How the fuck are they still selling a 23+ year old standard definition format in 2019...

most people cant tell the difference between 350k pixels and 2 million.

A lot of movies are on dvd that arent on blu ray and even though blu rays are pretty cheap now dvds are even cheaper and they don't look that terrible

Do they still sell full-screen DVDs for people with 30 year old TVs who “don’t like the black bars”?

That's not a contradiction.

that's a lot of plastic to collect and put on your shelf for decorative purposes

I know a lot of people that say "I've got hundreds of DVDs, I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars to replace them with blu ray" which is fair enough. And I still buy DVDs of things that haven't been released on blu ray.

Also DVD is the new VHS in that it's another place to go when the BR has been fucked with in terms of sound and even picture quality. Warning: The Terminator BR replaces ALL of the gunshot sound effects and now they sound like a cartoon.

Dirt cheap to create, there are literally billions of leftover empty discs just sitting in thousands of warehouses from 2002, and every device that can take a disc can play them.

I haven't gotten any new ones in a long time (buying anyway I've gotten a few from people giving em for not wanting them anymore) but I still only have a DVD collection and my only disc player is an internal dvd burner drive. Never have really wanted to switch it to bluray and prob still pretty pricey when my DVD was like 20.

Does Japan still prefer DVDs?

in english speaking countries why are you complaining. in my country dvdfags simply sabotage the blu ray market, we get 20% of the movies released at best on bluray

DVDs are fine, what's the fucking problem

>Anything over 2k is deminishing returns
and anything under 2k looks ugly as fuck, aka dvds. not to mention you need 4k for better colors (hdr) but whatever

My bf doesnt have wifi because of his schedule to get it set up so he buys dvds from bargain bin. It pains me that he wastes 10 bucks on trash. The other night he bought that garbage Will Ferrell sherlock holmes movie for $25. I told him it was shit but instead of taking my advice he called me cheap lol.

4k is compressed as all fuck still and hardly anything uses decent codecs
I'd rather have 2k x265 hvec opus av1 then 4k meme with stupid file sizes and stupid outdated encoding decoding shit

Unbased bf and based tranny

>not using Ethernet
Big gay
Because we had 1080 2k 25+ years ago
Move the fuck on dvd/ld is 30+ years old cunt

lol gay

That's because you're a streaming, cloud using, dick sucking nuboomer

But the DVD version doesn't?

Just pirate you fucking pussies lmao
>B-But spooky ISP letters!
oooohhh yea they're obviously gonna fuck over a consumer that's giving them money lol
Being a buyfag is the biggest cope and only poorfags trying not to look like poorfags do it.

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Zoomers are autistic weirdos who value Le pixels more than actual film making

Sorry man I'm employed and law abiding, also white. I don't commit crime to save a few bucks. Maybe pajeets who leech off the first world can justify pirating but I simply can't. I'm not a commie I know how the world works and support the films I enjoy

There are some obscure american slasher films that got released there in 2016 that only have been released on DVD

I'm sure kubrick would have loved you to see his films on a 144p DVDrip on an iphone, zoomer faggot

boomers

>Oh no I don't want to break the law of a jewish-run country run by an israeli puppet! No goy- I mean white man should

i always download and watch everything first obviously and only buy what i really like, but you need a collection, it just looks good. also if you display obscure kino on your shelf you look intellectual and superior, its simply a fact

Boomers have dvd players hooked up to their 65" Hisense TVs.

lol no, my boomer dad loves his HDR OLED. You'd have to pay him for him to watch anything on DVD

film is a visual art what the fuck are you talking about. imagine watching a film only for the plot... you can forget the entire german expressionism for starters

>also if you display obscure kino on your shelf you look intellectual and superior, its simply a fact
Dear god I bet you own a fedora too

it's like computers, how a ton of companies are still on windows 7 or xp because it would cost too much to upgrade their entire network

this - story>visuals

>muh jews
Not an argument, get a job and stop committing crime

Modern TVs are really incredible at upscaling

That has nothing to do with I said learn to read

Windows 7 was the last good Windows tho

>hfr
cringe

Shovr your silky smooth 23fps it looks like poo

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basedcorp shills shitting on hfr out of sheer horror of doubling the cost of cgi rendering

How come Netflix, Amazon or SKY (dunno about the other services) never include the behind the scenes, the "dvd content"?

zoomers dont have the patience and interest

>t. goldberg

initially they worked as a marketing stunt - to bait away from non-interactive vhs
no need for them now

I love my Lotr DVD for those though.

don't be silly.

i like good behind the scenes trivia as well - it's just a fact of life that such content loses its relevance in fast food of digital media

then why bother recording that stuff.

