UHD Blu-ray is coming!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-th...es-and-titles/
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You mean we have to start throwing stuff away again? No thanks. How much detail do people want from only 5 to 12 feet away from their TV? And it still doesn't look as real as movie film does from 75 feet back.
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I still prefer stereo audio, and have no issues with "DVD quality" (720x480 resolution). And that's on a 55" from about 9 feet away.
What I find stupid is that "4K" content is not really 4K source resolution. Some isn't even HD resolution. I already have lots of Blu-ray discs that simply show more noise, and not more picture info. My "digital copies" are from DVDFab + Avidemux. UltraViolet is garbage. I now store all DVDs as ISO on HDDs, and the original DVDs are stored in boxes in the spare room closet. The only reason that Blu-ray "won" the format war was because Sony bribed studios, and were willing to lose money on all PS3 hardware. That was the magic. Sony cannot afford that again, especially after 2014, so I doubt this will take off. People just bought Blu-ray, and don't want to change for at least 10 more years. I started laughing at the phrase "noise-free picture". Yeah, I don't think so. We can already get 50gb discs, and 100gb discs are not really a huge savings of space. Besides, Blu-ray media is NOT archival grade, thus useless. I doubt a 3-layer 100gb disc will ever be burnable anyway. |
Do many "tech head" consumers even play video-discs anymore? With the rise of on-demand Internet streaming why would I invest in more soon-to-be-obsolete hardware? I'd prefer if they focused on the actual content of the production rather than whether the audience can view it in 4D.
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Streaming is getting to be the main way in which video is viewed, but the main hurdle is the bandwidth. A few select cities may have fast 10mbps+ internet, but they're the exception and not the norm in the USA. The main bottleneck is still the wiring/bandwidth in this country, which is way behind EU and Asia. For example, even Iraq has a better upload speed than the USA, in some of its cities! So viewing HD streaming is often difficult. |
Streaming is a great idea in theory, but it's never going to work out. I've checked Netflix (a major American streaming service) but it usually didn't have the titles I was interested in. And they recently announced they were dropping the distributor of Hunger Games so you'll never be able to stream it again. The problem is selection. There will never be all the important movies in one place, and no one's going to sign up to all the streaming services.
On the other hand, I was on a disc rental service and it was great, I got to see the classic Hitchocks, old sci-fi series, foreign films (7 Samurai), the original Scarface, a lot of things that aren't main stream that a movie buff would like. As for quality, I definitely enjoy HD over DVD. I can easily see horrible banding effects in DVD. 4k doesn't matter so much, but I think the improved colours will be noticeable, I'll have to see. Netflix quality is pretty good, so I won't say Bluray is noticeably better. I wouldn't mind streaming, but it just doesn't have the selection. And I can rent movie buff discs from the library for free. TV even has it's place to me, I used to love the movie channel, after work I'd watch some random movie each night, which weren't amazing but they were ok. It was a curated selection. Trying to select a movie on streaming is hit and miss. As for the movies I really want to see, they are only on disc (in fact, not even available on torrent). Another point that's missing with streaming, is it's fundamentally eroding our shared culture. We used to be in sync, everyone knew what The Waltons was for example and watched it as a family, now we're in our own little pockets, watching things at random times, we can't connect with a shared experience except sporadically. There's also the matter of exposure. We're never forced out of our comfort zone, by seeing some movie we'd never think of watching while flipping through channels bored. What we see now is driven by some type of network graph, and I think we'll be exposed to less things that we might actually love. |
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The only interesting one is Hulu, which is sadly not accessible in my country. It's strange but I know a lot of people who don't want to watch Streams or even DVD's . They wait for the movies to be broadcast on TV. Maybe they need the feeling of communality. As for UHD Blu-ray, I don't think it will play a major role in the next years. Most people are fine with their 1080 panels, and Blu-ray did not even arrive in the majority of homes. To speak for me, I would rather watch a good movie in SD, than a crappy movie in HD/UHD. |
I agree on streaming. Nice concept, but many of us have slow ISPs and we want physical media. You cannot trust "the cloud" (or a company like Netflix) to forever make it available. I'm still pissed that WWE pulled the Hulk Hogan cartoons simply because Hogan was an idiot. Why hurt the fans of the toon? I have videos from 30+ years ago than are now unavailable. Streaming is the same.
However, that what the masses want. So in terms of "UHD is better than ___" (DVD, Bluray, etc), they don't really care. Most physical media owners just want something, anything, and don't care about ultra-high resolution. Most of the things we want are older anyway. We're just happy if they don't crop a 4x3 to 16x9! It's two-fold about culture. There will never be a mass watching of M.A.S.H. or Cosby, but we also get the chance to watch lesser-known (to non-fans) shows like Daredevil. Daredevil would have never been picked up by networks, or even cable. Even on the slim chance that they had been, Marvel would have been required to change the story to suit the network execs. That's not good. Thanks to Netflix, Marvel can release Daredevil with the story it sees fit. And fans that want to see it can -- unbutchered by some non-fan chowderhead network exec. I hate network TV commercials anyway, as it wastes 20 minutes per hour. My time is more valuable than that. |
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