Hopefully Avatar 2 will push bringing HFR and ridiculous quality to Blu-Ray and streaming. and streaming is technically getting better and better slowly over time. Now I've got nothing against chasing the best quality on Blu-Ray, but physical media isn't worth than hassle for me personally for those minimal gains. But I don't think it's the norm, or makes a big difference most of the time. I've sometimes seen a streaming movie look like a 6/10 on Disney, but the purchased version on Apple/iTunes looks like a 7/10, and I expect there will be similar outliers with Blu versions too. Maybe it technically has less compression, but the visual impact is going to be less. Robocop from the 80's on Blu Ray is not going to suddenly be better than Ten Rings streaming from Disney Plus. If I went to all the trouble of getting all of that on 4k Blu Disc instead, it would raise only those quality scores by decimal points. And it would range from a 4/10 to a 9.9/10. I could label everything I've streamed, from demo material to the worst dated movie that's a bad transfer. It fills the frame nicely and it looks fantastic. I was watching "Ten Rings" on Disney Plus the other day, they tag it as "IMAX" or whatever. The best of streaming looks pretty much literally perfect to my eyes. But I think Streaming is good enough, and Disney/Apple etc are for the most part putting out good enough streaming quality that I'm not chasing Blu's any more. It's not that I'm trying to argue streaming is better, I know it's worse, less bits per second. But I'm never going "bah, this is shitty quality, I wish I had the blu-ray", I usually think "I wish this was a better transfer" or maybe "this movie looks like it was cheaply filmed in the mid 80's" not "this is riddled with streaming artefacts". And there is a huge variation in quality between different movies, their age, the master, the transfer, how its filmed, the streaming platforms. Now it's kinda sad, but streaming movies don't look as good as hand picked youtube demo material for the most part. There is an Avatar HDR demo on youtube that looks much better than any version of Avatar I've seen anywhere. The quality is like practically looking through a window to real life. I certainly don't notice it looking 'like shit'. Go watch Gemini Man 60fps demo clips on youtube. to be honest lots of that demo material looks better than any movie I've ever seen, Blu-Ray or otherwise. I load up youtube on my Apple TV, then watch some HDR demo footage. Or at least, with the current streaming bitrates I'm getting, it's good enough that it's not an important factor. Source material movie/film/camera/quality/age > transfer/master of movie > delivery bitrate. I think it's more like this in order of importance:.
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