I was over at my local Best Buy Magnolia store the other day looking at 4K TV's. They said that they will have 8k TV's I believe during the summer of this year (but could be next year as I may be mistake). He said, BB will have an 8K streaming service that you can subscribe too. That is going to require a hell of a lot of bandwith. I don't think my area will be able to handle that amount of info. Our development was built in 1992.
4K Players Are Becoming Extinct
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danfish
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Both streaming and discs are compressed, yet audio on a disk is lossless and video does have higher bitrates. But it depends on a person - if you don't care about quality, that's not a big deal and you can enjoy streaming services.
Though even if tomorrow 100% of the planet has a very fast internet speed, streaming services just can't beat physical storage since you can watch you Blu-ray disc whenever you want without internet connection. And streaming is temporary available.
CPP
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IF you mean 4K Video being streamed, yep its compressed for a reason. Trying to handle uncompressed 4K video is something like 5 terabytes of data per hour.
FYI: Netflix 4K tops out at 15Mbps. The Matrix Reloaded (2003) UHD Blu-ray has a bit rate of nearly 82Mbps for its main title. I don't need an A/B comparison to identify whether one is Netflix 4K or UHD Blu-ray - the video quality difference is immediately obvious to me.
There is no practical uncompressed video for distribution. Even digital movie projection in theater is lossy compressed. For a 1080p movie if I remember correctly it's roughly about 500GB for a movie.
There is no practical uncompressed video for distribution. Even digital movie projection in theater is lossy compressed. For a 1080p movie if I remember correctly it's roughly about 500GB for a movie.
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You can think about it in a different way: the physical disc limits your ability to watch because you can only watch at one location: where your disc and playback device are located. In contrast, you can download content and watch it even without internet connection on your phone, tablet, computer, you name it.
There is a saying about cameras: the best camera is the one you have when you need one. In other words, what good is having a SOTA Leica at home when you are away and need to capture your baby’s first steps?
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Big B
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Can't beat the physical media for the quality. It's where it's at for now and near future. I wish there was more content and more competition on where to buy it.
NorthStar
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I revisited "Mortal Engines" on 4K Blu-ray disc from a small OLED TV (65"), and spinned inside a 4K BR player (Oppo 205, now discontinued).
It was like discovering a new master recording music album played on a "Stravinsky" turntable from Indonesia. It's a figure of speech to say "reference moving picture & sound immersion".
The film itself lacks maturity, but the technical aspects don't.
But true, without those few exceptions, and now with Oppo, Cambridge and Samsung 4K Blu-ray players gone, streaming 4K picture and hires multichannel audio is the popular culture.
This physical disc is something else though...top. ...Just like quality vinyl sound.
Happy weekend,
It was like discovering a new master recording music album played on a "Stravinsky" turntable from Indonesia. It's a figure of speech to say "reference moving picture & sound immersion".
The film itself lacks maturity, but the technical aspects don't.
But true, without those few exceptions, and now with Oppo, Cambridge and Samsung 4K Blu-ray players gone, streaming 4K picture and hires multichannel audio is the popular culture.
This physical disc is something else though...top. ...Just like quality vinyl sound.
Happy weekend,