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cousinvini
11/04/2025
07:53 PM
#1
480p wasn't so bad. The menu extras were very cool also.
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boxoto
11/04/2025
07:54 PM
#2
it was also cool seeing how much more content they could store vs VHS.
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Starks
11/04/2025
08:00 PM
#3
I'm not exactly thrilled that a lot of DVDs have become the de facto masters for streaming.

You know, instead of going back and getting fresh masters from broadcast tapes or LaserDiscs raw data that would be better than DVD or VHS.
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rick_alverado
11/04/2025
08:09 PM
#5
I have watched a DVD as recently as yesterday.
The_cranky_hermit
11/04/2025
08:16 PM
#6
16-BITTER posted...
I prefer them to blu ray, more extras on the disc and less trailer bloat to skip
I've almost never seen a Blu-Ray that has fewer extras than the DVD counterpart, and the trailer bloat is dependent on the studio. Disney from 2008 onward, for instance, is awful no matter what your disc format is. Criterion is for the most part fantastic and has only gotten better.
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Thermador446
11/04/2025
08:16 PM
#7
The good dvds are already failing after 20 years.

I hope bluray doesnt do the same shit after 20 years. My first bluray will probably turn 20yo in the next couple years
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MagnusX
11/04/2025
08:18 PM
#8
Loved DVDs and collected a ton. 480p was great in the early 2000s but a decade later I definitely prefered the higher visual quality of BD. Especially compared to streaming or ideally 4k HDR, the dull blacks, awful colour gamut, and overall blurriness are too hard to ignore now.
The_cranky_hermit
11/04/2025
08:21 PM
#9
MagnusX posted...
dull blacks
Black is black, even on a DVD. If that's not how it's appearing (to the extent that your TV can, anyway), you might have some colorspace conversion issues or a "black enhancer" setting that you should really turn off.
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Starks
11/04/2025
08:28 PM
#11
Thermador446 posted...
The good dvds are already failing after 20 years.
I think a lot of companies, especially Paramount, are going to be shocked when their tapes have also degraded.
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JohnEtrav
11/04/2025
08:40 PM
#12
I had collected a couple hundred DVDs when they were the next big thing.

I loved the cleaner visuals and being able to pause without getting static and screen warping.

Fast forward twenty five years and Im too spoiled with the way HDR looks to bother with them anymore.

At least I dont have the desire to rewatch films as much now that Im older.
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Thermador446
11/04/2025
08:43 PM
#13
I'm just disappointed that we never got mini discs like in Demoltion Man. Everything went digital first.
PSP UMDs were pretty cool, just couldn't hold a ton of data
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pegusus123456
11/04/2025
08:54 PM
#14
I remember when DVDs were first coming out, my mom bought dad a player for his birthday. We rented some movies from Blockbuster and one of them only had the special features on it. We figured they gave us the wrong disc, so my dad took it back up there.

When he got back, he walked in the door and immediately just said he hated technology.

It was a two-sided DVD, we had to flip it over.
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Starks
11/04/2025
08:54 PM
#15
"480p wasn't too bad"

Even for actual progressive scan 480p with component cables or HDMI, it was still pretty bad.

When the standard was simply being better than VHS, it was good enough. But it was clear that the format was still holding back the content.
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Demigod_Elessar
11/04/2025
08:57 PM
#16
My dad and I loved watching movies, and over the course of the early 2000s into the 2010s we collected tons of DVDs.

After he died, I inherited his movies, and the collection is probably thousands upon thousands of DVDs. It was so big that displaying them became impossible, so we started alphabetizing them into giant, 450-500 capacity cd binders. I have 6 or 7 or them on my media bookshelf. Good memories, and while streaming has become very convenient, I still watch physical media on a weekly basis.
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LuigiChalmersJr
11/04/2025
09:08 PM
#17
I love DVDs still. Anyone remember anime box sets? I still have a ton of those.
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Demigod_Elessar
11/04/2025
09:11 PM
#18
LuigiChalmersJr posted...
I love DVDs still. Anyone remember anime box sets? I still have a ton of those.

