Bluray collections, yay or nay?

[esum80]

i started a DVD/blu ray collection but then after a while it just sat there and collected dust since i just ended up being lazy and watched most of the movies online. but i did find that the quality was slightly better with blu-ray.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Staggered anyone has physical media any more.

Not to be a dick but I loathe this line of thinking..

It's like saying we should close all libraries and get rid of books since we can just have them digitally now. What happens if the digital copy gets corrupted? What happens if someone alters the digital copy and we don't know what the original is like (This has already happened)? What if you care about physically owning something? We need master physical copies of things.

People that think this way usually don't care about quality, pirate stuff or are just casual movie/music fans. I get the convenience but I see no benefit in digital outside of that and space limitations. I'm not going to let convenience trump quality and physically owning something.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

why not just download? blue ray quality is the standard on them pirate sites, i hear.

 

[MaureenCretis]

Not to be a dick but I loathe this line of thinking..

It's like saying we should close all libraries and get rid of books since we can just have them digitally now. What happens if the digital copy gets corrupted? What happens if someone alters the digital copy and we don't know what the original is like (This has already happened)? What if you care about physically owning something? We need master physical copies of things.

People that think this way usually don't care about quality, pirate stuff or are just casual movie/music fans. I get the convenience but I see no benefit in digital outside of that and space limitations. I'm not going to let convenience trump quality and physically owning something.

Eh? I live in the UK where 200Mb fibre broadband is commonplace. I can have everything in iTunes or Amazon Prime and watch it anywhere any time.

As for quality, who watches stuff on old formats? DVD and VHS? 1080p is already well on its way out. You’ll have 8k TVs in your home in the next few years.

 

[MaureenCretis]

And it isn’t akin to getting rid of libraries. The words are the only thing that matters to books. So long as you can read them, that’s all that matters. Movie AV quality continues to improve and develop, and while you can argue that it’s the story that matters, there’s more than just that.

The alphabet hasn’t changed a great deal over the past few centuries.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Eh? I live in the UK where 200Mb fibre broadband is commonplace. I can have everything in iTunes or Amazon Prime and watch it anywhere any time.

As for quality, who watches stuff on old formats? DVD and VHS? 1080p is already well on its way out. You’ll have 8k TVs in your home in the next few years.

You don't own anything through iTunes and Amazon. You are paying for a license and they can (and have) take it away from you at any time. It might be nice to be able to watch something anywhere but I don't think the convenience is worth the trade off.

As for old formats, I'm not saying we should keep VHS and DVD around. Blu-ray and especially 4K UHD however is basically the peak of quality. Even if you have a 8K TV, digital movies are filmed at 2K/4K and older movies on film, work out to 4K depending on the film stock. Your TV isn't going to matter. Some crappy B-movie that I might enjoy probably isn't going to get any better than Blu-ray/1080p while something like Dracula from the 1920s isn't going to look better than 4K.

I totally get your point but I just get annoyed when people criticize anyone for having physical media like they need to get with the times or something. If you are a film buff and care about quality over convenience, you are going to support physical media.

I think a stronger case can be made for digital on music than movies due to the file size and quality. I care more about music than movies but I look at them differently. With music, I can download or buy non-DRM'ed lossless/FLAC files. I can then do whatever I want with them. It's like owning something at that point to me. It doesn't take up much space and the quality is the exact same as on CD or no matter where I obtained them from.

You can't do that with movies. The size of a 4K movie is huge, it's going to be missing content and compressed and it's going to be DRM'ed. It's just not worth it to me.

 

[MaureenCretis]

The peak now, yes. Remember the saying 640kb should be enough for anyone? You can never see what’s round the corner.

I just got tired of piles of discs and stuff around the house. I just need bandwidth these days.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

why not just download? blue ray quality is the standard on them pirate sites, i hear.

You can't even get blue ray quality from places you pay like iTunes because even their downloads are compressed which means PQ will be worse and audio will also suffer.

Sure their are some rips that are very high quality but that not's exactly the standard on pirate sites. Then again most people don't give a shit about quality so it doesnt matter too much.

 

[GSP_37]

I have yet to buy any naughty BluRays. Never really seen any. Never really looked for any.