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spooky
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 01:09 |
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substance wrote: My eye doctor prescribed me with glasses a few years ago but I am not wearing them because I prefer to see softer and more analog world. haha. So could you tell me why you like or bother with LD at all or are in this forum? After all, you can get most LD content in much higher resolution formats now. Shouldn't you be over at Blu-Ray.com? Thanks.
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substance
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 01:47 |
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spooky wrote: substance wrote: My eye doctor prescribed me with glasses a few years ago but I am not wearing them because I prefer to see softer and more analog world. haha. So could you tell me why you like or bother with LD at all or are in this forum? After all, you can get most LD content in much higher resolution formats now. Shouldn't you be over at Blu-Ray.com? Thanks. Who says I am not there?
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chrisw6atv
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 04:59 |
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Quote: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? No, not at all. And, I cannot understand any part of the mindset of "I like A, therefore I -have to- or -I am proud to- dislike and/or disparage B (that is a competitor to or alternative to A)". I behaved like that when VHS and Beta were competing for customers. But, --I was nineteen years old--. Since then, I have matured. We have or had two teams in each of two big sports leagues in this area, and it was so silly when I heard people cheer at a game when "the other nearby/home team in the same league" had a losing score announced. There are things to like, and to dislike, about -every- home video format. Why stir up and amplify differences just for something to do? What does it accomplish?
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spooky
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 05:28 |
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chrisw6atv wrote: What does it accomplish? A collection of movies in a format I enjoy instead of one I don't enjoy. I wonder if you're the kind of person that never has any preference for anything and always lets other decide what you like? The perfect customer? The perfect husband/boyfriend? However, strangely, you do seem to have a preference against people who have preferences in video media, like me. You want me to think like you, which is very interesting. I on the other hand came here and asked an honest question if anyone felt the same, I never demanded anyone feel the way I do. Feel free to say you don't have any problem with DVDs, but don't then tell me I'm wrong for my preference and then on top of that tell me you're "above it all" and "more mature." LOL
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spooky
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 09:37 |
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Here's two guys trying to watch Avenging Force (1985). Guy A prefers DVD, Guy B prefers a VHS dub made from the DVD.
Guy A puts his disc in and closes the tray. He gets to his first menu, that of the player. He initialises the disc and after it loads must select the language for the disc from another menu. This title has a list of about 20 European languages. Then he's forced to watch an Australian government warning video telling him that piracy is a crime and asking him if he wouldn't steal a car why would he steal this DVD. He didn't steal the DVD, it's a retail copy he paid in full for from a retail, not a rental store, and he owns it. Perplexed, he eventually gets to the DVD software menu that is populated by what the authorer thought would be an obvious icon system. He sees a picture of a book and clicks on it. It turns out to be scene selection. Eventually he figures out the icons, choses his audio and figures out the play button. Thumb tired and stress levels up, he finally settles in for the movie. A movie that could completely fail and be unplayable half way through if there's any damage to the disc.
Guy B puts his tape in and presses play. The iconic Carolco logo comes up straight away. Guy B settles into his chair and smiles. "I'm glad I'm not Guy A" he thinks..
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mth1986
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 09:45 |
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Hell yeah... these forced "Government warning" stuff and not beeing able to skip trailers (depending on the disc) was a pain in the... I remember doing the same as you did with ripping all that stuff off my "backup copies". That is actually one of the things I love most about LD. Change the language? Click! Oh I want to see that again? Click or turn!
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Post subject: Re: Anyone else hate DVDs and want to do something about it? Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 15:23 |
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spooky wrote: Here's two guys trying to watch Avenging Force (1985). Guy A prefers DVD, Guy B prefers a VHS dub made from the DVD.
Guy A puts his disc in and closes the tray. He gets to his first menu, that of the player. He initialises the disc and after it loads must select the language for the disc from another menu. This title has a list of about 20 European languages. Then he's forced to watch an Australian government warning video telling him that piracy is a crime and asking him if he wouldn't steal a car why would he steal this DVD. He didn't steal the DVD, it's a retail copy he paid in full for from a retail, not a rental store, and he owns it. Perplexed, he eventually gets to the DVD software menu that is populated by what the authorer thought would be an obvious icon system. He sees a picture of a book and clicks on it. It turns out to be scene selection. Eventually he figures out the icons, choses his audio and figures out the play button. Thumb tired and stress levels up, he finally settles in for the movie. A movie that could completely fail and be unplayable half way through if there's any damage to the disc.
Guy B puts his tape in and presses play. The iconic Carolco logo comes up straight away. Guy B settles into his chair and smiles. "I'm glad I'm not Guy A" he thinks.. Are you liking your own posts or do you have a friend now? Both of those guys sound like dpis**ts, btw. If you want to make super crap copies of things, go ahead. Don’t try to raise an army for it though. Nobody is on board. This is an LD forum. LD was NEVER about anything other that delivering the highest quality video possible. It was the 4K BR of its day. Nobody here hates quality so this thread is yet another example of you versus the world. I hate DVD menus and FBI warnings as much as anyone. I generally just avoid DVD because of this and go for LD or BR. However, as has been mentioned…copying a DVD without the menus is a rather trivial thing. It takes less time than a real time recording onto VHS and you lose none of the quality. It’s also cheaper to buy a blank DVD than a tape.
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