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Teeqoz on 29 November 2016
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kitler53 said:
SvennoJ said:

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.

i rediscovered the library.  netflix kind of sucks for movies but my library has all the new releases and for free.  so if i watch a movie that's how i watch it.  

You've gone full circle.