RIP YOUR DVD COLLECTION FOLKS
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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
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Dan Fixes Coin-Opsreplied to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops last edited by
"I'll just pirate it, yo ho ho!" no you bloody won't, the pirates have rips of the crap blu-rays, who the hell still seeds DVD rips
Good luck sorting out a hundred different ALIENS 1986 torrents to figure out which are the AI-shitty ones and which are only the teal-shitty ones when half of them don't even mention whether they're the proper full length film or the crappy theatrical version where they cut out Ripley's entire daughter
Piracy won't help here, that was the whole point of the post
Rip your DVDs
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Dan Fixes Coin-Opsreplied to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops last edited by
"Random fedi people stop telling Dan what a torrent is" challenge
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Dan Fixes Coin-Opsreplied to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops last edited by
SPACE YEAR 2057
🦝 Aw shit hon, our holocube of Aliens (1986) oxidised right in the third MPU core
oh no, can you just download us a copy?
🦝 sure lemme check the torrentsTWO HOURS LATER
🦝 Well I found the 2010's-era print that got turned teal 'cause that's what they were doing in 2010
oh god yeah everything from then looked so weird and mossy
🦝 yeah, and then I found one from the 20's that was during that godawful uncanny valley AI phase so that's no good either
yuck
🦝 I found one from the 2030's when they were doing the face swaps with living actors? Remember that? Some weird rights thing?
haha oh wow yeah that's a blast from the past
🦝 and that one has a CRT filter too. Anyway 2040's edition brought back the film grain but, well, y'know the 40's and film grain
oh yeah, MORE film grain
🦝 WAY TOO MUCH film grain, and the LCD filters yeah
yeah
🦝 anyway I found one from the early 50's with tails, apart from that it's half decent quality
well are the tails done tastefully at least or
🦝 I mean they changed a couple shots so the marines are using their tails to reload and apparently at some point Ripley goes "Thank God I have this big bushy squirrel tail" but apart from that
huh that's actually pretty restrained compared with a lot of tail remasters
🦝 yeah this might be the best of the bunch, shall we give it a go
sure I'll rehydrate us some popcorn5 minutes later
🦝 FUCKING THEATRICAL CUT
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@ifixcoinops i have my DVDs backed up as raw ISOs. can burn them again as needed. but my player can read the ISOs just fine
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to djb last edited by
@djb @ifixcoinops I highly recommend this method of ripping. My old file server would auto rip DVDs when placed in the drive then eject when finished.
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Jayreplied to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops last edited by [email protected]
@ifixcoinops Is there a list of movies that have shitty or controversial Blu-Rays? Surely many if not most are fine