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?
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.