Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Does anyone have this one on their radar?

It's a terrfiic disc and awesome film.

[Ender14]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I am looking at Batman (1989) and Batman Returns in 4K

Those are the only 2 I bought of that series. But they both look amazing and worth the upgrade IMO.

[Ender14]

Has anyone here ordered from Discount Home Video? I just placed my first order from there and wondered if anyone had any experience with them.

[gotmule]

I hope nobody is heavily invested in Netflix at the moment.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/media...rop/index.html

[veritas]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

I call nonsense on those saying it's due to the price increase. Mine kicked in at $19.99 for 4K and I'll gladly pay it. Some of the folks claiming the high expense can be some of the same type of people who don't bat an eyelash when buying $5 coffees everyday at Starbucks. Both are luxuries, too.

Personally I think it partly is the price along with the lack of good content on netflix. The advantages netflix has mostly come from its brand being one of the first on the market. It also has one of the best interfaces of any streaming service.

Netflix for years has been pushing for original content but they really aren't very good at filtering good ideas from bad ideas. They pay huge amounts to make a first seasons of a lot of shows that probably should get cancelled after a pilot or 3 episodes.

Overall I think Netflix is putting to much money into original content and pushing the costs of that onto subscribers. Their catalog at this point is rather awful. They use the original content as a justification for raising rates but they aren't very good at original content.

[veritas]

Originally Posted by gotmule

I hope nobody is heavily invested in Netflix at the moment.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/media...rop/index.html

The price is starting to get tempting to buy now lol.

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by veritas

The price is starting to get tempting to buy now lol.

I thought about that too.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by veritas

Personally I think it partly is the price along with the lack of good content on netflix. The advantages netflix has mostly come from its brand being one of the first on the market. It also has one of the best interfaces of any streaming service.

Netflix for years has been pushing for original content but they really aren't very good at filtering good ideas from bad ideas. They pay huge amounts to make a first seasons of a lot of shows that probably should get cancelled after a pilot or 3 episodes.

Overall I think Netflix is putting to much money into original content and pushing the costs of that onto subscribers. Their catalog at this point is rather awful. They use the original content as a justification for raising rates but they aren't very good at original content.

Netflix has to make their own content now that all the major studios have their own streaming services - they stopped licensing out their content to Netflix and hold them for their own service.

[Steedeel]

Was reading more about the UK situation today. Disney and Now tv (Sky’s cheaper OTT offering suffered the most in Q1. Disney churn was 12%, which is by far the worst of all the services I understand.

[cheez avenger]

My copies of Son 4K disc (German import) and The Proposition 4K discs (BFI box set) arrived today, so will probably watch them this week.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

My copies of Son 4K disc (German import) and The Proposition 4K discs (BFI box set) arrived today, so will probably watch them this week.

I just went for the regular Blu-ray of Son. Interesting film, quite enjoyed its central mystery and it had some good scenes.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I just went for the regular Blu-ray of Son. Interesting film, quite enjoyed its central mystery and it had some good scenes.

I got the BD for review and it is a great looking/sounding BD. Out here they have the digital 4K SDR, but no 4K disc. When I saw the 4K disc was available and it was English friendly (and in HDR), I had to pounce on it. It was a combined order via DiabolikDVD and I used one of their 10% off coupons to sweeten the deal.

[unberechenbar]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Does anyone have this one on their radar?

I saw it a few weeks ago. The UHD was the first time I watched it and the audio was amazing.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

I got the BD for review and it is a great looking/sounding BD. Out here they have the digital 4K SDR, but no 4K disc. When I saw the 4K disc was available and it was English friendly (and in HDR), I had to pounce on it. It was a combined order via DiabolikDVD and I used one of their 10% off coupons to sweeten the deal.

Sounds good!

Germany is a great option for me. I recently picked up Shadow In The Cloud 4K media book. I have quite a few German Blu-ray and 4K discs.

[cheez avenger]

So much for CNN+. It's over.


CNN+ Is Shutting Down One Month After Launch (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn...ry-1235237913/

[RefractiveIndex]

Looks like the ponzo scheme debt driven streaming services is going into decline. Perhaps studios will learn not to put all their eggs in one basket. For all the talk about the death of physical media at least it actually turns a profit

[bhampton]

Gotmule,

Any luck with the new PJ ?

I've been so thrilled with my JVC PJ and Panasonic UB9000.

I ran a second fiber optic HDMI cable yesterday so that my UB9000 video connects directly to input 1 of my projector. The ATV4K runs through my AVR to the projector input 2.


-Brian

[Wendell R. Breland]

We watched The Batman last night via HBO Max. Had a good sound track, not much use of the overheads, missed opportunities. The whole movie was fairly dark with some shots being eye straining soft, the entire movie was not very sharp.

The listing for video was UHD but it and other Max UHD listed movies only played in HD. Spot checked Prime and MA UHD content and they played in UHD. The Apple HUD showed the video was ≈ 5.5 Mbps, audio ≈ 680 Kbps and the network bandwidth 130 Mbps.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I've been so thrilled with my JVC PJ and Panasonic UB9000.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

We watched The Batman last night via HBO Max. Had a good sound track, not much use of the overheads, missed opportunities. The whole movie was fairly dark with some shots being eye straining soft, the entire movie was not very sharp.

The listing for video was UHD but it and other Max UHD listed movies only played in HD. Spot checked Prime and MA UHD content and they played in UHD. The Apple HUD showed the video was ≈ 5.5 Mbps, audio ≈ 680 Kbps and the network bandwidth 130 Mbps.

I spot checked it and it played fine in 4K DV / Atmos. The Batmobile chase sequence is epic. Since I recently saw this twice in premium formats in theaters, I'm good until the 4K disc is released next month.