Your min and max spending per Blu-ray?

[meremortal]

Usually hope for ten dollars or less which is probably why I have so few boutique releases and uhds in general from the last few years unless they've gone on sale or have been found at local used stores for a solid price. KL have tended to be good at keeping sale prices around $9.99 or less for blus. It's getting tougher to find those kinds of deals for uhd other than maybe BF for studio movies.

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by meremortal

Usually hope for ten dollars or less which is probably why I have so few boutique releases and uhds in general from the last few years unless they've gone on sale or have been found at local used stores for a solid price. KL have tended to be good at keeping sale prices around $9.99 or less for blus. It's getting tougher to find those kinds of deals for uhd other than maybe BF for studio movies.

In all fairness, the 4K format is still considered both fairly-new and high in profile, since the initial Covid years kept people away from stores and the only way they could upgrade was online. Plus, I think the more affordable players only debuted about 3 years ago, so that didn't help early sales either. Its only in the past 18 months maybe, that 4K has really started to take off, and I didn't buy my own player until this past summer. Most mainstream 4K movies range between $25 and $35, depending on whether its a catalog title and the anticipated demand for it.

[Hitman Horton]

The only rule I have is that I won't buy anything from a scalper. If I'm buying a used copy it's at a reasonable price. I won't support scalpers because, as far as I'm concerned, that would make me part of the problem.

[meremortal]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

In all fairness, the 4K format is still considered both fairly-new and high in profile, since the initial Covid years kept people away from stores and the only way they could upgrade was online. Plus, I think the more affordable players only debuted about 3 years ago, so that didn't help early sales either. Its only in the past 18 months maybe, that 4K has really started to take off, and I didn't buy my own player until this past summer. Most mainstream 4K movies range between $25 and $35, depending on whether its a catalog title and the anticipated demand for it.

It's wild that the first wave of uhds were released nearly nine years ago. At a similar point, it would have been around 2015 and blu ray was well beyond the days of the Best Buy upgrade & save promotions, etc. Blu just seemed more seasoned at similar time intervals while uhd still feels fairly new. But it may be because I just haven't invested in uhd the same way; all these years later and I still mostly collect blu whereas with the first decade or so of blu I was focusing more on that format and trying to upgrade previous dvds. Also, there are just more limitations for 4k with the overwhelming majority of tv shows not released and many movies just will never be released on the format.

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by meremortal

It's wild that the first wave of uhds were released nearly nine years ago. At a similar point, it would have been around 2015 and blu ray was well beyond the days of the Best Buy upgrade & save promotions, etc. Blu just seemed more seasoned at similar time intervals while uhd still feels fairly new. But it may be because I just haven't invested in uhd the same way; all these years later and I still mostly collect blu whereas with the first decade or so of blu I was focusing more on that format and trying to upgrade previous dvds. Also, there are just more limitations for 4k with the overwhelming majority of tv shows not released and many movies just will never be released on the format.

I share your frustration with certain things not being released on various formats. For example, two of my favorite dramas from the 1990s have yet to even see a Blu-Ray release: Ghosts of Mississippi and Bicentennial Man. And I'm the sort who often feels that about 90% of dramas are usually too heavy-handed with their stories.