I have the DVD-DL version of Harmy’s Despecialized Edition. Has anyone done an AB comparison between Harmy’s version on the DVD-DL versus on an actual blu-ray? To me it looks amazing, and of course I know blu-ray is a higher definition than DVD, but is it worth me buying a blu-ray burner and trying to get this on blu-ray?
I'm sure it looks fine, but the compression of a, what, 18 GB file into a 7.5 standard definition disc has got to be pretty bad.
Oh, you're probably talking about the AVCHD, the DVD that plays HD files on your Blu-ray player. That's not bad at all. Just some light compression artifacts, maybe.
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Thanks for your response. Yes, AVCHD. I would say that it looks worst when there are letters on the screen...the opening crawl for instance. I have a 4K TV and a Sony Blu-Ray. If you're standing at the TV you can see it's not as sharp, but even just sitting on the couch it's pretty stunning. So maybe not worth getting a blu-ray burner?
If your Blu-ray player can handle MKV files, try to load the full HD file on a hard drive and play it straight from there.
That or really, Blu-ray burners are like $75.
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I'd say that a BD burner isn't worth it.. But if your bluray player accepts MKVs, that could be interesting!
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So you're saying dump it on a hard drive, plug the hard drive into a USB port on my blu-ray player? I"ll see if that works. But yes, blu-ray burners really aren't that much. Amazon has them for under $60
If it supports the file format, yes.
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Thanks for your response. Yes, AVCHD. I would say that it looks worst when there are letters on the screen...the opening crawl for instance. I have a 4K TV and a Sony Blu-Ray. If you're standing at the TV you can see it's not as sharp, but even just sitting on the couch it's pretty stunning. So maybe not worth getting a blu-ray burner?
That could also be that you're watching a 720p video on a 4k TV. You may not even notice a difference with the MKV.
Probably. I hadn't noticed a huge difference from my old LG to my new one with 4K until now.
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BB-8 said:
So you're saying dump it on a hard drive, plug the hard drive into a USB port on my blu-ray player? I"ll see if that works. But yes, blu-ray burners really aren't that much. Amazon has them for under $60
Follow these steps with the MKV to remux it into an AVCHD file that can be read from a thumbdrive by a Sony blu-ray player or PS3 (without further compressing into the 9gb file size for burning onto DVD-DL):
This 18gb AVCHD file has played in every Sony blu-ray player I've tried (old and new) with USB playback, with the exception of the PS4.
I think it looks much better than the DVD-DL and of course you get the incredible DTS-HD MA soundtracks, which blow the lossy tracks on the DVD-DL out of the water. Use the same process for Empire Strikes Back 2.0.
I'm not really sure why today anyone would want to bother with a highly compressed DVD-9 of an HD file. BD burners are really pretty cheap these days and 25 gig Blu-Ray media isn't that pricy. This isn't like 2006 when prices were astronomical. Not knocking anyone, just saying...
Hard Drives are really cheap these days too and as far as I'm concerned, it's the best way to go if you're not looking to burn custom blurays.
You can take an external drive over to a friends house that has a bluray player or pc and still be able to watch it in the highest quality.
Just my $0.02 on the matter.
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I received a Blu Ray burner as a gift a couple weeks ago and immediately made discs from the DE MKVs, and good lord is it an improvement on the DVD-9. If your Blu Ray player supports it you can probably get away with just playing the files from a hard drive, but I've got an older Sony that only takes drives formatted to FAT32, which puts a 4 GB cap on individual file size. I don't know that I would have bought the burner on my own, but if you've got a friend or family member with one and your player won't take the MKVs, you should at least try to use someone else's to get them on discs, because they're really gorgeous.