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  • beefcat@lemmy.world
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    blu-rays are often as cheap or cheaper than “digital copies”, and ripping them to my NAS is pretty trivial these days thanks to makemkv.

    the best part is, uncle jeff cannot legally break into your house and take back the disc just because of some petty rights issue.

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      I recently bought a 4k Blu-ray player. My brother asked me if I also bought a fax machine because streaming is “where it’s at” . Nah My 4k player cleans up DVDs really nice where streaming has artifacts and banding. Not only is it true ownership but a better quality.

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          That is misinformation. The quality disparity you’re both pointing out is from streaming services compressing their media to much lower bitrates to ease bandwidth stress on their servers/clients and has nothing to do with a physical or digital medium.

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            lower bitrate == lower quality when using the same compression algorithms.

            most streaming services are using h.265, same as 4k blu ray, but at substantially lower bitrates

            streaming dolby vision profiles are also gimped considerably compared to blu-ray dolby vision

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              Doubling down on the misinformation, I see. H.265 is a high-efficiency codec, or in other words a better compression standard. Not a static compression level. This is why when you convert media there’s an input for quality, even when using HEVC. And you can absolutely stream the same Dolby Vision profile as a Blu-ray with single track double layer.

              You’re still conflating digital medium with streaming services.

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                i am more than well aware of all of this. nothing i said is misinformation. same algorithm, different settings. the primary means by which you reduce bitrate with h.265 is by reducing the quality setting. there is no magical way to cut your bitrate by 75% using the same compression algorithm without sacrificing quality. no commercial streaming service is offering video at the same quality level as a 4k blu-ray.

                few streaming boxes even support dolby vision profile 7, and no commercial streaming service offers it. so saying you can get it through a streaming service is actual misinformation.

                i have literally been doing this shit for 20 years

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                  i am more than well aware of all of this. nothing i said is misinformation

                  Your entire presupposition that Blu-ray quality is better than streaming quality by default is misinformation, and I’ve already explained why.

                  no commercial streaming service is offering video at the same quality level as a 4k blu-ray.

                  What does that have to do with digital media?

                  This is also demonstrably untrue if you take 5 seconds to research self-hosted streaming services.

                  few streaming boxes even support dolby vision profile 7, and no commercial streaming service offers it

                  Plex on Nvidia Shield. EZPZ.

                  there is no magical way to cut your bitrate by 75% using the same compression algorithm without sacrificing quality

                  I never said anything in contradiction to this. I don’t know who you’re shadow-boxing.

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                    OK i see the problem. you’re hung up on the fact that i said “streaming” without specifying commercial streaming services.

                    however, my context should have been made clear by the fact that i was talking about ripping blu-rays to my fucking NAS, where they get streamed from.

                    i’m saying “you don’t get the same quality from streaming services as a blu ray”. does that make you happier?

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      I just bought a big ass TV, and I’ve just started buying discs for movies I truly want to own for a few reasons.

      1. You own it, period.

      2. Even if you trust Amazon, do you trust your ISP to stream 4K reliably on demand? I don’t. Fuck Comcast.

      3. A physical collection just kind of looks nice, especially if you fork out for Steelbooks and only buy your favorites. Steelbooks on eBay are like ~$30.