I’ve gone back to buying everything physical when I noticed how much Nintendoids chimp over old games.
It’s like a $60 loss versus a projected $30-40, and sometimes a profit if you sit on it long enough.
You're moronic. Most blu rays look like shit because they add color filters and other bullshit.
all films are color graded. I swear this board is getting dumber every year.
>Most blu rays look like shit because they add color filters
there is some truth to this too, though. A lot of times you actually have to put in the work to compare different bluray releases, because the ones that have been fricked with can be irritatingly ugly
compare the different versions of Jaws, or the infamous Criterion version of Memories of Murder to the Korean bluray
I love my blu-ray collection
How else do you listen to audio commentaries where film historians talk about old obscure westerns from the 40s and 50s? Can't find that shit on Netflix
Unironically being disc based. They should have been carts like Nintendo Switch games. Between disc rot and scratching the disc (this could even be caused by poor packaging), it's just not worth it.
They never improved the UI for bluray menus or took advantage of newer equipment having the memory and bandwidth to cache the data on the disk. I bought a decent player last year and I was thrown back in time to the early days of DVDs. They are so clunky to navigate. The worst thing though.??? Lots of blurays make you watch commercials at the beginning of each disk if you're watching a season of a show. Every 4 episodes you have to load a new disk and sit through a whiskey commercial or some bullshit. I own physical media and still stream lots of the shows because it's a more seamless experience
>Commercials
Yeah those suck, but I see them a lot less with blu rays now than I did with DVDs. AFAIK none of the blu rays I own other than maybe one of the Dark Knight Trilogy discs have them.
People probably didn't want to spend that much for movies.
People were already moving on to streaming, they're not likely to want to spend $10 to $15 more than a DVD for a slightly better picture quality.
They advertised the higher quality instead of the enhanced bonus features that Bluray could provide. DVD succeeded in large part thanks to all the things it could do that VHS couldn't. If they had put more effort into making and advertising Bluray bonus features (Java Games, FMV Games, extra commentaries and bonus footage that simply couldn't fit on DVDs) then they would've caught on more.
It was unnecessary. DVDs worked just fine. Then you add on the advent of digital and streaming and it was just a losing enterprise. Honestly I expect the next type of physical media to be cheap little crystal chips of some sort, like a guitar pick. You'll be able to put your entire movie collection in a little box, instead of it taking up a whole set of shelving, or multiple sets of shelving
Of course. Why do you think they went from VHS to Laserdiscs to DVDs to Blurays? Because they don't make a profit unless they get you to keep buying. They will introduce new physical formats to keep selling you and succeeding generations the same shit over and over again, as well as all the new stuff they put out
They will keep making higher resolution tvs so people will want to buy higher resolution movies. I keep seeing people online talking about chasing down the steelbooks and 4K DVDs of movies. I can't imagine they will ditch 4K to whatever the next physical release is, at least I hope not. It seems like you get diminshing returns for most movies anything past bluray quality.
The only thing higher resolutions seems to help on is stuff like video games. On movies I literally can't tell the difference between a normal bluray and a 4k version. Maybe it makes a difference on frickhuge tv, but not on the standard ones everyone has and is comfortable with
>It seems like you get diminshing returns for most movies anything past bluray quality.
with lots of old movies (ones on 16mm, or ones requiring considerable restoration, or where the original prints no longer exist, or with pretty much any old animated feature, etc.), that's absolutely the case, and only gets more true the smaller the screen they're being displayed on is
Nothing. Streaming providers have become so greedy that now my BD collection reigns supreme once more. I don't even have to whip out the autistic image/audio quality arguments.
nothing. physical media is just dead
I’ve gone back to buying everything physical when I noticed how much Nintendoids chimp over old games.
It’s like a $60 loss versus a projected $30-40, and sometimes a profit if you sit on it long enough.
And that's a good thing!
This but unironically. Imagine owning anything in 2024
Nothing, 4k UltraHD is a meme
Explain, without sounding moronic.
>What is bitrate?
>What is vector quantization?
>Why does this 720p rip look better than my SUPERULTRABIGDICK 12k SUPERULTRA?
the anon said to explain WITHOUT sounding moronic
Ah yes, morons and their famous rejection of marketing buzzwords.
moron
Don't worry - I'm sure the rest of your chromosomes will turn up eventually
I don't like having to research every time whether the Blu-ray is remastered like shit
I just hope it's not region locked
Nothing. 1080p is fine and HDR is a genuine fricking meme that looks wrong and is actually way beyond the color space of actual film.
