What are you talking about blurry? Upscaled DVD is perfectly fine. For most movies from the 80s and 90s it's not like you're going to notice a difference going to Blu Ray or UHD streaming.
> For most movies from the 80s and 90s it's not like you're going to notice a difference going to Blu Ray or UHD streaming.
Complete crock of shit. Movies from the 80s and 90s were usually shot on 35mm - DVD quality does not begin to extract the detail nor the dynamic range in these films.
It’s not a subtle difference.
And if bitstarving is an issue it’s usually going to be DVD. No amount of encoder magic can overcome MPEG-2 inherent shortcomings.
Speak for yourself. Upscaling a DVD to a 4k large TV looks tremendously bad unless you're doing it with specialized software with some format-aware intelligence in it. So you need a computer hooked to your TV.
There's plenty of bitrate starved streaming content that's available on streaming that's poorly upscaled from a DVD, but that's not the case on studio upscale Blu-Rays with extremely plentiful bitrates and sometimes even film re-scans resulting in a quality that was better than what you could even get in the theater from the original film stock.
UHD streaming, even if it is bit-starved, should be far ahead of a DVD. HD content that is bit-starved is more of a tossup, but I rarely see egregious behavior even from youtube's bad bitrates. I only see that on overcompressed television stations.
Goodwill is pretty neat. They save a lot of stuff from going to the dump. You can find some really interesting and inexpensive electronics there sometimes.
The ones around here ban most electronic donations, because people use them as an electronics disposal drop-off - dump an old compute on Goodwill, avoid the recycling fee, it doesn't sell, Goodwill has to pay the recycling fee.
More interestingly, and even strangelier, however, the Goodwills around here take electronics for resale and put it all on the shelves without verifying that anything works at all. I returned an item once because it started sparking when I turned it on. I could not get my money back, they don't do that, only in-store credit for the amount paid, good for only 30 days, and only at the same store as the original purchase. Fat chance that I found anything there on which to use a credit of $60 or $70 within a month. But I went back the next week to look for anything plausible. The same piece of smoldering dumpster-fire trash I had returned was back on the shelf.
Over a Russian cryptocoin? Weird spot to draw the line. Ethereum Classic is still running with billions of USD in market cap after the last fork that happened years ago. Why does anyone think this fork is anything except another way for the controllers to cash out before their scam bubble pops?
