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by hulitu 954 days ago
> 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.
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shiroiuma 953 days ago
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).

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Clamchop 954 days ago
DVD video supports different resolutions, but so far as I know, the vast majority of them were standard def, 480p in the American market.
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