Thread 213855351

Were DVD players really worth this much in 2001?

>>213855351 (OP)
uhm... probably. what movie is this from?

>>213855351 (OP)
My first DVD player was my PS2.

>>213855408
Changing Lanes

>>213855408

Steel Magnolias

>>213855408
Point Break

>>213855408
fast and furious

>>213855351 (OP)
Hey, anon. Thought you could post this without saying goodbye?

>>213855351 (OP)
Stealing shit from trucks used to be so easy. Drivers would just claim the door popped open and consoles fell out the back.

$100k in 2000 is like $5 mil today

>>213855408
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

>>213855511
ummm okay... which one??

>>213856433
but I have a flip phone

>>213855408
Problem Child 2

>>213855738
12

>>213856463
That'll be $35.95 then for your happy meal

>>213856433
>YO, GET YOURSELF 20% OFF A MCDONALDS ORDER WHEN YOU BUY $20 OR MORE WITH DOOR DASH, QUEERBALL!

>>213855408
Fried Green Tomatoes

>>213855518
Jimmy the Gent used to give them a couple of hundred to look the other way while they took Super Nintendos out the back.

>>213855738

The first one. Fast and Furious. I'll take the tuna, no crust.

>>213855351 (OP)
They weren't even DVD players. They were TVs with VHS players, and other VHS systems.

What never made sense to me in the Fast movies was that they decided to take a Pontiac Fiero into space when the Subaru Impreza has far better zero g handling

>>213855351 (OP)
You can fit 52 pallets in a semi, and 95 DVD players per pallet. In 2001 dvdplayers sold at $200, that truck is carrying almost exactly 1 million dollars worth of dvdplayers. Adjusted for inflation that's 1.82 million.

>>213856967
>>213856750

>>213856967
>95 DVD players per pallet.
Not a chance. Especially not 2001 DVD players.

>>213856967
More like 24 pallets.

>>213857009
>>213857057
>>213856750

>>213857057
double stacks you fit in 52
>>213857007
>>213857009
but this does change my math a bit

>>213857079
Motherfuckers stole the pallets! How much are pallets worth adjusted for inflation?!

>>213856750
DVD players were where the REAL BREAD was at back then

>>213856750
Some guy on reddit worked out this heist would have been worth about 1.2million but they really overestimated it so it's probably less than half of that

>>213857104
Pallets are worth between 50 cents and $4 each depending on condition so let's just say they are $2 each, and $2 in 2001 was worth like $3.65 today

>>213856905
I stopped watching after Fast Five.
Is this a joke? They went to space?

>>213856433
all that if I order stewed meatballs with the app? What a deal!

>>213856967
Allegedly in the film he says its worth 1.2million

>>213855408
Driving Miss Daisy

>>213856905
I refuse to believe this is real

>>213857169
No way pallets are that cheap.
It's over $20 worth of wood

>>213857202
>>213857454
I'm not making it up
The movies end up batshit insane because they've done everything else

>>213855460
damn bro most people had them for 2-3 years by then

>>213856708
Fast and Furious was the 4th one, though.

>>213855351 (OP)
I can't remember. Anyway, check the other 3000000 threads already posted. And remember, all women are evil whores

>>213857480
My cousin bought a hundred pallets and used the wood to panel his walls. After it was lacquered it look really good.

>>213857498
More like they started stupid and just got stupider because the people watching were also extremely stupid

>>213857202
Get some booze and maybe a friend if you have any, and have a great time

>>213855408
Highway to Hell

>>213856764
in Crust we trust

>>213857823
The first 3 were actually the best, by just turning them into dumb action movies instead of dumb car racing movies they realized they could get the mainstream audience $$$ so the franchise is just actionslop now

>>213855351 (OP)
Yes, I watched this movie on VHS as a kid and never considered being able to afford/watch it on a DVD player.

DVD players didn't go mainstream until PS2 allowed everyone to own one.

>>213857880
>I SAID NO CRUST

>>213856764
no crust, no bust

>>213855351 (OP)
>Mono TV
>2-Head Mono
Pack it up boys we're set!

