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was about to say, i have never in my adult life wanted my computer in the same room as the TV.

Of course I could connect my laptop to my TV with a four foot HDMI cable and that stupid ass Mac dongle, but then I’d have to precariously balance the laptop on a radiator by the TV (the stand our TV sits on won’t accommodate a laptop anywhere) plus I’d have to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to pause or pick something else to watch. Obviously can be done, but annoying as hell when there’s already a device I own that will do all this shit for me for every single other streaming service we pay for.

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was about to say, i have never in my adult life wanted my computer in the same room as the TV.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11:09 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

been a long time since this was a choice that I could make ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEwo_gwO9M

More in HBO Max insanity/inanity, apparently a huge hunk of their live action DC titles will be *leaving* in July:

Justice League, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Catwoman, Jonah Hex, and The Losers, and The LEGO Batman have been added to the “Last Chance” section and are now set to depart the service on July 1.

I couldn't give a crap about these movies, but it's pretty surprising, imo, especially since HBO's defense is that they will apparently be offering these comic book movies on a "rotating" basis. So the service launches with ads prominently displaying/proclaiming superhero movies it does *not* currently have, then a big chunk of superhero movies they *do* have will be leaving only a month after the services launches? There's tons of other stuff I'm happy to watch on this service, and clearly complicated behind the scenes contractual machinations are in play, but I sort of feel like the presence of these blockbuster selling point flicks is kinda important to the service's success. And regardless, certainly feels increasingly like the service launched before all the ink and paint was dry.

Are those movies more permanently on the DC subscription service? One presumes DC's actions to wipe out Engish-language comic shops worldwide last week are because someone at AT&T wants to drive customers towards their app.

Yeah that seems, short-sighted at best, to include movies like Wonder Woman so prominently in the advertising and have it leave a month and a half after launch. I'm not going to miss any of those either, but this just seems like a botched roll-out on so many levels.

sic likely sadly otm and that explains a lot.

I'm actually not even sure that they *are* on or going to the DC U service, either! Which is also crazy.

Actually, I have no idea, but it's a dick move regardless to advertise all these DC movies, have a DC *section* on the HBO Max home page, and then move all the DC titles to DC Universe or whatever they call it a month after launch (assuming they are doing that), especially given the relatively high pricing of the service.

Less of a dick move than flat-out trying to destroy all English-language comics publishing, though, so well within capacity.

tbh I don't know what HBO Max has to do with the comic book publishing industry, but I assume all of these companies are as bad for independent shops and services and theaters and whatnot as Walmart.

DC and HBO are both content-to-consumer arms of AT&T.

All streaming rollouts will be botched going forward because no one's begging for yet another streaming service further dividing up where content is available, no one can keep track of all the services much less what's on them.

They should just bundle them all together and call it... cable television.

(DC are over 30% of the comic-shop $ business. Next month they will become unavailable outside the USA, and retailers that have survived the coronavirus downturn and publishing hiatus so far will have to buy their DC periodicals from one of two other retailers, that DC will now sell direct to.)

Love Life on HBO is entertaining.

"no one's begging for yet another streaming service further dividing up where content is available, no one can keep track of all the services much less what's on them.

They should just bundle them all together and call it... cable television."

My wife is completely confused by our tv after we got rid of cable. We have all the standard services plus hulu live via AppleTv. I think the worst thing about this is not being able to view content from all your services in one place; appleTv now will let you add content from services to apple's 'what's next' feature but I don't think they all do.

Was the inception of cable tv as big a clusterfuck as the streaming wars have been? Would love to read an oral history of how that went down.

the King of Staten Island is not very good at all, despite Pete Davison being really good in it. It's just an uneven mess and doesn't know what it wants to be about. Also I don't like Bill Burr so having him in it constantly didn't help. Pamela Adlon extremely underutilized.

I have a lot of childhood fond memories of the educational “Donald in Mathmagic Land” and would love if it was streaming and not just a VHS tape I saved from my parents’ basement

it's on YouTube now, pretty easy to find. my 5 year old is watching it now, he loves it. seeing this again as an adult, I can't believe how philosophical and deep it gets. also it made billiards seem like the most difficult thing in the world.

the comic is fun too. ilxmail me if you wanna cbr.

is this new Spike Lee thing good?

this is always one of the first threads I open because the title is so long and I don't like the way it sticks out among my bookmarks

sorry bout that

Spike Lee thing is good. (Also nb it is on Netflix, so could be discussed on the "things on Netflix" thread, not the "other streaming services that aren't Netflix" thread, and is being talked about on the Spike Lee: Dud? thread a little, despite Morbz' best efforts to start a fight with himself)

this is always one of the first threads I open because the title is so long and I don't like the way it sticks out among my bookmarks

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, June 15, 2020 3:10 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same, 5 rows of text on mobile lol

lol same

and sometimes i think its the netflix thread

Haha, I also do this

In Quibi news...

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— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) June 22, 2020

I could have sworn that July is a month that movies like Wonder Woman leave HBO Max. And yet I've gotten a pop up video today advertising Wonder Woman on HBO Max, and a pop-up ad somewhere else showing a picture of Wonder Woman.

On the plus side, finally Mad Max in July.

xp yikes, harsh metaphor.

On the plus side, finally Mad Max in July.

Finally?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8mm1Qmt-Y

Nineteen seventy nine, on the silver screen
Again one year later, dubbed in Americanese
With DCP, and colour film on reels
It's been in rep and re-release, for over forty years

It seems so many times, you rented VHS
Watching solo or with friends, this movie is the best
A Blu-Ray came along and brightened up the transfer
You chucked out the DVD you'd bought ten years before

Fi-na-lly! MAX came along
First ever chance to watch it, wait, can that be wrong?
The service launched three weeks ago
Such a wait for one film, whoa oh oh

And now HBO max announces it is extending its run of all those superhero movies that were scheduled to leave a month after launching. they are sticking around through December. whether they had to shell out more or juggle contracts who knows, but clearly HBO knows how to read the room.

We're really enjoying "Encore" on Disney. Pretty charming stuff.

the premise is amazing

i want to see that, looks like it would be my bag

It's really cute and solid, hits the spot.

In other news, a kid and I watch couple episodes of The Simpsons today and I thought, geez, this looks terrible, didn't they fix it? Indeed they did, you just have to toggle off a switch. Not only is the square aspect ratio more accurate, but it truly looks better than the stretched image, which looks like a copy of a copy of a copy on video.

Watched the Will Ferrell - Amy McAdams homage / comedy about Eurovision. Loved it. On Netflix.

^Rachel McAdams ...

this is the Netflix thread btw: Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

but clearly HBO knows how to read the room.

Considering that every tweet they make is filled with replies from people pissed off they can’t watch on Roku or Fire a month after launch, I’m not sure I’d give them that much credit for reading the room.

I think that's just a matter of time. There are obviously legal/contractual things to work out, because clearly they would want tens of millions more potential subscribers.

Watched Weird Science on HBO. Don’t need to get into the weeds about how problematic it is, but beyond that it’s still incredibly WTF.

Pretty good approximation of hormoned adolescent boy fever dream/frustrated wet dream.

John Hughes on Bunuel

Okay, here's a reason to get Night Flight
https://www.nightflightplus.com/playlists/Black%20Omnibus