Rogue One is almost out on DVD. Or BlueRay or yellow box or whatever digital format or avenue you choose. Geesh, so many to chose from these days. Though I am tempted to check out some of the other non DirecTV TV viewing options that are around, since all I watch are motorsports and football (soccer) and the occasional HBO or AMC show.
And given those channels, I usually get stuck with the ginormous packages that DirecTV has in order to get them... then I'm back to 150 bucks a month.
Anyway, I digress. I noticed that Rogue One is being released tomorrow on Amazon Video as a rental. So even though I pay them 12 bucks a month to have Amazon Video, I will still likely have to pay 20 bucks to rent RogueOne. And though I have the ability to make a DVD copy of it and edit away..., I doubt I'll have this option, as Amazon is unlikely to allow me to actually download the film as a file format.
If I found out otherwise, this will likely be the path I travel. Regardless, I have the ability to make a file of the film I can edit once it's released on DVD, so this is a moot point save I could do a week sooner. Though I already have enough things to keep me away from working harder at my day job as it is.
(though as I'm typing this I realize, I do have a program that will copy a movie purchased on iTunes, so I could look into that... Hmmm)
Of course, this will be the initial sale of the movie for home viewing, and try as they may to make it sound and look so content heavy, it will undoubtedly be lacking a commentary track or two, or some how-they-did-it special or alt endings or deleted scenes- some content so they can of course, re-release again in 6 months in stupid 3D or 4D and add some of that stuff back in.
I, of course bought the Force Awakens when it was first released, only to find it doesn't have a director's commentary track, which I would have really enjoyed. But I'm not sure if I'm up for another 20 bucks just to have that right now, and could probably just YouTube it or something and find it there.
The funny thing is, I've of course bought the original trilogy so many times my head would spin. The thing with those though, it went from VHS, then VHS letterbox, then laserdisc, then all those again w/ Special Edition versions, then DVD. Then came the prequel episodes and another DVD set, then Blu-ray (though I don't think I own those in Blu-ray). But the technology was improving each time, so there was (arguably) a reason to keep buying them. Though my household and my son and I while he was younger especially watched them constantly, so that part was a no brainer. These are not movies to be seen one time and put away.
In a way though, this home market will suffer a bit for me, because unlike 20+ years ago where we were hungry for anything Star Wars that was new and improved or different or whatever, with these new Star Wars films coming out every year for probably a decade, the craving for something new and Star Wars isn't so strong as it once was.
And the viewing technology isn't either.
I mean come on, how much better do we need to make TV monitors? The resolution is so tight now that it doesn't even look like film anymore. More than that- it looks fake, it's so video-like. I hate them. I honestly do. Those 4D resolution monitors have gone too far. Maybe it's just my 49 year old eyes, but to me it's so sharp and detailed that it looks fake. If the real world outside my windows doesn't look like that, then my TV shouldn't either.
There is also the side benefit of the fact that my old man eyes can't really take advantage of such technology anyway, so I'm OK with my 7 yr old 55" 1080 monitor.
Though it could be bigger...
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