>DVDs have excellent picture quality as it is.
Are you blind?

Boomers who don't want to move on not realizing that you can still play DVDs in a Blu-ray player
They think it's the same as the jump from VHS to DVD

couldnt you make a full HD dvd given how good compression is now?

But then they prob would still play DVDs in there instead of getting Blurays. It's like how you see them with HDTVs but they still hook up stuff like cable via coax analog and/or don't know how to switch the settings around to go from 480 to 1080

A lot of them do still look good. Doesn't help that blu-ray conversions are even more terrible done

Blurays already come with a DVD copy like 80 percent of the time and aren't much more expensive than a DVD by itself anyway.

for a physical release, to justify the pricetag

People still buy blu rays?

Yes, but there's not much reason to. It's like trying to get the best possible quality out of a VHS, it's neat but it's unneccesary when Blu-Ray is better anyways

good.
which reminds me, fuck whoever handled the Fringe Bluray release, the extra content is only in the english edition, why would they not just do like everyone else and add subtitles, wankers.

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Well if they already own it on DVD are they gonna go buy the bluray too?

Yes, I don't like having to pay for 10 wuadrillion fucking streaming services so I can watch a couple movies I like. Blu-Ray has basically everything.
Suck my dick, streamcuck.

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Haha was that really worth getting angry over? What a faggot.

I miss 5 hour long bonus features

The first two Pirates of the Caribbean movie’s dvd/Blu-rays were fantastic

>DVDs have excellent picture quality

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>Costs absolutely nothing to print and manufacture
>Somewhere around 80% of home media is based around DVD's (Gaming consoles and stand alone players)
>PC still prints on DVD as default
>Picture quality is quite acceptable with the proper display
>Multi year contracts with studios
>Porn industry hasn't fully transitioned to blu-ray because printing costs

user. Hit the dictionary.

yes i like owning movies not just paying the jews so they allow me to watch them for a short while

Films were released on VHS from 1976 to 2006, so a 30 year format is not unheard of.

Only thing I miss since I stopped buying movies.

Your average person watches shit on smallish TVs or computers. Plus it's cheaper.

There is no good reason why one piece of plastic costs more than another.

Yes, streamcucks are delusional and killing home video for something that's a literal step backwards in quality and features

Double dipping is the customers discretion
I only really do it if I REALLY like the movie
I already have an extensive Blu-ray collection, I'm not going to upgrade every copy that's available in 4K to 4K just because but anything new I buy, if it's on 4K, I'll buy that.

I don't know where you're from but here in the netherlands everyone has a OLED or atleast a 4K TV in their living room

And no one gives a fuck about you, dutchy. Your average boomer isn't rocking a 60" TV.

>But the DVD version doesn't?
I don't know, I got the VHS so I can make my own best version.

it's cheap

>there is no good reason why one piece of plastic costs more

Millions of dollars in research and development to figure out how to put more layers on the disc to store more data.

>there is no good reason why one piece of plastic costs more than another.
You know they actually have to manufacture the plastic discs right? They don't just sell the you the raw resources.

My boomer dad's fifty and he's rocking one. Are you Americans that fucking poor or something lmao, maybe that's why you boil water in the microwave lol

>Your average boomer isn't rocking a 60" TV.
What kind of shithole country do you live in?
Hell, if anything it's the boomers who are the biggest consumers of ridiculous television since zoomers just use their phones.

Got curious and checked it out, yes the 2001 MGM Special Edition DVD has the original soundtrack included.
dvdtalk.com/reviews/2617/terminator-se/

Was a cool concept desu.

I decided to never buy a blu-ray out of spite once they started putting all the special features on blu-rays and only one or none on the DVD to try and force it into obselesence
Fuck that shit

Me too. There's some neat old stuff out there that is generally only on VHS.

This too.

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>not owning it on laserdisc
full pleb

based rlm fan

boomers have the most money and they literally dont know anything about a tv, they only look at the size. the average boomer has a big tv and no sound system or anything else

It's still the same piece of plastic as a DVD.

>muh r&d

Nonsense.

