Month: February 2024

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast!

Following on from our previous show about the current state of home video and Blu-ray collecting, we look back at how things were when we were growing up. Remember being excited to rent a video from your local rental shop? Or waiting a year before a movie would even show up on VHS after its theatrical run? We do!

• We cover some of the recent low-key YouTube drama surrounding our friend ReviewTechUSA.
• The slow decline of AVGN.
• The situation with Xbox going multi-platform, what does the future hold?
• Films that were modestly successful at the box office but were huge on VHS.
• Exploring our parents VHS movie collections, discovering new movies.
• Watching dodgy bootleg copies of the latest movies in Ireland!
• Being excited to rent movies, and even pre-ordering rentals.
• The marketing push for a movie lasting much longer in the 90s.
• The huge gaps in time between theatrical releases to VHS rental releases and finally buy to own.
• Laserdisc, did you know anyone that had one?
• The crazy prices of Laserdiscs in the 90s.

Intro/Outro Music – Downtown Times Square (Scene 2-1 theme) – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) – Arcade – Composer(s): Mutsuhiko Izumi, Miki Higashino

Check out Trev and Al’s other podcast where they reminisce about a different episode of Star Trek every month! : https://longrangesensors.com/episodes

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Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We chart the further adventures of Stu’s new found love of PC gaming,

before taking a deep dive into the world of physical movie collecting on Blu-ray’s, both retro 1080p and 4K. Is it still fun? Is it even worth it when you can just stream a movie? Will it even be an option in the future? Listen on to hear our thoughts!

– Stu is now a full-time PC gamer!??

– Its ok to play games on easy mode when you’re old 🙂

– How awesome is Steam Remote Play?

– 4K Blu-ray discs vs. 4K streaming.

– Why 4K Blu-ray has struggled.

– 1080p Blu-ray’s looking amazing on a 4K TV.

– The joys of picking up super cheap Blu-ray’s in CEX.

– Advantages of owning physical copies of movies.

– That special feeling of picking a movie to watch from a pile of discs. Check out Trev and Al’s other podcast where they reminisce about a different episode of Star Trek every month! : https://longrangesensors.com/episodes Intro/Outro Music – Butch Cassidy and Sunset Riders (Train Stage 1, Mega Drive version) – Sunset Riders (1992) – Sega Mega Drive – Composer(s): H.Inoue (Mega Drive version), Motoaki Furukawa (Original Arcade)

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