Go blu-ray boy, go | TheaterFire

My friend has a ps3 (we both are zoomers) that we watch movies with, if i ever get the money i might consider getting a blue ray player because holy shit, film grain can improve movies so much.

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The_Meemeli@reddit

Film grain has nothing to do with streaming vs. discs, though :D

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Damn you got one of those limited edition reel to reel ps3's? Seriously though how are you getting film grain from a blue ray, or are you confusing lower than 4k resolution with "film grain". This has got to be the most aggressively zoomer comment ive ever seen in the wild.

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Weary_Specialist_436@reddit

seriously. Imagine this post where millennials laugh out boomers because they thought they need like a punch card or something to get into work

why would you even need outdated technology in 2025

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BlackwoodJohnson@reddit

4K blurays still offers superior sound quality over streaming.

But continue to stream and enjoy owning nothing and paying for it.

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dontquestionmyaction@reddit

Hence I watch blu-ray rips lol

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Kennybob12@reddit

Everything you need, comes when you sail the seaa

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Weary_Specialist_436@reddit

ain't no way, the guy is feeling superior because his form of consumerism is physical while my choice is digital. You can't make that shit up

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FrankFarter69420@reddit

Most zoomers don't even have a laptop or pc let alone something that can play blurays. They'll never understand what near lossless picture on a crisp oled TV looks like.

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soiboi64@reddit

You sound like your 13

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heqra@reddit

bro fucking vinyl is more in use rn than cds

cds are a dead medium

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xkgrey@reddit

Good thing we’re not talking about CDs then

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heqra@reddit

im sorry are you not talking about blue ray like in the post? tf?

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The_Meemeli@reddit

CDs are for music.

Blu-Rays are for video.

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heqra@reddit

oh, so pedantry

All of them are dead it doesn't matter

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RealSSStudios@reddit

my car radio begs to differ

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HotlineZero_@reddit

You're*

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EmberMcLain_@reddit

Your're*

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SilDaz@reddit

I do but I'm like the exception because I grew up among old technology

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despa1337o@reddit

I have it on blu ray 😭

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Wild_Chef6597@reddit (OP)

gif

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despa1337o@reddit

its my dad's, so no. blu ray wasnt even that long ago

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mcgood_fngood@reddit

there’s no way this is real. they literally still make blu-rays for every movie today. if you’re a big fan of literally any movie or tv show, you’re probably at least aware of a blu-ray release they made for it.

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Spice002@reddit

I never owned a BD player because by the time they became affordable I already knew how to torrent movies lol

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LJ359@reddit

My whole friend group and I are zoomers and my buddy collects Blu-ray's like the world's gonna end. I rip CDs and dvds still because I refuse to pay for a streaming service tbh. I think this is ignoring how many zoomers love physical media again it is like a trend

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Traditional-Quality8@reddit

Most people don't own a means to play the disks anymore. Modern Computers dont have disk players built in, and it's unlikely that someone would buy a standalone player if they use streaming services(which a lot of people primarily use now). The only real possibility is if they happen to own a console since those have built in players.

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Lienutus@reddit

I’m a millennial and haven’t had a means to play bluray in years

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Din_Plug@reddit

PS5, PS4, PS3, Xbox one, Series X, and any of the million various Blu-ray players: I'm sure you can find any one of them in just about every US house. Unless you are some luddite that can't comprehend anything newer than CD or someone who has ate the Kool-aid pitcher when it comes to streaming then you should have a Blu-ray player. (Ultra HD 4k Blu-ray is a whole different thing, but those also come with a normal one so it's a mute point.)

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Known-Ad-1556@reddit

Yeah, but you wouldn’t buy one

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Snipermann02@reddit

As a 23 y/o this is absurd. I was using DVDs as a kid and even VHS's from time to time. Zoomers who act like 20 y/o technology is ancient need to shut the fuck up.

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peepers_meepers@reddit

pontiac fiero mention

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unkountoyou@reddit

There’s no way this is real, I’m a Zoomer and I used blue rays back in the day too.

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jhm-grose@reddit

1997, start of the zoomers. I have a BD R/W, and a 3.5" reader "just in case"

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Adventurous_Mode9948@reddit

"Back in the day"

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CobandCoffee@reddit

Being born in the late 90s I was able to grow up and watch it go from VHS to DVD, then to Blu-ray, and finally to streaming. Wild how quickly technology changed. Now I get strange looks from teens for still listening to CDs in my car.

