[Closed] Have we done this? Blu-Ray content.

In this particular case, fury road is well worth getting the chrome bluray edition, the chrome version of the film is really pretty cool in its own right (it's just a sort of high contrast black and white really but I like it)

Don't usually find a lot of difference compared to an upscaled dvd personally, but then there's not much price difference either normally. And my next screen's likely to be some sort of higher def anyway.

Is it 2006 again?

Is it 2006 again?

Good one.

Has the forum broke and brought a thread up from back then?

I was thinking about replacing my Star Wars dvds with blu-ray as and when they got scratched.

what about the resident evil films. Worth the upgrade?

The new bladerunner is a must. Visually the best movie I have ever seen.

The latest 2001 remaster is excellent (I saw it a few months ago in the cinema).

Other than that, check out a few of your favs and see if the studios have done any rework on them

Dunkirk is pretty good on blue-ray with a decent sound system, the opening few shots will have you during behind the sofa, Interstellar is also good

I was thinking about replacing my Star Wars dvds with blu-ray as and when they got scratched.

Never buying them until they're the theatrical versions (original trilogy that is, not prequels and sequels). Harmy versions are decent enough and don't require physical discs to scratch.

Which is what I'm feeling generally with buying discs. They've had their day. I buy little other than TV series of things and even then the amount of repeats and availability on streaming services I find there's little need.

Extras I'll only ever watch once and not that bothered about them.

Oh god it must be 5 years since I bought physical media of any type and 10 years since I bought a player.

Unless you’re stuck with slow internet I’d be looking at steaming / cloud options rather than buying physical media.

For example the Max Mad Fury Road with Documentary and Black and Chrome edition is £13 to buy on 1080 Blu-ray or £20 on 4K Blu-ray or £6.50 on iTunes in 4K with all of the above and yours for life to stream or download to your hearts content.

Just wondering what the quality comparison us between Blu-ray on 1080tv and 4k on 4k TV.

Back to the original question: Infinity Wars is pretty good in HD.

Mad max 4? Seriously?

UHD dose not a good film make.

I had to turn it off after about 15mins as it was complete rubbish.

Back to the original question: Infinity Wars is pretty good in HD.

That's because it's poorly acted and doesn't have a script or a plot..

Just wondering what the quality comparison us between Blu-ray on 1080tv and 4k on 4k TV.

4k is 4x the resolution of 1080 blu ray. 2x no lines and 2x no columns of pixels

Mad max 4? Seriously?

UHD dose not a good film make.

I had to turn it off after about 15mins as it was complete rubbish

You mean fury Road? If so I'll skip the review of the first 15mins,do you have a short attention span? It's a great film though interested in the monochrome version.

As. For blu Ray just click highest quality of your streaming service

If the question is "what should I buy on BD instead of DVD?" then the answer is "everything."  I see no reason to buy DVDs ever again (unless it's a shockingly bad remaster, which happens occasionally).

4k is 4x the resolution of 1080 blu ray. 2x no lines and 2x no columns of pixels

Freeview PAL had the same res as broadcast PAL but the picture quality was significantly worse.

QVC and the other shopping channels have the same res as SD BBC but the picture is significantly worse.

there's more to it than that, like data rates...

I've bought a few downloads but they are nearly always dissappointing in artifacts or motion, even a lot of the 4k demos I've seen have issues.

It's not just picture quality though is it, streaming versions don't have DTS-HD-MA soundtracks 😉 audio is just as much part of a movie to me tbh.

Mad max 4? Seriously?

It's not a great film, but Zoe Kravitz? in Ultra HD? 😀

Why physical copies?

1) my broadband connection drops out like a bus full of hippies...I live about 50 yards from the telephone exchange thingy, but the wires inside this building are very dilapidated...my landline is held together with spit, baling wire and patch cables!

i had considered fibre-optic, but it would have to go right to my router.

2) blu-ray players are now offering multi-region playback, so if someone wants to bring back a copy of "insert horror movie" as a gift from the states, then thats quite welcome.

