Blu Ray turns 20

[Shadow1980]

SvennoJ said:

85" is still far too small for 8K to make any sense. You need to be 3.5ft / 1m or closer with 85 degree fov to see 8K on an 85" screen. That would be an 85" PC monitor lol. 8K only makes sense in VR.

For an 85" 4K TV you need a viewing angle of 43 degrees to see the benefit, at 8 ft. Only if you sit closer than 5 ft you get some benefit from higher than 4K.

So unless VR movies catch on for 8K per eye headsets, 8K disc format is pointless. However bigger discs can also fit entire seasons instead of 62 discs lol



Just googled the largest disc set, it's only $140, $2.25 per disc, bargain!
https://gruv.com/products/murder-she-wrote-the-complete-series-blu-ray-_av13032125


Sony could use 4K blu-ray or BDXL for storage next gen. One quad layer disc can hold up to 128GB, but perhaps it's cheaper just to press multiple single layer discs. GT7 came on 2 blu-rays (while the game has grown further to 130GB-150GB now)

It could also be that game installs will shrink with more data getting streamed from the server like FS2024.

A friend of mine bought an 85" TV a few months back and I figured if I could notice a difference on my 55" TV going from 1080p to 4K, then you could notice something on TV that big for 8K. If you really can't unless it's right up in your face, then I guess 4K really is the end of the road.

Also, I forgot Murder, She Wrote lasted as long as it did. I watched it occasionally when I was a kid, but it looks like it was on TV from when I was four years old and ended when I was sixteen. Overall, the adventures of Jessica Fletcher ran 264 episodes plus four TV movies. But that huge set looks like a common issue for long series even on DVD. Star Trek TNG's complete box set is 48 discs on DVD and 41 discs on Blu-ray. So, looks like four episodes on average per disc for both shows on Blu-ray, or about three hours worth of show. So yeah, TV shows on physical home really could have benefited from a disc large enough to store at least twice as many episodes at a given quality.

Last edited by Shadow1980 - 16 hours ago