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Champomi@reddit

Same, I've seen cars go from audio cassettes to CDs to bluetooth/wifi

I'm old enough to know about previous technology but also young enough to know how to use modern technology. Like I was 14 when I got my first smartphone, so I wasn't exactly born into it like late zoomers or generation alpha, but I still grew up in a half connected world

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Scottish_Whiskey@reddit

I’ve had 3 cars since 2018 and they’ve also followed that progression funnily enough. First car had a cassette player in the front and a 6-slot CD player in the trunk; second car only had the CD player in the dash; current car only has Bluetooth

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

The VHS era lasts a little longer when that’s the cheap option growing up

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maddogg42@reddit

The strange looks till they realize an obscure song they never may hear and use their cell to look it up and they add it to their playlist.

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Due_Entrepreneur_960@reddit

I used Blu-Rays when I was a kid but now I just watch stuff online. I see the value in physical media (I collect games and books), but the hard truth is that digital distribution is just easier for most people.

I still use my old Blue-Ray player sometimes, but that thing is over a decade old at this point, probably a decade and a half.

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Real_Lil_Tater@reddit

A bit of pedantry, but optical disks are also a form of digital distribution as the data is stored digitally on the disk.

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Regular-Cup9528@reddit

To be even more pedantic the only thing that’s digital is the product (i.e. the video or sound file) the distribution is in the form of a physical disk and therefore its physical distribution of a digital product.

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ethics_in_virtue@reddit

Back in the day? I still use them now. DVDs too. I may be a Zoomer, but you'll have to rip physical media from my cold dead hands

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LambOfGodnmbr104@reddit

The post wasn't about not knowing what blue ray is

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Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit

I still do. They are still current things.

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heqra@reddit

this isnt true, vinyl is more popular than cd is rn lmao

cd is a dead medium and is not current whatsoever

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Hackdirt-Brethren@reddit

Blu-rays ≠ CDs

CD is Audio, Blue-rays are Video

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Hanza-Malz@reddit

CDs are CDs. They have nothing to do with music. They’re a predecessor to DVD which were a predecessor to blue-ray.

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heqra@reddit

All dead, doesn't matter

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The_Meemeli@reddit

Bro keeps yapping about CDs when they are totally irrelevant, CDs nuts in your mouth and STFU

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heqra@reddit

That's literally the point I am making thank you idiot

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Known-Ad-1556@reddit

Ok, blu-ray boy

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LizzieMiles@reddit

I’m a zoomer and i remember when blu-rays were new and they advertised it on disney dvds constantly

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slugfive@reddit

I’m a millennial and my last three PCs since 2012 haven’t had a Blu ray/CD drive because of streaming, steam games, google docs, digital downloads, usbs for file sharing.

The last CD I received was a copy of an X ray scan years ago, and never got a reader to look at it.

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Known-Ad-1556@reddit

Dude still doesn’t know if he has a broken leg or not.

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awesomea04@reddit

Behold! Son of Blu-ray Boy

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UristMcMagma@reddit

Serial Experiments Lain? You can only lay with your coworker so many times before you have to stop calling it an experiment and just accept the fact that you're gay.

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Wild_Chef6597@reddit (OP)

You can fuck a million girls, and nobody bats an eye

Suck one cock, and SOCIETY

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soiboi64@reddit

Wise confuscious says:

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Xbtweeker@reddit

You can build 1000 bridges. But, you suck one cock... Well, they don't call you a bridge builder anymore.

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A-DustyOldQrow@reddit

Wise Asmongold says:

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Master_Tamma@reddit

Always funny to see downvotes when someone mentions Asmon, such pathetic loosers😂😂😂

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A-DustyOldQrow@reddit

Lol, fuck em. It's a quote that he's said on stream 1000 times.

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Xbtweeker@reddit

Who?

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TheBeastlyStud@reddit

In retrospect it probably wasn't the fact that I sucked his dick, it's that I planned a whole life with him. 😔

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ExperienceLow6810@reddit

We truly live in a B O T T O M T E X T

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shutupyourenotmydad@reddit

She experiments on my serial 'til I'm lain.

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ITinnedUrMumLastNigh@reddit

Man, I had my friend come over for the LOTR marathon on VHS, I provided the VCR, she provided the tapes

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artistmeme@reddit

Why tf is everyone making fun of him for owning it on blu ray someone explain

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LemonFlavoredMelon@reddit

Okay you don't drop Serial Experiments Lain on top of a zoomer like that, that's like jamming a dildo up their ass without lube.

You gotta start with the lube first, something easy to grasp but isn't action like DBZ, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, or the others. Start them My Neighbor Totoro, then maybe Princess Mononoke...

THEN you drop them into the Clannad and Lain rabbithole.

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Wild_Chef6597@reddit (OP)

What about School Days and classic FLCL

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LemonFlavoredMelon@reddit

Was about to post those but didn't know people still watched 'em! But if we wanna go the weird route that follows Lain, I'd probably suggest those or Blue Gender as well.

