The lie everybody told to us.>Uhhh VHS bad, DVD good because DVD lasts forever.I was looking at some older media discs that I had, and compared them to streaming content.I began with The Matrix, the DVD image quality looks like utter crap, I remember it looked very good back when I won it.The netflix version is much cleaner and newer.I also saw Back to the Future, again, the DVD looks liike shit, and I'm sure it used to have a great image back then.Netflix version is superior.How can this happen, if not that digital media also loses quality over time?With streaming you are getting always fresh image recently duplicated.
>>107016740It's because of AV1. Before that streaming websites were using H264 which looks like smeared shit at low bitrates. Streaming websites like netflix can't, say use 100 Mbps H264, that would be crazy expensive. So they lower the bitrate and the quality ends up looking so horrible that even a DVD genuinely looks better.
>>107016740DVD is 480p which doesn't qualify as HD content
>>107016919H264 HD content at low bitrates genuinely looks worse than DVD.
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It's the same Mpeg2 encoding, the same exact bits.It looks the same as it ever did you were just watching it in motion on a CRT.
>>107016740>>Uhhh VHS bad, DVD good because DVD lasts forever.I guess you never owned a VHS then, the tape degraded with watching, and because it was analog recording, it lost quality as a result. DVD does not lose quality from normal operation. The data on it remains the same even if you watch it 100 times or make 100 copies.You'd have to physically destroy/damage the disc and even that results in just dropped frames, not the entire movie becoming like picrel.As for newer tech having better quality, that does not mean your DVDs won't retain the same picture quality as they did 28 years ago.
Reminder that VHS was mostly used to record Family Ties so you could watch it later.It did just fine in that capacity.
well you can restore those with either a monetary subscription to topaz and do it over the internet or if you have a 1200USD PC and willing to spend about 300USD more on unifab you can upscale your own videos from 480i which is most of the DVDs ever made into 1080.With a 5000USD pc you can upscale by yourself with comfyUI with nodes from videohelper and impact (to pass face,hands,body,eyes...) and enhance it with a 4x upscale model, it will be 1080p but it will work on the details a lot better than getting it just though an upscaler on its own (witch beats the living lights out FFmpeg every day of the week, even if you use the version with CUDAs to restore it cause muh lanczos upscale will only streech the picture without any care in the world for every frame without a care in the world no matter how little is your CRF factor is).I've been for 3 days trying non stop to get a workflow with comfyUI to upscale videos in 480i locally with a 8GB VRAM and 32GB ram but the ice is on the buffer fucking memory riding me insane.So far I tried and FAILED:>raw video file>splitting all frames with FFmpeg and doing a batch though it>Dividing both video and batch of frames into tiny pieces to rebuild original file later onI'm losing my marbles I hate being poor and wanting to restore shit, I just want to see the shit quality 80's and 90's porn in 1080p.
>>107016740I was shocked when I pulled out an old DVD I had and tried to watch it on my 50" tv. I thought something was broken because it looked so bad .. I found it on pluto or something and watched it for free streaming instead I guess it would look acceptable on a 13" tv
