Is 4K the last step for physical media discs?

[The region 219]

people had vhs collections for like 30 years and dvd's to 4k transition was roughly less than half that time...

it became pointless to keep upgrading a physical collection of movies in the dvd era. movies unlike music quality keeps getting better with new formats

in contrast I can still stock up on vinyl old or new whereas with movies old shyt is significantly worse for use quality wise. with music it appreciates..

Just started getting into vinyl. Need to boost the collection up but it sounds amazing!

 

[010101]

reality is physical*

 

[Luke Cage]

i've been fully digital for at least 2 years. I think it's a growing segment of society

 

[shutterguy]

I'm at almost 550 blu's so you can guess how I feel about physical media. I am still a hardcore home theater head running a Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 setup with an Onkyo 11.2 ch network avr, I want the best sound I can get. So far that is on physical media, I'll take it.

Although triple layer blu's (100GB) can support 8K you would have to upgrade HDMI cables and hardware. Short of computer bd drives, I don't think our current BD players can read triple layer disk, also every movie would have to have a 2nd disc for the extras. Then factor in that peeps would have to start their collection all over again and how many studios would support 8K disc production. We still don't have some movies on regular BD yet, let alone 4K.

Streaming is still heavily compressed due to bandwidth limits and lack of fiber Gig up/Gig down network infrastructure across the USA.

 

[MenacingMonk]

plus more than anything some places like amazon say you dont really own the movies you are buying to stream on demand. As a collector i cant trust streaming only still

Most people aren’t collectors. Streaming is convenient for them.

 

[FlyRy]

I'm at almost 550 blu's so you can guess how I feel about physical media. I am still a hardcore home theater head running a Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 setup with an Onkyo 11.2 ch network avr, I want the best sound I can get. So far that is on physical media, I'll take it.

Although triple layer blu's (100GB) can support 8K you would have to upgrade HDMI cables and hardware. Short of computer bd drives, I don't think our current BD players can read triple layer disk, also every movie would have to have a 2nd disc for the extras. Then factor in that peeps would have to start their collection all over again and how many studios would support 8K disc production. We still don't have some movies on regular BD yet, let alone 4K.

Streaming is still heavily compressed due to bandwidth limits and lack of fiber Gig up/Gig down network infrastructure across the USA.

There's just about zero films that would be truly 8k. So no need to re buy collection..

Guardians 2 was shot in 8k but had a 2k DI because of all the CGI. I don't believe even the 70mm films res is up to 8k

 

[shutterguy]

There's just about zero films that would be truly 8k. So no need to re buy collection..

Guardians 2 was shot in 8k but had a 2k DI because of all the CGI. I don't believe even the 70mm films res is up to 8k

True on the bolded now that you mention it, I can only imagine the upscaling for anything 1080 or less on a 8K screen.