Physical Media Collectors |OT| (TV shows, movies)

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SvennoJ said:

Early DVDs were worse in quality than Laserdisc so I kept both until DVD got better. Some early DVDs were straight up digital recordings from the VHS tape. My local rental store had DVDs with the dutch subtitles from VHS baked in, as well as VHS noise lol.

By the time I moved overseas DVD quality had surpassed LD and I left my PAL stuff behind (gave it away).

Yeah, many early DVDs weren't even anamophic widescreen, but 4:3-TV-versions or 4:3 "letterboxed" with black bars in the video material.

But some of my 1998 DVD releases with anamorphic widescreen look quite good even today.
I tried "Mercury Rising" (region code 1) and "Sphere" (region code 2) yesterday.