Search results

Don't forget the upscale if you're playing on a BD player. That can make a nice difference too.

The same content we're buying on BD or 4K BD. It's good enough for them and so they haven't upgraded. Simple as that. These are no doubt many of the same people who don't recognize OTA 4:3 stretched to 16:9.

Assuming the 4K Blu-ray holds genuine 4K content in the first place. The format did itself no favors by premiering its first 10 titles with 8 or 9 HD upscales. Honestly that kept me from taking it seriously. I certainly wasn't going to consider building a library with genuine and non-genuine 4K...

This. I have never understood why the streaming industry would want this to be the de facto model, but I guess it works for them somehow. It seriously dampens my enthusiasm though, and I often don't bother.

Well, nothing is forever of course. But there are optical media such as audio CDs that date back to the beginning of the format (ca 1982) and play just fine today. DVD hasn't had the same luck unfortunately and it's perhaps too early to tell with Blu-ray, but the tech is essentially the same and...

Discs = ownership. Streaming = access. This has always been the case, and this has always been the promise.

That's not entirely true, at least in the U.S. Part of that income, ironically, comes from selling CDs for full profit at concerts. When they sell digital downloads they get only a fraction of that same sale due to e-tailers and overhead on EST. It can be a significant part of their tour income.

Of course their most current reality is a bit more complicated than that. Now that everyone is charging $10/month for their streaming service, recreating the cable bill in a different form, many are returning to piracy.

This brings to mind two frequently overlooked aspects of this very common topic (it happens with CD fans too): the interesting titles are already out. I'm one who is neither a collector - not compared to some of you guys at least - nor a casual consumer, and the titles I felt I needed to own...

Maybe not altruistic but I'm sure they're happy to see things evolve back to where customers don't own copies.

It sounds like it will last as long as there are machines that can play it. Which brings me to this. I didn't read their report but I looked at the site and watched their video. I understand why tape degradation is a problem, but I don't understand why they cannot fund the manufacture of new...