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Post#251 at 05-02-2012 07:46 AM by Odin [at Moorhead, MN, USA joined Sep 2006 #posts 14,442]
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Quote Originally Posted by Chas'88 View Post
Because we all need a laugh, the culture wars thread needs to be buried, and I know a good number of you did have early exposure...



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Post#252 at 05-02-2012 08:22 PM by Felix5 [at joined Jul 2011 #posts 2,793]
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Kind of awhile back, but this is an interesting Carlin rant on the world.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsFpm4yAoMQ







Post#253 at 05-11-2014 12:53 PM by Kelly85 [at joined Apr 2009 #posts 291]
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Here's one: Who on here remembers segregated video stores? By the mid-1970s most racial segregation was forbidden, but another form of "separate but (not actually) equal" began that would last for a little over a decade. You could not watch videos from the other side because they wouldn't play at all. Can anyone guess what I'm referring to?







Post#254 at 05-12-2014 12:06 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Kelly85 View Post
Here's one: Who on here remembers segregated video stores? By the mid-1970s most racial segregation was forbidden, but another form of "separate but (not actually) equal" began that would last for a little over a decade. You could not watch videos from the other side because they wouldn't play at all. Can anyone guess what I'm referring to?
Beta Max versus VHS?
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Post#255 at 05-12-2014 12:22 PM by Marx & Lennon [at '47 cohort still lost in Falwelland joined Sep 2001 #posts 16,709]
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Quote Originally Posted by Kelly85 View Post
Here's one: Who on here remembers segregated video stores? By the mid-1970s most racial segregation was forbidden, but another form of "separate but (not actually) equal" began that would last for a little over a decade. You could not watch videos from the other side because they wouldn't play at all. Can anyone guess what I'm referring to?
To be technically accurate, it still exists as an issue, but it's less of one now. Here's the DVD and Bluray Region Code breakout. DVDs had 8 region codes, including 2 reserved for the travel and recording industries ...



... and Bluray only has 3.



I'm not sure why Europe and the Easy Asia were one region for DVDs, with the Americas and East Asia are one region for Bluray. BTW, I always buy an all-region player, given the option. It doesn't do much for you unless you just have to have that French film that never made it out of France, but the price difference is small.
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Post#256 at 05-12-2014 04:29 PM by Kelly85 [at joined Apr 2009 #posts 291]
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Quote Originally Posted by Marx & Lennon View Post
To be technically accurate, it still exists as an issue, but it's less of one now. Here's the DVD and Bluray Region Code breakout. DVDs had 8 region codes, including 2 reserved for the travel and recording industries ...



... and Bluray only has 3.



I'm not sure why Europe and the Easy Asia were one region for DVDs, with the Americas and East Asia are one region for Bluray. BTW, I always buy an all-region player, given the option. It doesn't do much for you unless you just have to have that French film that never made it out of France, but the price difference is small.
A difference is that regional coding is an artificial barrier put in to supposedly allow the industry to control when movies are released in each region*, while the differences between VHS and Betamax are at the technical level with how the video information is encoded (same thing with how different regions of the world use different broadcast formats, although in the digital era it's now easier to make a device that can play "international" formats than in the analog era).

*I like your idea of getting an all-region player, especially if as you mentioned you're a fan of foreign movies that aren't "mainstream" in the USA. Speaking of French (the language), that is one of the items I plan on touching in a blog post I have cooking up (which I'll share here since it's generations-related).







Post#257 at 05-29-2014 05:51 PM by Kelly85 [at joined Apr 2009 #posts 291]
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Quote Originally Posted by Kelly85 View Post
Speaking of French (the language), that is one of the items I plan on touching in a blog post I have cooking up (which I'll share here since it's generations-related).
Here it is, the second part of the series. (While on the subject of French, since this is a thread about humor, here is someone trying to learn the language and failing miserably.)
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