Are blu-rays still worth buying?

>>86803712
They are if you're a retro-enthusiast.

they never were

Everyone here is super
>uh muh pirated movies
>uh people who buy stuff are retarded
but yes, it's a worthwhile purchase/hobby. I started collecting 3 years ago and now I have a humble library of capeshit, drama, horror, indies, action movies, and some actual kino here and there and it's a lot of fun. There's also the free digital codes as well, but the drawback is not all discs come with those so your physical and digital libraries will be a tad uneven.

>>86803712
they have never been worth buying

1) it's plastic shit
2) they will be replaced by 4K and 8K and 16K and 32K and so on

>>86803712
no. just torrent.
Games will always be valuable, however as getting and keeping a modded console is nontrivial and beyond the ability of most people.

>>86804111

>16K and 32K

lol

>>86804118
>he thinks resolutions will never get that high

>>86804139

Maybe for VR but not for home media.

>>86804112
downloading is cool but then once in awhile i'll watch one of my blu-rays and be blown away at how good they look

>>86803712
Not particularly. Sometimes they're all that is presented and in those cases, who doesn't have a PS3 lyin' around?

>>86804218

so just download remux

>>86804204
It will happen for both, dude. We already have 8K TVs being shown at trade expos and Trump announced that 8K TVs will be built in the US.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-supplier-foxconn-building-8k-display-factory-wisconsin-2017-7

>Foxconn CEO Terry Gou was the first official to speak at the announcement, and his short talk focused on high-definition "8k" displays, which would have higher resolution than most current TV screens on the market, which are sold as "4K."

>The planned Wisconsin factory will make flat-panel LCD screens for televisions and other electronics. Bloomberg previously reported that the screens could be used to make Sharp-branded televisions.

>>86803712
>physical media

>>86803712
When Blu-ray came out, it took me ages to get a player. After I finally got one, I noticed that streaming services had already driven past the tech and I never really started to collect Blu-rays the same way I collected DVD's. Now I don't even have a player anymore, as it broke a year ago.

>>86804218
>i'll watch one of my blu-rays and be blown away at how good they look

Most Blurays look like shit. A lot of companies don't master their Blurays properly. There's even ratings for how good Blurays look and most of them are mediocre.

>>86804303
The only thing people like us need in our homes is an Android box that can play 4K60fps video. That will play video for the next 8-10 years and when you need to upgrade to 8K, Android boxes will be even cheaper and more powerful.

There is no need to buy physical media except to rip rare films and post the Bluray online to set it free.

>>86804381

>the next 8-10 years

Depends on whatever codec takes over. I doubt 'the scene' will switch from h264 any time soon but that AV1 codec that /g/ seems to love won't mesh well with all of those current android boxes.

>>86804312
I'm not going to deny there are instances of bad transfers and shitty DNR-ing but every Blu-Ray I own looks significantly better than any streaming or torrent version out there.

>>86804381
>There is no need to buy physical media except to rip rare films and post the Bluray online to set it free.

Typical "just download it brah" kiddie mentality - "The only reason you should buy somethhing is so I can have it for free." Next step would be criticizing people for buying physical media (unless of course it is to give it away for free to download kiddies), but at least you didn't go that far.

>>86804072
>collecting
Collection increase in value over time. DVDs (and bluray) don't. You are not collection, you are consuming.

>>86804545
>Collection increase in value over time.

Literally just making shit up.

>>86804463
>that AV1 codec that /g/ seems to love won't mesh well with all of those current android boxes.

Lol are you kidding me? Google is one of the architects of the AV1 codec. Android will be one of the first things to get AV1 support, and ARM/Nvidia/Intel are all part of the AV1 group, so pretty much every Android box will have AV1 support when it comes out next year. People just have to update their Android boxes and if they can play HEVC, they have enough power to play AV1.

Also, Android boxes are getting cheaper every year. Boxes with hardware AV1 support will be even cheaper than the ones we have now.

>>86804463
Yeah, for future proofing codecs are they key and a lot of the cheap boxes won't even allow for additional codecs not to mention if they're done so, that the users can update them even when the manufacturers go out of business. Or if a working package of a codec is even ever made for the box you use.

