When buying DVDs / Blu-rays I’m always trying to figure out before hand if what I’m looking at is uncut or the version I want. Usually I research online and then try to match up with the runtime listed on eBay or wherever I’m buying from.
All of you physical media junkies out there must know which sites are the best to find out this information on physical media releases. I appreciate any recommendations y’all might have.
I buy whatever is on sale.
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Sometimes I have to read the forum threads there to figure out which version of a particular DVD or BD I want. With BDs, I always want the one with the most film grain / least DNR.
With DVDs that doesn't matter so much because I only buy old TV shows on DVD which I watch on a standard-resolution CRT TV. The most important thing to me in the case of TV shows on DVD is that they have enough bitrate so that there's no visible compression artifacts.
One thing I've noticed about old TV shows on DVDs is that if you buy the original individual season box set releases, most of which were released in the '00s, they are good. But if you buy a later re-release in which the entire series has been combined into a single box set (most of which are from the '10s), they suck, because they tend to cram more episodes onto each DVD which means more compression. I know for a fact that Magnum, P.I. is like that, because I own both the complete series DVD box set (released in 2013) and all of the original individual season DVD box sets (staggered releases from 2004 to 2008). The 2013 one is low-bitrate, artifact-filled garbage.
Thanks to everyone for the replies. 👍
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