DVD/Blu-Ray Thread • Page 16

That rules

 

that's gorgeous

 

We're also getting a The Boy and The Heron 4K, heck yeah

 

Gonna guess known chill guy Sacha wasn’t as hands on!

 

I haven't been involved with anything relating to that release, that's all I got for ya

 

new addition. Andor shows up tomorrow.

 

so fucking happy

 

This Best Buy got rid of their displays but they haven't filled that space with anything so now there's just an awkward opening on the floor

 

haven't set for in mine in a few months. wonder what they're doing with the floor space now...

 

Our local Best Buy closed last month. Place was pretty dead every time I went in there.

 

End of an era

 

I know there is plenty of online methods of getting Blu-rays but it sucks that a vast majority put little to no care in their packaging.

Unless you're buying direct from a distributor (which still isn't a hundred percent success rate) or going through a boutique store, there's such a good change of the case/slip being damaged or the disc being loose.

The Former is annoying but the latter really sucks

 

That happens to me when I use Amazon

 

Anyone ever seen discs that are Blu on one side and DVD on the reverse? I ordered a set of the Bourne trilogy on eBay and never expected that the Blu/DVD combo would be single discs.

 

i remember my parents bought season 8 of The Office and it was mysteriously this format, although they also sold the Blu-Ray by itself

 

Strange - I don't particularly mind, but I do wonder if these would be any less durable. Planning to always watch the Blu side whenever I pop these in.

 

at the time, my family didn't have a Blu-Ray player, so we tried watching the DVD side. couldn't tell if it was a defect or a scratch, but it kept freezing up on one episode.

 

For a very brief period of time, right around when the Bourne Trilogy would have been released, BD/DVD combos like that were introduced, but it was very quickly found that they were more flashy than realistic, as the quality is no good

 

What's the compromise in quality? There's still a full side of the disc devoted to each format, so I'd hope capacity isn't limited. Do they just deteriorate faster?

 

I don't know the details well enough to answer this unfortunately

 

anyone have experience with/knowledge of invisible watermarking on screener discs? got hold of an FYC Blu-Ray recently and the picture looks pretty grainy and somewhat subpar without any 4K upscaling via my player (looks great when player-side upscaling is enabled). i can't tell if the grain is intentional (although it doesn't look like this on streaming, regardless of screen resolution), or if the constant change in pixel brightness and shade is a form of watermarking to identify any leakers.

 

As a person who receives screeners, they routinely look bad and often come on DVDs.

 

i've previously heard the quality has been poor on screener DVDs, but i wasn't entirely expecting the same thing from a Blu-Ray. part of me wondered if it was a lower quality encode (like something less than 1080p in a 1080p container, for lack of a better word), but it would probably still look bad when upscaling then (upscaling a DVD on my 4K player doesn't always turn out great, unsurprisingly). so i suspect it's either intentional grain that's not on the streaming version, or it's hidden metadata? idk.

 

got really concerned, but according to Twitter, Sony only makes up a small portion of physical disc manufacturing compared to others, and that they're still committed to mass home media efforts. this would mainly affect recordable media, not replication. and even then, i'm not sure how much of a market share Sony has in that space.