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UHD Blu-rays still have value and relevance. This is unfortunate.
I'd say regular blu-rays are still relevant even. The jump in quality between regular blu rays to 4k ones just doesn't seem as substantial as the jump did between dvd and blu ray. or vhs and dvd. But maybe that is just my aging eyeballs that can barely tell the difference with this latest jump.
IMO, HDR makes a bigger difference than 1080 vs 4K.
The picture quality isn't as noticeable to me as the additional HDR and spatial sound that tends to be included. Even with that, any Blu-ray is significantly better than streaming.
I love commentary and streaming services almost never have it. That's the biggest loss.
Does any streaming service, besides Disney, have commentary tracks?
TIL Disney+ has commentary tracks. That's neat.
Value for sure, but relevance? I challenge you to find one of your non tech obsessed friends (most of the population) that is still actively buying physical media or even still owns a disc player. I don't even think I've heard my friends say the word blu ray in years.
Depends on age I think. All my 40+ year old friends have large DVD collections, as well as some in their 30s. I could see people younger than 30 not giving a shit about physical media. Personally I would go physical over digital.
I had DVD collection but already don't watch or use/have a DVD player for longest time.(well I did have consoles that can play them. But I just never play them from disc.)
I just buy to support the film/anime/singer, download a high quality rip and play from my archive when I needed. (So if for any chance I got swatted I can show them I already bought the media already. I did the same for digital only purchase as well as I don't like streaming quality.)
Like does it makes a lot difference between UHD vs a proper high bit-rate encoded rip? In my experience, if you never pause and compare side by side stepping frame, you probably won't notice. (Yeah, bad encoding you can obviously notice, or some ultra wide with custom crop for easier encoding/smaller size).