Weekly Ramblecast 030: The New Big Dig
Added 2022-01-05 00:02:38 +0000 UTCWe're kicking off the new year the only way we know how: by rambling about everything from the fondue in Vinny's basement to Brad's latest Internet rabbit hole (you won't believe these Lord of the Rings restorations!), video bitrates, Velocity Girl's retirement plan, some philosophical pondering about film preservation, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:07) Intro
(00:01:28) Generation remix has too may strikes on YT
(00:03:29) The good old days of manually finding targets to sue for copyright
(00:08:17) It's not the size of your stream that matters it's the bitrate
(00:10:30) Getting into Brad's rabbit hole of film releases
(00:16:54) What is the ideal version of a film?
(00:21:13) The death of behind the scenes extras?
(00:24:43) Twenty Fondue and how to celebrate a new year
(00:30:41) Don't Look Up. Satire with a sledgehammer
(00:33:26) Some 2022 movie talking time
(00:37:17) Diehard
(00:38:11) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
(00:40:20) All the brands under one MegaCorp
(00:48:35) OH, and Black Widow
(00:50:24) RIP Betty White
(00:53:30) Things change and it's scary but not always bad!
(00:54:29) Wrapping up and thanks
(00:56:35) See Ya
Comments
I know this is probably going to fall on deaf ears or just be ignored as a "Disney fanboy" excuse or whatever, but, and this is not to absolve Disney of any of the other bad shit they do, it's kind of.....disheartening that the "Disney buys Fox" narrative has become just that: "Big Bad Disney absorbs competitor for IP." I feel like people are so ready to just jump on Disney for literally anything that they just completely ignore reality, which is this: Rupert Murdoch is the one to blame. Murdoch decided that 20th Century Fox was losing too much money so he decided to sell it off, because all he wanted to keep was Fox Corp, ie Fox News. So this is like the ONE situation where, personally, Disney is not the bad guy. Murdoch was selling Fox, and at the end of the day, it was either going to be Disney or Comcast. Personally, Comcast can screw off 100x more before Disney, so honestly I think the lesser of two evils won. The only way Fox didn't get absorbed by another company is if some random billionaire had decided to buy them and then just let them run, but that wasn't happening. Anyway, that's just to say, Rupert Murdoch is a piece of shit and the one to get angry about, not Disney, in this one particular case.
Brian Lippman
2022-01-05 13:59:05 +0000 UTC