>>86804463
>I doubt 'the scene' will switch from h264 any time soon

AV1 will be the 4K codec. x265 isn't even finished. AV1 will be a finished product. There's no reason to continue using an unfinished codec when AV1 will be production ready, open source, and widely distributed.

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>>86804572
>I am a collector

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yes, if you love the movie and want to have the best possible video/audio quality

plus having a collection is aesthetic

>>86804476
>every Blu-Ray I own looks significantly better than any streaming or torrent version out there.

No shit. You're talking 30Mbs bitrate vs scene torrents at 6-10Mbs and streaming video at 4-6Mbs.

You do realize that people actually torrent the original Bluray data, right? Most torrented movies are just re-encoded versions of the Bluray they ripped, but the original data is also available. The entire Bluray disc is up for grabs if you want it, with extras and all. There's no reason to buy them.

>>86804476
> every Blu-Ray I own looks significantly better than any streaming or torrent version out there.
I am sorry that you don't have access to remuxes. Streamfags need to be euthanized tho,

>>86804669
My point was you said "most blu-rays look like shit" but they are still the best consumer version of movies available. And yes -- Blu-Ray rips are online, but if you want the same high quality, the download sizes are large and time consuming depending on how popular the movie in question is.

UHD HDR blu-rays are great but expensive.

>>86804756
>My point was you said "most blu-rays look like shit" but they are still the best consumer version of movies available.

My point is that they are not properly done most of the time, despite being a good source and high bitrate. It had nothing to do with comparing them to scene torrents and streaming since both are just highly downgraded versions of the same file.

>>86803712
Yes.
Physical media is still worth buying.

>>86804515
I have literally rented Blurays just to rip them because they didn't exist online yet. They are free to download because of me. How does that make you feel?

I don't give a shit if you like wasting your money on consumer bait.

>>86804626
Buying and storing things that you actually use and enjoy or display in an appealing fashion clearly isn't the same as haphazardly storing literal waste around your dwelling.

>>86804833
filtered

>>86804848
Correct. It's also not the same as collecting.

>>86804833
>Physical media is still worth buying.

Do yourself a favor and buy books to put on your shelf instead of plastic shit.

>>86804843
You sound like a literal cuckold.

>>86804877
Yet I still download every movie I watch except for those few I rented to rip and post online.

I bet you ask for Blurays for your birthday gifts like a child.

>>86804910
>paying any amount of money to give strangers on the internet something for free

Bet that made your little pecker hard as a rock, huh? What other reason would you have for doing that, kiddo?

>>86804545
>You are not collection

>>86804978
I did it because I wanted to see the movies. There was no other way to see them, so I used a method to rent them. Of course, I wasnt just going to give them back without putting them online, so I ripped them and posted them online before I gave them back.

Nice try, though. We should do this for every movie we are forced to pay for.

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>he pays for movies
>he doesn't have pic related working for him 24/7

>>86805175
what site is this

>>86805209
wouldn't you like to know

>>86803712
For storage yes. Still have cds with archived kino.

>>86804609
My fear with AV1 is that it'll be a bungled up release like VP9

I still buy them along with DVDs and Lasersiscs.

>>86803712
>paying $40 for a single degradable disc with less than 2 hours of content on it

>>86804274
How big should a TV be to justify 16k and 32k? I doubt it'll be a trend for the average joe.

>>86805375
VP9 didn't have the platform support that AV1 has. It's going to be a whole new kind of launch.

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>>86804626
>I am a collector

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>>86805411
>How big should a TV be to justify 16k and 32k?
At least 60 inches.
>I doubt it'll be a trend for the average joe.
Remember when you thought 4K would be a trend for the average joe, and now people are buying 4K TVs from Amazon and Walmart for $400?

Look at the top selling TV on Amazon in pic related? You think only rich people can afford that?

As technology gets better and cheaper, the standards get better. In 20 years, 16K will be the TV that everybody owns. They are already showing off 8K TVs at entertainment and tech expos. You will be smacking yourself in the face when you are older and didn't see this coming.

>>86804843
where can i download your material?

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>>86805452
I hope so.
It'll wreck my little Thinkpad regardless.

>>86805581
I put them on private torrent trackers.

>>86805570
question for you. i'm in the market for a tv and my budget is $400. should i get a 4K TV (like that one) or a 1080p from a "higher quality" brand?

