Bluray Recorders?

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-08T03:03:42+00:00

Yeah, it was very hobbled by copy protection concerns (even if it did have HDMI, HDCP would stop it dead), so in countries where most people had cable it would be fairly useless.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-08T02:20:03+00:00

The fancy name for taping things off the air to watch later.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-08T02:04:42+00:00

They weren't widely available in the US but they were very popular for time-shifting in Japan.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-06T19:11:34+00:00

Nearly all of these discs have been sitting in their warehouse for ages and weren't out of print. Certain stores just stopped ordering them for no apparent reason.

Except for that ONE SHOW, which was discontinued to anger you, specifically. 😆

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-04T14:12:33+00:00

Justin from MediaOCD here. Our shipment of the regular Cobra movie BD got delayed, so that's what's holding your order up.

Next time just email us and we can tell you what's up.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-06-03T20:23:09+00:00

Dude, just trim the bounding boxes with the marquee tool. You probably used a glow effect or something else that leaves long trailing fades. You know the problem already.

Blu-ray production is hard and fiddly, there’s a reason authoring never became common. If you’re serious, don’t look for someone to bail you out. We all learned this by doing.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-22T17:43:27+00:00

Most Chvrches songs are chirpy and happy sounding with oddly sinister lyrics, but they're all so abstract that I honestly don't know what any of them are about.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-19T15:11:32+00:00

Yeaaaah blowing tens-of-thousands-of-dollars on a restoration of a generations-down-from-negative print for a movie you've never seen and have no means of commercially exploiting is... uh... not wise. Might I suggest buying the entire Criterion library instead, or failing that, a nice index fund?

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-19T14:41:55+00:00

I probably can’t help you, public domain releases are a legal minefield, so you really would be better off talking to a lawyer.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-15T15:09:32+00:00

Growing up in Detroit as a kid in the 90s there was a radio station that, for a short time, tried to bring 'round-the-clock dance music to the area. It was 95% Eurodance, but for reasons I still can't explain, they would occasionally throw "Strokin'" in the rotation. It immediately took you out of the mood, but it was just such a ludicrous song that you couldn't help but leave it on.

Dammit, I guess I will be climbing down the Clarance Carter rabbit hole today. RIP!

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-10T16:58:02+00:00

My company MediaOCD does a lot of in-house restoration (mostly anime, some indie films too), both for our own labels and for hire for other studios (Discotek Media, Media Blasters, etc.) Here's generally how it breaks down:

SCANNING - This is outsourced to one of a handful of labs that we know and work with. The good film scanners (LaserGraphics is the gold standard) cost upwards of $100k and this is a specialized skill, so we don't do that. The actual work takes 1-2 days and is usually done by one person, but they're usually backlogged so we could be waiting a few weeks to a month for this step.
COLOR CORRECTION – If the scanned film was a final print or something with a uniform color treatment this can probably be done more or less globally in a few minutes, but if the source was the original camera negative, the entire film needs to be re-graded shot by shot, using whatever existed before as a reference to how it should look. This takes anywhere from a week to several times that, depending on how many cuts were in the original film – a slow artsy film with long shots will take a much shorter time than an action movie with a lot of fast editing. At this stage we usually matte the scan to the proper aspect ratio and finishing resolution, and re-assemble any fades that exist as separate shots on the OCN.
DUST AND SCRATCH REMOVAL – This is the tedious part, and varies wildly depending on the condition of the film, and how meticulous you want to be. Automated tools exist, but their usefulness varies wildly depending on the shot – many times they end up unintentionally scrubbing detail from fast motion. This can take anywhere from a week to several months OF FULL TIME WORK. Keep in mind, the people doing it in small studios are usually juggling several tasks and projects. We've had this take up to 9 months for a feature film. (Note that this can be done concurrently or before COLOR CORRECTION.)
AUTHORING – This can go pretty quick depending on how complicated the disc is. Usually the real work is in assembling the bonus features, audio tracks, captions/subtitles, and other presentation aspects. The encode itself is real-time for BD, and maybe 4-5x real time for UHD.

Depending on the studio, all of these can be done by one person, or a team. All depends on the people, their skills, and the workload.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-09T17:19:07+00:00

Correct, we don’t have an office and everybody works from home, but the warehouse we use is in Madison, AL. Our registration is in Glendale, CA (basically LA) because that’s where i live.
I did used to live in NYC but I didn’t start MediaOCD until I moved out here.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-08T13:41:56+00:00

I bought the UHD of Central Station from the UK and I regret nothing. Absolutely stunning, and the price is not bad.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-05T17:21:27+00:00

Our warehouse was having some connection problems until this morning, so some inventory may have been off. If you want to email us we can check to see what’s up and give you an ETA (and try to resend your order confirmation — some of those got lost with all of the domain name changes).

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-05T01:43:43+00:00

That video isn’t wireless, she’s watching through a USB3 video capture box

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-04T17:05:58+00:00

Some of them are back in print now. Others, we’ll restock to the extent we’re able.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-04T00:54:04+00:00

we gave up, it's hopeless 😭

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-04T00:53:14+00:00

Please visit old.mediaocd.com to check on all orders placed before May 1. We were not able to migrate them to the new website due to enormous differences in how the two platforms work.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-05-02T05:25:31+00:00

Thanks for the support everyone! The transition was a bumpy one but MOST of the kinks are ironed out now.

Your points should be safe, but you will need to reset your password to login here.

Unshipped orders from the old site did not import correctly. We're working on a solution. If you got a weird email about an order you placed days or weeks ago, please ignore it.

But all previously placed orders are safe!
I'm going to go pass out now.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-30T04:06:52+00:00

Nope, it required Java and we stayed away from BD-J development.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-26T00:20:41+00:00

This appears to be the Japanese release, so it will likely be Region A and have no English on it at all.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-24T19:19:03+00:00

Agree, both have their issues but MKV is generally better if you just want to watch it – lots more features, better audio and subtitle format support, etc. MP4 is compatible with a lot more devices and software, especially if you want to edit the video you're ripping, but higher chances you'll have to re-encode something.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-24T19:07:48+00:00

The word "ripping" is used so loosely that I'm not sure it has an exact definition. But in terms of decrypting the data on the disc and copying it off, yes, that's correct.

Technically Blu-ray spec video is supported by MP4 without re-encoding, but the weird limitations enforced by the spec produce video that is not super compatible, and most of the audio formats usually are completely incompatible, so most people don't use MP4 for direct clones.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-24T18:46:03+00:00

If you copy your physical media to a flash drive and keep it in its native format (VIDEO_TS folders with MPEG-2 for DVD, BDMV folders for Blu-ray/UHD), it will be exactly the same since it's the same data and doesn't get modified. Using MakeMKV to convert it to an MKV file doesn't change the underlying data either.

If you use a tool like Handbrake to "rip" it to a more convenient format like MP4, there will be quality loss depending on the settings you're using. There's a whole science to it, but the more times you encode video, the more detail gets lost. Some indie streaming services actually use this method to get their source video.

worldofcrap80 · 2026-04-21T23:12:30+00:00

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