Dan Fixes Coin-OpsSep 15, 2024

RIP YOUR DVD COLLECTION FOLKS

Wanted to watch Aliens, the disc plays OK but makes a horrible grinding sound. "OK fine," thinks I, "I'll watch it via other means," well my friends the other means are really really bad

"Oh cool there was a remaster this year" yeah they overexposed it and washed it all out, and as if that wasn't enough they AI'd it and everyone's got weird plastic skin

"Well butts, how about the blu-ray release from the early 2010's," well they didn't AI it yet but they did bollocks up the colours and made it all green because that was a thing in the 2010's

Rip your own DVDs folks 'cause if that DVD starts having problems you might not be able to find a copy amid a sea of gradually deteriorating versions

Show threadsynlogic
@ifixcoinops yeah I hear you. Aliens is one of my favorite films. so I think I made a pure digital file backup somewhere, years ago
Sep 15, 2024 at 3:34amWeb
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsSep 15, 2024
@synlogic if you watch the new remaster make sure you haven't watched a DVD version recently, Oof
Show threadsynlogicSep 15, 2024

@ifixcoinops k

new versions tend to be worse

one of the rare times I liked remasters was when Paramount revised the orig Star Trek episodes to have better space imagery. It made it more visually lush while still keeping original feel, imo