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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Discotek Day  Posted: 12 Aug 2018, 21:35 |
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takeshi666 wrote: I'm really not happy with the prospect of them abandoning DVD in favour of SDBD.
I mean sure the codec is better, but it just feels like I'm losing all the benefits of the DVD format in favour of a marginal improvement. As someone that has thousands of anime discs I really like SDBD for space saving reasons. What would you say are the benefits of DVD?
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Discotek Day  Posted: 12 Aug 2018, 22:38 |
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gypsy wrote: What would you say are the benefits of DVD?
Same as early LD, CD, Vinyl or any other format one would collect. Can't remember the title right now but I have a film on DVD, its a flipper disc, one side widescreen the other listed as P/S but its actually open matte and you get much more image on the top and bottom with nothing lost on the sides. Film felt cramped when watching the widescreen/matted version.
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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: Discotek Day  Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 00:52 |
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Well region codes and accessibility mainly.
Discotek's DVD releases are usually multi-region (those cheeky buggers), but their blu-ray releases - including the SDBD ones - are not, so I don't even have to worry about region codes (which are also a lot easier to bypass than on blu-ray, so it'd hardly matter if they did actually code them to region 1). And by accessibility I mean I can stick them in just about anything to actually watch them - I have four different machines to watch them in, and even my parents have two so if I ever feel like taking them along for the holidays, I can. Whereas I have only one device capable of playing back region A blus, my PC's blu-ray drive, and I generally don't like watching my discs on my PC. I also get a lot of frame tearing when I do, and enabling vsync did not provide significant improvement.
I have an actual blu-ray player that's a US import but the damn thing is broken. It struggles to play blu-rays and sometimes powers down by itself for no reason, and then struggles to power back as well - I've had to physically take it apart a couple of times to get the disc out because it wouldn't power up. Ironically, it has little difficulty playing back DVDs.
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Post subject: Re: Discotek Day  Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 03:34 |
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rein-o wrote: gypsy wrote: What would you say are the benefits of DVD?
Same as early LD, CD, Vinyl or any other format one would collect. Can't remember the title right now but I have a film on DVD, its a flipper disc, one side widescreen the other listed as P/S but its actually open matte and you get much more image on the top and bottom with nothing lost on the sides. Film felt cramped when watching the widescreen/matted version. Nothing you mentioned is a unique advantage of DVD. The only one I can think of is that there are tons of portable DVD players and laptops with DVD drives but almost none for BR.
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