[chipuni]

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!

[shiroiuma]

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.

[hulitu]

> 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.

[shiroiuma]

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).

[Clamchop]

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