#blu-rays

[yukipri]

The FANCIEST blu-ray box set I've ever seen...

The Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-Ray: Complete LOTR + Hobbit Trilogies, Extended Editions + all Appendices. Each movie has its own "book" that holds its discs, which are all stored in a special bookcase. There's also two beautiful art cards with art by Alan Lee and John Howe, and a completely filled red book that has all the ending character portraits from the movies and more.

This is a set from 2019, so there are higher resolution movie types/sets with different media that have been released since, but I can't top the presentation of this. I feel really lucky that I was able to find a reasonably priced second-hand set!

[raspberrydee]

can’t even BEGIN to describe how badly i need criterion to release a box set of the benoit blanc mysteries…

[hinamizawagrrl]

Here's a list of my top 10 fave anime, physical style! I promise I'll make some more in-depth, separate posts about the blu-rays I haven't already highlighted another time. Also: yes, horror is my fave genre ◕⩊◕

Boogiepop Phantom (2000)

Black Lagoon (2006)

Elfen Lied (2004)

Highschool of the Dead (2010)

Jormungand (2012)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

School Days (2007)

Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

Shiki (2010)

Higurashi When They Cry (2006)

This is not in any particular ranking order because, to be frank, I never think about things that way. My criteria for what makes something a fave is simply personal enjoyment. I've never been interested in what I call "critic culture", where everybody strives to have palatable taste, lest some internet stranger tell them that their taste is shit. I certainly don't care about arbitrary numerical ratings on websites, either.

[alpineshepherdlass]

FYI, if you’re into collecting Blu-rays/DVDs and not into Amazon, Kino Lorber is having their biggest sale of the year through Monday (4/21)

The Best In World Cinema - including European, Asian, Silent, documentary, and American Independent titles. Kino Lorber sells videos and dvd

[autolenaphilia]

Blu-ray DRM is really devilish. I use a program called makemkv to rip them, because there is no other way to play them on my laptop, and there are no legit linux options for blu-ray playback, you have to crack the drm to play them. The easiest solution is makemkv to rip the movies into files, it works out of the box.

But if the level of drm (aacs) on a particular blu-ray is higher than what Makemkv can handle, the disk will update the firmware on your drive to revoke access to makemkv, so it can't access any blu-rays.

"One famous “feature” of AACS is a so-called host revocation. It was designed to ensure that only “approved” software can use your drive. Every Blu-ray disc contains a file that has a list of host keys known to be used by "unauthorized" software. This list has a version number. The moment you insert the disc into your drive, the drive checks if the list is newer than the one it knows about, and if it is, the drive re-flashes itself (updates firmware)."

And that happened to me. It was a blu-ray of the 1972 Hammer horror movie Fear in the Night that did it. The one program that works with my blu-ray player now couldn't access any discs, including ones it had ripped before. And there are absolutely zero linux programs that are authorized to playback blu-ray discs.

I had to flash my drive's firmware to allow something called libredrive, which allows direct access to files and bypasses the aacs drm firmware.

And that was quite the journey. I had makemkv installed as a flatpak via my distro's software manager. and I needed to use the command line. Flatpaks are a great packaging format. but they are primarily for gui apps. So i had to build makemkv from source. And then I had to figure out the commandline for the firmware flashing tool included with makemkv, which was hard because the instructions linked flat out lie. There is no "flash" command for sdftools, there is only "rawflash", you have to read the thread carefully to find that out. This page helped. I had to download new patched libredrive firmware.

And finally i figured out the command I needed ""sdftool -d [drive name] rawflash main,enc -i [new firmware file name].bin. And now I can use my blu-ray drive again. It's now libredrive.

So much work to finally be able to use the drive I paid for, and the blu-ray discs I also paid for. I'm not running some major piracy operation, I just want to be able to watch movies I legally own on my laptop. And drm stopped me, and I had to break it.

This is why DRM is so bad, and anyone who uses it deserves all the piracy they are trying to stop with it. It's scummy to take someone's money and then interfere with their ability to use the copy of the products they own and paid for. It's such atrocious treatment of the customer that anyone who does it deserves to have their stuff pirated.

[czech-hunter-reject]

Remember, remember the 5th of November ⚔️

How terrifying it is that this film and comic seem to only be getting more and more relevant these days.

[yepthatsacowalright]

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

As streaming continues to dominate the film and TV industry, many Gen Z movie watchers are opting out and choosing physical formats instead.

"Luis Samra, an employee at Cinefile, has noticed both a flood of younger followers on the store’s Instagram page and an influx of college students coming into the shop. He says, every Friday night (when they are open until midnight), he sees Gen Z friend groups pour into the store, in search of the movies from David Lynch, David Cronenberg and anything from A24, the production company best known for movies like 'Hereditary,' 'Midsommar' and 'Marty Supreme.'

'It’s like an after-dinner hangout activity,' said Samra. 'They like to browse amongst each other and say ‘Have you seen this movie?’ or ‘Have you seen this director?’ And maybe one in three of those people usually come up and make a membership.'"

Not me tearing up reading that Gen Z is going to rental stores to look for movies together. 😭

[destino-terra-dos-sonhos]

Artes & Capas dos Blu-rays da 1ª Temporada de Yubisaki to Renren:

Yuki Itose & Itsuomi Nagi - Vol. 1

Rin Fujishiro & Kyouya Nagi - Vol. 2

Oushi Ashioki & Yuki Itose - Vol. 3

Shin Iryuu & Emma Nakazono - Vol. 4

Arte por Kasumi Sakai

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