Netflix and Best Buy said adieu to discs — but with streamers deleting titles to cut costs, could DVDs and Blu-rays mimic the revival of vinyl and CDs?
Netflix and Best Buy said adieu to discs — but with streamers deleting titles to cut costs, could DVDs and Blu-rays mimic the revival of vinyl and CDs?
It’s not going to mimic the revival of vinyl, because vinyl has been revived by audiophiles who can appreciate the quality afforded by the format. Unless your internet moves at a snails pace, you’re unlikely to see any increase in quality between streaming and owning a DVD/Blu-ray.
In my eyes, this is a battle of preservation. For very crucial, personally important media, the only two ways to obtain permanent access to the content are owning a physical copy, or downloading a pirated copy. All other access is temporary, and can be taken from you by the company. With that in mind, the only real question is whether you want to financially support the same companies who put us in this mess by making legal digital media an ephemeral product.
Uh there is a massive difference in quality on a disc vs streamed. Compression happens whether you have fast or slow internet.
In the video I always notice the giant blocks of compression in sky/snow scenes, plus blacks that all merge together.
Audio you can tell it clips the highs and the lows to squeeze it into a compressed stream.
Maybe you don’t care, but once you notice it it’s impossible to not notice it
tell me you dont care about video quality at all without telling me you dont care about video quality at all.
it is incredibly easy in a blind a/b test to pick put a streamed title vs a native bluray title. by video and by audio (provided you are using something that isnt your shitty built-in TV speakers). im not sure why youre confidently making this assertion that literally anyone can test at home with basic equipment.
I’ll admit to arrogance on blu-ray, I have never owned a blu-ray player. My assertion was in regards to DVD, which I do still own a player for and use reasonably regularly. I don’t seriously think anyone is buying DVDs for the purpose of quality, since afaik they are still only 1080p max. At the very least, most of the DVDs that I personally own are still SD, and as such look about as good as 4k streamed with compression.
Titles that have never been released on bluray (but did have a DVD release) are still noticably better on disc than streamed. And that is a surprising number of older TV shows.
It’s not even a subjective preference thing. Any layman could identify the physical media as higher-quality in a blind test.
If you’re like watching on a phone or small tablet I can understand why you would think they’re equivalent, but in any kind of home-theater environment (even a cheap-ass one) physical media will be obviously higher-quality in every scenario.
its still niche these days because they are expensive