u/Cinnamaker

One key reason people prefer Blu-ray and 4K UHD over streaming is the much higher video bitrate and lower compression.

I'm looking for good examples where the same transfer is available both on disc and on a streaming service, which I could use to show someone the difference. I'm not looking for a different restoration, color grade, or master - looking for an apples-to-apples comparison of disc versus streaming.

Specific scenes or timestamps would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posting this info for people’s reference on when to buy tickets.

NYCC posts alerts on social media when tickets are low or sold out. For 2025, they posted these alerts:

Aug 20: Friday is 85% sold. Sun kids is 90% sold.
Aug 27: Sun kids is sold out. Friday is 90% sold.
Sept 3: Friday is sold out.
Sept 16: Sunday is sold out.

4 Day and VIP usually sell out in the pre-sales, before the general sale happens. Saturday usually sells out very quickly in the general sale. Thursday usually does not sell out by the con.

Thursday kids tickets are new for 2026, so no historical info on that.

With room correction or speaker calibration software, I'd like to hear people's thoughts about how the different platforms deal with frequency dips caused by room modes.

Some dips are caused by room modes, where sound waves cancel each other out. Using a parametric EQ to boost that region doesn't solve that problem: you are making your amp work harder, at the expense of headroom, by throwing more energy into a null that will cancel out the signal anyway.

Speaker calibration platforms have their ways of addressing this without just boosting the region (e.g., Trinnov, Dirac, Sonarworks, Neumann MA1). I would like to better understand what they are doing, and what their different approaches are. Also would like to get people's take on which ones do it right or better.

With room correction or speaker calibration software, I'd like to hear people's thoughts about how the different platforms deal with frequency dips caused by room modes.

Some dips are caused by room modes, where sound waves cancel each other out. Using a parametric EQ to boost that region doesn't solve that problem: you are making your amp work harder, at the expense of headroom, by throwing more energy into a null that will cancel out the signal anyway.

Speaker calibration platforms have their ways of addressing this without just boosting the region (e.g., Trinnov, Dirac, Sonarworks, Neumann MA1). I would like to better understand what they are doing, and what their different approaches are. Also would like to get people's take on which ones do it right or better.

In the Star Trek shows, female Klingon armor has a large opening in the chest plate. I realize this is TV trying to make characters look more alluring. But is there any canonical, in-universe reason given for this armor design?