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and for some reason the HD Blu-ray of Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) has a second copy of the film, with only a video track (no subtitles or audio)... at a higher bitrate than the main copy

The Stuff (1985) - Theatrical release Ultra HD disc has three audio tracks:

* stereo 24-bit PCM
* 2x stereo ac3 (commentary)

Apparently you can straight up ship uncompressed PCM audio on Blu-ray and everybody considers this a fine use of bitrate. :) :P

found the secret to selecting which version of a title to play back in the Infuse front-end on Apple TV:

*long-press* the play/resume button on the title screen

then pick 'Select version' from there

it occurs to me there was a time when these 100Mbps Ultra HD Blu-ray streams would fill my entire network bandwidth <3

fuck yeah 2.5Gbps backbone in the apartment

Dark City 4k edition comes with both director's cut and theatrical cuts in Ultra HD 2160p/HDR

The Stuff 4k edition has the theatrical cut in Ultra HD 2160p/HDR and a prerelease cut in HD 1080p/SDR

Pitch Perfect 3 and Ghost in the Shell 4k editions ship the same cut in both Ultra HD 2160p/HDR and HD 1080p/SDR versions on separate discs.

no consistency :D it's the wild west here

Hm, the external drive doesn't like Max Headroom disc 4. I'll try it on the other drive later...

the portable drive seems a lot pickier about discs than the internal drive

internal drive likes it fine \o/

i now has a complete archive of Max Headroom, both seasons (and they're short seasons for an American show of its time: 6 and 8 episodes respectively. what is this fucking britain?)

also done ripping The Starlost, which'll be fun

and working on Jeramiah season 1

still have to track down season 2 of that; I'm not 100% sure I saw the whole end of season 2 when it first came out

up to series 7 watching Red Dwarf, finally got into episodes I haven't seen before :)

*watching Max Headroom ep1*

how did they get this project funded it explicitly shows the network executives as evil bastards :D

also, this show has the namesake of Ogg Theora ;)

A/B testing should definitely come with rebus tapes (hashtag dystopia)

wait, Theora has a *car* in her bedroom?

how does she afford this apartment in the big city

the casting in this show is just great

Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, Jeffrey Tambor... all just do *wonderful*

Max Headroom is a DVD release, seems to ship 480i; single stereo audio track, single subtitle track, no extras.

Nothing fancy, but it's got every episode of the US show and it seems like a clean enough transfer for a 1980s show! :D

This is gonna be fun to finish going through over the next few weeks. Haven't seen them since it came out in the 80s!

how u know when an episode is gonna fuck your shit up:

Babylon 5: "Written by J. Michael Straczynski"

Blake's 7: "Written by Terry Nation"

I still feel like in an ideal world this Blake's 7 Blu-ray set would've just shipped 576i50 data instead of upscaling to 1080i59.94

but whatever. my AppleTV would've just done the same upscaling realtime anyway

did they recast Kristine Kochanski when they bring her back in series 7 Red Dwarf or do i just not recognize the actress after a few seasons' worth of time?

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@brooke This was the reason I deliberately didn't watch for years.
Original Kochanski is perfect, and was almost certainly tougher than the rest of them put together.

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@brooke If it was just a recast of essentially the same character, that would have worked for me. But upon trying to give it a chance the first time, I spent the whole episode wondering what the writers thought Lister would see in this new version, and coming up with not a lot.
...Apparently this is one of my buttons.

@K4_713 yeah i'm not convinced by kochanski 2.0

but i guess she's from an alternate universe, so *whatever*

"fine but i'll complain the whole time"

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