Thankfully, it should be a long while before AI has the upper hand on a human touch in any endeavor. In the meantime, we'll be inundated with more badly generated AI flotsam than we are now.
I just wish they'd leave it out entirely at this point until the tech is more mature. They ruin some releases just by slapping their AI at it.
I've been using ChatGPT a lot lately to help me estimate project times. It's been a useful tool so far, even if I have to spend a fair amount of time training it. An interesting side benefit is that it errs more on the side of caution than I do with time estimates, so that's just a better hourly rate for old Relapsing.
We used it a little bit at work too. It can be handy for things like drafting quick resolutions, but it still requires a lot of manual editing after, so I've gone back to using precedents more so.
Preservation is another interesting conversation in and of itself. We're going to keep seeing less and less physical media releases as time goes on. More of our access being gated by the companies we pay for it. Older technology being harder to integrate and use with modern tech. Good on you for preserving things for yourself and your kids!
That's my primary goal is being able to have it available for as long as I want. If there's one thing I've found through all this is that a lot of what's out there has just been basically wiped away from history and forgotten. Not found anywhere even if you wanted to. 1000's of movies I hadn't heard of since the time of release, or ever. Many never came out on Blu-ray, or even DVD. Thankfully, the world of pirates exist, because the actual owners of the content seem to only want to dangle carrots and they're not actually interested in preserving content beyond what they can monetize. I get that's the nature of the industry, but its lame since it's basically a world of art and that should be preserved.
The 90's are all the rage these days, so you're only a decade behind the youths. I have a deep love for 80's and early 90's movies. So many seminal entries, and the well is deep with hidden gems and absolute classics. One of my low-key favs is For Love or Money starring Michael J Fox... but I'm a sucker for anything he starred in.
I'm all about it man. The 90's/early 2000's is basically my youth and it's hard not to look fondly at them as the best days of life. You never get that childlike wonder back and the realities of being an adult come swiftly and depressingly ime. And they just don't make them like they used to, so if you want a certain type of content, you have no choice but to watch from those era's.
A few years ago, a good friend ended up working on an installation that needed a high res projector... I'm 95% sure it was a IMAX level Barco, and he brought it home for 'testing'... i.e playing video games. HOLY SHIT. Even on a not-very-flat wall with regular old interior grade paint, it was incredible.
Daaamn, that would have been fun. I had that feeling when I finally leveled up to JVC projectors after going budget with Epson for years. That'd be the cool part of being an installer is getting to play around with the high end toys. Of course, it's better to be able to just afford them for yourself, but that's reserved for a select few.
What movies are we watching first on our quarter million dollar home theater system?
I'd want Stop Making Sense in the highest quality possible, then either T2 or Heat
Ooooh, I'll play. Shawshank Redemption. Maybe a Tarantino film, either Inglorious Basterds or Django Unchained. The Great Escape would have to happen pretty early on too. A League of Their Own, A Few Good Men and Jerry Maguire to name a few others.
Agreed, when doing mine, which is three seats front row, four row back elevated row, I went with an 82" Samsung UHD TV. The reality is depending on the space you have to be careful of how big you go, and how close the first row would be
Man, 82" is like a bedroom TV
Now you can tease me about the shitty Equinox in my driveway as opposed to what you're driving.
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