Bluray collections, yay or nay?

I don't feel the need to upgrade my entire collection but I'll buy some of my favorites ect.

The first thing I've ever seen on Blu Ray (or HD period) was Children of Men. My friend's brother had that and played it on his system. Blew my damn mind.
 
I quit collecting media because it is mostly available now online or will be soon.

Rare original stuff I do keep though -example would be my Otis Redding, Bad Brians, Misfits, and Ramones LPs

Blue Rays will be completely obsolete soon and then your collection might follow you around for the rest of your life like my LPs, Reel to Reels, Cassettes, and CDs do.

I'm most everyone here knows of that guy with thousands of Beta max or VHS dubs in a room somewhere.
 
I only buy movies online now. Don’t even have a blu ray or DVD player
 
Madmick said:
NHB, if the master negative has been properly maintained (or remastered), then Blu-Ray will show the benefits of an enhanced image quality on a movie from the 1930's. You're confusing the mode of consumption with the source of the image.
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This is true but it's even more complicated than that. It ultimately comes down to the master that the studios use that was sourced from the master negative.

Lets take an example like The Unforgiven from 1991. When the Bluray came out 10 years ago it was sourced from an original negatives but was scanned using lower resolution tech of the time. That was probably a master the studio used for the DVD or maybe even earlier. Warner Bros recently did a 4k scan of the original negatives which resulted in a re-release on Bluray and a legit UHD Bluray version from an actual 4k digital intermediate. So the The Unforgiven remaster that came out even on regular Bluray recently is superior than the Bluray that came out in 2007 even though they are using the same tech.


Also, in the future, the source quality of digital will surpass 35mm and even 80mm film. It's potential for improvement in the realm of reproducing the precise capture of light is unmatched by anything analog/celluloid.
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The most real world scenarios I'd say digital cameras produce better results than 35mm which is why majority have dumped film and went to Red and Arri cameras 5 years ago. If you know what you are doing and have the financial backing to use a good film stock and can properly scan the film then 35mm is still capable of looking amazing along with the latest digital cameras. 65mm imax is still goat over anything digital.

But yes 35mm will scale up to 4k no problem(results vary on quality of film stock, the scan used for the digital intermediate)
 
SevenSamurai said:
I quit collecting media because it is mostly available now online or will be soon.

Rare original stuff I do keep though -example would be my Otis Redding, Bad Brians, Misfits, and Ramones LPs

Blue Rays will be completely obsolete soon and then your collection might follow you around for the rest of your life like my LPs, Reel to Reels, Cassettes, and CDs do.

I'm most everyone here knows of that guy with thousands of Beta max or VHS dubs in a room somewhere.
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Whatever happened to ss?
 
Madmick said:
Also, anybody who tells you that piracy was an alternative to DVD's doesn't know what he is talking about: widespread lossless video was a unicorn until the past few years. Even now, there's very little lossless Blu-Ray out there, and unless you're on a freaking T3 connection, who has time to download it? I saw a lossless version of the first season of Game of Thrones: 212GB. Have fun downloading that, and unless you have a Blu-Ray burner, have fun storing it, too.
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Now the focus is on UHD. The studios are protecting this with all of their might even crippling ways you can watch 4k content so that they can use DRM to protect it. I believe they have cracked some UHD titles and your talking 50gb-80gb a movie. Good luck with that download.
 
Did anyone's BluRay disc go bad and become unplayable? I've had store bought DVD's go bad... or maybe it was the DVD player's laser going bad.
 
i have plenty of DVDs since i don’t find it necessary to upgrade to blu (except in a few instances), but now i do buy exclusively blu unless blu isn’t an option. just got myself a region free bluray player too, so now my bluray collection is going to go from 10 to 11 real fucking quick. blu bless prayer hands
 
I've started a small DVD collection since September. I've purchased about 110 movies, vast majority on DVD not BluRay, because the average price has been about $4 each. I'll buy the BluRay if it's available for a buck or two more. Most of the movies are "classics", certainly pre-2000. The average release date would probably be mid-70's. I have 3 720p 40" tv's so I wouldn't expect much difference. Some of the movies are B & W.
 
DVD does look fuzzy after watching BluRay, except some DVDs look not that bad on PS3.
 
GSP_37 said:
Did anyone's BluRay disc go bad and become unplayable? I've had store bought DVD's go bad... or maybe it was the DVD player's laser going bad.
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Blueray players themselves do tend to drop off more quickly than DVD players, dust is more likely to have a negative effect as well.

Personally I'll buy the Blueray for something with a strong visual appeal that's filmed to a high standard that I know I'll like, I still buy more DVD's though for smaller artier films, often that aren't on Blueray or cost significant more on it.

DVD's really are dirt cheap these days as well, buying new I rarely pay more than £4-5 and used more like £1-3. I tend to think if something is worth watching once its going to be worth watching again, bland cinema watched once on a streaming service and forgotten just doesn't have much appeal.
 
4k Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos and Dolby vision. Lots of money invested in hardware to do that.
 
I sold all my blu rays and dvds.

I don't even own a blu ray player anymore.

I do everything digital now.
 
YPMG said:
I had a HUGE DVD library - we're talking 300+ authentic movies and TV series. I know, I know, I could've gone pirate for a fraction of the cost but the collector in me always wants the original! I'm now coming to a point where I'm considering purchasing some of my favorites on Bluray but have come to the crossroad - do I really want to spend thousands of dollars to rebuild but only to have next-gen technology released and have them 'not as good' again?

I'm not much of a tech buff so I have no clue if anything superior to Bluray is going to be released or even when, so if anyone can shed some light on it that would be awesome! I could've googled the answers but I'd rather ask the 'Berry as it never fails.

Do you have a Bluray collection? Is it worth it? Are you scared of the wasted money when/if new technology arrives?
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Buy only your fav's on blu-ray, keep the rest on dvd. I personally dont need higher resolution than a bluray provide so I dont care about 4k, if you do then I'd wait.
 
I got a 55 inch 4K curve and the 4K blu ray player, already disappointed in the selection of movies and it's been a year since I've bought this rig. Last night I bought and watched Bladerunner 2049 and was actually pretty disappointed in the video quality, it's really not this super "4 times better than HD/Blu Ray!" and it's honestly just not worth the high price tag(paid $30 plus tax for Bladerunner 2049), regular DVD or Blu Ray is just fine for me and that's what I'll be sticking with from now on, hell I'll still watch VHS tapes they look perfectly acceptable for old movies still.
 
I've had all kinds of issues with both the players and the discs.

My biggest problem with Blu Ray discs is that they'll go bad without any visible physical damage.

You just can't look at them and tell that you'll get half way into a film and then glitch glitch glitch fucking glitch
 
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