Recent Purchases: Finally Fell for the 4K Meme edition

>>85495865
Enjoy your upscale.

you know that shit is free on the internet right?

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>>85495865
For 4K I got Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and Logan.
I'd get Rogue One in 4K but they never released a 4K version.

>>85495865
>getting scammed by blu-ray

hahaha get a load of this faggot. he actually pays money to buy movies

I'm about to go full contrarian and only buy physical copies of media on VHS, like this person already said on reddit >>85495895
I can get stuff for free if I really want it.

Just need to get a VHS player

>>85495883
tfw

>>85495895
There are no free lunches

>>85495914
Nice. Have a few more 4K blurays, but I've officially committed to only buying 4K from this point forward.

>>85495992
You should scan in all the VHS tapes onto a Media Server running Plex.

Buy good movies, at least.

Fake 4k
Ghost in the shell
Oblivion
Lone Survivor
Now you see me
Now you see me 2
Hacksaw Ridge
Everest
Deepwater Horizon
3:10 to Yuma

Real 4k
Sicario
Lucy
Ex Machina

KEK you only have 3 true 4k movies

which player did you get

>>85496142
Running 3 Xbox One S's at the moment.

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Picked these up for 3$.

>>85496093
What about HDR

>no planet earth 2 in 4k

any extra bonus content? deleted/extanded scenes, feature commentary, behind the scenes?

>>85495914
>ifunny
What does /tv/ think of ifunny? This is the first I've seen it watermarked here.

>>85495992
>VHS player
...you mean a VCR?

Anyway, check out Goodwill, Savers / Value Village, Salvation Army, and so on. They always have them for $5 or $10.

>>85496171
kino

>>85496170
thinking about getting a good dedicated one.\? Like the oppo?

>>85496237
Yes, it's been a while ha

>>85496260
I've looked into the Oppos in the past, just not enough of an improvement to justify it, IMO.

>>85495865
Enjoy your scam, humans' eyes cannot see the difference over 720p

>>85496434
maybe poor peoples eyes

>>85496174
Lucy
Oblivion
Hacksaw Ridge
Deepwater Horizon

are the only ones i know for sure are HDR but i mean ifs its not true 4k plus HDR its kinda pointless to me

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>>85495865
I need to get a better camera.

I haven't actually seen Argo, Fight Club, or Apocalypse Now before. Looking forward to them.

Any suggestions on future additions? I'm a big fan of political thrillers, dramas, westerns, war movies, historical stuff, etc.

>>85496792
Fucking youngfag pleb

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>>85495865
Got this today, with the 4K Dong: Skull Island coming in the mail

>>85496093
GiTS was shot in 6K or some shit wasn't it?

>>85496854
I know

>>85496879
Damn, I really wanted the steelbook, but try to stay away from them now(have quite a few) so I can have consistency, especially among my 4K movies.

Might pick the steelbook up if it goes on sell later.

>>85495865
>only 2 of those movies are good
>3:10 and Everest

>>85496879
the master format is only 2k

>>85495865
>Ghost in the Shell, a movie that was released in theaters less than four months ago, has a blu ray release

Is there any point to paying theater prices anymore besides impatience?

>>85496792
There's honestly too much to recommend.

Start working your way down the imdb top 100, and then use that to help guide your tastes.

I've got a 4k screen on my phone. How do i watch UHD blurays on it?

>>85495895
Sure, if you don't mind shit compressed quality.

>>85496963
the most you have to wait now is like 5 months before it comes out on retail

>>85496985
kek

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>>85496985

>>85496792
The man with no name trilogy
Letters from Iwo Jima, Thin Red Line, and Platoon
Master and Commander and Kingdom of Heaven

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>>85496985

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How is the quality on GitS?

Was going to grab a copy but then blade runner was announced for 4k.

>>85496963
>Is there any point to paying theater prices anymore besides impatience?

Some people like the theater experience. Some people also like to see movies on a huge screen, because lots of movies were specifically made with the assumption that you would be seeing it on that huge screen in mind. Then there's the whole quandary that if you use the internet and give a shit about any popular film that comes out, you'd better disconnect for those four months or you're going to be spoiled to hell and back.

But aside of those things, no.

>>85496963
I mean, the theater by my apartment is pretty nice. Much nicer than watching at home.

