I asked this before but it was on my old account & that account got deleted. Is it really worth it? I replaced all my vhs tapes with DVDs & most of my DVDs with blu rays. I don't want to go through this again. I'm personally satisfied with my blu rays so I don't feel the need to replace them.
shareNo. Be brutally honest, how many movies do you watch more than once? If it's more than half a dozen, I'd be surprised.
Unless you have a TV set the size of an aircraft hangar you probably won't see much difference.
It's a mug's game.
"Say it with flowers . . . give her a Triffid."
I watch Disney movies quite frequently.
shareI posted about this on another thread, but it's kinda relevant so I'll post it again here...
A few months back, I bought a 65" TV, upgrading from a 55". On the smaller set, DVDs looked okish, yet on the bigger set, look like crap. I have around 700 or so DVDs (collected over 10 years) and around 200 or so Blu-Rays (more now). The Blu-Rays look stellar on the big screen and I'm very happy. I see no need in replacing them with 4K. I am, however, replacing my DVDs. A lot of them were blind buys from years back - I hardly ever watch them. I made a list of my favourite movies that I intend to replace with Blu-Ray. The rest I'm gonna give to family or sell.
The jump from Blu-Ray to 4K isn't the big IMO.
It looks a bit sweaty in there so you may need to apply baby powder Zapp Brannigan
hey cryofry
I would love to see you play a vhs on that thing and tell me what you think!
I stopped collecting VHS like 15 years ago so I can't test that out. I'm sure it would look like utter crap, though!
It looks a bit sweaty in there so you may need to apply baby powder Zapp Brannigan
You all seem to be missing the news. You're not likely to get DCI 4K movies unless you're wealthy enough to have a certified home theater. What is available are Blu-ray discs with UHD resolution movies. Don't know the difference? Look here:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/174221-no-tv-makers-4k-and-uhd-are-not-the-same-thing
The Blu-ray brand is not going to be replaced by another optical disc type or brand. But new UHD discs will not play on existing Blu-ray players.
If you're in the market for a big new UHD TV with HDR and all the other bells and whistles, and a new UHD-capable Blu-ray player, you might as well get a UHD disc or two to see for yourself if it was worth it. The UHD versions are actually cheaper on Amazon.com, so that's another reason to go with UHD Blu-ray for new purchases. And if you have a movie on DVD that you've really wanted to have in HD, and plan on going UHD real soon, hold off and get the UHD version after you buy the new hardware.
Needless to say the difference between Video DVD using NTSC or PAL and either HD or UHD is going to be a big one. The difference between HD and UHD is going to be more subtle.
Speed: So you're saying DCI 4K is the same uncompressed or lightly compressed file format used to present movies in 4K in commercial digital cinemas?
shareDCI 4K is a digital format used for making movies. It's a widescreen format, with 4096 horizontal pixels, vs. 3840 for UHD. (Vertical pixels vary with aspect ratio.) And yes, the only way to see native DCI 4K is in a certified theater. A so-called "4K" Blu-ray will be downscaled to UHD, so it can be shown on regular TV sets, and to ensure that it's less good than the cinema version.
The compression for DCI movies depends on the equipment and software used to shoot and edit (respectively) any given movie. Compression is not used or minimal for production. IIRC it's distributed to theaters as a series of JPEG2000 images. That's a compressed still format using lossy compression. Just how much I don't know, but it's not like any video file you're likely to see on the Internet!