Here's a quick list of poor quality Blu-rays with good reasons to avoid, but plenty more bad Blu-rays A useful website reviewing different Blu-ray releases is: Sometimes directors mess with the Blu-ray so you end up with a botched Muppet version of Star Wars when we all know Han shot first on the VHS and Limited Edition DVD. Some have noticeable encoding artifacts and poorly applied smoothing or sharpening masks. Some 'remastered' Blu-rays I wasted money on were re-colour-graded by colourblind people who think slapping a blue/orange or green filter over everything makes things look more 'cinematic' which destroys the original bright vivid colours. Some of the Blu-ray transfers you wrongly claim are "far superior" have horrible English dubs without the original language, no subtitles or poorly made subtitles or occasionally multiple burned-in subtitles, the wrong aspect ratio, no extra features and were clearly made from very poor source material. I collect lots of obscure Hong Kong, Chinese, Thai and Japanese movies and the DVDs often had a lot of care put into their creation including multiple languages, multiple subtitles, commentary tracks, extra features and mini-documentaries, cinema and extended versions etc. They were a downgrade and complete waste of money, some unwatchable compared to their DVD counterparts. Some of my Blu-rays look far worse than the DVDs I already owned. Blu-ray transfer quality can be very hit or miss.
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