4K Digital vs Standard Blu-ray only

[cleeve]

Originally Posted by JG85

Oh, okay. How about if the 4K digital movie doesn't have HDR but only just says 4K like "Robocop" 4K digital for instance?

Even without HDR, streaming will look comparable at worst, but will often look better as 4k upgrades on the digital side oftentimes coincide with a new 4k master.

[Chad Rouch]

So much depends on the equipment used. I have a 65" LG C1 hooked up to an Apple 4K and an LG UHD blu-ray player. I can't tell the difference between the two sources. I'm sure if I had a much more expensive blu-ray player I might notice a difference. But I doubt it'd be big enough to justify the cost.

[avs commenter]

Originally Posted by Chad Rouch

So much depends on the equipment used. I have a 65" LG C1 hooked up to an Apple 4K and an LG UHD blu-ray player. I can't tell the difference between the two sources. I'm sure if I had a much more expensive blu-ray player I might notice a difference. But I doubt it'd be big enough to justify the cost.

A more expensive disc player wouldn’t make any difference

[yanksno1]

Originally Posted by stonesfan129

I'm buying digitally these days. It's just so much easier to deal with. My parents and I share our collection between two different homes. There are lots of deals. I don't think I've ever paid more than $10 for anything apart from new releases that I want to watch now.

I will not re-buy anything that doesn't redeem digitally though. Like if I can't scan the UPC and get a digital copy for $2, then I'm not buying it again. In those cases, disc gets ripped/compressed a bit and stuck on an external hard drive and I serve those up through Plex.

That's more going all in on Digital though, not what I was asking.

[stonesfan129]

Originally Posted by yanksno1

That's more going all in on Digital though, not what I was asking.

I think I would still rather have 4K digital through Vudu. The quality is acceptable to me and sometimes a 4K digital version, being from a better source and given HDR, looks night and day better than the Blu-ray, especially in cases where an early Blu-ray release encoded in MPEG2 or VC1 at low bitrate with DD audio never got a proper remaster.