• Aibo1@ani.social
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    9 months ago

    Those releases he is referring to are definitely bootlegs. He should get his movies from a more respectable outlet instead.

    I imagine that he started collecting DVDs because it’s a cheap way to own a physical copy of your favorite shows…

    But for the love of god just go hunt for cheap Blu-ray versions instead and leave DVDs in the past.

    Unless you, for whatever reason, just must own a specific DVD release because it has otherwise unreleased extra content/commentary, or it never made it to Blu-ray.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      I’m somewhat leaning towards DVD sometimes because you can reliably rip them and store the originals away. Blu-ray either works easily, or it’s a major pain that can only be done by peeking into the memory of a Windows Blu-ray player to extract the key.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        I’ve never had a normal bluray that I couldn’t rip with MakeMKV. It’s the UHD blurays that are a pain to rip.

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          9 months ago

          The only UHD disks that I have had problems ripping are brand new releases. Then I give it a few days and MakeMKV has no problem.

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              9 months ago

              I ended up with an archgon MD-8107 and it has been great. It is external and plugs in via usb, and works great on both my Mac Laptop and my Linux box with MakeMKV.

              I think I found it via the forums on MakeMKV to make sure I got one that I could put the correct firmware on.