Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Blu Ray is where it’s at. Give me some actual quality bitrate baby.
babyfarmer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
lance20000@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s both for me. Some things are either not on BluRay, too rare and expensive, or the transfer on BluRay is actually worse. And besides, any BluRay player is a dvd player too.
Anyway, any physical collecting or pirating needs to encouraged because streaming is such a stupid model now.
detren@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I think part of it might be that DVDs are easier to find used or just cheaper new. GenZ isn’t really rolling in cash and in my area for example used stores rarely if ever carry Blu-ray.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We are forever fucked over lots of TV shows/movies that are caged within the stream services realm :/
vanontom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And decent resolution: DVD is forever stuck at tiny 480p MPEG. While Blu-ray is up to 4K HEVC.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.
Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Unless you get new DVD players to support AV1, just put the AV1 files on a data DVD…
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a soc with a DVD drive becomes a player.
Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.
Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.
vanontom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That sounds interesting! I’ve been using AV1 more and more (thanks to SVT-AV1-PSY/-HDR and devs pushing improvements to main). Also enjoying FHD animated AVIF (vs ancient GIF, although gif.ski helps). AV1 video is not as soft as it once was; with synthetic film grain, and combined with OPUS audio, it’s all wonderful.
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s not even 480p, it’s 480i with a resolution of 720x480 regardless of whether the content is 4:3 or 16:9, the pixels get stretched one way or the other. That’s for NTSC discs, PAL discs have a higher 576i (720x576) resolution but the movie is sped up 4% cause it forces 25fps when it should be 24.
vanontom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a good point. Even worse! Weird anamorphic? pixel aspect ratios (or maybe pan-and-scan crops? or hopefully that’s just VHS). With a bonus of interlacing! “The horror!” I haven’t ripped a DVD in ages due to video quality issues.
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Oh all those full screen DVDs are in fact pan and scan just like VHS.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
If you ever wanna play 4K BDs on PC, you’ll need a 4K-compatible drive that’s been hacked with LibreDrive though, otherwise you’re stuck using a dedicated set-top player for those.