>>86805606
where?

>>86805618
The 4K since you won't be getting a better panel at the $400 mark. You'd have to spend at least twice more.

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>>86805570
>smart tv enjoy your privacy

plex server + university's blu-ray library is the way to go. they have most of the criterion blu-rays so i just rent and rip them.

>>86805673
>he's a Democrat

oh dear. you are also retarded

I doubt a lot of people here actually watch movies, let alone buy them

>>86805962
Not only do I watch movies, I seed them to private trackers.

>>86805403
$40?? You can get them for around $12 here (AUD)

>>86804658
yeah, I like having tangible things like books n' shit. It's something to show for.

>>86803712
I mostly download encodes or stream. Got Star Trek TNG boxset on BD though, The RAWS are like 1.2TB and I thought the blu rays will last longer because hard drives can fail after a few years.

I used to buy dvd's. Skipped blu-ray, but man do I miss all the extra stuff, like commentary tracks etc.

>he keeps an amalgamation of tacky plastic on a shelf
lmao. seriously I never understood buying movies. no movie is so good I need to display it on a shelf in my home

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>wasting money on hard drive space
>wasting time/effort downloading
>versus buying a $5 disc

>>86804871
I prefer ebooks. Blu-rays are the only physical medium worth owning. Digital is better for music, books, comics, but for films BD is still king.

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>>86803712

>>86806281
>bonus discs in their own boxes on their own shelf
Nobody does this

>>86806171
>buying a movie you've never seen before

>>86806148
>i don't understand why people like other things than me
literal IRL autism

>>86806306
t. mixed up teen

>>86806281
what the fuck is up with this comic? Why are their old people and a teen on what we're lead to believe is this guys date? Why would a woman be impressed with a collection that worthless? How young is the teen that he doesn't even know what a dvd is? Why is he empty headed for not throwing away money/being unfamiliar with a concept?

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>>86806199
>Digital is better for books, comics
Kill yourself any day now you subhuman lowlife trash.

>>86803712
I only rent and i prefer Blu-rays to streaming, not only is it cheaper to rent but it also has much better quality.

>>86806351
furthermore why is the dvd shelf located *behind* this guys tv? Isn't he supposed to be smart or something? If he's so sophisticated how come no one else in the scene has a drink? What kind of half asses hosting is this? Seems pretty crude. Why would blu-ray have its own separate category? Surely he isn't watching non-bluray in 2017? How are we not meant to laugh at this comic's artist? He can't even portray these simple characters without actually labeling them.

i fell for the DVD meme
then when my crippling drug addiction kicked in i barely sold off my thousands of dollars of DVDs for maybe 300 bucks
and still have about 400 dvds that are unsellable

>>86806444
*and that was top dollar

>>86806444
when the Apocalypse hits those dvds aint going to be worth shit

>>86804272
What is remux btw

>spending the woven jew for a license to watch the plastic jew on the virtual jew whenever you have a moment of time away from laboring for the human jew

>>86806352
Enjoy reading your books at night with a gay candle and not being able to make out the middle of a comics centerfold

>>86806484

An exact rip of the bluray's video, audio and sub streams muxed into an mkv.

>>86803712
Yeah, sort of. Internet speeds aren't really up for streaming at those bitrates.

Where do euros buy blu-ray these days btw?

Yes.
1) stream quality is utter garbage
2) 99.9% of torrents look worse than regular DVD quality, Blu-ray obliterates torrents
3) for the rare halfway decent rip, I don't feel like downloading a 30-50gb file (anything less than that is trash and not comparable to Blu-ray, don't argue.)
4) only a redditbitch who is not serious about film and only wants to watch some mongrel capeshit would give up having access to the extras that are only on the Blu-ray. Habitual torrentfags are redditors who only watch consumerist-grade films like comic book/video game garbage or the latest "dude it's a rollercoaster ride just have fun" trash

>>86805223
Yeah Anon... TELL US :^)

>>86803712
People should be happy that physical media exists, because without it progress would stagnate and quality would be overall lower.
The only way to see a movie in propper quality would be in the cinema. Older movies would be unreleased or in vhs/dvd quality.
Think about it, what would be the reason to rescan and remaster an old movie like Casablanca or zulu if you aren't going to sell it and benefit from it?
If blurays weren't around we would still be watching movies in shitty 480p on dvds. Without physical media, movies like Richard III would still be incomplete with fucked colours and damaged prints.
I am still waiting for movies like Come and See to get a proper blu-ray remaster so you can see the actual quality of the movie.

