Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I’m picking up the novelisation instead.
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoI’m somewhat leaning towards DVDs 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.
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Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours 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 sadly
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
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.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
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 Jan 1).Although I also have a copy of Deadpool, not UHD, that won’t rip, so it’s not always obscure titles, either.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
UHD is just a pain because it’s hard to find a compatible drive.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.