Movies For Those Who Still Like To Collect And Watch Physical Media

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Do you have a preference on what you get movies or TV shows on like:
4K
Blu-Ray
DVD
Or even
VHS tapes
Laserdisc

As for me though I think Blu-Ray has a better picture I don't mind getting DVDs.

I'm starting to get back into getting them again and I got my first Blu-Ray tonight of IMO one of the greatest films of all time The French Connection.

Also have Capt. America: The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier on DVD. The last one I want to get on Blu-Ray.

Had other ones but unfortunately got rid of them and I regret it.
 
4K with digital or Bluray with digital.

I regret not pursuing The Dreamers NC-17 on Bluray.

I did buy cheap Walmart $5 Dune original on DVD and if you saw the quality of that, you'd be scared to buy DVD ever again.
 
Most of my collection is 1080p bluray as my TV for the last 10 years is a 1080p LCD. It was top of the line back then as 4k was in its infancy and no one was really selling 4k content.

My TV just went kaput a few days ago, it sucks but I am not too heartbroken even though it's 80inches and cost a hefty sum back then because I've been wanting to watch 4k stuff for a while. Right now struggling between a Samsung 85inch mini LED or 83inch LG OLED.

I won't convert my collection to 4k, maybe some of the movies I really like and the visuals warranted it. But I will get 4k for the new stuff I collect.

The main reason I still collect blurays is because a lot of the streaming media compress the audio, if I was playing sound through a soundbar or the tv speaker, that's fine, but I have surround home theater speaker and physical media still have better sound though streaming is catching up.
 
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I really like watching Blue Rays and enjoy the sound, but I never want to rewatch a movie, so it is lost on me a little. There are only half a dozen movies I ever rewatch, and only every so many years. The Crow, The Ninth Gate, Idiocracy, Space Balls, Star Trek 4, and maybe a couple of others. It isn't really worth having a player for just that, though maybe I'll change my mind at some point.
 
Whatever the highest quality is I'll own, but when I get a 4K version I make sure to keep the blu-ray version if the 4K UHD doesn't also come with a blu-ray. UHD unfortunately can come with necessary technical workarounds and limitations (like watching one on a PC). DVD's I'll keep if they have a different look to them or have extras other versions don't have or are of movies I particularly love, things like that. VHS is for purely collector's reasons like movies you love or that it'd be cool to see the vhs boxes for, or movies that are more impactful in a lot of ways on a lower resolution format like say The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Laserdisks are purely for collector's purposes as I know I won't be watching them unless I get the disk professionally archived digitally.
 
4k blu ray for me. I care about audio and streaming is pretty bad compared to Blu-ray discs.
 
4K and Blu ray

@lsa collects vintage VHS porn though
 
I started collecting about 7 years ago and just always preferred blu rays for some reason. I think it mostly comes down to the fact that when looking for them in thrift stores and random shops its hard to come across the more obscure films (which are usually my favorites) and when you do find one its a fun rush. Also it seems like some of them are starting to become rare randomly, like "28 Days Later" which I bought for 5 dollars years ago is now worth like 60-100.
 
MLarson said:
Do you have a preference on what you get movies or TV shows on like:
4K
Blu-Ray
DVD
Or even
VHS tapes
Laserdisc

As for me though I think Blu-Ray has a better picture I don't mind getting DVDs.

I'm starting to get back into getting them again and I got my first Blu-Ray tonight of IMO one of the greatest films of all time The French Connection.

Also have Capt. America: The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier on DVD. The last one I want to get on Blu-Ray.

Had other ones but unfortunately got rid of them and I regret it.
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Everything is better on a laserdisc
 
Blu ray was/ is peak. Even the cases are asthetically pleasing and look good displayed at home.
 
Slobodan said:
4K UHD and Blu ray do have better AV quality.
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Better than streaming?
Its seems an oddly pointless collector hobby tbh, at least VHS has some character and sentimental value.
 
TheMaster said:
So 4K UHD and Blue Ray is still the most high res way humanely possible to watch movies, is what you are saying?
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For consumer media it will still give you the best AV quality. "Most high res" is the wrong term for this, a lot of movies were/are mastered in 2K including 4K releases.

It's the same resolution as on stream, the difference is the bitrate, streams are way more compressed and have a low bit-rate, compared ot what 4K UHD can output (up to 100mbps) and hold, a dual layer disc is 50GGB, triple layer is 100GB.
 
As far as movies are concerned I haven't bough a DVD in ages, but I've been buying vinyl records quite regularely and occasionally a CD as well.
 
Slobodan said:
For consumer media it will still give you the best AV quality. "Most high res" is the wrong term for this, a lot of movies were/are mastered in 2K including 4K releases.

Streams are compressed and have a low bit-rate, compared ot what 4K UHD can output (up to 100mbps) and hold, a dual layer disc is 50GGB, triple layer is 100GB.
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Not quite as pointless as I thought then
 
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