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>>86806905
Pic related, you'd still be watching the lower half.

>>86806716
Euros are too smart to buy Jew Rays

>>86806859

Bluray extras usually pop up a few days after the initial scene release.

No paying 50$ bucks to the jews is never worth it.

>still buying Blu-rays when 4K UltraHD has been around for over a year now
AHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHA FUCKING POORFAG LOSERS EAT MY SHIT

>>86805209
sure is summer

>>86806436
It's satire you idiot. You are supposed to laugh at the old guy.

>>86807779
Not everything is in 4K, and they're $40-50 here in Australia

>>86805209

>>>/g/ptg

>>86808818
>$40-50

THIS MUCH
FOR PHYSICAL MEDIA
IN 2017

Gee I wonder why they're going bankrupt?

>>86808906
Jogs the nog, doesn't it?

>>86803712
Blu rays are absolutely worth it
>Outlast HDDs
>Visual display of library available at all times
>Can be brought to another place without having to drag your whole HDD or copy it to a thumb drive and hope there's a way to play it where you're going
>Absolutely stellar quality
>Extras, features, and commentary
>Usually comes with a redeemable streaming code so you can watch it on your Laptop or whatever anywhere you have internet
I'm sorry, if you really think that a 5TB drive filled with remuxes is a better deal than a small bookshelf with a hundred or so Blu Rays you're just an imbecile. Buy movies when they're on sale, only buy movies you'll watch forever and with other people, and be a fucking adult about it
I pirate movies too trust me, I'm in all the secret clubs you wish you could be in. But I have over 200 Blu Rays and almost every single one of them is worth owning

>>86809163
>I'm sorry, if you really think that a 5TB drive filled with remuxes is a better deal than a small bookshelf with a hundred or so Blu Rays

It is a better deal and I have an 8TB NAS.

Blurays are the last time you will see optical media ever again. Good riddance.

>>86809163
>I'm in all the secret clubs you wish you could be in

Post your HDBits homepage with today's uploads.

>>86809163
>But I have over 200 Blu Rays and almost every single one of them is worth owning

Post a pic of them and watch us laugh at what you think is "worth owning".

Bet you won't.

I unironically bought a dvd the other day

>>86805570
You won't even see the difference between HD and 4k if your screen is smaller than 55 inches and you sit a mere 2 meters away

4k makes sense for PC monitors, as TVs they're just a way to sell more TVs

>>86809255
I'm at work, don't have a pic of them
>>86809235
Ok I bluffed I'm only in PTP
>>86809298
I buy DVDs if it's for a comedy for watching with friends only and it is $3 or less

>>86809387
>Ok I bluffed I'm only in PTP

haha thought so

>>86809163
I usually don't watch movies more than once so i don't really care about owning them or storing them.
I just rent the Blu-rays, rip them and watch them whenever i want and then delete them after.

>>86809209
A 4K Blu-ray remux is around 60 GB to 100 GB, i don't think the entire world is going to be ready to stream stuff like that any time soon.
And if 8K eventually becomes a thing, if the internet is not capable of streaming it physical media will be still necessary, maybe not discs but something else.

>>86804072
My main problem with the codes is how quickly they expire, unless you buy within a couple of months of release when the prices are crazy high it's already gone. I've got about 100 blu rays and 3 digital versions.

>>86806476
The exact opposite is true. When the Apocalypse hits I'll turn on the genny, open up my MREs and watch movies all day, streamers will have nothing.

>>86806716
Amazon, I go though the under £10 list every so often, Prime sells them ridiculously cheap and gets them here the next day.

>>86806476
Optical media will be the only way to watch movies then

>>86806905
Agreed. There are tons of movies that look much better on Blu-ray than on DVD. The premium labels are doing good work on pre-1980s material. I wait for the sales, though.

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>>86804072
Thank you for your contribution, Shabbos goy

>>86804204
Yeah dude no one will ever need a hard drive bigger than 30mb, at some point you just don't need that much storage lol

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>>86803712

Dude, you're going to seriously ask this question on a site where 98% of the college/ high school people who post here just straight up steal everything they want without thinking twice about it?

