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This is the spot for anyone who loves collecting and talking about physical media. From DVDs and Blu-rays to VHS tapes, game discs, vinyl records, and even old-school cassettes—if it’s something you can hold in your hands and enjoy, it belongs here.

Show off your collection, share your favorite finds, or just join in on conversations about why physical media still matters. Whether it’s for the artwork, the nostalgia, or just the love of owning something real, we’re here to celebrate it all.

Let’s keep the love for physical media going!

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Blu Rays are actually kind of garbage (sh.itjust.works)

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I decided to connect with my inner 13 year old and bought Army of Darkness on Blu-Ray. Like the rest of my video collection, my goal was to rip it to my NAS so it's available on my Kodi box; I don't own a blu-ray player, only Blu-ray optical drives for computers. But, I decided I wanted to just pop the movie in and play it on my PC, should look pretty good on my gaming monitor.

No machine in my inventory would play it from the disc. VLC and the one or two other media players in Fedora's pathetic excuse for a repository would play it. VLC would throw an error and tell you to look in the log for details...wherever the log is. Side note: I'm not going to see log for details if you don't give me a link or path to that log. We hold up VLC as the best media player but it can barely play mp3 and mp4 files from the local machine, it doesn't work across a network, it doesn't read optical discs, it doesn't give useful errors and I'm not looking up how to read its logs for more details.

So, several rounds of troubleshooting across a few computers later, I finally get a setup where MakeMKV will rip it from the goddamn disc. And what does the 1080p version of the movie get you? Film grain. Noisy hideous distracting film grain. Exporting it as a 720p video made it look better because crushing the resolution evened out the film grain.

Is this what liking movies is like these days? I don't think I want to like movies anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I had similar experiences when trying to play Blu Ray Discs recently and wanting DTS or Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. The software for playing DVDs/BDs does not work with modern systems and Win10 and anything working for a modern systems lacks the proper licenses for the audio and just converts everything down to stereo. So my sound system sat there waiting for correctly encoded data streams getting bored. Back when I was in my teens, the sound card came with everything you needed for surround sound and the DVD/BD drive came with everything you needed for quality video. Resorted to digital non-physical media.