10$ gets you large electric recliners, assigned seating, beer (brought to your seat), and so on. They also have VERY cheap hot snacks - not as cheap as making your own, mind you, but still completely reasonable. Plus they have some new surround sound tech., and enhanced image quality.

It's a very pleasant experience.

>>85497108
fuck me I need that shit

Dark Knight is coming to 4K Blu-Ray soon, pretty hyped for that

But i want Interstellar also

All these fucking 70mm movies stuck at 1080p

>>85496963
I'd watch movies all the time if it wasn't 15$ a ticket
Hollywood can eat shit

>>85497108
Is this fucking real?

>>85497281
yes
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=21585

>>85497281
Yup
There has been 4K screenshots of Bladerunner out of a while, pissed me off for the longest time

>>85497398
Post screens

>>85496171
OP BTFO

>>85496918
Lurk more faggot

The resoution of 4k doesn't do anything for me at my viewing distance, but the color space definitely does.
GitS will probably still look way better even though the res is upscaled.

>>85497541
ok

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Rate my haul

>>85496171
Children of a lesser god is kino but it is probably pan and scan.

>>85497617
Why dont fags like you stay on reddit?

>>85498357
Are you post or pre-op

>>85498357
>dvds

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>>85496996
>he doesn't know about remuxes

>>85498741
They look fine desu.

I actually really liked Deepwater Horizon. Are you a fan of Peter Berg OP? I thought Patriot's Day was really good. Very tactful, considering how touchy people might be about the subject matter.

The only two I haven't seen are Now You See Me 2, and 3:10 To Yuma. I think I'm going to pick up Sicario and Ghost in the Shell on Blu Ray once they drop in price a little.

>>85496093
>>85496879
>Real 4k

lol Enjoy your upscales.

>>85496234
No where near as good as 9gag or EBaums or other content thieves... er... hilarious websites.

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>purchase a Blu-Ray disc drive to replace my computer's DVD one
>that's not enough and you also need to download fucking dedicated software to watch the disc
>finally use PowerDVD after trying a bunch of other shitty software

Should have just bought a standalone dedicated player. Why is it a hassle to play this stuff on a computer?

imagine being so fucking retarded as to not waiting until nigger friday to buy everything at $10 or less

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>buying GitS for the visuals
>it is the Hollywood eyesore
>not the beautiful Oshii masterpiece

>>85500000

>>85495865
Don't you have to buy an expensive tv to get the full experience with those 4K blu rays?

>>85500132
GitS 2017 had great visuals, you fucking pleb

>>85495865
>>85496171
Nice, just got these this weekend for like 10 dollars.

>>85495865
Those are honestly all complete and utter trash for plebs. Holy shit. The absolute state of /tv/

>>85499626
Sicario
Lucy
Ex Machina

are true 4k source and master format dumbass hey are not upscalled

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>>85500222
Forgot pic.

>>85500313
>The Room hiding in corner

UHD Blu-Rays are too little too late and are going to get stomped by streaming before 2020. The best ones right now have bitrates around ~70Mbit/s and the worst ones around 20Mbit/s. Netflix streams UHD at ~15Mbit/s right now and it will make available the AV1 codec in early 2018 which will give an effective quality of ~25Mbit/s (supposed to be 80% more efficient than H265). The alliance for open media is aiming for a rapid release of AV1's successor (AV2) in late 2018 or early 2019, this should push the effect bit rate close to 35Mbit/s when compared to H265 UHD Blu-Rays. All of this without even upping their bandwidth, if Netflix decides to make more bandwidth available these streams will be able to surpass the best UHD Blu-Rays with only a 2x increase in bandwidth. This should easily be possible since switches double in speed nearly every 18 months (the rate of improvement for switches has yet to slow down since they are not made on bleeding edge nodes) which in turn should decrease the price of bandwidth significantly by 2020.

How do studios get away with selling people 1080p videos stretched to 4k and why would they do it anyway with presumably most movies are shot on film or 4k digital these days anyway?

>>85500594
it probably saves them five seconds and a buck or two

>>85500403
kek

>>85500594
CG is still mostly done at 1080p and it has only been the last five years that 4k and above digital is the norm. It was not until 2013 when Black Magic finally released a 4k camera and DPs often like to stick to their gear. There are still movies being filmed with 2.5k/2.8k/3.2k cameras.

