TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
The whole "4K Blu-Ray" format release was -ironically- the thing that made me quit physical movies. I spent years carefully curating a BD collection that is now being treated as obsolete because a new format is on the market. They pretend people to repurchase the same movies again in the new hot format. Someday 8K will apear and the process will repeat, and so on, so on. I'm not getting into that money pit.
It has always been like this. First VHS got surpasssed by DVDs, then Blu-rays, now 4K Blu-rays, etc. Meanwhile, the HD movies I purchased on iTunes got automatically upgraded to 4K, with no aditional cost. And I can bet my ass that when 8K streaming becomes a thing, they will be upgraded to that too.
I know it technically doesn't have the same quality as a 4K disc, but it gets really, really close, and it's only getting better:
As a collector I can't say I agree.
I still buy Blu-ray's and 4K for releases that get the newly scanned treatment.
Older release especially as most of the Blu-ray release in the 2000's wasn't done that well so the difference is striking.
Ironically I have noticed the difference in digital & physical releases in 4k being a lot more then bitrate.
Some digital platforms have use the older scan from the Blu-ray release which look better then the original Blu-ray due to resolution but looks a bit in bad shape compared 4K Blu-ray which has had the new scan done by the studio for that release.
But most new releases are fine on digital.
In terms of "collecting digital"
I don't bother as most of the stuff I did have digitally are no longer accessable.
As for games, I have a shit load on PS3 but like the physical copies they're tied to that platform.
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