>>213855408
wrong

>>213855408
Frogger Live Remake

>>213855408
Speed

>>213855408
>He doesn't know.....

>>213855738
The Fast and the Furious (2001)

>>213856433
WATCH YO BACK

WASH YO ASS!
WASH YO WASH YO WASH YOU ASS

>>213856750
>They were TVs with VHS players, and other VHS systems.
If they were DVD players, then Homeland Security or even the CIA would get involved.
Real shit

>>213857498
Someone mentioned that the Fast and Furious squad should just join the Avengers by now, and I partly agree
It's so campy and outrageous, might as well have Toretto making quips with Quill and Rocket Raccoon as they run over Thanos goons in his Charger. Just end it.

>>213856750
I remember my family splurging to get a crt tv with a built in vhs and dvd player when I was a kid, maybe 2004ish? we got it to watch finding nemo on dvd

>>213855351 (OP)
yes at one point there were "new" dvd players every few months, basically did the same thing but did it faster or smoother, which I think was just dvd companies removing or changing limiters in the hardware or software but I don't know enough about it

>>213855738
there was a one time.... only One!

>>213855513
>there was charring on the inside of his lungs which would indicate that he was alive for at least a moment while engulfed in flames
He didn’t deserve to go out that way man.

>>213856750
Would be worth a fortune today with all the retarded millennials looking for member berries to enjoy for 3 minutes before buying the next thing they think will make them happy.

>>213856905
This was kino I was laughing my ass off in the theatre while the black guys were wooping and howling

>>213855351 (OP)
If you were a boomer. Having a computer the real prize wss a connection and a burner

>>213859176
This would be next level kino.
We are talking fifth dimension kino.
Elevated to new undiscovered levels of kino.

>>213855408
The Assassination of Paul Walker By the Coward Young Oak

>>213861069
That son of a bitch!

>>213855408
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

For me, it's the American Dad episode where Steve and his friends find a script for the next Fast & Furious movie and they find out all the scripts start out as gay porn with cars and they later remove all the gay stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz6um5wjhjw

>>213855351 (OP)
I paid like $450 for my first player back in the late 90s and that was like a basic-bitch, "Look, it actually does play the disc!" model. I think next one up was $999 or something.

>>213856905
Looks ready to burn up in the atmosphere on reentry.

>>213856764
>no crust?

>>213855351 (OP)
Well today a Playstation 5 Pro is $700 a pop. Would you jack a truckload of PS5s to flip?

>>213859461
Don't make me post my webms

>>213855408
MacGruber

>>213855738
The one with the cars and tuna sandwiches

each one of those boxes is a $400 product. they're all higher end consumer grade units

>>213857104
What if they were CHEP pallets??
Iykyk

>>213856548
I really thought he was kinda big and tough when I was a kid. He’s not even that big. And no true tough guy would wear two tank tops.

>>213859710
He was drunk doing 90 in a residentia areal, killing himself and his friend because he thought he was Brian O'Conner irl

>>213855351 (OP)
Dunno, but this reminds me of when I watched someone hack a DVD player's connections to work with a TV that only had a coaxial port in a barn that was converted for a living space. This was in 2002. Tried to get with some chick, failed. But we had a burn barrel for heat nearby, as it was the autumn. Good times. Lotta pot was smoked.

>>213864155
The first tank top is to catch the sweat so it can bleed directly into the tank on top, making you wash 2 shirts
F&F was always in the pocket of Big Laundry

>>213859176
>Someone mentioned that the Fast and Furious squad should just join the Avengers by now, and I partly agree
That's been a joke at least since the 7th movie. And then a few years later they made that spinoff movie where Idris Elba was some kind of supervillain.

>>213855469
starring Dolly fucking Parton

>>213857603
Yes and no. It was a super weird time because the price of DVD players started to plummet from insane prices to medium range prices around holiday 2001. So for a while they were still pretty pricey, but I remember around that holiday I got my first one for christmas (a cheap apex branded one) for like $120.

