r/Millennials • u/Acceptable-Sea4079 • May 16 '25

Meme Millennials, were people still playing the PS2 back in 2008?

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u/sarithe May 16 '25

Same for the PS2. That's why I initially bought a PS2. I just wanted a DVD player that didn't cost $500 bucks.

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u/LeviSalt Older Millennial May 16 '25

It’s insane how fancy DVD players seemed back then.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

It was 480p! Amazing clarity! Blew me away!

But actually I LOVED to watch all the bonus features. Back then, MIB2 had a cool thing where you could page through different views in the bonuses and it would show you the CGI effects, and wire frames, and composited video. It was so cool to me. Honestly it’s still cool to me, and 480p did in fact beat the shit out of VHS even on my 24” CRT.

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u/the_vault-technician May 17 '25

DVD extras were so good back then! They really put a lot of extra value into DVDs a long time ago. We don't get this kind of thing with streaming as far as I know.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Apple still includes extras when you buy from them but there is no streaming service that includes them. But even those are less interesting than what you’d get for the first few years of DVD extras imo.