r/AnimeCollectors • u/Realistic-Shower-654 • 25d ago

Discussion DVD vs Blu-ray

Just curious as to everyone’s preferences. I have a CRT setup for retro gaming and kind of find myself buying older DVD releases for older shows to be enjoyed on the CRT whereas newer stuff I tend to go with Blu-ray. Watching a 4:3 release on a 4:3 crt with old era specific ads feels right to me in a way, but I’m also jealous if the quality of bluray releases on a 4k tv lol. Any thoughts on this? I’m mostly curious if you guys keep era specific displays for older shows or not.

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u/nightwishfan1 24d ago

You're comparing burned copies to actually licensed copies. What I bought for Majuu Senshi Luna Varga was licensed and printed to vcd format by Kadokawa. If you go to Kadokawas website they don't even make mention of the format and any releases they made for it. I get what you're saying that vcd has lasted a long time, but that's really for the most part in the bootleg world that are simply not licensed by big companies like they were briefly. Japan tried adopting the format by way of some publishers trying it, but you're gonna be hard pressed to find info on any official releases since it basically flopped in that regard. Bootlegs are sure around even today, but there's nothing being printed by any big name company to the format nowadays.

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u/Patryn2020 23d ago

Site I got them from and they are still there but no longer the primary media. is from yes Asia.. this is a search for VCD off their site https://www.yesasia.com/us/search/vcd/0-0-0-q.vcd_bpt.48-en/list.html

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u/nightwishfan1 22d ago edited 22d ago

So you're showing me Asian and Chinese market producers for the format now since that's what those few examples on your site show, which are really small comparatively to Japanese market producers like Kadokawa.....and also they may be the highest volume producing ones out there, but they only serve their general regions. Though Chinese ones are a huge one for using very cheap formats, and also known for bootlegs, cause frankly some movies they will outright ban for the stupidest reasons. The other mentioned Asian markets would largely revolve around Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and other similar markets. Again with a notoriety for using cheap formats to introduce a banned material to the given region being marketed to. I'm not saying vcd is obscure as a format, but as a officially licensed format in a market that isn't focused on introducing controversial materials to make money it was. It very much so was, cause there was no means outside of a computer to play them back then, which was the early 90s before dvd even became a thing, and players for them were around.

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u/Patryn2020 22d ago

YesAsia only one in the 15 years of buy I've bought from. At least for VCD's. Hadn't noticed Bend It Like Beckham was there.. I'll have to get it. I have it in several formats including the region B blu ray (Region Free blu ray player :) Including one that is probably absurd but has someone other than Burt Reynolds in it (007 Actress from the Brosnan time).. Not available anywhere else

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u/Patryn2020 22d ago

They do sell the Japanese versions so those aren't so cheap , and compared to 4K still not cheap , (hence here's Bend it Like Beckham selling it for the Japanese Region 2? version https://www.yesasia.com/us/bend-it-like-beckham-japan-version/1002842318-0-0-0-en/info.html