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Availability and ownership aside, Blu-ray is far better quality than what you’ll get on most streaming services. If I really care about a movie or show, I alway
by deergomoo 4y ago
Availability and ownership aside, Blu-ray is far better quality than what you’ll get on most streaming services. If I really care about a movie or show, I always get it on Blu-ray.
That said, if they could shift 1080 BDs down to DVD pricing and UHD BD down to what BD costs now I would buy a lot more. I’m starting to build up a collection of UHD Blu-rays but Jesus, £20-30 per movie really adds up. Definitely paying the enthusiast tax there.
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- chungy 4y ago1080p Blu-rays are very often single-digit dollars, at least here in the US. UHD does come with a higher price point, especially for new releases; it goes down, but it can take many months for it to do so.
- expensive_news 4y agoI started buying UHDs (mostly Criterions) recently. I mostly don’t like owning too many things (and even buy most of my 4Ks on iTunes when they go on sale for $5) but for some films the extra quality is worth it (plus you can’t get the Criterions films in 4K anywhere else, and I like having the access to the features). I always am wondering if I’ll regret it in 10 years when you may be able to stream super high bitrates, but as always, the future is uncertain anyways.
- steponlego 4y agoWe learned after the Universal fire that many Blu-Rays are just high quality rips of Laserdiscs.