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Post by darkpast on Jan 1, 2019 7:39:30 GMT
anyone that still buys physical copies cares about quality and buys blu-ray/4k, just kill it already
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 2, 2019 5:24:42 GMT
anyone that still buys physical copies cares about quality and buys blu-ray/4k, just kill it already Hey, not everyone thinks so specifically like you... A lot of Older Movies & Older TV Shows & Older Documentaries are only being released on DVD, because studios don't want to spend the time & money on scanning them at blu-ray/4k resolution... It may interest you to know, that there are even older movies that haven't even seen a DVD release yet... As for newer media... Some people don't want to spend an extra $5.00 or more, on blu-ray for a "so-so" movie... In addition, by saving that $5.00 for each purchase... in a short time, consumers can purchase a few extra movies here and there... Not everyone can afford 4k... or they don't see the point on buying 4k tech for casual entertainment viewing experiences, which would require large screens... My Dad recently told me, that he hasn't even bought a blu-ray player yet... My computers only have DVD drives... and sometimes that tends to affect my product purchases. To be honest, I am surprised that DVDs are still being manufactured as separate packaging for many newer movies... I try to buy DVD/Blu-Ray combo packaging when I can... But when I am faced with one or the other, I will usually purchase DVD, since I know it will play on anything I own...
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 2, 2019 6:39:56 GMT
Blu-ray may not be an outright failure, but it has to be considered a disappointment. I think part of the big issue was the Format War between Blu-ray & HD-DVD... That went on for a couple of years... and during that time... Myself and everyone that I knew stayed away from buying either format and just kept buying DVDs... Then, once Blu-ray won, it took a while for prices to come down... By the time prices started becoming reasonable... 4K was entering the market... Perhaps many people have decided to SKIP buying Blu-Ray... until available selections for 4K are available and the prices on those come down... There was also Blu-Ray 3D, which may have affected the switch to Blu-Ray... Now I hear that there are 8K TVs on the market... How long before 8K physical media starts becoming available?... I haven't even started getting into 4K... Maybe I, and many other consumers, should just skip 4K, and wait for 8K! I know, DVDs will play on Blu-Ray players... And as far as I know, DVDs will also play on 4K Players... Unless there is some drastic change in technology with 8K Players, I see no reason why DVDs won't play on those... So, as far as I know, DVDs will play on anything that is available at this time... However, It doesn't work the other way around though... That's probably one good reason why so many consumers keep buying DVDs... To be honest... For many of us, it's about consumer confidence... VHS was around for over 20 years, most of the time, all by itself... BetaMax lost in the early 1980s, and Laserdisc was never widely accepted, and so it was never a threat... With so many different NEW formats in the last 20 years... DVD, Blu-Ray, UHD (Mini_Discs)?, Blu-Ray 3D, 4k, 8k... I am sure many of us are wondering how long will it be before we see 16K... and 24K... ETC?... But, Seriously, most consumers are not looking to buy their home video collections over and over again... and with all these format choices, it's very hard to know for sure, what you should "invest" in... Sure occasionally, I'll buy and upgrade to Blu-Ray, or when I need to replace a bad Early Generation DVD, I may just pick up the Blu-Ray... But for the most part, since I don't have unlimited funds, and I don't have a large screen TV to watch the movies on... For me, DVDs are usually the way to go, since they are cheaper in cost, and meet my viewing requirements for various players and Resolution Quality. Quite Honestly, Some older media looks bad on Blu-Ray... I would hate to see how much worse it will look on 8K and above...
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 2, 2019 17:09:25 GMT
Oh you poor thing please tell me how it affect your life that people are still buying DVDs
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 2, 2019 18:47:13 GMT
It's not a major concern, I suppose, but it is annoying being interrupted with periodic firmware updates when I want to watch a Blu-ray right now.
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Post by darkpast on Jan 3, 2019 4:08:16 GMT
Oh you poor thing please tell me how it affect your life that people are still buying DVDs bad for environment to have multiple copies and packaging
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 3, 2019 10:31:51 GMT
Last couple of times I bought a dvd, it came(probably free) with a pizza, bunch of drinks and icecream. These offers were common a few years ago and I wish they were still around.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 4, 2019 20:43:31 GMT
like eventually, resolution increases will give diminishing returns as I think image quality improvement will come more from general technology advancement more than just a increase in resolution. because, while I am no expert on 4k, I would have to assume there is more of a overall image quality improvement from SD to HD than there is from HD to 4k.
just some thoughts I looked at some 4k scans from Starship Troopers and they didn't look all that impressive (rather grainy).
I talked to an Imax technician and they said older movies shot in regular 35mm would not yield anything beyond 2k for quality because the grain would become too pronounced.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 4, 2019 22:06:59 GMT
Oh you poor thing please tell me how it affect your life that people are still buying DVDs bad for environment to have multiple copies and packaging The environment doesn't count for anything anymore, haven't you heard?
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jan 5, 2019 8:58:16 GMT
Roughly 31% of U.S. households -- nearly one out of three -- does not have, nor will likely ever have, broadband internet access (either due to rural geographic location or poverty).
They cannot stream anything.
Nearly one-third of America...
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Post by loofapotato on Jan 15, 2019 0:25:23 GMT
Here's an interesting factoid, go to Japan and you'll still find DVD rental stores all over. Japanese seem to enjoy renting a physical medium than streaming it. Or just one aspect in their society they doesn't want to change.
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Post by bluerisk on Jan 15, 2019 19:48:25 GMT
anyone that still buys physical copies cares about quality and buys blu-ray/4k, just kill it already I wanted to buy the third season of Fargo on blue ray, like the two other seasons before...they only offer DVD. But Netflix is often releasing no hard copy at all. I'm still waiting for a release of "Dark". I had a huge library when I was a customer of Amazon because - at least back then - they added every album etc. pp. to it, when you bought the hard copy. But when I left Amazon, I lost it all (I didn't care for I have the real thing), but what if you leave Netflix, Amazon, Hulu(?), HBO,CBS all access etc. pp. And how much money shall you spend on all these different providers - at times for a single show? I don't use Netflix and Co. Not to mention that they often change the catalogue and some movie TV show are no longer available at all, or only with extra fees (=> The entire TV show Lost on Amazon.de). I want have to real access at any time I like. I prefer blu ray over DVD, and only buy DVD when I have to. In case of Fargo I didn't, because: a) I haven't started the other two seasons yet but I'm used to binge watch stuff, hence I wanted the third one to be ready and b) I'm still hoping for a blu ray release. One simply reason why I want blu in this specific case is the different dimension of the boxes. I'm a collector and I hate it when they change the design of the boxes. Buffy - nice digipacks from season 1-6 but the last one in were two regular DVD plastic boxes packed together - gross.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 17, 2019 14:30:17 GMT
There's a good bit of older foreign product that can only be had in the US on DVD format, so don't be in such a damn hurry to kill it yet.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2019 14:37:35 GMT
"I would imagine most movies of any real worth are already on BluRay, or at least DVD. but at the same time I am sure some stuff has slipped through the cracks here and there."
I never know whether to laugh or cry when a "filmfan" says something like this and is serious.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 22, 2019 21:08:41 GMT
I have a portable DVD player and am quite happy to watch my DVDs on a 10 inch screen while the industry finally gives us a format that wonโt be considered obsolete 10 years after itโs introduced.
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