You realize special features would take up more space on the dvd leaving less room for the movie itself, so they would have to compress it more affecting quality.

Ever work in a store? They buy whatever the fuck.

Jesus christ, you people are fucking stupid.

It's not the same piece of plastic you silly boomer.

DVD
VIDEO
COMBO

RENT EM, TAPE EM, FUCK EM

>renting
Just download the yify release, lmao

It's too hard to make a good LD rip, I mean I've done it, but they all look like shit. And for some reason they tend to fall out of sync. I tried to make my own best version of Return of the Living dead using the Image LD and the soundtrack will not match up with ripped DVD footage no matter what.

notOP but don't laserdiscs have bad rot problems?

VHS existed from 1976 to 2006ish you zoomer

>It's still the same piece of plastic as a DVD.
It's not the plastic that makes it cost more, it's the coating on the plastic disk that contains the actual data that makes it cost more to manufacture.

Let me answer your question with a question.

Airplanes have existed for 120 years. Airliners for 93.

Why do buses still take people across country if the price of a plane ticket is roughly the same, and sometimes it's even less to take a plane?

I prefer blu-rays but if price is lower which usually it is I will pick a DVD on big HD screen it looks great.

Some of the older ones from 78, and the early 80's. There was also a manufacturing plant that was infamous for making shitty discs and if you have a batch from them, depending on how it's been stored over the decades, disc rot is only a matter of time. I own about 50 LD's and only have disc rot on one of them.

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Because tech illiterates buy them.

I buy blu rays sometimes, mostly pirate shit, I'm skipping 4K, 8K is coming sooner than you think.

Usually, although it depends on the manufacturer, the glue used to sandwich the two platter together, and storage (never lay them flat to rest, or store them below 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 75 degrees F) and handling.
I got several LDs and the only one with awful rot is Return of the Living Dead in one spot on one side (it's a single disc LD), but the others have just a hint of it in a couple of scenes, so it's not worth worrying over. Having said that I do have two copies of the 1995 THX The Empire Strikes Back LD because I want the entire thing preserved.

I find that the ones with the least amount of rot, or even no rot at all tend to be the 20th Century Fox ones from a way back, like Journey to the Center of the Earth comes in many discs, 3 if I recall and each disc comes with a paper jacket, like vinyl records have, and it's flawless.

every 8k movie (that is worth watching) will be a 4k upscale at best

yify rips still top the charts as well. Turns out your average person is a pleb in regards to visual (and audio) fidelity. And yet these same plebs are buying 4k tvs.

thanks yify
you're always there for me

I knew a guy whose sealed Blade Runner (whatever awesome edition) LD was totally rotted when he finally opened it and played them. Just static.

I'd be fucking pissed. I actually have some sealed LD's that I haven't played and while the rot rate on opened discs leaves me fairly confident, it's still something that is in the back of my mind as I have no idea how these sealed discs were stored before I got to them.

ahem *ting* *ting* *ting* id like to make an announcement, please settle down gentlemen. Thank you, thank you now withour further ado:
Fuck 4k HD
Fuck visual autists
Fuck oicturr quality fags
and most of all
FUCK BLU RAY

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based yify

If it helps, the guy that it happened to was kind of a douche and stored them in a super packed house(and thus probably humid in the wintertime or even all the time) . I wish your LDs the best of luck, man.

They still sell portable dvd players for some reason, don't know. Probably for poorfags buying used movies. I don't hate 480p but there's no point in keeping the format going.
Biggest reason dvd hasn't gone extinct is because publishers artificially bloat the price of blurays by bundling in a dvd, a digital or ultraviolet version, a fucking 3D disc even. Selling just a bluray at competitive prices means losing shekels since Sony pockets a comfortable percentage from every BD manufactured.
In the end, it comes down to jewish tricks.

thanks friend, may your collection stay safe as well

I grew up with videos and cassettes and I'm still not sure I'm over how convenient and pristine CDs and DVDs are. Blu-rays still feel like an extravagance.

>Having that annoying blue bar across the top of the artwork.
literally this.

Boomers literally refuse to get with the times.
Boomers have held back the technological renaissance because they are incapable of unwilling to use internet, I work in customer service and they refuse to sign up for our promotional card simply because they don't want to use the internet to do so.

Based?
[ ] Yes
[X] No

DVD looks like shit even on iphone.

They even mistake shotgun with machinegun at some point.

