Hmm, the fact that Apple has an iTunes movie store selling the same movies for more money at worse quality has nothing to do with it?

Which you can still do with Blu-Ray. Rip to MKV, or rip the ISO... and most have a digital download code inside the box too.

VLC can play Blu-Rays.

Remember me?

I've loved many, many online services. Like AudioGalaxy and Simplify. Both died.

Tell me, when's the last time you watched Star Wars on Amazon Prime or Netflix. Hint: you can't.

You mean like all the hipster teens buying vinyl now?

Talk to people who queued movies & TV shows up in their Netflix queue, and then Netflix lost the license. Or to iTunes customers who had their account suspended because they bought a bad iTunes gift card.

The solution — buy physical, and rip it digital. Best of both worlds. Rip your CDs to FLAC/ALAC, make .ISOs of your Blu-Rays. Better quality than anything you can buy/stream, plus the convenience of digital storage, plus a backup always there.

It's all about the aluminium?

The Japanese used to be accused of merely copying European, and to a lesser degree, American designs. They used to make cheap, knock-off products of questionable quality.

And "stylish". If they have to tell you it's stylish, it isn't.

"is Land Rover the only brand that can really build a tough-truckish luxury sport utility vehicle?"

Not so much ousted... As the money came pouring in pre-Warner, he let money go to his head, had coke-fueled parties, affairs, etc, and withdrew from life at Atari, was hardly ever there... Plus at this time he was more interested in his side adventures with what became Chuck E. Cheese. By the time Warner came into…

Now Spielberg has to go back and replace the machine guns with walkie talkies.

In 1982 DOS didn't exist yet. It was still MS BASIC and Multiplan. Paul Allen was still there. Heck they might have still been in Albequerque, NM, not in Redmond.

Wait a minute, where was this landfill again?

Come on, the biggest disappointment had to be Pac Man — the Phantom Menace of video games. Never has something been so widely anticipated and been such a gigantic letdown.

How about those blinking ghosts and Pac Man's mouth never facing up or down?

Took me a couple reads to get what you were doing. I was thinking of this:

Yeah I think the cardboard boxes in my basement have fared worse. Western landfill = time capsule.

Bushnell was long out of the picture by that point.

I highly recommend you read this book (Atari Inc - Business is Fun). Sadly Bushnell was a gigantic douche coke head who was more interested with Chuck E Cheese.

http://ataribook.com/book/