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[Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59]
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I'm somewhat leaning towards DVD sometimes because you can reliably rip them and store the originals away. Blu-ray either works easily, or it's a major pain that can only be done by peeking into the memory of a Windows Blu-ray player to extract the key.
I've never had a normal bluray that I couldn't rip with MakeMKV. It's the UHD blurays that are a pain to rip.
I have a few on my desk right now that won't. Usually somewhat more obscure titles where nobody has ripped the key and shared it in the public
KEYDB.cfg. Like the Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (incidentally, one of the movies in there is public domain, and another will be on this coming Jan 1).Although I also have a copy of Deadpool, not UHD, that won't rip, so it's not always obscure titles, either.
The only UHD disks that I have had problems ripping are brand new releases. Then I give it a few days and MakeMKV has no problem.
UHD is just a pain because it's hard to find a compatible drive.
I ended up with an archgon MD-8107 and it has been great. It is external and plugs in via usb, and works great on both my Mac Laptop and my Linux box with MakeMKV.
I think I found it via the forums on MakeMKV to make sure I got one that I could put the correct firmware on.
Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I'm picking up the novelisation instead.
So many of old analog film movies seem to be just the dvd ripped to bluray sadly, so there are no real advantage going high tech. Its not like they add more extras in the unused space either