[News] CDL 2022-2023 & 25th Anniversary LIVE DVD/BD release on July 1st

[LOONAppears]

Originally Posted by voguehoney

Wait…why cancelled “Because of you” at CDL 22-23 DVD/BD” ？

Originally Posted by Ntimem2022

Because of you was (for me) the worst presentation in CDL22-23. Her vocals was horrible u.u Maybe she felt the same...

yall, dont scare me like that Because of you is my fave song from Memorial address!! Besides they can just dub the performance, bcuz ppl (or i guess at least me) mostly watch her shows for the theatrics not the vocals LMAO that's mother but she's no mariah or whitney!! and that's okay!

anyways, this woman is gonna be the death of me cuz only for her would i fork over almost $150 for 2 Blu-rays... and that's not even including the tenso shipping and handling fee i'll have to pay later but I really did love the 25th anniversary show and i never got to finish the CDL 22-23 show so i'm excited to watch them in HD quality as well with better audio. this is gonna be my first standalone ayu concert video i'll own as well!!! the concerts i have are because they came packaged with an album (CDL 06-07 on A BEST 2 -WHITE- and a-nation '20 on Remember you TA edition)

[summerain]

Originally Posted by LOONAppears

this is gonna be my first standalone ayu concert video i'll own as well!!! the concerts i have are because they came packaged with an album (CDL 06-07 on A BEST 2 -WHITE- and a-nation '20 on Remember you TA edition)

This reminds me that we haven't had a proper rip of the Blu-ray version of this show so far.

[LOONAppears]

Originally Posted by summerain

This reminds me that we haven't had a proper rip of the Blu-ray version of this show so far.

If i knew how to rip Blu-rays i'd do it... does anyone have a tutorial or something?

[_dandy_]

Originally Posted by LOONAppears

If i knew how to rip Blu-rays i'd do it... does anyone have a tutorial or something?

I've used RedFox AnyDVD HD (https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html) for years to backup my purchases, both DVD and Blu-ray. It creates an icon next to the system clock in Windows; pop in the disc, wait a few seconds, right-click on the icon, then click on Rip to Image. It's really that simple.

That creates a 1:1 rip, which means it's 100% identical to the original. Personally, this is what I prefer; even though a full concert might be up to ~50GB, disk space is cheap, and after some bad experiences, I can't bring myself to blindly trust re-encoding with various codecs with an infinite number of settings to try. Then sit through the whole thing again from end-to-end, looking for glitches.

AnyDVD isn't free, but they have a free trial (3 weeks, I think). Once the trial period is over, even if you remove it, it leaves some markers (somewhere) and reinstalling will fail. I can't bring myself to purchase it - I do *not* support subscription-based software (purely on principle), and I think their asking price of 109 euros for an outright purchase is ridiculous, especially considering what they sell is sort of gray-market in some countries.

Do with this information what you will.