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[–] Aibo1@ani.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Those releases he is referring to are definitely bootlegs. He should get his movies from a more respectable outlet instead.

I imagine that he started collecting DVDs because it's a cheap way to own a physical copy of your favorite shows...

But for the love of god just go hunt for cheap Blu-ray versions instead and leave DVDs in the past.

Unless you, for whatever reason, just must own a specific DVD release because it has otherwise unreleased extra content/commentary, or it never made it to Blu-ray.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I'm picking up the novelisation instead.

[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

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