Put Generation X in there too because not signing up for anything is the way to live. I want to be free, user; I don't want to deal with bullshit when I just want to watch something. Want to offer me a free digital download with my store bought (or online bought) copy of a film? Fucking put it on an SD card and put that in the case. Don't ask me to jump through hoops when I already either paid for it or paid for it and then waited already. Also, phones are for suckers, to use for talking anyway.

tl;dr who knew people wanting entertainment don't want to DO much

Haha I hadn't gotten that far to notice that. That's sad, I mean they had one job. Messing with films puts me off so quickly that I'm forced to take your word for it.

I don't know if it was similar to mono mix though. Arnold seems to want to keep shooting without reloading after making the first round.
youtube.com/watch?v=X3DU-7a8mP0
1:20

>simply because they don't want to use the internet to do so
Based. Staying free as they can.

I love DVDs. They get so cheap so quickly. Can buy 20 films I actually want for £10 instead of paying the same every month to get a measly, uninteresting selection on Netflix

You can just download 1080p remuxes from torrents for £0 and don't watch pixels move

It's the eternal boomer. My dad has a blu ray but only buys DVDs because they are cheaper and he doesn't care about definition. He thinks DVDs still look amazing because he spent decades watching ragged VHS tapes.

based and redpilled?
check and double check

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Aye, but Hisense are dogshit.

nah, unless you have a Sony X1Ultimate chipset, the TV is ass

>I watch DVD on a shitty tiny screen and it looks bad, therefore DVD is bad

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FFIIIIIIGGGGHHHTTT

I rent dvds from Netflix

I think we were saying the same thing, basically Hisense are fucking dogs eggs at up scaling and even being a TV. My uncle has one and it's awful, washed out crap with the WORST sound.

This
My dad is obsessed with getting "the best currently available," even if he doesn't take advantage of it
It's actually how I got my current 4K TV.

I can't catch what you caught, but I did notice that one of the cops guns sounds just a laser from GI Joe or something. And at one point the shots were actually muted enough that they hurt the scene's dramatic impact. Were the Blu-Ray people making a joke? It's funny, but I want my money back anyway.

No, in the next shot arnold shoots somebody to the left, he uses shotgun, his machinegun is in the other hand. But the sound shotgun makes is from a machinegun.

It's cheap and having the best quality ever has never been a thing with me. As long as I can clearly see what is happening on screen, I just don't give a shit about that stuff.

youtube.com/watch?v=S7FFMZUywt0

You're alright. I still regret getting rid of my vhs collection.

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Blu ray is expensive and superfluous for entertainment purposes.

>Move the fuck on dvd/ld is 30+ years old cunt
Nah, fuck that. I'd rather not spend even more money to replace my current collection. "It's old" is just not a valid excuse.

Thanks, man.
They're dirt cheap on ebay still, buy 'em back before they rise in price. Once millennials learn that some movies will never even make it to DVD, much less Blu-Rays, they'll decide they're cool and start hoarding them too, making the prices skyrocket.

Just went down a VHS rabbit hole on youtube. Nostalgia hits me right in the feels

Cheaper, effective, decent.

an HBO family-city-star of destiny pre-movie trailer appears

>anything under 2k looks ugly as fuck
t. spoiled zoomerfag

Best format ever. Streaming is a meme.

Kubrick watched film prints and shot on film. He would've shat on digital.

Every business and their dog try to hook you into some analytics scam these days. It's not surprising even boomers are sick of it.
Anyway, fuck your faggot card. Go back to hole-punching boxes for a a free thingie or something else the customer doesn't have to give his name and address for.

Cheap, just works and modern expensive tv and blu Ray players will upscale to the point most people can’t tell the difference. More important than the resolution is if it was shot on film or shitty digital cameras.

They should just charge out the ass for DVD until it goes away.

Obviously most people dont give a fuck like you think they should.

t. Herschel Schlomo Feingarbfeldsteinberg

Because it's like £3 for a kino you actually get to own and can be easily watch on many cheap devices you retard, no one gives a shit about your 'definition' bugboy

It's somewhat happening to BDs now too. I just hope 4KBD drives normal BD down even further, same with players.

yup, I'm an avid Hollywood supporter too

Especially when you consider a 65' 4K display costs less than a fuckton heavy 30' Trinitron from only 15 years ago. TVs are dirt cheap now.

