• GarboDog@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    DVD is perfectly fine resolution, not everyone even has a 4K screen or TV. Most people still have 720x1080 or 1080x1920p screens or TVs. Our tv personally is 720x1080 and it looks just fine.

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      5 hours ago

      That’s a 15 year old TV at least and of course you don’t see a difference on that. My 4k is at least 6 years old. If I bought one now I would not be able to buy lower res.

      DVD is pal or ntsc and if you played that on a monitor the picture is as small as phone. It’s like the lowest SVGA res

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      5 hours ago

      I found out the hard way that 4k Blu-ray need a special player. That it won’t work on Ps2/PS3/PS4 I already have. Only "regular blue-ray play on those.

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        34 minutes ago

        Yeah, you need a PS5 to play ultras. But what’s even dumber is neither 4 nor 5 can play regular old music CDs

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        4 hours ago

        People did have problems, there just wasn’t an (affordable) alternative. If you would go back to the 70/80’s and offered anyone the choice between 480p and 1080p, all else being equal. Would anyone pick 480? I know I wouldn’t

        It’s not because we learned to live with it or didn’t know better, that it was the best option.

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          3 hours ago

          I lived through the 70s and 80s. Didn’t know what 480p even was til the 90s, so I have direct experience with CRT usage. Bonus: we didn’t even have a color TV til the mid 80s at my house

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            1 hour ago

            Because you didn’t know it was called 480p or knew of better options doesn’t mean you can’t see that it wasn’t great or improvable. You knew colour existed before getting a colour, TV so you knew it could be better…

      • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        People had 56k modems and no one had any problems, my Gameboy was monochrome and you saw nothing in the sun, no problems there either…