Ninja Scroll is good but there's a brutal GRAPE scene within what,10 minutes or so and you don't just drop that onto folks.

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curie2353@reddit

Sup bitches, I own evangelion on vhs

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Lloids77@reddit

You dropped this 👑

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Wantitneeditgetit@reddit

Same here but for Robotech. Got the whole series at a Blockbuster going out of sale event.

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crimsonfukr457@reddit

I'ts 4pm, time for your hernia meds

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rockytop24@reddit

The sacred scrolls, as a boy I'd heard rumors such things existed.

Unfortunately, my broke ass had to settle for downloads off Kazaa/Limewire burned onto dvds.

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BallisticThundr@reddit

How has retirement been?

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OrganisedVirgin@reddit

Jesus christ, even I had the dvd box set and I'm rapidly approaching middle age

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Checked_Out_6@reddit

It’s time to schedule your colonoscopy

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ComicBookFanatic97@reddit

I got back into collecting physical media because I’m tired of waiting for the shit I wanna watch to be available to stream somewhere.

Plus, the Blu-Rays have really cool special features like commentary tracks and behind-the-scenes footage.

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toomuchradiation@reddit

Refused to watch in good quality

watches from a tiny phone screen

Iphone was a mistake.

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BackStage06@reddit

FAKE: Anon has a job.

GAY: Anon is a blue ray boy

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kilqax@reddit

It's not that zoomie doesn't know that Blu-ray still is a thing, that could be excused - zoomie just doesn't care about image and sound quality and would watch anything in a watermarked 480p YouTube rip.

If zoomie instead pulled out nyaa and downloaded the BDRip there would be nothing to bitch at

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stormcapien@reddit

Anon has a nice Pontiac Fiero

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Huminerals@reddit

I observed a couple of zoots laughing at a guy wearing wired headphones.

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lavafish80@reddit

me, Gen Z with an 8track collection

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Wild_Chef6597@reddit (OP)

Go 8 track boy, go

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NeoNatrix@reddit

Serial Experiment's Lain is okay imo, not too bad and not too amazing either. Although I think I would have liked the show more if I had watched it much earlier, before I watched the newer and better animes

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dapperteco@reddit

It's pretty great if you like the atmosphere. Everything is weird and feels like a dream, the show runners nailed that aspect. The static frames, blocky lines and surreal dialogue add more to the aesthetic.

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depersonalised@reddit

i found it quite prescient.

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lefeuet_UA@reddit

Oldhead lmao

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ProShyGuy@reddit

All fears that OP held so dear have turned to whisper in his ear... "blue ray boy"

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TheBlueEmerald1@reddit

I got confused as to who broight up the show and who offered to lwt the other borrow and I got super confused why he was being laughed at, and still am.

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rockytop24@reddit

You can pry my 3d blu ray collection from my cold dead hands.

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SweetTooth275@reddit

Millennials discover they have lost touch with the world (nothing new).

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rockytop24@reddit

So what's your favorite HDDVD, anon?

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ryanpn@reddit

Old man finds out that he is old

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popopornado@reddit

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dTrecii@reddit

“I was born in 199- 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖”

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popopornado@reddit

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SoupaMayo@reddit

Guess I'm blu-ray boy too

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Isneezepepsi@reddit

overrated anime

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iwannagohome49@reddit

To be perfectly honest, I am an elder millennial and if someone gave me a Blu-Ray or DVD, I would have no way at all to play it.

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Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit

How

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sneed_o_matic@reddit

Imagine not owing consoleslop and not having a dedicated player and boom, you can't play blu ray at home.

My gaming pc has no disc drive because why would it?

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Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit

that still doesn't answer the question of how an adult human doesn't know how to use a blu ray.

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magicarnival@reddit

He says he wouldn't be able to play it because he doesn't have any devices capable of it, not that he doesn't know how.

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Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit

Ah I misread.

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iwannagohome49@reddit

This is the answer

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Known-Ad-1556@reddit

I’m 46 years old and last year I bought a dvd player for the car so my 4yo nephew could watch cartoons when we are driving . I had to buy the discs on eBay too because no one has them.

First time I’ve used disc media in like 15 years.

And he prefers to stream Bluey to the iPad.

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No_Oddjob@reddit

I'm GenX, and I'd have to dig my PS4 out of a closet and hook it up.

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ChangingMonkfish@reddit

When I were’lad, we used to have to use a blu-ray as a plate to have us tea on, before cleaning it off and poppin’ it in’t the old pee-ess-three so we could watch half-an hour of Full Metal Alchemist before the coal ran out at 7:30pm and we had to go t’bed t’ill mornin’.

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Correct_Doctor_1502@reddit

OP is fucking stupid. Serial Experiments Lane is famously everywhere for free

Seehere

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