>Blu-rays still feel like an extravagance.
especially because they're ridiculously expensive in comparison, the whole set up is

I buy both DVD and blu ray and toss the DVD and put the blu ray in the case

Blu rays and blu ray players now cost as much as DVDs did about 10-15 years ago, they're hardly expensive if you lived through that

>not owing a Blu-Ray player that doesn't also play DVDs.

I got lucky, mine even plays some burned DVDs too, which is handy since I'm not ready to buy a universal player that does all regions, so making a clone sans copy protection and annoying warnings is my best bet.
My Laserdisc player also plays DVDs and a bunch of other formats, like VCDs as well. I'm not sure why people are such late adopters with the compatibility we have.

in 2019 DVDs are great for old tv shows in SD($:3) format, they look great on a mid 2000s CRT. But if your buying modern movies/tv shows on dvd over blu ray thats just silly.

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Multi-region blu ray players are basically essential if you're not American these days, it's insulting how many releases are exclusive to America and/or Japan

Carboots are great for DVDs, the majoirty of my collection are of from there

If it makes you feel better, sometimes Europe, or just the U.K. gets some holy grail disc or tape to this day while America gets:
>Special Features
>Theatrical Trailer

I don't have a bluray player and want to support some releases.

Piratefag here.
I wouldn't even download anything less than 1080p.

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That image is the Enterprise.

Wrong thread?

It doesn't require updates every few weeks just to fucking watch a thing you already own and paid for.

>It doesn't require updates every few weeks just to fucking watch a thing
Wtf?

DVD had a master DRM encryption key that was eventually found out (09f9...)

Blu Ray has hundreds of keys that are continuously released and you have to continuously update your Blu Ray player or you can't watch new Blu Rays.

There is also no official way to watch Blu Rays on PC without breaking DRM, and it's a pain because you might have to wait a few months before someone finally cracks the key to be able to watch your new Blu Ray you just bought.

>DVD had a master DRM encryption
I never had a problem with DVDs and the player I used for way too long never gave me trouble.
>Blu Ray has hundreds of keys that are continuously released and you have to continuously update your Blu Ray player or you can't watch new Blu Rays.
Is this why my Blu-Ray player refuses to play my BR of A New Hope correctly? Not a huge loss, but still.

reminder that dvds have better video quality than netflix at 1080p

>I never had a problem with DVDs and the player I used for way too long never gave me trouble.
Yes because there was only ever one key that was cracked over a decade ago so it's very easy and compatible.
>Is this why my Blu-Ray player refuses to play my BR of A New Hope correctly?
Pretty much. I was at my gf's house and tried watching something on her PS3 and it wouldn't work. Her internet is shite, as in absolute shite, and it took ages to download an update. Honestly fuck Blu Ray.

some bluray remasters are absolute shit though so dvd becomes the only option

That's more of an issue with Netflix than Blu rays

I'd rather take high bitrate 480p over low bitrate 1080p especially since lanczos and neural network upscaling exists in current year. That being said some DVDs have absolute shite bitrate like The Dark Knight because they cram in like a fucking hour of special features that shouldn't even be on the same disk and it's like watching a YouTube video from 2006.

This

>lanczos
enjoy that haloing

I only use lanczos if neural isn't available, and it's still better than linear.

>implying it's somehow a bad thing

user I literally just bought the original Neon Genesis Evangelion for 38$

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>Pretty much. I was at my gf's house and tried watching something on her PS3 and it wouldn't work. Her internet is shite, as in absolute shite, and it took ages to download an update. Honestly fuck Blu Ray.
I was already against it, but you've helped me achieve hatred towards it now. Thanks.

Sometimes I think the only reason I buy Criterion's blu-rays is because they don't have that blue bar.

My internet is shit and I've literally never had an issue with this

Blu Ray drives for PCs also come prebuilt with self-destruction. If it encounters a new Blu Ray it doesn't have a key for, it nukes itself and will never play a Blu Ray again.

I only buy Blu Rays secondhand (no money toward the filthy standard) and pretty much immediately rip it with MakeMKV.

It just seems like a way to curb sales of players modified to be region free.

Your internet isn't shit enough.

You may not remember that they use to sell 2 dvds one was for the extras....

>self destruct
bullshit, no way. Bluray is a DRM riddled piece of shit, but that can't be true.
I have had a LG WH14NS40 for a while now and it's doing alright.

