With Christopher Nolan praising the benefits of 4K Blu-ray, is now the time to revisit physical media?
is now the time to revisit physical media?
It was never time to leave it.
The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming
Submitted 8 months ago by realcaseyrollins to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 months ago
viking@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Takes away a ton of space, compared to a bunch of SSD or HDDs. I’ve got 8000+ movies in full HD and above contained in the same space maybe 30 DVD/bluray cases would occupy.
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
It's worth it though. I like the steelbooks and everything that are in my collection, looking at them is nice.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Better experience, and it can’t be taken from you at a whim of a licensing agreement, so, yes?
antisuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The problem is, why would they let you buy it outright when they can rent it to you by way of a subscription?
I don’t think even Christopher Nolan can stop this level of greed, that wants us to pay monthly for a fleeting second rate experience.
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
It's all about the money TBH. So long as companies can make money by selling discs, they will continue to do so.
bali@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Much like DVDs i think the most noticable differences will be Audio quality
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
I'm not an audiophile; how does to quality stack up between physical formats? I checked a bunch of my DVDs and apparently they have 5.1 surround sound.
xyzzy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Well if Christopher Nolan says so
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 8 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The 4K Blu-ray release of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer promptly sold out at major retailers just weeks after its director stood onstage to proudly talk about the amount of care and attention that the team was putting into it.
James Cameron is currently in the midst of rereleasing films including Titanic, Aliens, and The Abyss on 4K discs, and last year, Disney reissued Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Even digital titles bought outright aren’t totally safe, as we saw when Sony threatened to pull Discovery content its customers had purchased through the PlayStation Store (even if it didn’t go through with it in the end) or the forthcoming shutdown of the Funimation app and website.
TV reviewer Vincent Teoh, of the YouTube channel HDTVTest, says he personally can’t tell the difference between a disc and a streaming service like Sony’s Bravia Core, which has a bitrate of up to 80Mbps.
John Clancy, who runs the Movie Collector YouTube channel, argues you really need a projector and a large screen to get the best out of a 4K disc and that, at regular TV sizes, the differences between physical and streaming can be “a little academic.”
But stepping up to a standalone model can come with advantages including support for standards like Dolby Vision and a nicer interface based around a traditional TV remote rather than a gamepad.
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Vent@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Bluray provides a much better experience than streaming, yes. But, there’s a secret they don’t want you to know: you can stream blurays too.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, wired ethernet and a home server and bit rate isn’t an issue.