3) I've got a nice hdmi monitor, very cheap from eBay. But there's no hdmi out on my tablet.

I got really annoyed earlier in the year that I couldn't find The Dark Knight Rises to watch on Sky or via the streaming services I already had. Ended up buying the trilogy blu ray for less than one months streaming from eBay.

I was really impressed with the sounds quality compared to Sky, Netflix and Amazon Prime. My house was almost shaking down during the first scene of The Dark Knight Rises when the plane hi jack is taking place.

I have since picked up some other blu rays for this reason and remain impressed by the sound quality. The only time I have found a download to have good sound is when it is a ripped from blu ray and shared online.

We still live in the dark ages in my house & only got round to buying a Bluray player last year.

Blurays look significantly better than DVD in most instances.I guess it is because the upscaler isn't having to 'guess' quite so much regarding how to fill in the missing pixels.
It's particularly noticeable with smoke, ticker tape etc. - anything small & busy that I guess makes interpolation of the data quite tricky.

We recently bought Minions for my daughter & I think the Bluray might even have been very slightly cheaper than the DVD.

First film we bought on Bluray was Hacksaw Ridge & that looks really good on the telly.

Thanks for the input:)

i had one of the movie mags (empire?) and it featured a list of 'must-have' Blu-rays.

but that was a while back, hence the thread...

given that I play my DVD's through a (small) mixing console and hi-fi, I'll stick with physical media.

Ultra HD discs here, the sound from them is amazing, obviously the picture is pretty good as well. If a film is worth buying on disc then why not purchase the highest quality disc available?

Maybe he doesn't have a UHD TV?

the wires inside this building are very dilapidated…my landline is held together with spit, baling wire and patch cables!

Ring BT, tell them you've having problems with voice call quality, intermittent crackling and the like.  Don't mention broadband.

I’ve got a nice hdmi monitor, very cheap from eBay. But there’s no hdmi out on my tablet.

Chromecast?

As. For blu Ray just click highest quality of your streaming service

I used to watch most films on Blu Ray via Lovefilm but mostly stream stuff now.  Still buy the very occasional disc if it's stupidly cheap

Blu Ray quality is still markedly better than any of the streaming services. They're a lot better than they used to be but you still get far more noticable compression artefacts.

Blu Ray quality is still markedly better than any of the streaming services

Really? Even 4K?

Is your BB speed in single digits?

Really? Even 4K?

Is your BB speed in single digits?

Nothing to do with my BB speed.

Blu Ray discs have a huge amount of space so the content can be encoded with minimal compression.  Bit rate on a disc can peak at 38 Mbps and since it's a one off the encoder can be tuned manually to give the most bit rate to the most complex scenes.  The same goes for the audio - there is space for huge filesizes on blu ray.  The streaming services will limit the bitrate as much as they think they can get away with to save money both on storage and delivery.

For broadcast TV the compression encoding is all done 'live' with fixed settings rather than being tuned to the content.  I don't know whether the streaming service rips are manually tuned - they might be though i'd guess not - but they will definitely have a far lower max bit rate.

Quick search on tinternet gives a late 2017 comment "Apple TV still streamed it at the regular 5.6mbps. I've also noticed that for movies and tv shows that stream between 7-15mbps, their stereo audio bitrate is 384kbps, whereas movies that stream at 5.6mbps have a stereo audio bitrate of 192kbps."

I'm fairly sure ATV streaming is the same H264 codec as Blu Ray so they are directly comparable.  They're probably using H265 for 4k progs but quality comes from both resolution and bitrate and there will be compromises.

It would be interesting to do a comparison of streamed 4k against blu ray HD on good displays at a normal size and viewing distance.  I'd be surprised if HD blu ray didn't look better on some material.

Dunkirk is pretty good on blue-ray with a decent sound system, the opening few shots will have you during behind the sofa

And the rest of the film will have you asleep on it.