The quality was exactly as he expected. It wasn't high definition. The subtitles were hardcoded, slightly pixelated at the edges. The colors were muted, washed out by the XviD compression codec of the mid-2000s.
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But that wasn't the point. The DVDRip was the point. The compression artifacts were the point. The slight murkiness in the dark scenes, the audio that sounded slightly boxed in—it was like listening to a song on vinyl with the dust pops included. It was an experience filtered through time, a connection to the person who, seventeen years ago, had sat at a computer not unlike his own, ripping a DVD they had likely smuggled from a festival or ordered from overseas. The quality was exactly as he expected