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Pemalite on 29 July 2025
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TallSilhouette said:
Pemalite said:

The main benefit on why I am digitizing is A.I upscaling to improve visual quality.
1080P Blu-Ray and especially DVD's look extremely soft on an 85" 4k OLED... I can also apply a HDR pass to really let the colours and contrasts pop. Gotten some good results on older DVD TV show boxsets that I loved like Buffy, StarGate etc'.

I try to buy UHD releases wherever possible, but not all films are guaranteed a release on that platform, UHD is generally just a straight rip unless it's a poor release like The Matrix/Pirates of the Caribbean where I might do a few extra passes to restore original colour grading and stuff

What software do you use? 

I use Topaz, lets me run either CPU or GPU algorithms.

TheRealSamusAran said:
Pemalite said:

I still have my physical discs, they are just in storage... Due to licensing legalities, I would have to delete my digital copy if I got rid of my physical.

Doesn't this completely defeat the point of those copies being so called "digital backups"? If you were selling the disks, then it would be different, because you would be selling the ownership of the game, but what is the point of a backup that you have to delete if you get rid of the original?

When you buy a Movie, TV show, Music Record or video game, you are buying the "license" for that which is tied to the physical media you purchased... It doesn't actually matter what condition the original media is in either, as long as you own it.

I can thus legally make a backup of my original content, but I would have to remove it if I sold the physical/license copy.
And this even flows onto emulation, it's perfectly legal for me to emulate games I own.

And with digital distribution... If hypothetically, Steam even decided to implode, I still retain the "license" for all my purchases, so I can legally "obtain" copies from elsewhere.

It's part of Australian consumer law... So it will vary in other nations like the USA/Europe etc'.




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