>>213855351 (OP)
The cheapest DVD Player at the time was a PS2 for $300. So yes, it was pretty expensive.

>>213859406
>VHS
>04
Poor fag

>>213864898
This nigga knows. Even though PS2's were sold out and getting resold for twice that much, still worth it to get the latest console plus a DVD player. Even though you had to pay extra for the remote control. Alternatively you could buy a DVD-ROM for your PC but they weren't cheap and there was no way to play the video on your TV in front of the comfy couch unless you wanted to invest in yet more hardware, something like a PCI card for RCA-out.

>>213865131
People didn't immediately have all the new shit.

>>213855351 (OP)
I got my first DVD player Christmas 2002.

>>213865394
>the vehicle equivalent of a tribal tattoo
Yes, and they're still cool.

>>213859710
>He didn’t deserve to go out that way man.

Counter point

>>213856433
i remember when this shit was 5 bucks and mcdonalds a buck. holy shieeeeeet

>>213865493
Supras are gay and slow, any modern car with bolt ons will blow the doors off one.

>>213855351 (OP)
In 2011 a relative gave me one, two years later I had two drives that could read and burn recordable ones at 16X. Now I don't care at all about even M-discs, since drive redundancy comes cheap as fuck, and civilization is any case almost as short as life now.

>>213864225
He wasn't the driver. Ryan Dunn is the guy who was drunk and killed himself and a passenger.

>>213865394
Still is. Supra, Skyline and RX-7 are fucking iconic. Seeing them on the big screen after driving them in Gran Turismo was a big part of the appeal of Fast & Furious.

>>213855351 (OP)
My friend bought the first DVD player out of everyone I knew for around 800 bucks. Probably around 1500 now.

If you faggots don't use a bluray player you're watching your shit wrong, streaming and low file size downloaded shit look terrible compared to watching with pic related

But stay poor

>>213856750
>built in VHS player
Gross. Probably stopped you from tape to taping.

>>213866200
Blu-ray is sooo 2015.

>>213865527
I dont get it. What did he do wrong?

>>213865527
well at least he got that jailbait pussy...

>Dom, he's a fuckin jannie!
>No, no I swear I'm not a jannie. I just went on /tv/'s board, they have 4 off-topic threads with over 250 replies. You know what that means
>The mods are asleep

>>213861908
I bought a 5 disc Sony player in 2001 for around $300. I loved that thing until it stopped working around 2009. Replaced it with a PS3 slim when those came out.

>>213867480
>multidisc players
Peak comfy

RACE WAR!!!!!!!!!!!

>>213867882
Did people really leave supras with perfectly intact engines in junkyards?

>>213867882
>Overnight parts from Japan

>>213868303
>Engines... and OVERNIGHTING PARTS FROM JAPAN calms me

>>213867711
Yep used to load whole season boxsets and marathon them without having to get up to switch disks

>>213867882
>release date June 22, 2001
Things were so innocent back then a summer blockbuster could use the term "race wars" in a completely race-neutral tone.

>>213866200
>dp-ub150
what a fucking pleb, it doesn't even do dolby vision. Anyone with any self respect would at minimum go with a db-ub820

>>213857580
>nitrous for a rocket
lolmao

>>213858560

Those camcorders would probably catch a hefty price back then

>>213862600

based fellow oldfag

>>213868301
It was given by the feds like the Eclipse

Bruh, me and my dad bought a Panasonic TV/VCR around the time this came out and it was just over $1,000.
It was similar to this but it wasn’t a flat screen. Shit, now that I remember the PS2 was about $1,000 when it came out too.

>>213870565
Fuck sake.

>>213870565
The PS2 was like, 199 USD. Electronics were very affordable in the early 2000s.

>>213859406
Your family was/is poor.

>>213870648
It was $1K where I come from. Mine cost $550. Surprisingly there is a whole other world out side of the USA…

>>213861069
kek

>>213870701
That really fucking sucks man, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.

