Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dead Yet

Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday July 05, 2024 @05:12AM (#40881121)

You're making an assimilation fallacy and falling to grasp the technical reasons such as proper deinterlacing, frame rate matching, ineffective motion compression, and generally poor upscaling techniques.

If you decrypt and grab the pristine content of a 4:3 or 16:9 DVD, then process it properly through Handbrake or such, it will look fine.

I did this purposely for a couple of rare old movies because the VHS and streaming copies looked terrible. The DVD versions in various regions are much, much better and came out as playable artifacts I can put on an 4K or 8K output device. They look cleaner than when I play these than with a DVD player because of the extra computational effort that went into the filtering during the transcoding process.

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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by shiroiushi on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:00PM (#40901509)

For movies that simply aren't available in Blu-Ray and the latest, best version of them is on DVD, that all sounds great of course. But if it's a more-common movie that came out on Blu-Ray, you can probably get a rip of that online quite easily.

Also, the parent seemed to be talking about simply popping a DVD into a drive and watching that directly. What you're talking about sounds very interesting, but also a fair amount of work and compute time. I've never used Handbrake, but I would assume the ripping and transcoding process would take a fair amount of time.

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