London Accent

[ateolf]

We continued the theme of movie watching (in a slightly different direction) and watched Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I also hadn't seen in a very long forever. We were about a quarter of the way through when we paused it for a minute and then something obnoxious happened. It was downloaded through itunes onto an ipad and was hooked up to the tv via hdmi. After we unpaused it (though we'd been watching it fine up til then) it suddenly kicked up some drm shit and wouldn't let us output to that "device". We were frustrated for a little while, then just finished watching it on the ipad at the table (a bit annoying but whatever). All these fucking companies are the worst.

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[braininthecupboard]

Ooof. Yeah, I have started buying up DVDs again. After years of not watching any I find that the image and sound quality are shockingly better than streaming.

[ateolf]

Yeah, and plus they just give you whatever version (as in dubbed) they want to give you and that's pretty lame. We still have lots of dvds and we don't do the streaming subscriptions (I think we still have our Criterion subscription but we haven't been using it), but sometimes we just want to rent something to watch once without full on owning it. And yeah, the companies are pretty awful.

[braininthecupboard]

Yeah. And captioning sometimes there/sometimes not/sometimes there but garbled drives me nutes! That completely makes sense! Our streaming subcriptions got really out of countrol. I think at peak we had 12.. which was insnane. My behaviour now is just in response to the diea that I could have amassed a huge library of video rather than dumping cash into streaming.