I was surprised to read they're not affiliated with Blu-ray RTM (registered trade mark) - I guess Blu-ray RTM are unusually choosing not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Anyone noticed that streaming services start to compromise on quality? With Netflix it's been like that for a while. Apple TV+ seems to be the best. I really want to get into Blu-ray now, looking for a decent player.
foobarbecue · 9m ago
Yeah. I see overcompression on a lot of shows. Dark scenes and star fields tend to make it obvious. Three Body Problem was the worst -- I imagine it would have been consistently visually spectacular if they hadn't compressed it to shit. I've seen it on Apple TV too though-- e.g. really visible on Silo title screens. Love, Death and Robots on Netflix quality was great.
voxadam · 1h ago
Life is great on the high seas. I've spent nearly 16 years "Passing the Popcorn" and couldn't be happier.
theshrike79 · 8m ago
They all give you "4k", but ATV+ has by far the best bit rate.
nullify88 · 1h ago
I mostly see a lot of stuttering. Either during high action scenes or when there's little happening at all. It's especially noticable on HBO / MAX at 4k DV. I assumed it was due to aggressive encoding.
sixothree · 13m ago
I would describe Disney as barely 720p when used in any web browser.
foobarbecue · 7m ago
Seems to vary between shows. Been watching Andor on a good system (LG OLED 4K) and it's spectacular. No compression artifacts or splotchy dark areas.
Cyphase · 1h ago
When I was a kid we had a VHS recording of Sneakers, with the beginning of an episode of Letterman at the end. I remember my mom liking it. Fond memories. I need to watch it again.
*after apparently inconveniencing Liz, the group is walking out*
Cosmo: We'll call you a cab.
Liz: "Thank you. This is my last computer date."
*Cosmo stops walking, falling behind*
Cosmo: "Wait."
*the group stops and turns*
Cosmo: "A computer matched her with him? I don't think so."
*Liz's face falls as Cosmo's henchman start slowly walking up behind her.*
*dramatic music as we cut and zoom in to Cosmo's face*
Cosmo: "Marty."
*Cosmo turns and runs toward his office*
voxadam · 2h ago
My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
richrichardsson · 41m ago
Just before I left the UK in 2018 there was starting to become this trend for voice verification on some services, in one particular one I had to go through the setup of (perhaps it was Virgin Media? I forget), they had me say "My voice is my passport" to train it on how I sound. I smiled to myself.
devoutsalsa · 1h ago
This is always the first thing I remember about the movie...
Heavily referenced in Uplink, the hacker video game by Introversion Software.
jph · 2h ago
Sneakers and Setec Astronomy became my go to for example encryption code for years. If you're not familiar with Setec Astronomy, you're in for a treat. <3
ghostDancer · 2h ago
I think you keep too many secrets.
sixtram · 1h ago
The question is, can you guarantee my safety?
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glimshe · 1h ago
Setec Astronomy is also the name, obviously inspired by the movie, of a successful MIT Puzzle Hunt group.
gittes · 3h ago
Great movie! So many big named actors in it! The director also did Field of Dreams!
BLKNSLVR · 2h ago
I'm not a fan of baseball, but I liked Field of Dreams (at the age I was back when it would have made it to Australian TV).
losthobbies · 48m ago
I love this movie so much. I know there are parts that don't make sense but everyone in it is excellent and it's very quotable.
"Practice, Practice, Practice"
"You...won't know...who to trust"
"No more secrets"
The soundtrack is great too.
BLKNSLVR · 2h ago
Ironically, I think this movie is better suited to being watched on VHS quality.
InsideOutSanta · 57m ago
If you have a high-quality digital version of a movie, you can use one of the CRT shaders from modern emulators to make it look like any old TV you want.
beeflet · 2h ago
I just watch it with my eyes closed
jpecar · 1h ago
Indeed, sound mix is rather amazing. Incredible stereo picture and depth, something you seldom hear in modern movies.
nullify88 · 1h ago
There are some great stills from that movie. In particular the close up of a person's face with reflections of computer text in glasses often sticks with me.
I know Timecop also has a similar scene just after the time jump. I think it looks really cool.
My brain is weird.
ccheever · 1h ago
I work at a company whose legal name is Monterey's Coast, Inc.
StackOverflow has this feature that when you write a new question, it tries to fuzzy-match that up against existing questions. I wonder if an approach similar to yours, using search, could be employed on HN as well to reduce the number of dupes?!
This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.
nielsbot · 3h ago
Wonder if ML could help automate merging of duplicate (or similar topic) threads? (I don't know much about ML)
irjustin · 3h ago
LLM's would be absolutely amazing at this actually. With their current ability - it's basically their sweet spot.
ctxc · 2h ago
I was kinda hoping it was manual (sorry). I was fired up at the opportunity to build something tiny that solves a pain, but...man you have a solid setup there :D
mosselman · 3h ago
Wow that is cool! Any chance you could share that Arc extension?
PS. The quote on "goowill not being something the government does" reads so poignant now ...
Karellen · 1h ago
Part of my headcanon for Sneakers is that Agent Abbot (Jones) is actually Admiral Greer (Jones' character from The Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger), set a bit earlier in his career, and going under a codename while working CyberOps for NSA ;-)
pragmatick · 1h ago
What's the relevance of this?
aa-jv · 1h ago
I never understood the love for this movie, it just seems lame to see all of these caricatures being created that reinforce hacker stereotypes - and not even in a good way.
glimshe · 1h ago
The movie was partially responsible for creating the stereotype. This was 1992 and hacker culture wasn't yet mainstream.
aa-jv · 1h ago
Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first.
I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...
A couple of scenes:
And another:COOTYS RAT SEMEN
"No, I don't."
"No. No."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GutJf9umD9c
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"Practice, Practice, Practice" "You...won't know...who to trust" "No more secrets"
The soundtrack is great too.
My brain is weird.
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Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620095 - Dec 2021 (7 comments)
Sneakers (1992), the Film - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111977 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)
Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643270 - May 2016 (54 comments)
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Joybubbles: the blind phreaker whom Whistler was based off of in Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443241 - June 2010 (1 comment)
This question comes up a lot - here's an answer that goes over it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40564558
This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.
... particularly sadly, at Earl Jones' passing.-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493927
Greatest movie :)
PS. The quote on "goowill not being something the government does" reads so poignant now ...
I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.