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How long til Blu-rays get phased out (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I'm gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they're just trucking along perfectly fine. It'll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don't think the 8k argument is valid imo since that's really niche currently.

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[–] xmunk 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I still remain unconvinced that 4k is really all that hot though. I prefer projecting onto my living room wall and anything above 1080 is pretty much imperceptibly different at a distance... Most families have a similar distance setup and 4k isn't anything but a label at that distance.

Large 4k monitors that you're going to sit right in front of can definitely be appreciated but for movies I think 4k is already over the retina density.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Try making a Microsoft Paint image with a single pixel wide line, and then offset it by one pixel halfway through. Then put that up and see how far back you need to sit to see the break merge into a single line.

There's also some interesting tricks that emulator writers are working on for using those extra pixels to make more CRT-like effects on modern displays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You just haven't seen a great 4k Samsung tv with a movie on 4k Blu-ray that was actually native 4k and not upscaled. If you did you wouldn't be saying this right now. https://www.digiraw.com/DVD-4K-Bluray-ripping-service/4K-UHD-ripping-service/the-real-or-fake-4K-list/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ehh... as someone that has seen it, it's still not that big a deal. Sure, in still frames the difference is really noticeable, but when you're actually immersed in the movie and the action and you're not just scanning the scene with picture quality in mind, it really makes no difference to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And you don't have a molecular scan of wide format film grain directly injected into your brain implant that lets your mind process more colors than exist.

At a certain point you have to declare quality "good enough" and I maintain that happened 20 years ago.