It hardware-nukes itself. Packages like libAACS and MakeMKV bypass the Blu-Ray firmware and read it as a filesystem and decode in software.

Who /steelbook master race/ here?

>inb4 salty poorfags

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Did you know music is still being released in 71 years old LP format?

why are people complaining about other people not throwing out shit that works perfectly well just to buy some other shit in case anybody ever comes to their house and tells them how fucking clever they are for buying something they don't fucking need and don't actually want (they won't). what the fuck is wrong with people?

I'm jealous, Romeo + Juliet is unadulterated kino. The only ones I've got are Casino - one of my favourite movies of all time - and Elysium, the latter because I saw it in a pawn shop for £4

I've been using that libmmd64whateverthefuck along with VLC to play the disc directly and haven't had trouble. I just wish bluray was like DVD, just pop it in and play with no special software or any kind of circumvention.

I have
>The Witch
>The Thing (4k scan LE)

They're much better than the regular blue plastic cases, and can actually stand up and look good.

I also have this one.

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Found this for only £5.

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It's actually 6 million goy

Plebs. I buy my movies on vinyl.

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>I’m NOT moving ta DVD. You can do that ALL day. Tapes ah comin back

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i could never go back to buying physical media after discovering how companies constantly use dated masters and churn out shitty encodes and fuck with the sound

if it's something i really want i go for a hybrid remux

>Thinking low quality would look worse on a smaller screen

Retard

You already need libdvdcss2 to play DVDs tho

Smartphone screens can run laps around desktop screens in terms of quality.

>implying all DVDs are the same
I've seen some truly horrible looking DVDs. The one for There Will Be Blood is butt-ugly

DVDs are kino, fuck streaming bullshit

>before they rise in price
lol that's cool if you like the nostalgic aesthetic of VHS, but this retard actually thinks he's making a smart investment here

> they refuse to sign up for our promotional card simply because they don't want to use the internet
>Please make an account
>Please enter email
>Please enter phone #
>Please enter address
>Please agree to let us sell your info (ToS)
No thanks

Yeah but all that shit is included anyways with free software. If you want to be a good goy and follow the rules to the letter, you have to go out of your way to play blurays on your pc

>65' 4K
>30' Trinitron
Those are some big TVs

>Once millennials learn that some movies will never even make it to DVD
lmao, like what, some early '90s shitty direct-to-home video b-movies churned out for the rental market? practically made to be forgotten in the first place

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You're the retard here friendo. Your small screen has a limited number of pixels and the hardware has to decide which ones to drop to show the large image on the small screen.

You mean like 95% of the streaming original series? That's all that garbage is.

>practically made to be forgotten in the first place
just like you

Game consoles have constant updates. If you buy a stand alone Blu-ray player it works much better, is less of a hassle, and uses much less power than a PS3 would.

That phone screen has a higher resolution than your monitor.

>I need to recharge my phone every 2 hours because I needed that 5" UHD screen to watch my YIFY encodes of a low budget '90s movie!
Congratulations, you made it.

>shifting the goal posts
wew lad

Oy vey, buy the jew-ray

Also color changes

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Someone hit a nerve I see kek

Disney classics are the only thing you should be keeping in DVD quality, there are a few select titles with superior PQ to BD, Predator being one example, but its an outlier, and now moot bc the UHD is great....For the longest i assumed everyone torrented, turns out the internet is full of niggers on mobile. Fuck all you niggers that ruined the internet

Don’t forget people who want to see Bridget Fonda’s ass in Jackie Brown or the hundred other fullscreen-only nude scenes

Old people who have not switched to bluray, much less 4K

Not everyone has a million dollars for a blu Ray player you fucking fuck

same

>a million dollars
More like 40

>Having that annoying blue bar across the top of the artwork
>literally this
men of culture

>old

I'm turning 23 this year m8

It's called Blu-Ray for a reason, user.

post collections. my dvd collection used to be allot better. I lost allot of it to family members. no big though.

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No, you only say that because most people buy random cheap monitors. Even many people who frequently update their PC's don't know anything about displays.

Most people dont care about high definition, a dvd is sufficient to deliver the actual content of the movie. This is why the 4k meme will fail super hard, people just dont have any real reason to adopt. The ROI past DVD quality is just too small.

>move on cunt

This is the kindof person who cares to buy bluray. Did it ever occur to you that some people dont actually like watching movies in hd and having to see every disgusting open pore on an actors face? CGI looks like fucking shit the higher def you go as well, fake as fuck.

because Blu-Ray is a shit format and HD-DVD should have won the format war

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Can you explain how HD DVD was better than Blu-ray?

