Just starting to get into Blurays

>just starting to get into Blurays
>4k Blurays are already a thing now
JUST

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>doing this much product research

>he's been watching 480p

>still buy DVDs
feels good

>want to buy a 4k TV
>will end up having to buy a new 4k BD player too
>will have to buy a new sound system since current one is built onto the old BD player
Kill me

unironically, this.
literally $1 dvds all around

Your fault you're just getting into collecting a 12 year old medium.

How the cd market looking tv?

>physical media
>2018

are you poor or just retarded

>2018
>using physical media

JUST

I wouldn't sweat it too hard. I watched the 4K blu ray of It, and I couldn't tell the difference.

Amazon digital is more expensive than a blu ray

>just starting to get into Blurays
>YIFY rips are already a thing now

>tfw SACD's never took off
>stuck with 44.1kHz/1411.2mbps forever

It depends. BR2049 is $20 on Amazon but $25 for the Bluray on Amazon. The Bluray is better quality though. Also piracy is worse quality than a Bluray rip as well, although not as bad as streaming.

>work in hifistore
>customer needs a HDMI cable for 4k player
>sell him cheapest one
>Boss stops him on the way to the front
>says I told him the wrong thing
>sells him a 4K gold plated HDMI cord
>he pays $120 for it instead of $12
>I get a written warning and chewed out
>mfw my boss believes he did the right thing

...

This is why I only buy shit from friends in-stores. They go out of their way to not dick me, while they upsell everyone else.

spend a few extra bux on a Bluray player that upconverts DVDs to 1080 and you can still enjoy all your old DVDs, and if you see a flick you've wanted to check out and it's only a buck or two on DVD...

Don't they all upscale DVDs to 1080?

What's a good blu-ray player that I won't have to replace in 5 years

>physical media
I mean I can understand vinyl for the whole ritual and retro ambiance. But video? Are you on 56K still?

>What is bitrate
Streaming sucks, HD streams are basically DVD quality and UHD streams are basically Bluray quality.

nope, the cheaper ones play Blurays and DVDs but they don't all upconvert DVDs to 1080
I got a Sony at Best Buy about a year ago for $120 that upconverts, has wifi, will play 4k and 3D(not going to bother) everything. Probably under a hundred now.

>streaming
Bittorrent and Usenet have been around for ages, brainlet.

UHD Blurays are kind of a scam anyway. They're basically BDXL discs, which have been around since 2010, just with a new encoding (H.265) and moar DRM. A lot of regular PC Bluray drives can play UHD Blurays, the trick is getting around the DRM.

Does the expensive shit from monster cable actually make a difference?

Absofuckinglutely not. They both cost like $0.02 to make in some Chinese sweatshop.

>4K blu rays are a thing now

Are they?

How many 4K movies even exist?

>tfw oldfag

>tfw remember the DVD commercial at the beginning of VHS rentals

>Your usual movies look like *this*
>But what if they looked like *THIS*
>Screen goes letterboxed
>Volume goes up
>Colors get turned up
>'SPLOSIONS
>Shot of a guy with his hair blown back sitting on the couch yelling "WOOOOOAAAAAHHHHH"

>Every one always points out "so, it's VHS that looks like VHS in widescreen with louder volume"?

Worst advertising campaign of all time.

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With digital signal either it works or it doesnt. you cant increase quality with the cord

There's kind of an irony to the 4K blu ray phenomenon. Older movies shot on film have a resolution that ranges from like 4K to 8k, but a lot of newer films are only like 3.2k.

>literally $1 dvds all around

It's last year and you're not even buying the superior format for a quid.

For reference OP, high end PC games are being played on 8k-12k.

So don't bother getting into the 4k meme, it will be dead in a few years.

>all the retards putting down physical media
then you either have shitty quality bitrate(a few MBPS) or a huge file (25GB for a 1080p movie remux)

How is downloading a 25gb file worse than driving to a store and spending 25 bucks

4K will be dead in a few years?

4K broadcast hasn't even started rolling out yet (ATSC 3.0)

I think i'm going to start collecting Ultra HD DVDs. It's probably the easiest shit to collect at the moment.

i have that disc in high quality whenever i want
im not keeping a 25gb file for one movie on my HDD forever

>That post purchase rationalization.
lmao'in @ your "collection" of obsolete disks.

1080p 40% reduction is on average 10gb these days, if you want 7.1 audio its around 16-24gb. (Equivalent of 10 yifi rips per file)
1080p raws are like 30-40gb, 4k raws are 60-80gb if you're a quality fag. 30g is nothing these days, even in straya.

>4k Blurays

Oh thank god, my movie enjoyment has been plagued by not being able to count every individual skin follicle on the actors' faces.

Are you retarded? There's like one consumer 8k monitor out and it's exorbitantly expensive. You can play games at 8k but you need two 1080Ti 's to even approach playable.
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Don't worry user, some films are shot in 1080p digital (Like Star Wars prequels, Apocalypto, Desperado) or use a digital intermediate of 1080p/2K . So you're not missing that much.

Also 1080p is the top resolution for 16mm scans, more than that is placebo, so you don't need to rebuy those indie 90s films again in 4K.

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To be fair there are three types of HDMI, Vanilla HDMI (1080p/30) High Speed HDMI (1080/60 and 2160p/30) and the newest one is Ultra High Speed HDMI. (2160p/120 and 4320p/120) I don't think they sell old-school cables anymore though, and the new ultra cables aren't necessary yet. (There are no HDMI 2.1 TV's on the market to my knowledge.)

Isn't DVI better than the first two types?

I think Dual-link DVI is roughly equal to HDMI 2.0 with a High Speed cable. You should be able to get 1440p/144Hz on both, but HDMI has the added bonus of audio.

There could be a difference if you buy a bad cable or you make your cable too long, of its its just low quality.

Every one has seen the Best Buy demos where all TVs are playing the same signal and some of them look shittier. Its because noise can exist! Its not perfect.

You want short cable and good connection even on digital or optical!! Then you know its fine.

Some are crap, some are mind blowing (life of pi)
HDR is where it's at. It's not all about the extra resolution.
I've had an HDD plugged into my 4k bravia for over a year and have now moved it to my new 4k player as it does a way better job at up scaling and it tries to emulate HDR on non HDR content, does a pretty good job too, it's like night and day.

>Also 1080p is the top resolution for 16mm scans
This is horseshit, 16mm can be scanned in 8k

>This is horseshit, 16mm can be scanned in 8k
That would barely make a difference at all, the whole reason the 4k remaster of Lawrence of Arabia looks so good is because it was originally 70mm.

A 4k disc is 128GB.
I believe that user was referring to streaming services that stream legal content,
because not everyone wants to watch shitty rips, especially not if you have an expensive home theater and aren't some poor Pajeet.

Protip: even a blu-ray disc blows streamed 1080p out of the water for colour depth and bitrate

I'm fine with regular blu rays. I'm not going to say that 4K doesn't make any difference, but the difference is negligible compared to DVD v. Blu Ray or VHS v. DVD, particularly on my 43' screen.

Piracy is not worse quality you can download full .iso files.

This. or you can just get uniteam or rarbg releases.