DVD turns 30

[JackHandy]

SvennoJ said:

JackHandy said:

VHS came out in the late 70's and lasted until the early 00's as the dominant format. DVDs lasted from the early 00's to... the middle 00s? Late 00's? By 2006, Blu-Ray was here. By 2007, Netflix's streaming service had arrived. A few short years after that, it had surpassed both DVD and Blu-Ray as the de-facto way to consume movies.

It really is kind of ridiculous when you think about how short a run DVD had. It deserved better. And to this day, some releases still look better than their UHD versions. The extended TLOTR Trilogy is one of them. Better lighting, better color grading. And the boxes those came in were amazing.

I agree, the blu-ray extended version of LotR is too green. The 4K ultra HD re-re-release is supposed to fix the color that but looks bad otherwise, upscaling parts of the original 2K digital master with heavy DNR, looks very artificial.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/s7hv4m/we_may_never_see_the_lord_of_the_rings_trilogy_in/

The DVD version is at least consistent in quality.

I watch my DVD's on a CRT, like they were meant to be watched. On there, the extended editions look superior to any of the HD versions on HD TVs. And as I said, the physical boxes were just... wow. When you go back and check some of the things out during the era before streaming, it's pretty obvious how pathetic the budget is these days for physical anything.