| kitler53 said: physical is dead to me. i have about 400 dvds and maybe 30 blurays but i don't watch any of them. i really think the "outrage" against ps4 pro not having a UHD player was quite laughable. UHD will never catch on. it's as DoA as 3D blu rays. i stream now. i love not having to get up off the couch to put a disc in. i love that the exact episode or even second within an episode/move is remembered if i stop in the middle and pick it up later (even if i watch on a different device). it is just so convient. but also,.. the "industry" has been dicks to us consumers for years. the format wars between blu ray and HD DVD. the constantly evolving resolution standards. HDMI 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.0. 3D. as a consumer i can't buy a device and have resonable expectation that it will work for 10 years. they keep moving the fucking goalposts and they've been shit about forward compatibility. there isn't a standardized way to buy digital content either so each purchase is tied to a specific service provider making the idea of shopping around for the best pricing a way to fracture my content library across services that each have the liability of supporting some but generally not all devices. so my opinion is fuck the industry. they've made it impossible for me to want to purchase content. i "rent" netflix each month and that's it. i barely put any money into media anymore and i blame them for making it so fucking hard to want to buy anything. |
I love physical media, but I can't help but fully agree with you. My physical movie buying habits have shrunk a lot in the last few years. From over $1200 a year to less than $300 this year.
Having less time to complete movies in one sitting, the disadvantages of blu-ray are really starting to nag. Only a few actually let you resume straight away from where you left off. Most make you sit through all the crap again first and some don't even remember where you stopped watching. I watch a lot more Netflix now. Instant resume where you left off is the most convenient feauture for me. Plus tv series are usually overpriced on blu-ray, especially since you only watch it once. Nowadays I also wait for Netflix with movies I only intend to watch once.
And indeed screw buying digital movies. I don't want different accounts with different services to get a fractured library of 'permanent' gimped rentals. (lossy sound, no extras, no value)
I'm banging my head against the wall for the level of stupidity of HDMI. Ofcourse if you want the best quality movies, you don't want to listen to them over tv speakers. First I had to upgrade my flag ship Yamaha DSP AX1 receiver since all the advanced audio options were now on HDMI. Now I've got to do it again because hdmi isn't forward compatible with sound. Why the fuck didn't the industry make sound a separate stream in the HDMI cable that can be read independantly of the video signal. Or simply stick to toslink and allow 7.1 uncompressed or DTS HD-MA over fiber optics.
There is zero benefit to sound on UHD blu-ray. You just have to throw away a perfectly good receiver because it can't pass through a 4K signal. Or you can downgrade to lossy 5.1 coming back from the tv over the arc return channel or via toslink standard from 1983. (Modern Toslink has the bandwidth for lossless, yet not the copy protection, hence lossless is only supported through hdmi)
Anyway I bought new speakers instead of a 4K tv.