I have fond memories of going into Best Buy in the early-to-mid 2000s and seeing the entire aisle they had of anime boxsets.

Bought a fair share of them, I remember always going off of the box art, looking for the very risque looking ones, because well I was a teenager and anime nudity was kind of a holy grail. Lol
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ConfusedTorchic
11/04/2025
09:19 PM
#19
they made disposable dvds you could "rent"
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LuigiChalmersJr
11/04/2025
09:22 PM
#20
Demigod_Elessar posted...
I have fond memories of going into Best Buy in the early-to-mid 2000s and seeing the entire aisle they had of anime boxsets.

Bought a fair share of them, I remember always going off of the box art, looking for the very risque looking ones, because well I was a teenager and anime nudity was kind of a holy grail. Lol
Oh yeah, Best Buy had a good collection. Sam Goody in the mall was a good spot too.
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specialkid8
11/04/2025
10:07 PM
#22
They're still my main method of collecting. I only get blurays if it's something that seems like it really needs better visuals or if I can find a bluray cheaper. I'm not tossing my whole collection every time a new format comes out. DVD is fine for the vast majority of movies.
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Kanaya413
11/04/2025
10:08 PM
#23
It was awesome i could play them on my ps2 and not need a dvd player
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pegusus123456
11/04/2025
10:46 PM
#24
Kanaya413 posted...
It was awesome i could play them on my ps2 and not need a dvd player
I think that's one big reason PS2 sold so well
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buddah86
11/04/2025
10:55 PM
#25
pegusus123456 posted...
I think that's one big reason PS2 sold so well
I was listening to a podcast recently where this guy went to a friend's house and he could hear this ambient sound that he recognised but couldnt quite put his finger on.

As the night went on, it was messing with his head and asked the person what it was. They weren't sure. Then he looked over and saw a PS2 in the entertainment unit and that was the sound.

He was astounded and yelled "Its the PS2!" The friend looked at him confused and she asked "the dvd player?"
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Zikten
11/04/2025
11:17 PM
#26
The special features was cool. My favorite was commentary. Which I still don't understand why that didn't make the jump to streaming. I don't see any reason why commentary tracks can't be added to streaming. Just select it like how you pick a dub language for a movie
rick_alverado
11/05/2025
05:25 PM
#27
Zikten posted...
The special features was cool. My favorite was commentary. Which I still don't understand why that didn't make the jump to streaming. I don't see any reason why commentary tracks can't be added to streaming. Just select it like how you pick a dub language for a movie

On Disney+ several of the MCU films have audio commentaries. Assuming they weren't added later, then ones that had come out before Disney+ don't have them, but the ones that have come out since then include the audio commentary assuming one was made. Not sure about other movies, I just know those ones because I watched them with said commentaries.
specialkid8
11/05/2025
05:38 PM
#28
rick_alverado posted...
On Disney+ several of the MCU films have audio commentaries. Assuming they weren't added later, then ones that had come out before Disney+ don't have them, but the ones that have come out since then include the audio commentary assuming one was made. Not sure about other movies, I just know those ones because I watched them with said commentaries.
I had no idea. Are they decent commentaries?
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BB_mofo
11/05/2025
05:42 PM
#29
Starks posted...
I think a lot of companies, especially Paramount, are going to be shocked when their tapes have also degraded.

In television preservation, the media that is most in danger of disappearing are from the 80s. That's because they switched from film to Super VHS, which degrades over time, especially each time you play it.

Even in the 80s itself, show reruns which were in heavy rotation were already looking like crap on broadcast TV. One show I watched in reruns in 1985 called "Too Close For Comfort" already had tracking lines even though it had only been in reruns on KTTV since 1982.
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rick_alverado
11/05/2025
05:43 PM
#30
specialkid8 posted...
I had no idea. Are they decent commentaries?

I enjoyed them.
Hexenherz
11/05/2025
05:51 PM
#31
I'd say they were half my childhood years (up to like 18 years old, the other half being VHS). I never thought DVDs were too impressive though I did appreciate the chapter functionality for finding specific places faster.
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