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grov10
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3/20
Posted - May 15 2024 : 11:41AM
Recently bought DVDs from Jules Jordan (Flesh Hunter 2 w/Jenna Haze) and Evasive Angels (w/Amber Lynn and pregnant Nancy Vee). They are very poor quality. I don't know why. I use VLC Player to play them and it is one of the best Video players around. I can't find a way to play retail DVDs (VOB files) with Windows Media Player. (I use Windows 10, too.)
gffphann
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113 Posts
5/18
Posted - May 19 2024 : 10:59AM
You might have luck with a Blu-ray player. I've had DVD's that wouldn't play at all on my DVD player that played just fine on my Blu-ray one.
Takeo
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104 Posts
5/00
Posted - Aug 2 2024 : 9:53AM
Bear in mind this movie is from 2002. The in-camera image quality wouldn't have been as good as with today's equipment. VLC wouldn't be an issue.
Lexifan99
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540 Posts
6/23
Posted - Aug 12 2024 : 1:03PM
flesh hunter 2 is so old they may have just transferred the vhs copy to a disc. i know a lot of vintage dvds and even a lot from the 1990s are literally vhs transferred to a disc which does nothing to improve the original source quality. its depressing but a lot of scenes pre 2005 are going to look like crap even off of dvd. they were essentially using home movie camcorders to record smut for the longest time. sadly the scene is only as good as the camera it was recorded on. does not matter what kind of fancy tv or disc its being viewed on.
Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 12 2024 : 1:28PM
They didn't use a home movie camcorder, they used professional cameras. The issue is that tape decays and there is only so much resolution available on pro-grade tape.
 
Bella
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383 Posts
3/23
Posted - Aug 18 2024 : 1:09PM
One of the big problems with American DVD's isn't the original native resolution film directly from the camera, but in transfer to DVD disk, they did a poor job in DVD production, also back before HD TV's image quality wasn't a real problem because the standard TV's couldn't display but so much resolution anyway, my old Ed Powers DVD's from the late 90's, early 00's looked ok on the old cathode ray tube display, but now playing them on my 16:9 HD monitor I can see all the graininess which wasn't from Ed's camera but from DVD transfer, Ed did use what looked like a Handyman camcorder with the little flip out screen, he gets in the shot sometimes with it, but also he used a big shoulder mounted camera which should have produced crystal clear image quality, and the camcorder should have produced pretty good image clarity, it's the DVD production where it wen't down hill, not just for Ed but every porn studio from that period had substandard DVD quality, I'm wondering did they all use the same outfit for mass production, you know, some big outfit they hired to copy film to thousands of DVD's?

Having said that, there are quite a few Films from that period on DVD that have outstanding image clarity, they used a better DVD rendering process, it all depends who the lowest bidder was weather you got high quality transfer or substandard, I'm just hypothesizing here, I have no idea what goes on behind the scenes with DVD production, just my theory, in my own experience on my home computer the video editing software which ever brand it is, the rendering process kills image quality if converting from MP4 to MPEG for example, it's some conversion process that is killing image quality while burning to disk, again that's my guess, I have no direct knowledge what's going on in porn DVD production outfits.

The absolute worst DVD's on the market today are widescreen, they have the absolute worst image quality, I've gotten away from buying modern porn DVD's on account of it, I don't understand what the problem is but if you look at a regular Hollywood widescreen film it doesn't look that bad, but porn widescreen DVD's are horrible, what's going on here? I don't buy them anymore, in fact what I have purchased over the years that number in the hundreds if not thousands, I recently concluded it was all a waste of money because of the pathetic image quality, sometimes they have written on the box "shot in HD", what a joke, yes it was shot in HD but not displayed on the disk in HD unless it's a blu ray, do you know anybody who has a blu ray porn collection? Me neither.

Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 18 2024 : 3:56PM
I have a Blu-ray porn collection
Lexifan99
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6/23
Posted - Aug 19 2024 : 4:10PM
i guess more companies than i had thought did release for a short time on blu ray. just looking at adultdvdmarketplace now. what is the quality like though? are most of your titles actually blu ray quality or is it just the dvd version slapped on to a blu ray disc? there is issue sometimes with known hollywood movies being transferred to blu ray. people on forums complaining about the picture quality not being blu ray standard yet it being on a blu ray disc. i can only imagine with the porn industry and the much lower standards\production practices. i want to get some anabolic blu rays but am afraid they will not be great to look at therefor a waste of format.


Edited by - lexifan99 on 8/19/2024 4:39:35 PM

Bella
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383 Posts
3/23
Posted - Aug 24 2024 : 11:51AM
^^ All porn I watch on computer now, the DVD and Blu Ray players collect dust, every DVD I purchase gets immediately burned to hard drives, I touch the disk one time then goes on the shelf forever, the copyrite shit on the blu rays keep me from burning to hard drives so I steered away from them, I had a PC with a blu ray player, it was the best computer I've ever owned but the damn thing got fried one night when lightening struck the house, everything got fried, fax machine, printers, I could watch the blu ray but couldn't record it, I'm sure there's a hack but I just don't have the time, just wan't to burn the disk to HD and be done with it, there's so much more control with the movie on a hard drive, you never have to push a fast forward button, just quick scroll with your mouse to the part you wan't, don't have to fast forward or skip through the opening credits every time, the blu rays are a more problematic, or pain in the ass I should say!

