Im either way with whether the movie or menu pops first but oh god I remember the Lion King dvd being the worst offender of it. A full minute of zazu flying across the savanna till he gets to pride rock and then he talks to the audience.
I still have a CRT from 2005 that I still sometimes play old video games on, but I haven't watched a movie on it since 2009.
I guess a good bunch of people like to own physical media, whatever TPTB like it or not.
That's why I voted for VHS as the best medium. The picture quality isn't bad in comparison to DVD, and it's becoming clear that DVDs (and Blu Ray) are a crapshoot as far as longevity goes. Some of them were just manufactured poorly and will eventually crap out on you randomly after a decade or so. VHS tapes, on the other hand, as long as they are well cared for, are far more dependable for long term storage. The main downside to VHS tapes are finding and maintaining something to play them on.
Never mind DVDs coming back from the dead, did you just post an article from AOL?
bitrot. most of my troma and b film collection is fucked by it. they've all been ripped into various format of course.
I did some digging, and it turns out a lot of those Troma and B-movie titles were pressed on cheap discs that are prone to degrading. I absolutely loathe disc rot, but it’s definitely worth archiving what you have while you still can.
i own all of them (except everything else vol 3, which i had to find online), and idk what dvd making program they used but they are a bitch and a half to rip everything from those discs. One example i can think of is the Halloween one where Strong Sad and Marzipan try to recurrent her dead plant. There's a Stinkoman easter egg that for whatever reason Handbreak or MakeMKV can't detect so I have to play the actual cartoon on a media player and record the screen.
And AOL reposted that article originally published in the Los Angeles Times.
MAOLGA!Come to think of it, imagine AOL back to its former glory.
Yeah I know which is why I just kept them as roms and hope against hope for a dvd player emulator plugin for media servers
The browsing aspect of physical media cannot be overstated with how useful it is. It's something that you really can't recreate with a list on a screen. CDs made me realize that, but it is perfectly applicable to DVDs and Blu-ray as well.
The last time I was at the orthodontist, they had a 4K TV installed, and Sleeping Beauty was playing on it. I hadn't seen it in years, but I knew it looked wrong because 4K inserts "invisible" frames to give it that "60 FPS" look that older media didn't have because that wasn't the proper technique. It's absolutely atrocious and I just know it's fucking with children's brains in giving them such false impressions on how animation actually looks.
Honestly, I don't know about that because CGI animation still adheres to the 24 FPS format we have here in the west. I haven't checked out a 4K CGI series to know, though, but I bet it looks just as uncanny as that LEGO TV show where it was done without skipping frames like the movies do.
That might be the TV being set at a wrong mode.
I fail to see how when I've seen 4K modes of animated openings people have set and it moved exactly the same with artificially inserting frames that don't exist for that illusion of being "smoother" and "faster". It just looks awful.