• Octagon9561@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    Blu-rays are great, DVDs not so much unless it’s an old title that was never released in 1080p

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      7 hours ago

      DVDs are fine, but the subtitles look god-awful - and they’re bitmaps so there is no easy way to make them not suck

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        2 hours ago

        I think they’re bitmaps on Blu-rays as well. Just higher resolution.

        Streaming tends to use text formats.

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      14 hours ago

      even then, many bluerays are just cheap upscales with no other changes. I made that mistake once with a boxset only to find that it was a very obvious DVD. this after I was roasted on reddit for complaining about that being a possibility and everyone angrily promised me that it was not that. it was that. I’m still bitter