The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
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🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The downsides of the streaming era are coming into focus for movie fans—uncontrollable, changing libraries; lower fidelity; lack of extras and features. Can all of these be solved with a return to physical media?
Guest: Ash Nelson, journalist and author of “The Lost Art of the DVD Extra” for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Last April, a sports movie came out. |
| 0:06.4 | You don't know what tennis is. |
| 0:08.1 | It's a relationship. |
| 0:10.8 | But it wasn't just any sports movie. |
| 0:14.1 | It was challengers, a romance-flavored romp starring Zendaya and two up-and-coming guys named |
| 0:20.1 | Josh O'Connor and Mike Feist. |
| 0:23.1 | Arts got his coach Tashi Donaldson, who also is his wife. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm playing for both of us, Tashi. |
| 0:29.8 | This movie promised everything. |
| 0:33.0 | Tennis, thruples, a killer soundtrack, and of course, beautiful young stars being mischievous and, well, beautiful. |
| 0:41.9 | It's my favorite movie of the year so far. I absolutely adore this movie. |
| 0:45.9 | Ash Nelson is a marketer and business journalist. They saw challengers four times in the theater, |
| 0:51.0 | and were really excited to own a copy of this movie. During the lead-up to the |
| 0:55.2 | film's release, social media posts had revealed the details of some of the film's most |
| 0:59.5 | complicated shots. The technical aspects of making some of those parts of the movie, |
| 1:05.2 | for those who haven't seen it, it's not a, it's not really a spoiler, but there is a moment in the |
| 1:09.7 | movie where the POV is the tennis ball. |
| 1:13.5 | And you're sort of whipping across the court in between these two like lifelong competitors, friends, enemies, lovers. |
| 1:21.3 | And I'm like, how do you do that? Is that CGI? Like, I know they're not strapping a nanocamara to the tennis ball. |
| 1:26.9 | And there's also a scene where the audience sort of goes beneath the court and we're supposed to be looking at them playing from beneath. |
| 1:36.1 | But it had to have been like a clear, like, plexiglass tennis court. |
| 1:41.7 | In the past, these how did they do that? Explainers would end up in the special features section |
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