• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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        5 days ago

        Correct, because anything related to DVDs as the title suggests is wholly irrelevant in 2025.

        Watching now - I’m in PAL land so line 21 captions were never a thing for me.

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      5 days ago

      You would be surprised but in the US DVDs are still king. They sell far better than regular BluRays and even better than 4K UHD BRs. So saying it’s dead is difficult.

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          4 days ago

          It’s not really dead, but they’ve definitely scaled down their operations. With streaming services increasing their prices YoY I believe the return to physical media will be cheaper in some cases.

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            4 days ago

            File based formats are just so much better than the shit formats with a specific type of media baked in like Audio CDs and Video DVDs and BR. Especially when those are combined with deliberate deviations from the standard for “copy protection” or with DRM.

            Not to mention that you don’t have to give up the advantages of networks along with the disadvantages of streaming services. Files can be downloaded, uploaded and copied across the network just fine.

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              4 days ago

              You’re preaching to the choir. That’s why we spend time making remuxes and encodes. But for release groups to make those we need the format to survive, because Hollywood won’t make the physical media if there’s no copy protection.

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                4 days ago

                Hollywood seems to have invented the ultimate in copy protection in recent years anyway, making movies so bad nobody even wants to watch them. It is not used by 100% of movies yet but it is spreading.