I cant remember the last time I owned a DVD player. The most recent device capable of playing DVDs I had would have been my PS3 which I haven't had since like 2014 because I'm not a manchild.

Because they STILL charge more for blu rays and shit even though it's still just a plastic disc.

What I don't get is why they still don't have widespread ways for consumers to upgrade digital copies of movies from SD to HD.

No need to buy my own discs anymore.
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FUCK SONY

being triggered that there is a blue bar covering the artwork of the product you are consuming because the blue bar indicates "consumerism and materialism" is contradictory and you are both very, very stupid

2/2

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They doomed themselves from the start

>No porn
>You need an add-on to play them on your 360 whereas the PS3 played them as standard

I skipped the HD physical media phase and jumped straight into digital download. The rare occasion I buy physical media, I buy DVD because fuck buying a bluray player for like 3 movies

Blu-Rays are getting cheap. I'm seeing them more often at dollar stores. The DVD will go the way of the VHS tape pretty soon.

yes and it's insane

MGM always removed the original mono track from their DVDs for the region 2 (ie. European) market and this had to be the most egregious example of it not working out in our favour.

By the time I wisened up to all this, the US SE had long since gone OOP but I managed to pick up a region 3 DVD from ebay that also has the mono track.

I'll do you one worse; dropping all the special features from the blu-ray edition. Wanna keep them? Gotta keep both fucking copies on the shelf. Probably the most infuriating example of this are the original Die Hard movies.

>shelfs of DVDs

WHERE!?

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lots of old people don't notice any difference so they buy the dvd because its cheaper

Ahem.

It's only 3 regions now. America and Japan fall under the same region for blurays, unlike DVD where Japan falls under Region 2. However, most hardware modded/firmware hacked bluray players enable all regions for DVDs as well.

t. modified my own player with a chip

He's not wrong tho, on the account of blu-ray players being nearly impossible to mod region free at home, unlike DVD players. You have to buy a region free player right out of the gate if you want to import.

I know, but Europe is Region B so you need multi-region if you want to watch American/Japanese Region A releases like The Terror, CSI, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency or 24

It's not nearly impossible if you have soldering skills such as myself (which people actually should because you should have the right to repair your own shit)
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At least the lucky thing with you Yurops is that most of your players allow region free playback if you just get to the service menu or enter in a key combination with your remote. Here in North America, you're just fucked.

Here in Europe multi-standard equipment is also so common that you'd have to have extraordinarily bad luck to buy a DVD player and/or a TV that couldn't play back NTSC as well. Meanwhile in the US it's damn near impossible to find anything that can play back PAL video.

>tfw never paid for streaming tv so never knew how fucking blurry/choppy/shitty it is until I went over someone's house one time and saw them watching something

Don't most televisions support both 50 and 60hz now anyways? I can playback PAL DVD in my player that I mentioned no problem, and you can't even do that on a Jailbroken PS3 (the cheapest way to actually get a region free bluray player)

I don't even understand how it can be so bad, I've got a 50M business fibre line and still occasionally Amazon Prime complains about a lack of bandwidth

Second pic, right top corner says it

>OMG THE THING EVERYONE USED A FEW YEARS AGO IS SHIT NOW HAHA MUST BUY NEW PRODUCT ONLY
fuck the world and fuck this thread

It was a lot less common in the CRT days, but flat screens are obviously not fussy about the 50/60Hz difference. Dunno how the DVD players handle the different color signals tho.

Upscaled trash is still trash.

If you can’t tell the difference then it’s time to get your eyes checked.

>post collections
My old shelves broke, so I got them just stacked up at the moment.

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its because you don't have a single unbroken private line directly to amazon servers

you can't even ping your next door neighbor without crossing infrastructure owned by literally every ISP.

2/3rds of the internet is just constant shilling

Nope wrong again blurays is outdated trash as well

I'm already pre-ordering my 8K holodiscs.

No it's not in both cases he is triggered by the remind of consumerism.

I wouldn't borrow any of those unless I had some neoprene gloves and a BSL-3 tent.

He wasn't a nostalgia fag. He was always interested in the next step in technology. If he was alive and making movies today i guarantee he would be shooting digital and laughing at idiots like nolan and tarantino who have film fetishes

I do this with old Disney VHS tape, they're pretty comfy to watch with the old "Coming Soon" previews.

