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How long til Blu-rays get phased out
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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So DVD 1080 torrents are upscaled? I didn't realize DVDs were so low resolution.
NTSC formatted DVD is 720x480
PAL formatted DVD is 720x576
It blows my mind that the 28 year old DVD format (720x480 resolution) is still being sold and consumed. I can walk into my local Walmart today and at least 40% of disks including brand new movies are on DVD. They look noticeably worse on even HD TVs (1920x1080) and no amount of fancy upscaling is going to make them look good on modern 4K UHD TVs (3840x2160).
Yup. They’re ancient tech. Basically two cds stacked on top of each other.