DVD is the only format that should exist
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Formats
paul_m89 — 10 years ago(April 13, 2015 07:51 PM)
VHS and Beta- poor quality, tracking is annoying, no movies released on it after 2006 except for a handful, pan and scan.
laserdisc- non-anamorphic, hard to find, having to switch discs is a pain in the ass
blu ray- lack of picking up where you left off is annoying. images look almost too sharp in some cases.
DVD- contains none of those problems
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(April 13, 2015 09:55 PM)
DVD is crap. Far too limited.
I do agree that lack of auto-resume on some Blu Rays is annoying. It's literally the only area where the format falls short. If you think Blu Ray looks too sharp you need to turn down the sharpness on your TV as this setting is usually defaulted far too high. -
Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(April 14, 2015 01:26 AM)
blu ray- lack of picking up where you left off is annoying. images look almost too sharp in some cases.
Either you have a faulty BD player or you don't know how to operate it properly.
Unless you are happy with a less than 30" screen and CRT, many DVDs do not hold up well these days. In fact, DVD digital artefacts on 40" LCD/Plasma (the new average) look worse than VHS does, in my opinion. If the blu ray picture being too sharp is sometimes a problem then I'd happily have that over the problems and restrictions that every other format has.
No format is perfect.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(April 14, 2015 01:14 PM)
If you have a decent upscaling Blu Ray player the artefacts from DVD shouldn't be too obvious. Especially if you have one that can play NTSC discs in their native 24fps mode. PAL DVDs (and 1080i/50hz BDs) annoy me due to the speedup making everything squeaky, but at least my old Region 1 DVDs no longer suffer from 3:2 pulldown induced motion judder.
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Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(April 15, 2015 01:53 AM)
"If you have a decent upscaling blu ray player"
So you DO need another format besides DVD. Not only that, you need a decent player to take advantage of it.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(April 15, 2015 06:32 PM)
If not for upscaling I wouldn't be able to tolerate DVD at all. Check my previous post, i'm firmly in the pro-Blu/anti-DVD camp.
Also, upscaling DVD players are crap. They don't have the processing power to upscale properly so they leave gaps between the lines of pixels, as opposed to a BD player which makes the upscaled image looking nice and solid. Even with HDMI connection, a DVD player will just blow up the image without filling in between the lines. -
Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(April 14, 2015 10:36 PM)
Not all DVDs have crap sound, just the majority. Some have full-bitrate DTS or PCM stereo, it's only lossy Dolby Digital that sounds weak and muffled. Then again a lot of early Blu Ray titles only have Dolby
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mikekuhlman-415-393642 — 10 years ago(April 15, 2015 01:03 AM)
Well, paul, just because you say it makes it gospel truth, then, right? Wrong.
Some blu-rays DO pick up where you left off. If the images look too sharp, the fact that your TV sharpness is turned up too high might have something to do with it. Turn your TV sharpness down to minimum to reveal the true, organic picture detail in blu-ray, detail that DVD isn't able to resolve. -
persen1 — 10 years ago(April 25, 2015 05:05 AM)
blu ray- lack of picking up where you left off is annoying. images look almost too sharp in some cases.
Get a better Blu-ray player, instead of purchasing one of these cheap supermarket players.
High-end models are able to pick up where you left off, plus they have adjustable image settings, if the settings on your TV are not enough. -
Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 11, 2015 01:52 PM)
It depends on the disc. Some BDs do it automatically, some can only resume from a manually programmed bookmark and others just have no resume function at all. If you mean "high end" as in something that costs $800 and is only available from the manufacturer's own boutique stores then I can imagine something like that having a self-programming resume function. I've had 3 Sony BD players and none of them can do that, they've been reliant on whichever way the disc is authored.
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Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(May 12, 2015 04:32 AM)
I only spent £60 on my Sony BD player and it resumes more BDs than my DVD player ever did.
I'd hardly even call it an issue. Watching a disc from the same spot as when you removed it from the tray a few days ago, provided you remember to put it back in and finish watching.
So what if you have to search around for the last scene you watched? Life is hard.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 12, 2015 08:23 PM)
I can certainly see how a BD player would resume BDs better than a DVD player would. In fact, the only thing a DVD player can do with a BD is spin it around and get confused, then display a "cannot read disc" message
It's just dumb to make BDs without auto-resume though. I mean how hard can it be? Not at all since plenty of them do exist, yet major studios like Paramount and Warners continue to pretend otherwise. -
Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 01:29 AM)
Ha-ha
Ha
I honestly almost never use it anyway. Seriously. IF you've watched only part of a film and return to it some days/weeks/months later, how likely are you to want to return to the exact point you left it at? I only ever do that if it's a gap of minutes/hours. In which case you're not going to need autoresume.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 03:03 AM)
It's just nice to have. Especially if, say, I'm interrupted while watching a BD and have to go do something, it's good to be able to just press stop, then switch everything on again, push play and bang, right back to the movie. Considering it's 100% standard on DVDs, it seems bizarre to make it randomly implemented on Blu Ray.
That said I don't give a toss about the ones that leave a cookie in the player's memory, since in most cases all that does is give me the option to go directly to the end credits. I just like to be able to resume something easily if needed, rather than sit there and wait 5 minutes for the damn disc to load all over again. -
Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 04:06 AM)
100% standard on DVDs
Sure about that?
be able to just press stop, then switch everything on again, push play and bang, right back to the movie
Well this is what I'm talking about. I can't think of any of My BDs that don't do this, unless I take the disc out.
It only prevents me from resuming a disc that hasn't left the player if I've been watching special features or watching the movie in some special mode (or the power cuts out completely).
Also. It depends on your BD players stand-by mode. If you have a quick start function on your player then that's your best way of ensuring you can resume without waiting for the player to reboot.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 01:37 PM)
I've never had a DVD player that didn't auto-resume when stopped. I'm pretty sure most Sony players actually create an auto-resume cookie for DVDs, but generally if you haven't removed the disc from the player it should go right back to where it was. My Sony BD players (I have two, sold my first one because it had audio issues inherent to the player's design) do that with all DVDs, but a number of BDs - as I said, mostly the ones from Paramount, Warners and also many of 20th Century Fox and Universal's older ones - will have to fully reload from the start even if I stop them for one second and then restart them. But then a lot of BDs made by smaller distributors just auto-resume like a DVD.
This possibly has more to do with players than discs, since it seems some players can bypass the disc program and jump straight back to the last stop-point if they're not ejected. Maybe I've backed the wrong horse, but since I also have a Sony TV and audio system, it made sense to also have their BD player for the sake of easily sync'd control options.