Why is it that those old previews that were on every tape actually improve the experience, but ads in theaters almost ruin it? Is it just because on VHS tapes they're all ads of old films instead of something that's currently in theaters?

I attribute it to the narrator's super comfy voice and the fact that every trailer didn't have that same fucking Inception format that's used every time these days.
I dunno, they just feel more genuine in some weird way pre-digital era, I never even watched this movie but I still remember this trailer fondly:

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The good news is you know anything past 8K will be bullshit. 70mm film scanned at full res is at most 9K, so honestly your not getting any better quality if they release 90's simpsons episodes on 12K discs

>tfw Sorcerer's terrific blu ray transfer didn't come with any special features like documentaries and interviews
Feels fucking bad man, I really appreciate companies like Criterion going above and beyond with this shit like their Barry Lyndon release.

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70mm film scanned at full res is whatever max resolution a CMOS sensor is designed for, dipshit.

>tfw local library has huge collection of blu rays and dvds available to rent for as long as I want
feels good man

listen faggot, there comes a point where scanning any further DPI gives you no additional detail

I assume you live in a non-black neighborhood then?

>Throwing your old game console away because the fear of what other people think

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Will there be a physical media after this? I think people still don't like the idea of paying for files and they have that instinct to collect garbage, right?
Maybe it'll be like you buy a pop doll and it contains a movie you can access wirelessly.

After all these years I've been wondering, what the fuck was that phone dialing noise that would play over a black screen when you put in certain VHS tapes (like disney ones)?
You can faintly hear it at the beginning of this video of previews:

youtube.com/watch?v=NwbIL9tPMSY

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Zoomer I'm already streaming 8k vr hdr2 240hz

It's orders of magnitude higher than 9k tho

Serial number maybe? The tones you hear when dialing a phone are just numbers encoded as two frequencies. It's possible the tapes just used them for a different purpose.

There's no reason why you need anything beyond DiscoVision, let alone this infernal "BluRay" heresy.
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I'd love to be able to just buy a video file but most vendors don't offer that service. anyone know of any good sites that sell tv/movies files?

VHS will be the same as vinyl in time

Only reason I go blu ray is JAV/Gravure is my region. I don't want to change regions all the time on my PC.

you never watched one on a nice trinitron TV.

I found 2 portable cd players in the lounge at work today.

Even if you found a site that lets you download a file it would be DRM locked and likely require a specialized video player.

Dear god I bet you accuse people of owning fedoras on 4channel

Early Discovision had serious quality control issues. The very first Magnavision player is a notorious piece of junk. Literally no fully functioning units exist.

The early discs were not pressed under cleanroom conditions, hence the crazy failure rates.

The player in the pic, the industrial model made by Pioneer in Japan and the world's first laserdisc player, was much better and many still work today. Considering it cost $3300 in 1978 or so, they are very solid. The gas laser is fixed and the entire spinning disc moves for tracking.

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But you're still better off buying a player that can at least play digital audio.

I missed a golden opportunity of buying a CLD-99S months ago and I'm still salty about it.

I have:
CLD-98
CLD-D606
LD-V6000A
LD-V8000
LD-V4400
LD-660 top load gas laser

At this point, the novelty of owning THE first LD player is appealing. Thing is the originator of every optical format, the only machine built to the original MCA specs.

Discovision Associates still exists for the sole purpose of licensing the patents relating to the first principles of optical drives. Every DVD pressed, Every BD, CD, etc includes a royalty fee to DVA to this day.

No, it will not. Vinyl is actually superior sound-wise to modern technology because it's not compressed down a million times in size. In no way is VHS superior to modern tech

>In no way is VHS superior to modern tech
It is an analog format which makes it different, even if visually inferior. The compromises needed for NTSC video have parallels in vinyl compromise of RIAA equalization limiting excess dynamics which would cause the needle to jump the groove etc.

Pure analog audio is playing a low generation reel to reel tape.

Laserdisc is an ultimate analog video format, but sadly the cleanroom, glass master, etc logistics of pressing mean there will be no new LD pressed since the million dollar plants are history.

What if you pirate the movie and burn it on DVD? I use Handbrake to make big, 6GB films into 800MB and I'm thinking of burning them onto a DVD, buying an empty case, and printing a back and cover.