That's like asking a group of black guys in "The HOOD" if they think weed should be free. We all know what 99% of them are going to reply.

>>86803712
In about 10 years once physical copies of movies are a thing of the past and everything is done online or OnDemand, and Hollywood no longer lets you buy your own copy of the movie and instead only lets you rent them for a 24 hour period for $14.99, people are really going to regret being too, cheap, and lazy to keep physical media around

>>86811349
>everything is done online or OnDemand, and Hollywood no longer lets you buy your own copy of the movie and instead only lets you rent them for a 24 hour period for $14.99

You mean pirates are excluded?

Great. Who the fuck cares if normies get robbed?

>>86804006
Fpbp

>>86811097
>>86811142
samefag

>>86811349
>rent for $14.99

Fuck you're doing it wrong

>>86811349
>rent them for a 24 hour period for $14.99

this doesn't happen anywhere.

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>>86811349

>everything is done online or OnDemand

That would be nice. I'd love to see these old cunts go out of business.

>>86804204
Anything above 4K is useless unless you want to turn a wall into a screen.

>720p WEB-DL
>1080p WEB-DL
>720p BluRay
>1080p BluRay

What's the quality order between these four?

>>86803712
No, but they're worth renting from Netflix and compressing with HEVC.

>>86811612
>1080p WEB-DL
>720p WEB-DL
>720p BluRay
>1080p BluRay

there, best one at bottom.

>>86811612
>1080p WEB-DL

worst one but only if it comes from itunes.

>>86811658
Yeah it's fucking weird how iTunes 1080p is less quality than the 7200 but it's true

>>86811612
1080p blu-ray
720p blu-ray
dvd
laserdisc
chinese super video cd
yiffy .avi rip
1080p web-dl
720p web-dl

>>86811697
It's not "weird" it just that iTunes is really stingy and they encode to 1080p without giving it the appropriate bitrate so the 1080p is only like 500mb more than the 720p.

Maybe they will stop doing that when they reveal their 4K + HDR offerings with the new Apple TV this year.

Just imagine if Apple 4K piracy becomes a thing. So. Many. Movies.

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>>86811658
>720p WEB-DL over 1080p WEB-DL
This is exactly why I asked, just look at this shit

>>86811799
Don't get the iTunes rip. Get the Amazon rip.

And stop watching the Walking Pleb.

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actual 1080 w/o that pixelated compressed garbage you get in streams, netflix or digital cable. also typically entirely uncompresed audio tracks. 4k ultra HD blurays could be decent but half the stuff that's printed on them is faux 4k and the tv's are still way too expensive. so i'd say still go with bluray if you actually give a shit about kino

>>86809298
I had to
still no True Lies blu-ray

>>86804545
>you are not collection
nice grammar, yuro

>>86804111
You mean like how they said bluray would replace DVD, but here we are 10 years later and DVD is still around?

>>86804871
>plactic shit
commentary tracks, senpai

>>86811797

It still would be 4k WEB. It's not like groups don't already rip that from Netflix/Amazon.

>>86806352
TRIGGERED

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>>86811901
>He doesn't have the HD VHS in 1080p

>>86811799

release name?

>>86811963
>You mean like how they said bluray would replace DVD, but here we are 10 years later and DVD is still around?

There's no difference when you still have to deal with plastic chink discs. Hell most people can't even tell the difference between either disc if hand one to them.

When optical media finally gets phased out and you have to either download or buy your movie on a USB stick, things will be much, much better.

>>86812011
I'm not sure, I took the screenshot like a year ago when I was binging TWD, but it's definitely one of those WEB-DL torrents and I think that was season 4 when they escape from the cannibals?

>>86812002
>1920x816
C'mon man

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>>86811965
>commentary tracks, senpai

I get those with my pirated movies, senpai.

pic related.

>>86812176
That's the resolution of Blu rays you fucking idiot

>>86811513
Yet

Blu-ray was obsolete even at launch. Physical media wasn't relevant in 2006, and it's even more irrelevant in 2017.

I remember friends saying they were buying the PS3 mostly for the blu ray player...wtf

Buying blu ray is like buying a very top of the line rotary phone.

