DVD

Yeah, you see smart entrepreneurs catching on to this and doing this.

Like, I mean, the example that comes to my mind is Netflix, right? Which started out as DVDs by mail.

which was a great service.

But they did not call themselves DVDs by mail, even though when they started, most people didn't have broadband.

Streaming video was not a thing.

But they knew that because of Moore's Law, it was going to be a thing.

I think to go into that, what I need to say is that I did lose 60 pounds, and I got back down to 175 pounds and had visible abs and all that kind of stuff and was doing different types of training.

I moved on from the DVDs, and I'm running, and I'm doing – you know, calisthenics and doing some weightlifting in there.

And I really kind of developed a bad, I didn't realize that at the time, but I had a bad relationship with food.

Um, because I, once I figured out that's what the lever was and I started looking at stuff going, I'm not eating that shit.

And look, I know that some ministries, and I have no problem with this, have done correctly.

Some ministries make available things like DVDs today.

Back in my day, it was CDs or cassettes.

Remember cassettes? When I worked for this Christian college in the radio ministry, I had the ability of making some decisions.

And this is my tenuous link to this movie for the Dreamcast.

So there were lots of rumors during the Dreamcast's lifespan, as we all know, some of which include the DVD add-on.

the dreamcast 2 itself various different um games that were rumored my question for the panel is what was your favorite dreamcast urban legend and where did you see or hear about it like was it in the playground in your office read in a magazine whatever it might be what what rumor do you wish or do you remember most fondly about the dreamcast and the floor is open

I love the idea that we could chat about these with people both on the playground and the office at the same

I'll jump in with one.

I wouldn't really class it as urban legend because it was something I read in a magazine, but it always stuck with me.

And that was that the Dreamcast was going to have different iterations over time and that each version was going to be better in some way, like more RAM or ISDN or, as you mentioned, DVD.

And I read that in a magazine called Total Control.

The year is 2000.

Netflix is a little company that mills DVDs in red envelopes and it's losing money.

So the two founders Reed Hastings and Mark Randolph get a meeting with Blockbuster and they offer to sell Netflix at Blockbuster for $50 million.

Blockbuster's CEO turned them down.

Blockbuster beat itself with a fight at the top and a mountain of debt.

Netflix meanwhile kept changing.

DVDs by mail, then streaming, then making its own shows, then going all over the world.

A few years ago, it cracked down on password sharing.

Could you do that?

I don't even remember that until DVDs came out.

Maybe, maybe that's true.

Even getting

full seasons of shows.

Yeah.

And that was way later DVDs.

But, you know, to my point, or the point I'm at least trying to make is, and let me just say Full House represented a single dad, you know, who had lost his wife.

Because all the young people, they like all the streamers and I like still all the old stuff.

I feel like in the DVD era, you know, people are starting to stream movies and I like DVDs.

Let us know in the comment if we need to live stream an episode, if our next Q&A needs to be a live stream.

Yeah, seriously.

My my ex-wife wife at the time managed to pick me up a copy of the sketch comedy show that he was on called Big Train after watching this.

And of course, I managed to get a hold of spaced at a convention before the legit Blu-ray or DVD copies were released DVDs.

I don't think it's actually been released on Blu-ray.

Yeah, but I but the DVD copy that has I think like Patton Oswalt and Kevin Smith do a commentary on like each like one one episode for each of them.

I

guess I used to collect DVDs, but that's because I'm a movie head.

I mean, I'm sure there's people who are way bigger cinephiles than me, but that used to be what I would do.

I would just watch movies all fucking day.