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Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales
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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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Blu Ray is still the best quality you can get. Streaming services will compress the shit out of everything (even when they pretend you give you "4k") and pirate rips are all over the place. Buying a Blu Ray (and ripping out yourself if you do please) is a great investment because you own it, the quality is great, the discs have been designed to last 100 years or more, and they have capacity that will be able to deal with 8k and probably what comes after that too.
100% this. People jizz themselves over resolution and dynamic range all while having no idea that their image quality is shit due to compression destroying the bitrate of the video they are viewing.
With tools like radarr the quality is usually what you want now a days but it takes up a lot of space so you have to pick and choose what's worth it
So if it’s going to take up space I’ll just rip the 4k disc directly and keep the menus, extras and know that I’m not transcoding it to keep the original quality.
Yeah I have no problem finding 1:1 Bluray rips but they're 30GB-100GB files, which adds up quick if you're starting a collection.