Just watched a DVD

[tp4tissue]

Mmmnnghh.. 720x480..   Progressive scan..

Takes me back..    This must be what the vinyl people feel..

It's got that natural low-res which is a form of anti-aliasing u know ?

[tp4tissue]

The only draw back , sort of is the subs being really low res.

[noisyturtle]

All this technology and yet Blu-rays still haven't fixed shadow compression artifacts or gradient dithering.

[tp4tissue]

All this technology and yet Blu-rays still haven't fixed shadow compression artifacts or gradient dithering.

no, that has to do with bit depth..

it's much better in the new UHD blurays with 10bit.

[tp4tissue]

About to watch another DVD..


It's like a vcr.. except no-tracking control..

Honestly doesn't look --That Bad--

 

[SBJ]

I'm still not all that bothered by quality.
If I'm watching sports I'd like it to be 720p at least. But for everything else I can watch pretty much anything.
Does that make me weird? Am I old? Has time passed me by already? 

[xtrafrood]

I'm still not all that bothered by quality.
If I'm watching sports I'd like it to be 720p at least. But for everything else I can watch pretty much anything.
Does that make me weird? Am I old? Has time passed me by already? 

720p 60fps newb

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

why?

[tp4tissue]

why?

Cuz it's like a record player.. u put disc into dvd drive.. it makes whirling noises.. and the table buzzes.

[Coreda]

I remember the days of having to rip the subtitles off the disc, run them through an optical font recognition program and while it scans correct for mistakes. Finally I'd end up with a plaintext subtitle file that I'd mux in with the transcode of the video so the subs style and size could be manipulated to my liking.

To think that now I'm just storing the entire original rip of UHD discs on my drive lul

edit: though for some odd reason the chapter markers don't contain any names in UHD releases so I still have to manually edit them, and set the non-TrueHD 5.1 audio stream as the default since the Dolby metadata causes playback issues.

[tp4tissue]

I remember the days of having to rip the subtitles off the disc, run them through an optical font recognition program and while it scans correct for mistakes. Finally I'd end up with a plaintext subtitle file that I'd mux in with the transcode of the video so the subs style and size could be manipulated to my liking.

To think that now I'm just storing the entire original rip of UHD discs on my drive lul

edit: though for some odd reason the chapter markers don't contain any names in UHD releases so I still have to manually edit them, and set the non-TrueHD 5.1 audio stream as the default since the Dolby metadata causes playback issues.

No, you should still remux. why would you waste ~10-15GB on non critical info.

[Coreda]

No, you should still remux. why would you waste ~10-15GB on non critical info.

Bit of a slip: 'of UHD discs' should be 'from UHD discs', that's to say not a rip to ISO but the video+English audio streams+subs, non-transcoded, in an MKV container (which tbf isn't the 'entire' contents but eh, outside of a few language streams it often is, disregarding menus).

That said I have ripped to ISO before but can't remember if I saved 10-15GBs compared to the later MKV transfer even with streams I didn't want excluded, though likely depends on how many foreign language audio streams are included with the particular release.

I'm just glad with storage capacities and prices as they are such things are possible.