>>213870648
Look up the price of video game consoles in Brazil

>>213855351 (OP)
When the script was written and production started, yes. 500$ each (in 2000 dollars). A truck full of them could've easily been worth over a million (plus the value of the truck itself).
When the movie actually showed in theaters? They were worth like 200$ by then. Still a worthwhile heist. The PS2 launch really drove down dvd player prices, because it was basically the cheapest DVD player you could buy as at the end of 2000 (300$).

>>213870273
... you say that. But the Easiest "DIY" (basically you spend less than a million dollars developing it) throttleable rocket is a hybrid design using a solid fuel and nitrous oxide as the oxidizer - including using common nitrous bottles, nozzles, and solenoid valves that can be found at pretty much any "speed shop".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFyzTqhM6is

>>213855351 (OP)
Fun to watch with the whole familia.

>>213855408
Slow and Relaxed

>>213855408
Batman: The Animated Series

>>213856764
>Brian loves em clean.

That's white man alright.

I just realised I have hundreds of DVDs in my slip folder things in storage and absolutely no way to watch them. They're all mixed regions too.
>140 dollars for multi-region player
Only problem is I don't have a TV either

>>213855351 (OP)
>>213856433
Man, that movie will forever be in my heart. I remember watching it as an early teen back in 2003 and then played Underground 1 and 2 and those were peak comfy times.
Even now it perfectly holds up. Whenever I think of California I think of two things - Fast of Furious and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

>>213855408
I Met A Goddess And Now I Have Superpowers That Only Activates When I Am Traveling Above The Speed Limit

>>213858560
Not on pallets, not even stacked well. “Money load” my left nut, that’s nowhere near full.

>>213871005
>I just realised I have hundreds of DVDs in my slip folder things in storage and absolutely no way to watch them. They're all mixed regions too.
No DVD drive in your computer? You can buy cheapo USB ones.

>>213865544
>any modern car could beat this car from 1993
wow amazing insight

>>213865544
The reason why supras were so highly regarded was because the engine could be boosted to the moon, and they came with turbochargers from the factory. 700hp supras with stock engines were not unheard of back then.... and it was very rare to even find ANY car that was making more than 500hp.

You could just shove larger springs into the wastegates and make over 400hp to the wheels. That's like 50$ and 20 minutes worth of mods.

>>213868301
guys like dom probably slip every junkyard employee in a 100 mile radius a 20 to call him if they spot something interesting come in.
i've done that with electronics recycling centers before.

>>213871248
Not if he forgets to pay is extra horsepower subscription LMFAO

nu-cars are for retards and normies.

>>213872107
Its amazing how incredibly gay car culture has become

>>213865544
They completely rebuilt that car with aftermarket parts.

>>213872704
At least most of the "stance" era seems to have passed us by. Now the most obnoxious cars on the road are all lifted trucks and crackle tune VWs.

>>213855351 (OP)
Put it this way. People bought the playstation 2 because it was the cheapest dvd player at the time at $299

>>213855408
Fight Club

>>213856750
STOP CALLING IT VHS PLAYER
ITS VCR

>>213855513
I like to pretend was the end of the franchise

>>213856764
"I LIKE THE TUNA HERE, ASSHOLE, WATCH YOUR BACK!" - Brian Earl Spilner

>>213856764
Wait, the tuna is the pussy and crust is the pubes, right?

>>213859461
fuckin magnets
how do they work?

>>213855351 (OP)
>TORWETTO! TORWETTO! jannie came into thread, diswepected whole board because somebody saged me out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!

>>213874028
>I never saged on nobody! I never saged on nobody!

>>213855351 (OP)
before china start making them, yes, I still remember kmart was selling the first gen dvd them for $600

>>213874272
How the fuck did he even manage that?

>>213874272
I thought the Playstation basically killed the DVD player industry

>>213861235
he didn't fast so good

>>213855738
why do you type like this?

>>213861235
He did the stare and drive on you din he?

>>213874272
A DVD-Rom drive for a computer was $200 in 1999 and it came with a decoder card to allow playing movies. By 2001 you could buy a PS2 for <$600.

>>213874403
Nah. Not everyone played vidya or owned Xboxes. A big thing with DVDs was imports and mail order, and the PS2 was region locked. All of us kino losers needed multi-region players which cost a fucking arm and a leg.