If the industries would just press better quality standard widescreen DVD's is all I need, I don't need 4K, just wan't a sharp image without the out of focus looking fuzzy image from most widescreens now, many of my 4/3 rez vids from the 00's have much sharper image quality than the typical 16/9's today, what the Hell is going on? They just don't give a shit I guess.

Some of the worst image quality DVD's I have are from Filly Films, also Some of the older Abby Winters were bad too, and Nubile Films were absolutely horrible, I purchased one Sex Art DVD that was so bad I vowed never again, but an older Bellezza DVD was as sharp as a whip, so the Bellezza people did it right, why are the other big brand producers putting out terrible DVD's when an amateur has picture perfect DVD's?

Example screen grab from Bellezza 1
Bellezza 1, Scene 1_20240824105040.jpg

Example comparison screen grab from Nubile Films DVD "How To Please" and MP4 "Prime Pussy Eating" (Aiko Mai & Timea Bella) download from the site, the DVD image quality was so bad I subscribed to Nubile Films just so I could have this scene with better picture quality!

From DVD "How To Please"
How To Please You, Scene 2_20240824153839.jpg
How To Please You, Scene 2_20240824153951.jpg

MP4 "Prime Pussy Eating"
Nubile Films, Aiko Mai & Luciana, Prime Pussy Eating, Feb 28, 2016, 20 minutes_20240824154803.jpg
Nubile Films, Aiko Mai & Luciana, Prime Pussy Eating, Feb 28, 2016, 20 minutes_20240824155026.jpg

Of course the 1080 MP4 is always gonna have better image quality but there's no excuse for the DVD to have such poor image quality, absolute disgrace, I won't buy another DVD from them.


Edited by - Bella on 8/24/2024 4:12:56 PM

Dakota
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Posted - Aug 29 2024 : 2:58PM
Hello. Did you try to upscale the video using an online service ?
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Takeo
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104 Posts
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Posted - Sep 29 2024 : 9:01AM
Very interesting post. I collect American porn in the 2000-2005 era and one thing that is very disappointing is that there was a whole era around 2004 where RLD and Platinum X released DVDs with this absolutely horrible chromatic aberration. All the edges of the performers have this horrible blue or green ghosting. I found a thread on here about it where this was pointed out and late Brandon Iron got very defensive about it claiming they made the best quality product in the industry. I'm thinking TVs at the time just didn't reveal these poor quality transfers.

Edited by - Takeo on 12/21/2024 2:28:53 AM

Bella
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383 Posts
3/23
Posted - Nov 7 2024 : 9:35PM
^ You pretty much nailed it with TV's back in early 00's, you didn't really need super high rez dvd with crystal clear image quality because the tv wasn't going to display that much detail anyway, so a lot of dvd's were a little fuzzy which we noticed as hd tv's replaced the big boxy cathode ray tubes, but the worst thing of all is here we are in late 2024 and wide screen DVD's just have deplorable image quality, in my opinion, I don't see any Hollywood films with this poor image quality, I watch many non porn films on my computer also and I don't see the compression like in porn dvd's, and porn dvd's are where we wan't the clearest image right?

You porn companies are doing a lousy job with these wide screen dvd's man, what can I say, have one of your reps go down to the Hollywood factory and see what they're doing maybe learn a thing or two.

Speak of the devil, little story about a dvd from Europe I purchased awhile back, about a year ago or more while browsing one of those tube sites you can't mention here, which I don't visit anymore because of age verification BS, I found a really hot looking lez scene that looked like it was shot in Germany, the girls were wearing dirndl dresses with mountains in the background, man I had to find this thing, of course the tube site gave no information about it, I wen't on a tear on the net looking for this scene, what studio was it? Who were the models? was there a dvd? By the grace of God I found it, from a movie titled Heidi: Das Luder von der Alm #14, translation: Heidi, The Slut From The Alps 14, or bitch from the Alps whatever, low and behold I found it on Jeedoo, ordered it, when it arrived my heart was fluttering from the excitement waiting to see this thing, put it in my PC, ripped it to my HD, now for the moment of truth, I'm going to finally see what I worked so hard to find in all it's glory, here are a few screen grabs...

Heidi, The Bitch From the Alps 14, Scene 1_20241107195921.jpg
Heidi, The Bitch From the Alps 14, Scene 1_20241107200406.jpg

The first thing you notice if you can see it the image quality is extremely poor, but the worst thing is this is supposed to be a 16:9 film, but it's being displayed in 4:3, so when they cut this dvd they fucked up the aspect ratio, I mean WTF man!
I've had enough of this shit, this is fucking uncalled for, a fucking rip off, I really wanted to see the Alps in HD!

Stills from a solo scene in the film, look at those beautiful mountains I can't see!

Heidi, The Bitch From the Alps 14, Scene 2_20241107192914.jpg
Heidi, The Bitch From the Alps 14, Scene 2_20241107195715.jpg

They made a series of these, Heidi: The Bitch From the Alps, the main star Heidi happens to be Sabrina White Sabrina White

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You can see the box images are clear as a bell, but the movie is awful, not the content of the movie, the stars are wonderful, looks like the had a lot of fun making this series, too bad image quality is so poor.




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