>>85500313
Nice. I've been trying to find a copies of Robocop and The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly that aren't completely destroyed, but I haven't had any luck.

>>85500594
most movies have a master 2k format that 2k gets upscalled to 4k 1080p does not get upscalled to 4k

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r8 my criterion sale haul

>>85500313
I don't really see the point of buying these movies on VHS. I would look for more obscure stuff.

>>85502162
>he doesn't want fuzzy, low res image

>>85501710
nice. wish I could afford buying discs

>>85501710
Have not seen Day for Night, of the rest the Dekalog is the only one found worthwhile.

>>85495865
Thinking of getting a 4k tv eventually.

How does 1080p content look on it? Does it look as good as on a 1080p screen?

>>85502477
I mostly use a 1080p TV but my parents have a 4k one and I was surprised at how good 1080p/i content looked on it. It does look worse but it's nowhere near bad. And this is on a TV that's not calibrated so you could probably get it to look better if you went through the settings.

>>85502477
looks fine, modern scalers are excellent

>>85502539
>>85502556

Nice. Thanks

>>85501710
how much for Dekalog and where?

>>85502640
All criterions are 50% at Barnes and Noble and Dekalog was $50

>>85495865
Rate my haul
total cost 80 dollars
a local pawn shop was clearing out DVD, it was suppose to be 2 for a dollar, but I think the guy counting them all might have missed a few

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>>85502776
fuck

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>>85502815
a picture from the store

>>85502692
FFuuuuck
Was hoping for amazon. Its about $85 bucks if i send it to Tacoland.

>>85502875
is this picture 14 years old?

>>85502815
some of these are really good

others, not so much

>>85502875
buy all of those matrix reloaded discs and grudge disks and set them up right inside your front door so they're the first thing people see when they come in

just a wall of those

>>85500313
Is Star Wars hard to find on VHS?

I'd like to watch the unaltered trilogy

>>85503115
you're better off with one of the fan-made projects if your goal is clarity

that said, I've found the originals at garage sales on vhs for really cheap

picked up all three at some estate sale last summer for $2 each, and they tend to float into thrift stores every once in a while

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>>85503003
Sometime i have friends come over to watch bad movies, since they where so cheap, I picked up stuff that I remember hearing bad things about, or really cheap looking horror like picture related.

>>85503359
Oh my fucking god that snake centaur. Please tell me that's in one of the movies.

>>85503473
I don't know, it's a collection of old black and white horror movies

So is 4k a meme or is it worth it

>>85503540
yes and no

no and yes

yes and yes

no and no

>>85503540
It would be less of a meme if studios weren't releasing non-4k movies as 4k.

>>85503540
it's a meme.

>>85497179
>Dark Knight is coming to 4K Blu-Ray soon, pretty hyped for that
>soon

Knowing WB, they will release the 4k versions when Reeves' Batman hits theaters

We're in for at least a two year wait

>>85503309
Good to know, thanks for the info anon

>>85495895
>>85495914
>>85495949
>>85495971
>>85496247
>>85496434
>>85496955
>>85496963
>>85497179
>>85499075
>>85500132
You have go back

>>85495895
You realise that someone has to fund the movie industry, right?

>buying movies

you watch it a couple times then what?

Too many movies out there to watch no time for multiple viewings.

>>85499990
Don't watch movies on your computer you fucking pleb

>>85495865
>Now You See Me
>Now You See Me 2
i never knew anyone who liked these

>>85503540
It can be noticeable on a big enough screen, but much of the advantage of 4k content comes from having higher bitrates, newer codecs, and HDR. I think if I took 4k content and downscaled it to 1080 and then allowed my TV to upscale back to 4k I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that and the source material. With games/real time 3D makes a significant difference though because it help a lot with aliasing.

>>85502875
sorry for the reddit word, but i find this image to be very /comfy/ for some reason

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>>85505868
In that case rent them.
Although i still think that online renting prices are too high compared with what you used to pay in a physical rental store, but something the Redbox or Netflix Blu-ray by mail is still a good deal tho.

>>85502162
I just started collecting VHS.
So far I'm just getting tapes I remember watching as a kid.