>>86812338

>I remember friends saying they were buying the PS3 mostly for the blu ray player...wtf

At one point the PS3 was cheaper than most bluray players.

>>86812338
>I remember friends saying they were buying the PS3 mostly for the blu ray player...wtf

it was a decent deal back then but lol now its a piece of shit that won't even play most of the apps it has smoothly.

Android boxes are the future of TV consumption, both legally and illegally.

>>86812424
Yeah but it's still a rotary phone.

>>86803712
If the sellers weren't such a big jew, I'd buy it

>>86803712
I like special features ans supporting small films that I am a fan of so yes for me they are worth buying. Poultryghiest and Return to Nuke Em' High just came in the mail last week

>paying for data unless it's something you can't access otherwise like with multiplayer features

>>86812567
>Poultryghiest and Return to Nuke Em' High just came in the mail last week

can't get any more Jewish than these films.

>>86812640
Jewish is become too overused and meaningless on this site to the point where that could mean one of a thousand contradicting things.

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>>86812338
Legally renting a movie online is more than twice as expensive as renting a Blu-ray, and the quality of the Blu-ray is always the best you can get.
Pic example is Redbox Blu-ray $2 vs Amazon HD streaming $5.

>>86812690
in this case, literally made by jews and overflowing with jewish themes.

>>86804545
I can't believe my man who fell to earth bluray isn't worth anythi-oh wait it's now worth 5x the price i bought it for used.

>>86812718
I mean I guess Kauffman is Jewish, I guess I just don't really care about themes in my radioactive waste monster movies/borderline soft-core porn's.

>>86812829
look up what poultrygeist is really about

>>86805549

I always wondered if anyone actually won those magazine contests or if it was just a pure scam.

>>86806905

This. I'm glad there's a physical media market that has support, otherwise we would have never gotten this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQUrGKLpzc

The DVD is nostalgic because that's how I remember first seeing it. However, the Blu-Ray version blew me away because it looks like it was shot yesterday. I can't watch non-HD TNG anymore because the update looks too damn good.

>>86803712
>Are blu-rays still worth buying?
I bet the players are still kept at an artificially high price.

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I like them a lot myself, the Lord of the Rings extended set is legitimately the best physical media purchase I've ever made.
Also starting to hate streaming services these days considering their film lineups are getting shittier by the day.

>>86804545
>Buy special edition art book that comes with film on first print
>Worth over 10 times what I paid for it now

You just need to have good taste and be in the know to build up a valuable collection.

https://www.amazon.com/Belladonna-Sadness-Companion-Japanese-Anime/dp/0996744738

>>86816239
>Also starting to hate streaming services these days considering their film lineups are getting shittier by the day.

Because every IP rights holder wants to pull their movies and make them an "exclusive" for their own streaming service.

So if you bought access to a Viacom streaming service can you watch all Paramount movies ever made? No you dumb fuck, all of them also refuse to put up all their content at one time, instead having a rotating "selection" of shit to keep you coming back to check if what you actually wanted to see is there or not.

So inevitably when you have 20 different streaming services with fractured content you'll only pay for a couple, but still be unsatisfied so then they'll come around saying "we COULD sell you this amazing PACKAGE DEAL where for X dollars a month you get a variety of shows that changes over the year" and.. so you're back with cable.

>>86816239
>have a watchlist on netflix
>half of the movies I added 6 months ago are gone

>>86816129
They're $45 cheap ass nigga

>>86809209
>Blurays are the last time you will see optical media ever again.

But 4K is already out and selling better than BD.

>>86817011
I really hate that shit, I swear I'll put off watching a movie for a month and it'll be gone the next time I check.
Do they even send DVD's in the mail anymore?

If you want ACTUAL good quality then yes of course, nothing beats the uncompressed audio and high bitrate of a bluray

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What are your favorite collections guys?
Pic related is a pretty great little cheap set.

>>86811349
I love this pasta

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>>86817538
found this for a dollar at a flea market recently

>>86812046
>When optical media finally gets phased out and you have to either download or buy your movie on a USB stick, things will be much, much better.
yes i can't wait to have movies i don't own

>>86806281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVrd1ih6cs
the behind the pen videos are the best

>>86812046
>When optical media finally gets phased out and you have to either download or buy your movie on a USB stick, things will be much, much better.

t. Netflix CEO

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>>86804545
>you are not a collection

>>86818117
Could have also gotten the Good, the Bad and the Ugly for a few dollars more.

