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Originally Posted by t-mel
This is wishful thinking if you ask me. What is the incentive to improve the quality when people already say they don't care and it costs more to do so? And lossless music isn't really a good comparison considering how much smaller the required bandwidth is. The streamers (e.g. Disney and Warner) are already putting 4k in the more expensive tiers.
Also, streaming does nothing for preservation. Look at the availability of older films on the streamers. They are almost non-existent. They are heavily biased towards newer things. Streaming prioritises the popular and therefore the new, and anything else is superfluous. That's going to continue. You will see way more lost media.
I don't think this is a good idea. First you don't need to go beyond 4k really. Discs are very cheap to manufacture so it will be a long time before a card will be cheaper. But most importantly discs are simply more reliable than cards.
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Really it was only Netflix getting very cheap rights to a lot of media that allowed it to sell the idea it was ever going to be a repository of film/tv history. These days I'm guessing simply the storage/bandwidth would probably be too much anyway.
As far as 8K goes I think the issue could likely be the market is just too small for a disk format. My guess is if he see much 8K it will either be high end streaming of things like sporting events or perhaps if we see Imax cinemas using 8K masters maybe some kind of download service that also uses them? wasnt there a service that used larger cinema versions of films with less compression? something like that aiming at a small market of cinephiles with very large screens.
I really do not see 8K becoming a format with a significant range of films on it though.