Subj : Re: Hola
To   : fusion
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 27 2023 17:02:00

  Re: Re: Hola
  By: fusion to Nightfox on Thu Apr 27 2023 06:42 pm

 Ni>> Also, there are some countries I've heard about that actually do
 Ni>> have a big bootleg market (such as China) where it's common for

 fu> some of these are actually really cool. especially a little further back
 fu> when VCDs were more common. bizarre custom artwork, random actors on the
 fu> packaging that aren't in the movie at all, mistranslated or simply false
 fu> titles, etc. i think chinese dvd players still support all sorts of random
 fu> video types because of the different bootleg methods.

I've never seen any official commercially-produced VCD versions of anything in the US, but I had heard about VCDs around 2004 or 2005 or so.  I made a couple VCDs of my own since I was curious, and my DVD player at the time (which I bought here in the US) was able to play it, and a friend of mine had a DVD player that was able to play it too.  So I don't think it was just Chinese DVD players.  I suspect DVD and blu-ray players probably support more formats than they advertise.

 Ni>> torrents that are ripped straight from the disc and not compressed
 Ni>> so that you'd get the full audio and video quality (if you can find
 Ni>> those). 

 fu> these were definitely available back in the day. just not as popular as
 fu> the standard 700mb fit-on-a-cd-r size release because everyone had like
 fu> 5-10gb hard drives lol.

Back in the day?  I see some of those uncompressed torrents even now.

 fu> i definitely prefer keeping high bitrate 720p stuff.. i really like

These days I tend to try to get as high quality as I can find - Usually ripped from my own 4K blu-ray discs if possible.

Nightfox
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