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>>86817538
I didn't buy those sort of sets on DVD and I certainly won't on Blu Ray.

>Unrelated content
>No nice cover art to look at
>Cluttered spine and back cover
>Can't be alphabetised

I only buy box sets of film series or TV shows

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>>86818463
Jesus that look terrible, the other anthology set is pretty decent though.

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>>86818398

>>86818548
I'm actually not that interested in extras so although that cover is nicer, it's not "worth twice the price" nicer. Especially as you can only see the spine on the shelf.

>>86818172
>wanting to own movies

Piracy is life

>>86818548
Hey, I imported that thing.
Worth it for Aliens alone.

>>86803712
ugh!

why would anyone buy blurays when you can download yiffy rips in 1080p with terrible bitrates and lossy audio?!

or streaming? like, you know, streaming is where it's at nowadays. no need to download or buy anything just sift through all those ad-ridden sites with dead links. or what about netflix, that's some top tier based kino. all the terrible original content nobody asked for at terrible quality.

fuck blurays. only grandpas still buy them because they're not tech savy. fuck them. they're so stupid to pay for physical media, or as I like to call them physical coasters!!! do these jews think I have a job and have disposable income?!

who gives a fuck about the convenience of having a physical disc or those stupid bonus features. yuck! what kind of liberal idiot would want to listen to an insightful commentary track or watch how a film was made. I aint got time for that crap.

and hard drives are so cheap, I don't give a fuck when they fail. i've had 3 disks fail completely but no problem, because I get to download all my yiffy rips again for free. it's always fun downloading terabytes of shit every few years.

FUCK blurays. Donald Trump is the greatest president that has ever lived. Make America great again!

>>86803712
If we're talking strictly about video quality, yes they're worth buying. Streaming services have to compress the shit out of movies so they can stream on various connections. The result is that the bitrate of streamed movies is 2-3 times lower (or more) than their Blu-ray counterparts.

>>86804756
Also often you'll find remuxes and other high quality rips have no seeders for that certain film you wanted to keep. Yet there's hundreds for YIFY 720p and 1 GB 1080p shit with low-fi stereo. Fuck those cheap torrents.

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>>86818960

>>86811963
>but here we are 10 years later and DVD is still around?
VHS hung around for a long time too, that doesn't mean it wasn't replaced as the default physical format.

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Only in cases where finding a digital version online is next to impossible, or you want high quality and don't want to bother downloading 80 gigs off of shitty German internet.

my bluray collection consists of:

a free copy of forgetting sarah marshall

and the original star wars trilogy which is sourced from the fucking lucas re-edits so it has CG animals. also free got it for xmas

i've never considered buying a blu ray. the only reason i can watch them is a PS3

i only bought DVDs when I was a kid because i had no means to hook my PC up to my CRT. back then i had a DVD player that would pretty much play any file you threw at it, so i had far more burned DVDs in my collection

>>86820762
>and the original star wars trilogy which is sourced from the fucking lucas re-edits so it has CG animals
There are some fans editing and restoring it to the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGrXO2RDzLg

>>86803712
Yes.

Extra features alone. Criterion releases which does that 2x fold, and includes the directors typically to help with the making of the bluray.

Remasters (except those that are a cash grab and really aren't, just an upscale of 2k to 4k, etc).

I got Man of Steel (only capeshit I've ever bought) in Steelbook. Came with four fucking hours of extras.

Damn well fucking worth it. Same with Dazed and Confused Criterion, and both of the James Bond Casino Royale and QoS Steelbooks, the extras were fucking awesome.

Also, Edge of Tomorrow had CRUISE TO THE MAX. Love the Cruise, he was pulling a James Cameron on set being in the mode and doing his own stunts and training every day.

>>86812338
>>86804112
>>86812695
>>86820475
I hardly ever bought DVDs. I have hundreds of Yifi mkv, and I even still have garbage .avi axxo shit.

Now that I actually have a decent job and home thether setup, it's nice to have a Blu-ray of one of your favorite movies that you can watch in the highest commercial quality with amazing audio.

