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I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.
There’s only so many times I want to watch the same movie, so my library would be limited
We need Bluray/DVD rental stores back.
Many libraries have large DVD collections.
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I miss some of those great DVD extras.
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's said he didn't break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.
There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein's brain with him when he entered dimension 8
edit = the movie was 'Tropic Thunder.'
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No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.
The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.
There was auto tracking towards the end. It was the rewind that done it for me.
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yes, it was horrible. There's like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful
piracy is best
I don't really think men look back anymore nowadays
You meant to put the bittorrent symbol on the red girl.
Fuck the blu-ray consortium.
Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.
I keep bards and othersuch minstrels in the back yard (don't worry, they're fenced in) and have them play for me whenever I clap my hands. I can clap them off too
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I want to be in the room when they plug that VCR into a 70-in TV and hit play just to see their faces.
I have a media converter made from a raspberry pi I use for all of my old consoles so I can play them on modern TVs. I bet it would work great for vhs tapes as well. Tape degradation might be a different issue though...
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Where is Plex on this image?
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Blu-ray still has functional DRM. DVDs only, thank you. With backup on magnetic.
I’ve bought a lot of physical media over the last couple of years and it can be great, but there’s a lot of pitfalls
The quality of, particularly, DVDs is all over the place and the transition from NTSC to digital is handled in so many different ways that each require special handling.
PAL and European releases can be terrible in all kinds of ways including speeding up the content and optionally pitch correcting the audio.
A lot of content you’d want isn’t available or is only available at exorbitant prices.
UHD discs have tons of read errors that make ripping perfectly difficult and the quality (and this price) of the drive makes a big difference in how well you can do this.
Drives don’t last if you’re ripping lots of stuff.
Just some things off the top of my head, nowhere near a complete list.
It’s still worth it, though, and new releases are easier if that’s what you’re looking for.
#BackToThePast
I like that blu-ray looked at the DVD logo and said “we can italicize more than that”