Re: [NEWS] Some Warner Bros DVD releases suffering from 'laser rot'

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:46:51 -0700, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-03-24 06:35:50 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
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Wiseguy comments about dvd collectors not (re)watching
their own stuff and so not realizing the damage
is welcome.

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Unfortunately there simply isn't enough time in the day to keep
re-watching a large collection of just to see if the discs are going
bad. That list you posted alone would take months, if not years, to
watch it all, and then (like painting teh Golden Gate bridge) you'd
have to start over again in case the discs began going bad after you
watched it last time.
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No doubt there will soon be law suits springing up as Americans pick up
their usual "sue 'em all" attitude and take Warner Bros. to court.

I have many on that list, much of what I haven't watched
yet. I'm going to use this list as a guide, so I'm
going to go on a heavy Warners diet for a while.

Consumer advocacy is weak, and it only seems like anyone can
be sued for anything; if there's a lawsuit, the wrong people
will sue the wrong people. But the blame is ultimately on Warners,
particularly because Warner Home Video has not been upfront
on any of this. Warners Home Video is the one who should be
providing the lists, and not having us to rely on hearsay.

Later, Warners Home Video has been doing *bad* work on Blu-ray,
usually using half-bit rate discs and keeping a corporate
policy of never using more than 30 gigs on a 50 gig double
layer blu-ray, as well as using "noise reduction" to reduce
the amount of data to compress, furthering the muffling of the
picture. It's treatment of it's cartoons on Blu-ray like
The Flintstones (11 bps out of 40), Scooby-Do (11 bps out of 40
on 4 half-bitrate discs), Bugs Bunny 80th (12-19 bps), Rick
And Morty (9-11 bps) etc.,show cheating the customer to be a
a practice of Warners new management. The facts are that
mass duplication of Blu-Rays and DVDs is the cheapest part of
a video release, and there is no excuse forbit-starving.
They are wasting engineering costs on compression, and the heavy
processing of the video and audio that that entails in trying
to hide the effects of the low bit-rate.