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| KManX89 said: I've jumped to 4K ever since I got my OLED in preparation for the PS5 (which I now have), and I've double dipped on many movies I own on DVD. However, I won't 4K double dip if I already own them on blu-ray. It's not THAT big of a difference to justify rebuying them. DVD to 4K, though? It's a night and day difference. |
Well yeah, would be about the same as DVD to Blu-ray. But if the price isn't all that much higher, might as well go for the one with less compression. That's one benefit 4K blu-ray still has with older movies, higher bandwidth, less compression artifacts, and full 1080p color. (Both 4k Blu-ray and 1080p Blu-ray use 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, meaning color values are only sampled on every other line and every other pixel. Blu-ray has 540p color resolution while 4K blu-ray 1080p color) Of course the main thing you see better is the film grain!
@Spike0503 I hope physical stays around since it's still the only place where you get extras like behind the scenes footage and director's commentaries. Yet I don't see any 8K physical format coming anymore. I doubt 8K will catch on anyway, my eye sight tops out at 1440p at a comfortable viewing distance. 4K still has benefits, yet I already need to walk up to the screen to see the difference clearly.
For digital, 8K is rather pointless as well. Let digital first match 4K blu-ray's 128 mbps bandwidth. Better motion resolution makes for a more consistent quality picture. Even at 128 mbps, pausing a 4K blu-ray in a busy scene still reveals plenty compression artifacts. Digital cinema goes up to 250 mbps. Might be higher now, that was the max for 2K movies still using mpeg2.