>>213874272
I'm not sure how I feel about this. That looks horrible and I'd want to help, maybe, but if he really was being a faggot I'd also feel compelled to just leave him.

>>213874656
>When you buy a new DVD drive and have to carefully follow your printed out instructions to flash the drive to make it region free and then brick it and try and return it to the store and they ask you if you flashed it and you say "s-sorry I need to return the drive to...somewhere else haha"

>>213866219
That was 80s to early 90s. After that pirate cable boxes were the go to.

>>213871005
It's easier to download a better version of 99% of those than to fuck around with discs.

>>213864077
i appreciated this joke anon

>>213874403
Sony owned the patents on DVD (and betamax, CD, Blu-Ray). They were the industry. Good riddance to their patent trolling.

>>213855408
Happy feet

>>213874944
More about the extras. I've seen all the films.

>>213855408
Tuna.

>>213864578
No you didn't and you were still a baby in 2001. I remember you from the last thread.

>>213857580
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space

>>213859461
>No, my baby! I even opened a window!

>>213865394
When I bought my Evo the previous owner had put one of those retarded tribal squiggles on the front like that. Supposedly he did it to all his cars.

I was in the garage removing it immediately after getting home from the 3 hour trip.

>>213856433
I went out for a taco tuesday dinner special this week. 3 taquitos and a whiskey cost $30.

>>213856708
>The first one
About that...

>>213873246
It was easy for kids to convince their parents to get one.

>>213861818
Pfaha! MacFarlane, you've done it again!

>>213870273
I think they might have accidentally wired it up to their helmets when writing

>>213876898
>Final Fantasy Video Game reeks
>reeks
Dutch language. kek

>>213863041
I feel like raining cars was either a gta or saints row cheat code at some point

>>213855408
The life and times of Judge Roy Bean

>>213875150
You can download full rips that have the features.

>>213855408
The butthole surfers

>>213856905
Isn’t this the image Elon used to prove he launched a Tesla into space?

>>213863041
That is way more dead people than I’d expect for a fast and furious movie?

>>213877362
I think it's a bit like a marvel movie wherein if you see a skyscraper explode, you just have to assume everybody landed on their feet with a few bumps and scratches

>>213874690

Sometimes people need to learn the hardway.

And examples have to be made.

>>213877362
The cars crashing into them and raining down are automatically controlled with no passengers

>>213856905
all you need is a few blokes from the norf and some tea and you can make a rocket car, I don't get all of the hate

>>213870565
I'm still using a TV manufactured in 2003. Not mine but it's the same model, it works fine.

>>213869811
https://youtu.be/HMCnnLJ2Xgg

>>213855408
need for speed 3 hot pursuit

>>213859710
man you wanna read some fucked up autopsy report shit read the ones for the aftermath of the byford dolphin Bay diving bell accident.

some of the injuries were so extreme they had never been seen before, or even knew was possible. they decompressed so fast, so hard, they found blood blisters on one of their eyeballs. they weren't even sure how that could happen

>>213855408
No Man's Land

>>213855460
PS2 was literally what caused DVD players to become affordable. Sony were brilliant because either way they gained DVD customers or PS2 customers

>>213877859
I have a LCD 4:3 shaped monitor to watch the 4:3 films and shows with it

>>213855408
The Longest Yard

>>213865527
It's gonna take a century to undo the mind virus that is plaguing the West.

>>213855408
The Matrix: Reloaded

>>213855408
The Waterboy (1998)

>>213855408
Gremlins

>>213855408
Sharknado behind the scenes

>>213855408
You've Got Mail

>>213879788
no i dont
no i dont i just checked you liar

>>213881143
check your heart anon

>>213876898
Tbh ps2 PLUS dvd seemed unbelievable back then, was definitely a major factor why that console sold so much. Plus it looked fucking cool and had the furst vertical mode of its kind.

