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At the risk of sounding like a complete snob, it annoys me that DVDs are still sold. Blu Ray has been on the market 6 years longer than DVD had when Blu Ray pla
by deergomoo 4y ago
At the risk of sounding like a complete snob, it annoys me that DVDs are still sold. Blu Ray has been on the market 6 years longer than DVD had when Blu Ray players were first released.
I appreciate that many don’t care about visual quality, but the baseline of TVs continues to improve with time, and DVD supports literally nothing rolled out in the last 15 years.
At 720x480 resolution (rectangular pixels!), they’re guaranteed to look like crap on any TV produced this decade. I can only imagine it’s a case of “people keep buying ‘em so we keep selling ‘em”, which is doubly annoying because it allows the price of BD players and discs to be kept artificially high as an “enthusiast” option. A standard player on Amazon today is only about half the price of what I paid for a nice Sony player in 2012. And that’s adjusted for inflation.
- hulitu 4y ago> At the risk of sounding like a complete snob, it annoys me that DVDs are still sold. Playing a DVD is easy. Playing a Bluray is difficult, you need special SW.
- yamtaddle 4y agoA lot of people are still using old TVs or have a very small one they watch far enough away that 480p is barely, if at all, worse than 1080p.
- account42 4y agoAren't most DVDs 480i rather than 480p? At least all the ones I bothered to try were interlaced.
- Blackthorn 4y agoThe industry groups only have themselves to blame. The fragile and shitty Blu-ray DRM makes it random whether a disc will work or not. Who the hell would buy that?
- fomine3 4y agoAgree that 480i is terrible in general, but maybe fine for car TV.
- Lammy 4y ago> At 720x480 resolution (rectangular pixels!) IMO this is a cool thing because it handles both 4:3 and 16:9 equally well!
- Marsymars 4y ago> I appreciate that many don’t care about visual quality, but the baseline of TVs continues to improve with time, and DVD supports literally nothing rolled out in the last 15 years. Technically the physical DVD format supports 1080p content. e.g. Terminator 2 was released on “Extreme DVD” in 2003 in 1080p. However AFAIK they’re bricks now as the licensing server for the required DRM has been taken offline.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> Technically the physical DVD format supports 1080p content. But only as a data DVD, not as a video DVD. I feel like it's misleading not to make that clear. And those Extreme DVDs are just data DVDs with a file on them.
- account42 4y agoI kinda wish all DVDs and Blu-Rays were just data discs with a file on them - would make backing them up trivial. Also, weren't video DVDs and data DVDs the same format just with a special directory structure for videos? I expect the bigger problem is available storage space and codec support (H.264 is a lot better than MPEG-2).