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runarbergtoday at 4:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don’t know the stats but I would guess more people have DVD players then Blu-Ray, so it makes sense for libraries to rather offer DVDs. DVDs is also one of these things that is good enough. The jump in quality between DVD and Blu-Ray is very unnoticeable (when fully immersed) compared to e.g. between VHS and DVD (or even between vinyl and CD).


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bigstrat2003today at 6:23 PM

The jump in quality from DVD to Blu-ray is huge, as much as it was from VHS to DVD. Going to 4k from there isn't noticeable, but going to HD in the first place is massive.

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bakiestoday at 4:53 PM

Yeah bluray is really only necessary for 4k. And dvd probably beats streaming quality