bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 1 day ago:
To you maybe not. It bothers some people and especially in cases when the stream isn’t optimal and the scene is dark it can be pretty bad.
Another difference is multichannel audio. It’s much less compressed on 4k Bluray, so if you have a surround setup most people report easily being able to tell a difference.
Also older movies with film grain is something streaming struggles with. (Check out this video about how confetti wrecks YouTube quality for an idea why) 4KBD has a much higher bitrate and will handle this noticably better. A proper scan of old film movies can still yield nearly 8k resolution footage! This also applies to any scene even in modern movies with a ton of stuff moving at once especially if the camera is moving around. The bigger and/or closer your screen is the more noticable this is.
If you care enough to have a decent home media setup, surround sound with a large 4K HDR screen it’s worth it.
But yeah for most people streaming is perfectly fine on the quality front.
But also you have the other benefit - you own the damn thing. It can’t be taken away. They sometimes have extra content with the discs. It doesn’t cost you a monthly fee.
I stream many things. But if I really like something I’ll grab the Bluray.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 days ago:
I find the easiest way to spot the quality difference is a dark scene. On streaming look at the dark areas. You’ll likely see bands and patches of different levels of black if you pay attention.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 days ago:
Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.
4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.
- Comment on AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th 2 months ago:
The 9950X3D will likely be one of the best gaming CPUs around by raw numbers but some early leaks are showing it probably isn’t going to be worth the money over current chips like the 7800X3D - but wait for reviews obviously
- Comment on AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th 2 months ago:
Just got a 5700X3D as a final upgrade to my AM4 board. Great upgrade. Wanted a 5800X3D but they’re almost impossible to find so the 5700X3D was only 5% lower in most scores and only about $200. Also got two more 8GB sticks of RAM and a 7800XT
That should get me through this decade I think
- Comment on Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense 3 months ago:
Jesus Christ
- Comment on Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices 4 months ago:
Definitely doesn’t have even close to the graphical horsepower
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 4 months ago:
What are you talking about it’s just a laptop in gamepad form you can hook up PC peripherals and there will be zero difference.
- Comment on GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Finally, whoever has been maintaining the current one hasn’t let us have RetroAchievement support last I checked
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 10 months ago:
I mean, sure. But I certainly wouldn’t be confused why someone did.
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 10 months ago:
lemmy.ml, one of the larger instances and the original? Seems good enough reason to me.
- Comment on It Fits Perfectly! 1 year ago:
On an objective level, your opinion is wrong. However some people have wrong tastes and that’s okay.
- Comment on It Fits Perfectly! 1 year ago:
Ginger and orange mints??? Holy shit I need these. Ginger and citrus are like, my favorite things.
- Comment on Crypto genius 1 year ago:
All*
*(Except government debt, and student loans.)
- Comment on Crypto genius 1 year ago:
Fun fact you also don’t need to go to prison for your crypto to depreciate!
- Comment on new rule 1 year ago:
A piece of paper that sticks to something is a sticker.
- Comment on This very important strike you probably haven't heard of has now been going on for about 6 months 1 year ago:
Seems pretty clear cut unfortunately. “Employees performing such duties meet the duties requirement of the exemption regardless of the proportion of “safety affecting activities” performed”
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
CDMX
- Comment on This very important strike you probably haven't heard of has now been going on for about 6 months 1 year ago:
Yeah but I am driving a 53’ semi and could reasonably be asked to go across state lines so I would still be exempt.
(generally us office staff would only cover shorter stuff if a driver calls out, but it could reasonably happen)
- Comment on what is the correct way to use the word "backorder" in English? 1 year ago:
“Sorry, that product is currently on backorder. I can add you to the list if you’d like.”
“The product launch was a huge success, it’s currently backordered!”
- Comment on This very important strike you probably haven't heard of has now been going on for about 6 months 1 year ago:
Wrong, I’m a truck driver and therefore exempt.
I work in the office 99% of the time… but once or twice a month I do have to drive.
- Comment on This very important strike you probably haven't heard of has now been going on for about 6 months 1 year ago:
Fuck I feel that 12 hours with no overtime… I work 60 hours a week with no overtime. Hourly
How do I start some shit, I don’t know how much longer I can do this
- Comment on Anon does a little trolling 1 year ago:
lmao I’m dumb
- Comment on Build him a dungeon? 1 year ago:
Can we not photoshop sexual paraphernalia onto children thx
- Comment on Onions are a violation of the terms of service. 1 year ago:
What app?
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 1 year ago:
It’s not about being able to cover their liabilities, but charging ridiculous rates partially due to the fact that they also need to pay multimillion dollar advertising budgets. Or worse, bring the price down by giving shockingly low coverage that is somehow still legal.
Worse still, our healthcare system relies nearly solely on private healthcare… and yes they do it too. See: MetLife Stadium