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[ SECRET POST #5090 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5090 ⌋

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Blu-ray came out fourteen years ago, OP. It's time to stop whining about the "new" format.

Seriously. 3d is still fairly gimicky and not widely seen in homes. Blu-Ray, however, pretty much overtaken dvd as the main format at this point. Dvd is still second and not done yet. But it will be eventually. But Blu-Ray is far and away the top non-digital video format, so it isn't surprising that for a more obscure video, companies would pick just one format and would go with Blu-Ray.

Especially when it's objectively much nicer quality-wise, so of course film aficionados are going to prefer it over plain old DVD. I always buy Blu-ray when I feel like a movie or a TV show is worth purchasing because I want it in the best quality format I can get.

if anything Blu-ray is pretty useless these days.

Dvds are affordable by comparison to blu-ray and there are more streaming services than ever so people don't have to buy a hard copy to see a show/movie any more. Blu-ray seem to have less to offer other than giving movie snobs something to wank over on people who have the audacity to keep buying dvds.

Yeah this is what's weird to me. If Blu-Ray had taken over DVD like DVD took over VHS, fine, whatever, I'd be annoyed but technology marches on.

The fact that both still exist simultaneously means I can get annoyed when something is released on one and not the other.

This. I don't even have a fancy TV, so paying extra for a higher-quality that I can't even appreciate just feels dumb.

I'm perfectly happy with DVDs and anyway with bluray I'd have to not only buy a new player but a new and more expensive TV. I really can't afford to do that.

???? Why would you need a new TV? Blu-rays work just fine on my older TV.

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really? I thought you had to have a flat screen

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greghousesgf - 2020-12-14 06:07 (UTC) - Expand

I have a bluray player but I get OP. It's nicer to just have a digital copy if you want it.

All of these DVDs and blurays we have are cluttery these days. I don't buy them anymore and have donated a bunch to the library. I'm happy to buy books but also like a download option because I don't want a physical copy of every book I want to purchase.

I actually dragged my feet on getting a DVD player for so long, that when my VCR finally died and the library stopped loaning VHS tapes, I went straight to a blu-ray player that can also play DVDs. I can play either kind of disk so it doesn't matter what's available.

This. I did have to go back and buy a cheap DVD player, specifically because there are some cartoons I wanted that were basically "print on demand" DVDs that did not work in blu-ray players or my computer's DVD drive. (Cheap = under $25.)

But that was a very specific thing, and otherwise I would not have owned a DVD player.

IA, but mostly because I'm a European who collect anime on home media, and a lot of English releases are US only these days. My DVD player is region free; my BD isn't.

You just described me, which is why during lockdown my wife and I bought an old PS3 online from a charity shop and she hacked it. Hello Xabungle! Hello Strawberry Marshmallow! Hello Basquash!

Basquash! I loved that show!

I can relate, OP. I have an out of print vhs collection and a lot of the old Anchor Bay releases of obscure films, and replacing them with blu-ray has been a bit of pain. While I do have a blu-ray player, I'm annoyed that none of them are on streaming or available to watch digitally so if I don't buy them then I don't have them.

Even more fun when they were given a limited release on blu-ray and went out of print again.

I agree OP. I have a DVD player, I don't want to get a blu-ray player because I know that both formats are going to become extinct fairly soon. It seems utterly pointless.

I am having the same problem but with certain anime titles in my country. the distributor who got the rights to most of the yaoi/yuri (as well as Utena and Magic Knights Rayearth) is only releasing them on bluray, but all the borderline hentai titles being release by them are getting dvd releases.

Yes, but when there's a new Blu-Ray release of an older movie, wouldn't it then come up on all the torrent sites? That's how I get my old movies when they're not on DVD (I do actually have a Blu-Ray player but it is region locked.)

Not necessarily. And while I understand why people use torrents and I don't judge them, some of us can't use them due to our job (if I ever got caught I'd lose my job/clearance), and/or would rather not play the torrent gamble or just don't believe in pirating.

Some films are so obscure, not in demand they never get up on torrents, anyways. Or the torrent might be poor.

It makes perfect sense to me that artsy obscure films would be released only on Blu-ray. That's THE medium for film snobs (no hate!). They probably did cost/benefit analysis and figured that's where the most sales would be.

I prefer Blu-ray discs, the quality is just way better compared to DVD. So I get disappointed when a series only gets a DVD release.

Yeah, me too. Especially if it's a recent release, there's no excuse.

OP I love you! Blue-ray fucking sucks! Keep doing you, I'm sure you'll find a bootleg somewhere!

Really though, no digital copies at all? Hell, they're just committed to fail in that case.

I wish you bet of luck even so OP! <33

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