SvennoJ said:
Munkeh111 said:
I don't quite go that mad, I have been watching OTHER shows instead....
I don't actually go for bonus stuff that much, but I totally agree that blu-ray is a pain. My brother and I were bored the other week, so we watched Scott Pilgrim on blu-ray and wanted to compare it to the quality you get from Sony's video downloads. The difference isn't that great, but you have to sit through 5 minutes of menus before you can start the blu-ray, whereas the digital copy just plays immediately, from where you left it.
If you get a Sony 4K TV, I think you get a HDD with a few free movies rather than the blu-rays. I think physical media is going to be dead* by the end of the generation (in the same way that CDs are dead, ie, not really quite dead)
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A gotcha, yes I do that too. Watch crap on the pvr while I have a huge movie collection with plenty of stuff I want to watch again and even some stuff I haven't even seen yet. Resume play from where you left it is very convenient. I just don't get how it is so random with blu-ray, some discs allow resume play right when you insert them, some only after you finally reach the menu, while a lot don't offer it at all or you have to set your own bookmarks which never seems to work.
The picture and sound quality is worth all the hassle, but when I want to watch a blu-ray I usually insert it at least 15 minutes before I plan on watching it. (And nowadays some have a language select screen right at the start, which you have to click through before it actually starts limping towards the menu, can it get even worse...)
That Sony 4K tv comes with HDD for 4K movies from Sony's 4K video streaming service since the 4K disc format isn't quite ready yet. The downloads will be about 40GB per movie, to be halved when h.265 becomes available.
It looks like 4K disc format will be 100Gb blu-ray discs with h.265 encoding, about 4x blu-ray quality.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/4k-bluray-201309123318.htm
Which is a bit disappointing imo, from dvd to blu-ray was 5x the disc size and also twice as efficient a compression codec, 10x dvd quality. Swapping discs for movies over 2 hours might become standard again plus no more bonus features on the same disc.
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I think we also shouldn't pretend that digital downloads are all rosey. Netflix is obviously online only and the rest only let you use their files in a restricted environment and on certain devices. Blu-rays and DVDs may be more of a pain, but you definitely own your content
4K blu-rays might be interesting, but I doubt I'm going to be getting anything capable of playing them for a few years and it will more likely be my computer monitor than my TV, I want 4K Star Citizen!
But in general, I don't find the digital/Netflix/blu-ray quality gap to be all that much. For visually spectacular movies, I'll go to the extra effort, but even on a 100" display, "digital" content looks great.
I will, however, be rewatching Star Wars/LotR on Blu-Ray only. Those films need to be properly enjoyed
