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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by rsynnott on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:23AM (#44579605)
Note that most people in 2002 didn't have DVD players. DVD player sales didn't even overtake VCR sales until a year or so afterwards, and there was a huge installed base. Watching on a DVD would not have been the _typical_ experience.
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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by jjcob on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:56PM (#44585657)
We watched a lot of films in divx or xvid or whatever that format was called where you could compress a movie on a CD. Quality was atrocious, but a good story is still a good story...
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