4K Digital vs Standard Blu-ray only

[jtheys]

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.

This. Exactly. Agree 100%.

[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.

[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