You had to do that with DVD.
Bluray mastering is shocking.
I increasingly stick to DVDs.
DVDs look like shit compared to a "well mastered" bluray. Protip: it's not the mastering either, it's remaster of the films themselves.
has there ever been such a bluray?
You're moronic. Most blu rays look like shit because they add color filters and other bullshit.
all films are color graded. I swear this board is getting dumber every year.
Yeah but film colourists actually knew what they were doing.
this guy is correct
>Most blu rays look like shit because they add color filters
there is some truth to this too, though. A lot of times you actually have to put in the work to compare different bluray releases, because the ones that have been fricked with can be irritatingly ugly
compare the different versions of Jaws, or the infamous Criterion version of Memories of Murder to the Korean bluray
I love my blu-ray collection
How else do you listen to audio commentaries where film historians talk about old obscure westerns from the 40s and 50s? Can't find that shit on Netflix
Unironically being disc based. They should have been carts like Nintendo Switch games. Between disc rot and scratching the disc (this could even be caused by poor packaging), it's just not worth it.
I think they had to go with discs because people wouldn't buy a machine that isn't backwards compatible with DVD
They never improved the UI for bluray menus or took advantage of newer equipment having the memory and bandwidth to cache the data on the disk. I bought a decent player last year and I was thrown back in time to the early days of DVDs. They are so clunky to navigate. The worst thing though.??? Lots of blurays make you watch commercials at the beginning of each disk if you're watching a season of a show. Every 4 episodes you have to load a new disk and sit through a whiskey commercial or some bullshit. I own physical media and still stream lots of the shows because it's a more seamless experience
>Commercials
Yeah those suck, but I see them a lot less with blu rays now than I did with DVDs. AFAIK none of the blu rays I own other than maybe one of the Dark Knight Trilogy discs have them.
nothing this is literally the best time to buy physical media
People probably didn't want to spend that much for movies.
People were already moving on to streaming, they're not likely to want to spend $10 to $15 more than a DVD for a slightly better picture quality.
is there a way to verify which bluray remuxes are best
is there a comparison between framestor remuxes for example
Dvdbeaver.com
They advertised the higher quality instead of the enhanced bonus features that Bluray could provide. DVD succeeded in large part thanks to all the things it could do that VHS couldn't. If they had put more effort into making and advertising Bluray bonus features (Java Games, FMV Games, extra commentaries and bonus footage that simply couldn't fit on DVDs) then they would've caught on more.
It was unnecessary. DVDs worked just fine. Then you add on the advent of digital and streaming and it was just a losing enterprise. Honestly I expect the next type of physical media to be cheap little crystal chips of some sort, like a guitar pick. You'll be able to put your entire movie collection in a little box, instead of it taking up a whole set of shelving, or multiple sets of shelving
That sounds sick but do you really see physical making a comeback?
Of course. Why do you think they went from VHS to Laserdiscs to DVDs to Blurays? Because they don't make a profit unless they get you to keep buying. They will introduce new physical formats to keep selling you and succeeding generations the same shit over and over again, as well as all the new stuff they put out
They will keep making higher resolution tvs so people will want to buy higher resolution movies. I keep seeing people online talking about chasing down the steelbooks and 4K DVDs of movies. I can't imagine they will ditch 4K to whatever the next physical release is, at least I hope not. It seems like you get diminshing returns for most movies anything past bluray quality.
The only thing higher resolutions seems to help on is stuff like video games. On movies I literally can't tell the difference between a normal bluray and a 4k version. Maybe it makes a difference on frickhuge tv, but not on the standard ones everyone has and is comfortable with
>It seems like you get diminshing returns for most movies anything past bluray quality.
with lots of old movies (ones on 16mm, or ones requiring considerable restoration, or where the original prints no longer exist, or with pretty much any old animated feature, etc.), that's absolutely the case, and only gets more true the smaller the screen they're being displayed on is
Nothing. Streaming providers have become so greedy that now my BD collection reigns supreme once more. I don't even have to whip out the autistic image/audio quality arguments.