4K Digital vs Standard Blu-ray only

[yanksno1]

Hi, I've noticed lately a bunch of movies have 4K Digital releases, but only Standard Blu-ray releases (no 4K ones). Dog (2022), Licorice Pizza (won't buy that one haha), Airplane!, Memory (2022) being some of them I've noticed. So far, only think Memory actually looked 4K quality where the others looked basic 1080p up-scaled. I think The Black Phone is another one.

I remember one video by Films At Home saying one strategy some studios are doing is releasing only the Standard Blu-ray first, 4K Digital online and then releasing a 4K Blu-ray later pissing collectors off and having them double dip there. I think this happened with The Contractor, but not sure.

I might be asking this in the wrong forum, but are you guys buying the Standard Blu-ray in cases like these or the 4K digital release?