| ▲ | pcl a day ago |
| Why is that? Vinyl has some unique characteristics. But as far as I’m aware, blu-ray is just a storage format for bits, so other than the box art, what is compelling about a blu-ray pressing? |
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| ▲ | estebank a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| The movie itself is generally encoded at a higher bitrate than what you can find in streaming or torrents. The media includes bonus features that generally aren't available in streaming or torrents. The media will not suddenly stop existing if some server breaks down, some company goes under or some contract expires. The movie will not suddenly get "patched" with an AI-upscale or censored scene one day while watching it. You can lend the media to someone else to watch without having to ask for permission to anyone else. |
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| ▲ | saturn8601 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Technically blueray has a 'update mechanism' that newer films will require players to update to. AVGN complained about it here: https://youtu.be/tetXKdi9U3c?t=400 | | |
| ▲ | cj a day ago | parent [-] | | "To play this Blueray, you must renew your encryption key" Is that really a thing? | | |
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| ▲ | account42 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also, you can import blu-rays from other countries when streaming releases have geo restrictions. | | |
| ▲ | estebank 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Like DVD before it, Blu-ray includes region locking as a feature (but apparently ~70% of disks don't bother with it, notably Paramount and Universal don't). Non-locked disks are marked as ABC (A is the Americas and Asia, B is Europe/Africa/Aus/NZ, C is Russia/India/China). |
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| ▲ | mikestew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ever compare a Blu-ray to the same content over streaming? It's not even close. Unlike vinyl records, Blu-ray is vastly superior in quality to alternatives. In case you're asking "why", it's because your "4K" stream is compressed to hell and back. Your home internet connection doesn't even have the bandwidth to stream the quality of a BR. |
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| ▲ | rhinoceraptor a day ago | parent | next [-] | | A UHD Bluray tops out at about 150Mbps, most home internet is capable of that. It would just cost too much for the streaming services to support it. | | |
| ▲ | amlib a day ago | parent [-] | | But also the reality is that most people have their devices connected through a shitty wi-fi connection and may be effectively limited to 50 or even less mbps, specially if you consider the unpredictability that comes with it. | | |
| ▲ | rhinoceraptor a day ago | parent [-] | | True. Plus the big streaming services' business model now is low quality content produced in house or with cheap royalties, that people put on in the background. They might have a prestige show or two, but that's just a hook to get you to subscribe, they'd much prefer you watch the cheap stuff. |
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| ▲ | swiftcoder a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Your home internet connection doesn't even have the bandwidth to stream the quality of a BR. This has not been true for most people for a while now. Even the high end of 4K blue rays tops out around 100 Mbps, which is achievable on pretty much any broadband connection. | | |
| ▲ | HelloMcFly a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > which is achievable on pretty much any broadband connection It's only achievable in a real sense if there are video providers out there offering the content at that bitrate. The absolute best you can hope for in optimal conditions is from Apple TV+ at between 30-40 Mbps which is equivalent to what you get with a non-4k blu-ray. | | |
| ▲ | swiftcoder 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | For sure, my only contention is that the bandwidth is there, which makes the paltry bitrates Netflix et al will provide you even more frustrating... |
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| ▲ | mikestew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah, you’re right. Despite Grandpa over here having a 1Gb fiber connection, my head was apparently stuck in 2005 thinking 50 Mbps downstream internet is some kind of high-faluten’ wizardry. | |
| ▲ | saturn8601 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Netflix isn't serving 100Mbps though. | | |
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| ▲ | throwaway27448 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Many of vinyl's unique characteristics are severe drawbacks compared to digital disks. I see a lot of kids collecting CDs instead—cheaper, lighter, easier to maintain, you can find cars that play them pretty easily, you can rip them losslessly, more hardware to play them, etc. Plus you can a lot of the same benefits of album art, lyrics, etc. Blu-Rays also have special features, which most streaming platforms don't offer (I think largely except for iTunes). |
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| ▲ | EGG_CREAM a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Having it, physically. It’s harder for companies to play silly games like put the media into a vault, take it off their streaming platforms for tax reasons, etc… I started collected physical blu rays when HBO randomly took a million things off its platform so that it could do accounting tricks. I want to support artists who make content I like, but I also want control over my media library. Physical media is the best way to do this. |
