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Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-07-20: Here we have a rarity - DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD's market shares at an equilibrium!

thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Why are people still buying DVDs? I just threw in an old movie I only own on DVD and even on my old, shitt, cheap UHD TV it looked so bad, even my gf recognized it. (even, because she doesn’t wear her glasses in the evening and always calls me crazy when I complain about the shitty image of the TV)

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You overestimate how much the general public cares about good picture quality.

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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I buy them. The encryption is fully broken, nothing to worry about into the future unlike with Blu-Ray. I also don’t own a Blu-Ray drive. Lastly, size. I am weird enough to copy the entire ISO instead of just ripping the video itself. This leaves me with original quality, but most importantly, menus. VLC can then play it for example via HTTP from a local web server. That’s one lazy solution.

And nothing beats my laptop’s screen at shittiness. So little contrast you don’t even see the compression artifacts. So bad viewing angles you have to move around the screen to tell apart similar colors. Which is white? Which is gray? Tilt the laptop up and find out! Want to see yellow and orange? Tilt the laptop down!

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- TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  I buy them. The encryption is fully broken, nothing to worry about into the future unlike with Blu-Ray. I also don’t own a Blu-Ray drive. Lastly, size. I am weird enough to copy the entire ISO instead of just ripping the video itself. This leaves me with original quality, but most importantly, menus. VLC can then play it for example via HTTP from a local web server. That’s one lazy solution.
  
  I’m kind of the same way. I buy Blu-rays and own a Blu-ray drive. I don’t worry about the encryption since MakeMKV can fully decrypt the disc. There’s an option to back up the entire Blu-ray as a BDMV, which is similar to a DVD ISO except it’s a structure of folders/files. It’s possible to play the Blu-ray BDMV with all the menus and special features in VLC, although it’s a real pain to set up - but once you do, it works flawlessly. (And you can always just remux the movie as an .mkv file for easier playback.)
  
  …of course, the whole ordeal is pointless if you don’t have a decent screen and speakers to enjoy it on.
  
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- thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Never had problems with the encryption of a BluRay so far (A.R.M. with a suitable 4K BluRay Drive, manual transcoding via Handbrake quality vs size depending on the movie). The menus are one of the reasons why I put everything into Jellyfin. I absolutely hate how every Movie navigates differently, but all buggy, plus the annoying trailers and anti-theft blabla before you even get to the menu. Next thing DVDs and BluRays use different buttons for play, pause, back, skip etc on PS4 wtf. So now I am in a situation where I own all my stuff, but still have the convenience of Netflix.
  
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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They’re cheap, a lot of (especially older) people bought a DVD player when they upgraded from VHS and haven’t felt the need to upgrade again, and a surprising amount if material is still only released on DVD.

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- thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I buy them mostly second hand (there are a few reputable online shops for that over here), the price difference between DVD and BD is small (like 5 instead of 7€) But yeah, you are probably right, I remember when every parent bought a DVD player and they all threw out their VCS and just a few years later Bluray was the new thing and they just refused to do the same thing again :D these people are probably still using their dvd players from back then
  
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