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>>85506485
me too

>>85502162
Because you actually own your movies.

Say what you will about VHS, but the fact that they still work after nearly 20 years out-of-print speaks volumes. DVDs and BDs are fucked if they get slightly scratched, and you literally don't own a single digital item you've purchased or downloaded.

VHS is the patricians choice for media.

>>85496171
Fuckin poor old faggot almighty keks

>>85495865
Jesus christ. So its faggots like you that keep donating money to these jews so they can continue to make shit movies. Go fuck yourself cuck.

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>>85496171
>air force one
good shit my personal favorite Die Hard clone

>>85505692
You realize movies make there budget back and then some during theatrical run right?

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my friend thinks getting blue rays with pic related is better then just getting the dvd with standard format because of the increased resolution
does anybody else think this?

>>85508346
Yes, 1440x1080 is better than 704 × 576 or whatever the 4:3 equivalent of that is. As long as the transfer is good. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about.

>>85495865
4k is only necessary if you standing a foot away from your tv

>>85508462
I don't think you are
pillar box format just really annoys me and I assumed it annoyed everyone else guess not

>>85508538
You have to have pillarbox if the movie you're watching is 4:3. I don't know of any movies where the bluray is 4:3 but the DVD is 16:9 or some other widescreen ratio.

>>85508584
>I don't know of any movies where the bluray is 4:3
it's mostly old TV shows

>>85508675
No, I've watched plenty of blurays that are 4:3 but that anon was phrasing his post like there are movies or shows there the DVD is widescreen but the bluray is 4:3 and his friends would rather watch the bluray because of the higher resolution.

>>85496985
You have to insert the disc, anon.

>>85496171
Only bad pick is Godzilla. Good going, Anon.

>>85499990
>Why is it a hassle to play this stuff on a computer?
fuckton of new DRM

>>85499990
If you don't want to ever rip Blu-rays just get a Xbox One S, it also plays 4K Blu-rays and it's probably the cheapest you can buy right now.

>>85509660
Don't you need an updated HDMI port on your TV for it though?

>>85509690
The Xbox One S comes with a HDMI 2.0 cable that supports up to 4K at 60Hz.
You can use it with any TV and your TV will display at the maximum resolution it can.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/tv-resolutions

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>>85510173
Looks like I'm buying one now.
I head Life of Pi and The Revenant are absolute musts.

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>>85495865
Recent 4K purchases were The Fifth Element, Léon: The Professional, Ghost in the Shell and Resident Evil: Vendetta, I also imported Shin Godzilla and Your Name. from Japan.
I also pre-ordered the Blade Runner 4K SteelBook from Japan alongside The LEGO Batman Movie and La La Land, also from Japan since they have some extra goodies for the 4K versions over in Japan which are not in the US releases (La La Land has a ticket holder thing and the soundtrack CD, while The LEGO Batman Movie has a 3D version alongside the 4K version).

And speaking of Your Name., did anyone here other than me get the 4K version of Your Name.?
I actually have it and I'm enjoying watching Your Name. again in 4K HDR.
Too bad the audio was only in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 but it's still good.

The Your Name. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Collector's Edition is truly the crown jewel of my 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray collection, it even beat out the Mad Max: High Octane Colelction, which barely counts since Fury Road was the only 4K movie there.

>>85496792
I second everything >>85497068 recommended except for Thin Red Line, it's fucking shit.

I'll add Downfall, Generation War, Generation Kill, and Jesus Christ Superstar

>>85513967
>TTRL is shit
>recommend Generation War

lmoa

>>85495883
Yep. Most of these films were probably only ever 2K at best.

>>85495865
You have fucking terrible taste in movies. No amount of High Dynamic Range will make those films any less shit.

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>>85514051
>Thinks TTRL isn't pretentious drivel
>Dislikes true 3rd Reich kino
lmaoing at your life senpai

>>85496792
seconding the IMDB top 100 guy. AFI top 100 will have a lot of overlap but is also a decent primer source.

From there you might look at each year's academy award nominations for best picture for things to look out for in general but it will all be drama.
After the top 100's and award chasing - you can then say "I've watched x, y, z similar films, anything else you could recommend?"

Also, learning who is directing what and then following directors tends to pay off more than it doesn't.

>>85508346
Only plebs would think otherwise