>>213859710
he shouldn't have believed his pretend character from a movie was real then

>>213881312
he wasn't driving

>>213858800
kek

>>213875007
>commit R&D to design and manufacture of new physical data encoding technique
>patent trolling
kill yourself

>>213881277
Awwww!

>Brian's signature car is the silver and blue R34 from 2F2F
Yeah, you know, the one he totals ten minutes into the movie in the first race and we never see again?

>>213865131
>>213870695
He said VHS and DVD you dumbfucks, we had a similar setup and we werent poor, my parents (dad) just didnt want to restart his video collection or convert all the home movies

>>213855408
Weapons (2024)

>>213855408
Farenheit 911

>>213855408
Superman (2025)

>>213855408
Woman in the Dark (1934)

>>213865131
Yeah? Lot of recorded stuff were still on tape so VHS player was mandatory if you wanted to watch them, zoomie

>>213883779
>no one likes “insert thing here”
>yeah well I do
Is this the best comeback ever?

>>213882579
you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

>>213883807
>WWWWASSSSHHHHH YO BACK!!!!!!!!!

>>213883849
>I NEED NOS
https://youtu.be/LvFnJXPImlo

>>213855738
Don't they all have the same plot?

>>213859176
I have better idea: Transformers Fast & Furious

Everyone happens to know a few things and one of the things that we knows is that it's not about how you post your thread. It's about how you bump your thread. You better learn that.

>>213882579
To be fair, Dom's Charger shows up for the last 10 minutes of the first movie and we've got no indication he ever drives muscle cars, but that's all he does in Fast Five onwards.

>>213884274
Whatever happened to Leon anyway. Did he ever reappear in any F&F movie?

why is the new one so far away

>>213884542
>it's all about family
then why did he have a child with a white woman that turned out to be black so technically it's not even his son and then he lets the thing get kidnapped..... Comon Dom..

>>213859461
bollywood for white people

>>213884776
>why does Vin Diesel's kid look black
Because he's black?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Y0tlWp89E

>>213885031
No he's not. His wife just ended up fucking The Rock's character in the movies. It's well known and canon

>>213885101
No, the Rock is less black than the Diesel.

>>213855408
3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)

>>213855460
>My first DVD player was my PS2.
same here

>>213885031
>here's your black man

>>213884804
Yeah white ppl live this sh*t!

>>213885201
>live this sh*t!
HELLO SAR HOW R U TODAY SAR

>>213855408
The Rocketeer (1991)

>>213855351 (OP)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

>>213855408
Brother Load 4 (2013)

SHE WAS CHEATIN ON YOU DOM

They sent niggers to space, in a car.

>>213885599
They're gonna return to space in the next film to fight off space aliens and defend the Earth

>NOOOO THIS IS BOLLYWOOD
>THIS USED TO BE ABOUT DVDS!
>ONLY BROWN PEOPLE WATCH THIS
Why does this cause so much seethe with the redditors here?

>>213855408
Earnest: scared stupid

>>213885930
Exactly, why is it so hard to grasp that a franchise can evolve?

>>213885930
theyre losers that hate winners and fun and family

What was he thinking?!

>>213855408
Carlito's Way 2: Rise to Power

>>213885930
>Michelle Rodriguez can hear him shouting over all the engines, from the other lane
That's my only issue with this scene

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

>>213874623
>not the 9/11 edit
big sad

>>213886520
THERE
GOES
MY
HERO

Back in 2003 I got a PS2 + Gran Turismo 3 + Fast and Furious 1 DVD. Those were the days

>>213855351 (OP)
kek. nice thread

LET'S GOOOO!!!!
MENAGEEEE!!!!

>>213884432
He got cast in Black Hawk Down, and probably got a big head and said some things to Vin Diesel and the producers that got him black listed from the franchise

>>213857603
>damn bro most people had them for 2-3 years by then
ps2 came out in USA in 2000. the cost of a name brand dvd player in that year was more than the cost of a ps2, a big selling point for the console early on was the fact that it was cheaper than a dvd player.

you're either a super rich kid or wasn't even alive just larping

a couple nissan sr20 engines would pull a premium 1 week before race wars