The Dying DVD Business Could Be Headed for a Resurrection

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Streaming is constantly removing movies. There were fewer movies on Netflix streaming in 2022 than there were in 2015 (source: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflixs-movie-library... ) And, according to the same source, Netflix has almost no movies from before 2000.

People might start looking to DVDs for more variety in their movies!

Yeah, but DVDs have horrible picture quality, at lousy 480p resolution.

The answer isn't DVDs, it's to set sail on the high seas. You can get any pre-2000 movie you want there, usually in extremely high quality.

> Yeah, but DVDs have horrible picture quality, at lousy 480p resolution.

It is 720p. And the image quality is much better than Netflix's HD. I tried to look at Valerian on Netflix. The colours were so bad that i decided to look at the DVD instead. Sound on Netflix is terrible.

DVD video supports different resolutions, but so far as I know, the vast majority of them were standard def, 480p in the American market.

As the other poster noted, the vast majority of DVDs are 480p, not 720p. DVDs don't have enough capacity for higher resolutions for full-length movies.

On the high seas, you can easily get 720p, 1080p, and frequently 2160p versions of everything, with extremely high-quality multi-channel audio, usually in either h.264 or x.265 codecs, and at a variety of bitrates (in case that 50GB 4k BD rip is too much for you).

Following netflix's increasingly terrible bitrates I've made the switch to blu rays and renting shows from my local library. Couldn't be happier, 4k netflix doesn't hold a candle to 1080 blu ray for me.

DVDs are the only realistic way I have left of getting most older movies (and Blu-Ray for newer movies). I'd be thrilled if the format gets a resurgence!

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