I still pirate movies and TV shows, but Blu-ray are still worth it to the kino enthusiast.

>>86821771
god fuck my spacing for that post
i'm going to make some coffee so i don't post like a retard any more time

i'm sorry anons

>>86804006
SPBP

I'm glad I went from VHS to digital and skipped all that bullshit.

>>86803712
I'll infrequently pick up a blu-ray. Usually from small producers that make it their business to restore and re-release old/unknown films. Recently for instance I picked up the new Top of the Heap blu-ray.
I have several private tracker accounts, so I can get most of the stuff I buy fairly easily, but I think restoration is important, so I don't mind giving some money to those that promote it, as I have the money to spend. I imagine if I didn't have it, I wouldn't

>>86821891
retard post worst post

>>86821771
>Extra features alone
This is a Kino connoisseur. Take notes.

>>86804545

It depends. Something like Terminator will never increase in value. But a limited edition box set? Yes, it will increase in value.

>>86821771
>Man of Steelbook
That "Planet Krypton" documentary which foreshadows the plot of BvS is absolute kino

>>86804545
tfw my OOP $20 Chungking Express Criterion Digipack is now worth $200
So yeah I guess you can I'm collection

>>86811963

>DVD is still around

Only because the average person is cheap and retarded, the kind of person who buys movies at 7-Eleven.

>>86803712
don't get Buffy or Stalker on it, transitions are fucked

>>86803712
I want to start collecting movies, but I don't want to get stuck with an obsolete format like the VHS when everything goes possibly digital.

>>86822924
>everything's gonna go digital
when will this fucking meme stop

>>86803712
Yes,
stream severs will fail, support will drop in corporate takeovers and bankruptcies, lack of mainstream interest will lead to abandonment as cost cutting actions, flash bit rot will cause corruption errors in a few years of neglect. In short these things aren't really guaranteed to last (5~10 years).

But optic disc media will last a lifetime (80~120 years).

I actually used DVD because the software support is more robust and Blu-ray is known include hard kill triggers in proprietary blobs that brick systems.

>>86818398
Heh

>>86822139
>>86822924
You can't own digital format. In the future, Amazon will delete your movies because you said nigger on a site with Google adds.

>>86823354
but i am black and therefore allowed to say nigger and cracker as much as i want.

>>86822989
HHow is that a meme

>>86822062
I wish more groups besides GRYM would rip the fucking extras.

Like goddamn, you got the bluray, why not spend an extra hour ripping the other features?

>>86823426
LUCKY NIGGA

>>86816067
>steps over the chair back in 1080p

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>>86821771
>mfw those dozens of documentaries and commentaries that come with each movie in the Lord of the Rings blu ray trilogy set
>mfw the documentaries that come with America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

>>86825963
Same with the Star Trek TNG remasters.
God tier shit.

Glad I didn't buy the LOTR blurays that came out in the last few years with all those fucked up filters even more than before (Peterson is Lucas 2.0 with his works)

Oh, and all the Fringe seasons have great extras too. That shit was awesome.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut from many years ago; so many things, from workprint to threatre to final cut.
The Matrix blurays in the 00s, having an entire extra set dedicated
That and also LOST

>>86806618
>>86806859
You can just download blu-ray remuxes and get the same quality though.

>>86826156
Man you are a man. Who believes memes at first sight, don't you?
ONLY the fellowship of the ring and ONLY the extended version has botched green filter and it very quickly be removed in a remux if you have a disc drive in your computer like somebody who isn't a Neanderthal

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>>86826388
Well thanks for the info, Ill look in to that

>>86818634
I got mine for $15 at Best Buy during the holidays

>>86818548
>>86818463
Would the anthology sets be worth getting just for the bonus features? I already have the blu ray special editions of alien and aliens but didn't see the point in getting the anthology since I don't like 3 or resurrection.

>>86828902
No, don't get the anthology. You've already done good by only owning the only good movies in the franchise

I'd say yes but for films you genuinely enjoy

Still buy blu ray, still buy vinyl, still buy CDs. Only freeloaders pirate and only the tasteless pay for files.

>>86828902
The anthology includes the assembly cut of alien 3 which is the best in the franchise, so obviously yes.

>>86804626
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