I'm on a Blu-ray / 4K discord and in a few horror forums and they generally keep track of stuff for me lol. But as for who I buy from

https://www.umbrellaent.com.au/ http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/ https://www.shoutstudios.com/

Any total numbers or only %?

For all we know it could be 1000 discs in total

I'll take that over Netflix's bullshit of never releasing things on physical media.

I bet the terms of buying this physical media from scamazon would somehow entitle them to physically break your front door down so they can forcibly take their media back when they sell the rights to some other shit company.

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— Donatello, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

"DAAAAAMN!"
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"God, I love being a turtle!"
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Buy a PS5 and all your games on disc. Support the format!

Video capture is the solution to that. You may have compromises on rip quality, but the storage medium for that file can be anything with enough capacity - HDDs, Optical Media, Tapes, Flash storage.

The scene will outlive Blu-Ray, and I think it will outlive us all.

It’ll be a sad day when blu-ray dies. I don’t see any other physical media replacing it, and we have made no progress on being able to purchase digital video that we actually own.

Agreed. But the comparison was 4k vs 4k

normal blurays are cheap AF and high definition

And this is why I rip and stream from my own (Jellyfin) server. None of that nonsense, direct to the video.

I ditched Netflix for 4K Stremio with Torrentio and I'll definitely never go back.

Yeah, but I still buy vinyls all the time because I like the artwork, extra bits and pieces to read, and other goodies included sometimes.

It's like the top shelf stuff I get out on special days. Physical formats are just kind of like that. They're easy, simple, curated libraries, just like a bookshelf with all your favs up there.

If there were a new and less fiddly format.. Being able to see my movie collection, grab one, and have it start playing while I read info about it and admire the box—or whatever it is—I'd be all for it.

Didn't forget to get your movies at the library

Music CDs let me get unique monsters in Monster Rancher on the PS1. BR has yet to come close. There is still growth.

So like iPlayer and 4OD were in 2010?

Yeah, aside from the fact that a lot of content is only available on streaming platforms, it's hardly a comparison budget wise. Even with regular Blu-ready discs, but especially for 4k UHDs, for the equivalent of Netflix premium you can buy maybe 10-12 discs a year, tops. And that's if you're not terribly picky. Some of the better titles are $35-40+. I guess if you only watch one movie a month on Netflix it's equivalent, but that's not how most people use the service.

I'm a big proponent of physical media. I don't like the takeover of renting media and over-compressed streaming.

But it's not like they're even close to equivalents.

Is Blu-ray even at it's peak performance? There's probably lots of room left for activities.

How click-baity can you get? From reading the article, he was comparing the two and apparently not only has he not even cancelled Netflix, he basically says he's not sure he would ever be ready to give it up. As far as i can tell, he wrote the article basically to brag about having a Marshall appointment and kind of liking the feeling of buying the discs.

Reduce consumption of plastic, pirate blu-ray.

Lossless*(at least closer to bluray bitrate)streaming would be better but having encrypted download cache and being able to buffer the movie without having buffering issues mid-movie.

We don't need another format.

With streaming taking off as much as it has I doubt there will be another physical media shift for the home market like DVD and BR was.

Since it's the new year, it should be known that 2026 will be the 10th anniversary of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, the 20th anniversary of Blu-ray, and the 30th anniversary of DVD.

Maybe there will be a new physical format this year?