially with older games, that stuff is not going to enter the landfill/waste system unless you make it - people will buy the stuff and keep it in their houses on shelves instead of in the ground poisoning everybody. So that was part of what I found curious.
Your case is different because you aren't making that argument, but I bring it up because of how different people's thoughts on this can be. I find it interesting to discuss because to me physical goods necessarily waste space, so the slider of where people are willing to go with that says... something about all of us individually I guess, somehow or other!
@“exodus”#p52875 Yeah that‘s more or less how I’ve been feeling as well. I have neither the time nor resources to be an active preservationist, but I've certainly dumped and distributed a few previously-undumped Saturn game .ISOs in my time.
Yeah Dog Soldier is weird, because the whole film was shot on 16mm so it already looks real grimey (which is real cool in this case, helps sell the practical effects as well!), but the only surviving print is a 35mm blow-up reel from a second-run theater somewhere in the rural UK, and it's quite damaged. So the two main BD releases are the generic one that's DNR'd to hell and back, with wild swings in color grading to try and hide the damage, or the Scream Factory release where they just tried to present that print as gently and effectively as they could.
Also, worth mentioning [Hong Kong Rescue](https://www.hongkongrescue.com/), but it's a one man operation and he's mostly just doing movies that are already big and well known, and it seems to be an amateur fan-effort. Lots of John Woo, etc. Also I ordered two movies from him over a year ago and they never showed up lol.
Since I got mentioned. I do indeed ditch the cases. But NOT the artwork. I have every insert for every DVD I have ever owned. And since unlike games no one is buying them I probably will always have them. BUT I compressed something like 500 DVD cases down to two folders full of paper by doing so. Its the only way I can exist in NYC and keep the amount of physical media I do.
I just face the reality now that I have more games than I will ever play. And very little place to put them. The packaging is nice and all, but only for resale. Most of my cartridges have been replaced my romsets.
In time, the remainder of my game collection will get ripped into a digital files and sold on down the road. But considering I am now going though some PS3 stuff I downloaded and finding it faulty, I am very much in favor of creating my own back ups. I spend a lot of time making sure my DVD rips had the multiple audio tracks and correctly synced subtitles.
That I think is where I most land. I can't trust other people to back up and make accessible the media I need correctly. I have been printing out covers to disc only games at VGNY for a couple months now, and like, you would be shocked at how there just aren't high quality scans of a lot of game cover art out there. I feel like there was a time where you could rely on someone else to do this sort of thing and do it right, or maybe I was less discerning. But yeah, now, I spend a LOT of time managing my digital archive.
This topic seems to be mostly concerned with old physical media, but I‘m just wondering if anyone knows of ways to acquire 4k Blu rays on the cheap. I’ve never come across an equivalent of Wario64 or some cheap site for 4ks. The only time I come across 4ks at a reasonable price is during Black Friday sales.
I have way too much Physical Video Media and I love it! Mostly DVDs and Blu Ray but I have been gathering a pretty great VHS collection and I would love to delve into Laserdisc. I also started buying 4ks late last year and they've been fun to pick up.
So a few weeks ago I bought a lot of “200 tapes” from somebody nearby off Craigslist for 40 bucks. It was closer to 100 tapes but still a lot. It came with a Toshiba vcr that I‘ve yet to test. Anyway, I don’t have a photo of the whole thing but here's some of it: [upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/jzaTd5E.jpeg]
I gave about a dozen away to a friend (Zak mccune who is sometimes referenced on the show), and kept the vcr and kept 14 tapes. Here are the ones I kept:
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I expect I'll only ultimately keep maybe 4 of these, but the "gene shallot presents" stuff is pretty funny to me, and I'll see if the loony toonses are good ones and etc. Most of the ones on the top row I'll keep.
I sold the rest to shops and mostly got my money back :o
Of special note is this one:
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This is worth $150 now for some reason. It's the tape that has Stan Lee brutally owning Todd McFarlane: https://youtu.be/RmLFGWAyajU
I don't care about it so I'm gonna sell it along with my one other valuable tape I don't care about (end of evangelion).
Pretty fun to dig through overall! I mostly did it because I thought it'd be fun to sort through a bunch of tapes and give them away, and it was. All those things like delicatessen, Brazil, Barbarella, etc are the type of tape I don't keep - good, but not unique to vhs. I'd rather have them on blu ray or whatever.
Tonight I went to a record store and browsed their tapes, but I'll leave that story/haul for tomorrow!
I'm starting to think about offloading some tapes myself. Duplicates, and anything that's not really the kind of thing I'd be interested in watching on VHS. I'm running out of nooks and crannies to stuff tapes and other media into, and it may be worth clearing some excess out.
Yeah, dump some stuff and get it back into circulation! So as I mentioned a while ago, usually when you go to a music store and they‘ve got tapes at 25 cents each it’s a bunch of garbage. But every once in a while you hit on something like this, where it‘s all straight to video nonsense you’ve never heard of and martial arts movies with amazing covers.
We've got a van dang, a stupid dean cain monster movie (he is the true monster in real life), a Lundgren, a Norris, a regional documentary(!) these fantastic martial arts comps, some sort of sexy witch/vampire comedy, and the sleepy hollow made for TV movie starring America's sweetheart Jeff Goldblum. And of course the latest Jerry Trimble vehicle.
Anyway - real solid pulls in terms of what I'm looking for - stuff whose origin point is video or which is trashy enough to feel that way.
Gonna reiterate - Dean Cain super sucks from any angle - but this is the kind of absolute garbage I want to watch on tape
Yesterday I visited The Archive in Bridgeport, CT. It‘s a video and music store run by Vinegar Syndrome, a company famous for putting out very high-quality blu-rays of very bad-quality movies. If you’re a video collector who likes weird stuff and you find yourself in New England, you should check that store out! The prices were reasonable, more so because they were having a sale, and their selection was jaw-dropping.
These were my pickups:
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Got some Spielberg on LD, some cool cartoons, 70s softcore porn I've been curious about, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (which I saw as a kid and it had a huge impact on me), a killer rabbit movie, a dinosaur movie on VHS, and Penn & Teller! I'm very happy with my pickups.
I can't wait to watch these things! But my backlog is increasingly unwieldy, I really need to prioritize the movies I own and stop checking things out from the library...
Really love the Point Reyes tape there! I feel like local history or low budget films are the most exciting finds; I picked up some LaserDiscs this weekend with found footage from like 1930s ephemera that were curated by Rick Prelinger, of the Prelinger Library in SF, and I'm very excited to watch after having gone to his Lost Landscapes series a few times.
I have this 3x3 Eyes Sanjiyan Henjou vhs promo tape that’s part of the pce game package. I ran it through crappy old no name vcr (almost ate the tape!) to 13 inch composite crt tv and shot it with oldish second hand samsung phone. I like it better than video tapes captures with high end devices and scalers lolol. Not a bad way to convert video tapes to digital I’d say. The downside is I can’t play it back on crt tv without looking kinda rekt.
