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We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by latexr »

7734128 wrote: post #250
latexr wrote: post #207

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> stupid geographical restrictions DVDs had those too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code > they tend to limit quality, both for copyright and traffic saving purposes As long as the quality is above 480p, it’s still better than DVD.

I consider streaming 720p to be DVD quality at best. (And no, i'm not basing that on bitrate. I know modern compression is much better.)

> I consider streaming 720p to be DVD quality at best.

But it’s not, DVD quality is 480p. This isn’t a matter of opinion, we can look up the numbers.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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dboreham wrote: post #198
bombcar wrote: post #156

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A significant percentage of people alive today have never made an analog phone call, or know just how good (and low latency!) it was to literally have two copper wires connecting two phones thousands of miles apart. Direct at the speed of light (almost)!

I'm skeptical there's anyone alive who made an analog phone call over thousands of miles. Local calls yes, but even so I'm pretty old and I never made one because I had no friends on the same CO as my parents' house.

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Post by entropicdrifter »

iggldiggl wrote: post #148
nemomarx wrote: post #101

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people could make copies of the physical object, right? you should always record a new album onto a cassette or etc.

Analog copies had to deal with generation loss and were orders of magnitude slower than a digital copy, plus you subsequently had to physically transport/mail/… those copies around.

So what you're saying is that the internet sped up people's communications and improved our ability to transmit information with minimal entropy... and we as a society decided that this was a problem because people need to be allowed to own ideas as property under capitalist hegemony or else there's no reward for creativity (besides fame and influence, which also doesn't count for much under capitalism unless you can monetize it).

It really does feel like the capitalist system that we as a society locked in during the industrial revolution is just running on hotfixes and fumes at this point, I gotta say.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by liampulles »

I really enjoy the process of ripping a disc to my hard drive, especially the process of finding the right combination of VapourSynth filters to clear up and fix any issues done in the mastering process. I also have discovered some interesting extra features.

An interesting DVD set was the first season of The IT Crowd, which has base64 encoded subtitles. It was a fun little project to OCR those, combine them together, and then decode them.

In terms of interesting DVD commentaries, Goodfellas and Catch Me if You Can have commentaries with the actual criminals who are the subject of the film, which gives an interesting perspective. There was also a hidden commentary track on one of The Simpsons episodes where the writers go into details about why there was a drop off in quality on the show. Actually the commentary tracks on The Simpsons episodes are generally excellent.

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Post by DrNosferatu »

DrNosferatu wrote: post #265

Killer product would be a physical UHD player with built-in very powerful and accurate AI upscalling (better than Nvidia Shield) for all your discs - old and new.

But I guess that, in a couple of years, mainstream LLMs will know every pixel of every disc ever released by heart...

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Post by entropicdrifter »

alt227 wrote: post #123
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #105

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I wish there were ready-made hosted Plex servers that could accept a file transfer. Buy a movie online and give them your server "address" and they send the movie to your Plex server. We have been robbed of so many possibilities by copyright bullshit.

If you want your server to stay secure, then that is not really an option. Copyright is not the thing that is stopping your suggestion from happening.

Signed URLs are a thing.

Copyright itself isn't what's stopping that, but the legal apparatuses and laws surrounding the distribution of digital copyrighted information and the industry protectionism that spawned said laws and legal apparatuses is what's stopping it.

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Post by walterbell »

selectodude wrote: post #241
pwarner wrote: post #238

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I've been ramping up on UHD Blueray lately, especially since I upgraded to an OLED TV. It's a massive picture quality upgrade. I think I have like 6 discs, all ~$10. A mix of newer movies I haven't seen, and 80s-90s movies I want to show the kids in a few years. It's been fun.

I want to rip them to NAS so I don't need to bother with the discs but goodness is that a project.

https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by vouaobrasil »

msh wrote: post #95
episteme wrote: post #71

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Sounds great, how do you propose stopping people from sharing that mp4 with the world?

People can easily do that if they purchase a bluray, so the difference is not very big.

Kinda true but I definitely do not want to purchase a Blu ray because I don't want to purchase and keep a drive around either...also I have to transcode it and save it. Just want a 1080P copy. Glad to pay $5 for one.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by vouaobrasil »

billfruit wrote: post #70
vouaobrasil wrote: post #57

I wish there were a way to just pay for a movie on a site and download it as an mp4 in 1080P or 4K. I hate streaming because I only want to watch 1-2 movies per month and they are very specific (like a specific martial arts movie or action movie). Streaming interfaces often have DRM and horrible interfaces and I don't want to pay a monthly fee for something I'll rarely use. Don't understand the DRM because pirates ge…

YouTube does still allow to "buy"/rent movies one apiece.

Want a copy forever, not a YouTube buy.
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