Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

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On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.

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The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone) (www.slashgear.com)

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With over 18 years of history, Blu-ray technology was designed to take CDs and DVDs to the next level. Not only can they hold significantly more data than their predecessors, but Blu-ray discs even let you view high-quality (and 3D content) that often are closer to the experience of watching in theaters than the compressed versions you'll find elsewhere. Not to be confused with DVDs, Blu-ray discs use a different kind of laser technology, which eventually became the industry standard for film and movies by 2008. In part, this is due to the fact that its players could be backwards-compatible with DVDs, but not the other way around.

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Although some things can (and have) lasted the test of time, the natural progression of most technology is that something becomes obsolete when a newer, better, or more efficient model comes along. In terms of the Blu-ray discs, there are several things that have pushed them to obsoletion.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Probably but I can’t say I care all that much.

I know there are plenty of people looking for that home movie theater experience but I would say the majority of people just don’t care. At least not enough to hunt down blu-rays.

If my choice is between collecting movies I’ll rarely watch vs just flipping on a stream I am just going to stream. It’s easier. Less fucking around. Doesn’t require physically storing media some where taking up space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

That is fine, but we are different people. We value different things: I deeply enjoy the better quality experience for some thing and also hate when something I enjoy gets pulled from streaming. One size fits all rarely actually works.