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#1068448
Topic
Random Thoughts
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dahmage said:

flametitan said:

Are blu-Ray players capable of turning on the TV on their own? The TV was not on when I went to eject the disc, but when turning on the Player, the TV turned on, and nobody else in the house had the remote.

yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control

samsung calls it anynet+ i think, and there other other brandings for it.

JEDIT: i hate the tech myself, and turn it off when possible.

I didn’t know it was part of the HDMI too. It was my first thought, but I knew that some TV’s had a version of this.

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#1067770
Topic
The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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imperialscum said:

oojason said:

also wanting their new films to be of a standard, feel and quality more akin to the Original Trilogy, than the Prequels.

But it eventually ended up being worse than PT. TFA “plot” is a complete trainwreck and any PT plot seems like a “masterpiece” in comparison. It takes a lot more than rehashing stuff from OT and randomly throwing it together in order to come close to OT quality.

Cool, thanks.

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#1067365
Topic
Justify why you have your opinion of certain episodes from the "Star Wars universe" as being canon (or worth watching).
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Alderaan said:

It’s even more illogical when you consider the story of Star Wars has been written by many different people–sometimes not in collaboration with each other-- and has a million plot holes and retcons.

Again, it’s several people’s jobs to try to keep that from happening in the Disney canon. There is an official canon. People accepting that is more logical than having a head canon.

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#1067355
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Justify why you have your opinion of certain episodes from the "Star Wars universe" as being canon (or worth watching).
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Alderaan said:

joefavs said:

“Canon” means official canon as far as I’m concerned.

If you care about ‘canon’ of a fictional universe, you’re either a teenager, or I feel sad for you.

I’m glad its several people’s jobs to keep track of these things then.

Can you ever just let people have fun?

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#1067346
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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We’re talking about Fox’s Blu-rays of 1-6 vs Disney’s digital copies. Fox is going to release the same discs every second until 2020 is over.

As for being the same stock, I doubt they have warehouses full of printed discs that every few years they put into a different case. And it’s not like they recall a store’s stock, rip open all the sets, put them in different cases, then send them back out. I imagine this is Fox having finalized disc images that they don’t have the rights to modify any more, so they just reprint them over and over.

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#1065369
Topic
Celebration 2017 Speculation
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rpvee said:

Why would they discount the films on the exact day of the panel if there wasn’t something related to home media whatsoever? It’s not like most iTunes shoppers would know about the convention and connection otherwise…

They talked about the Convention on GMA, the average person knows about Celebration and are now thinking “maybe I should buy those movies, oh look, they’re on sale!” It’s not like Apple needs to get rid of the digital inventory.

And they’re $5 off the whole set. The saga isn’t in impulse buy territory.