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Would you pay ~$15 for a bluray case?

quikah

quikah

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Sony hopes you will.

Fifth Element
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Element-4K-Blu-ray/dp/B08KH3QLWL
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Element-Blu-ray-Bruce-Willis/dp/B072873SJ3

Into the Spiderverse
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Bob-Persichetti/dp/B08KFYXG24
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Shameik-Moore/dp/6317632472

There are others. I am hesitant to call this a scam (MAYBE they are remasters, doubt it). The new covers are ugly IMO.
 
Reselling already made shit has been going on forever.

Hell, they can't even make original movies anymore altogether so they just do a reboot of an old successful movie in hopes that people see it out of nostalgia
 
I've never actually owned a bluray or a player. They are kinda a niche thing and came out at a time where downloading or streaming was just more convenient so never saw a need. I sometimes think of getting one just for the sole purpose of owning something that will once be seen as a piece of history, kinda like owning a VCR now. But other than that I have no reason to own one. Well I imagine the quality is better than downloading or streaming, so having a couple cinematic oriented movies like LOTR and so one could probably be nice on bluray. Bluray is 4k right? Could be a good excuse to get a 4k TV. 😛
 
Red Squirrel said:
I've never actually owned a bluray or a player. They are kinda a niche thing and came out at a time where downloading or streaming was just more convenient so never saw a need. I sometimes think of getting one just for the sole purpose of owning something that will once be seen as a piece of history, kinda like owning a VCR now. But other than that I have no reason to own one. Well I imagine the quality is better than downloading or streaming, so having a couple cinematic oriented movies like LOTR and so one could probably be nice on bluray. Bluray is 4k right? Could be a good excuse to get a 4k TV. 😛
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I have an 80gb PS3 which I bought mainly to play BD's not games.

It's connected currently but been a long time since its done anything but waste small amounts of electricity doing nothing. 2.4 ghz-only wifi really limits its usefulness for streaming and I game on my PC exclusively.

I also have roughly 25 select BD movies still sitting around somewhere. Sold off most of my "run-of-the-mill" stuff years ago but hung onto a few classics like LOTR, Matrix, Spiderman 1/2 among others.
 
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quikah said:
Sony hopes you will.

Fifth Element
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Element-4K-Blu-ray/dp/B08KH3QLWL
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Element-Blu-ray-Bruce-Willis/dp/B072873SJ3

Into the Spiderverse
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Bob-Persichetti/dp/B08KFYXG24
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Shameik-Moore/dp/6317632472

There are others. I am hesitant to call this a scam (MAYBE they are remasters, doubt it). The new covers are ugly IMO.
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Hey they added "ps5 support" to the box which will sucker at least some people into buying these instead of buying/using the older bluerays.
 
quikah said:
Sony hopes you will.

Fifth Element
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Element-4K-Blu-ray/dp/B08KH3QLWL
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Element-Blu-ray-Bruce-Willis/dp/B072873SJ3

Into the Spiderverse
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Bob-Persichetti/dp/B08KFYXG24
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Shameik-Moore/dp/6317632472

There are others. I am hesitant to call this a scam (MAYBE they are remasters, doubt it). The new covers are ugly IMO.
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I saw these recently and tried to figure out why they cost more, pretty much a scam for uglier cases.

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quikah said:
Sony hopes you will.

Fifth Element
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Element-4K-Blu-ray/dp/B08KH3QLWL
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Element-Blu-ray-Bruce-Willis/dp/B072873SJ3

Into the Spiderverse
"New release" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Bob-Persichetti/dp/B08KFYXG24
"Old" https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Verse-Blu-ray-Shameik-Moore/dp/6317632472

There are others. I am hesitant to call this a scam (MAYBE they are remasters, doubt it). The new covers are ugly IMO.
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The Fifth Element was only a $9.60 cent difference but point taken.

The older edition of Spiderman Into the Multiverse is not even available and the price isn't visible to me.

Actually, point not taken since the older editions are obviously on special for the Black Friday sales. I've been seeing them in my Slickdeals alerts for weeks now. Even if it weren't a BF thing, it's entirely normal to discount the older stock to clear it out.

That said, are we sure those aren't just slip-covers? They may even have the exact same case inside.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I've never actually owned a bluray or a player. They are kinda a niche thing and came out at a time where downloading or streaming was just more convenient so never saw a need. I sometimes think of getting one just for the sole purpose of owning something that will once be seen as a piece of history, kinda like owning a VCR now. But other than that I have no reason to own one. Well I imagine the quality is better than downloading or streaming, so having a couple cinematic oriented movies like LOTR and so one could probably be nice on bluray. Bluray is 4k right? Could be a good excuse to get a 4k TV. 😛
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You were streaming everything in HD back in 2006?

Heck, in 2008 I paid $5 extra to rent the streaming HD version of some Clint Eastwood movie on the PlayStation Network only to get a version that was line-doubled from bob deinterlacing (effectively 240p). Of course, Sony refused to refund me even the difference since it was a rental. Fool me twice...
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Fizzy-Cal4Life, yo.

...there are a few DVDs in the mix but it's almost all BD.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
I've never actually owned a bluray or a player. They are kinda a niche thing and came out at a time where downloading or streaming was just more convenient so never saw a need. I sometimes think of getting one just for the sole purpose of owning something that will once be seen as a piece of history, kinda like owning a VCR now. But other than that I have no reason to own one. Well I imagine the quality is better than downloading or streaming, so having a couple cinematic oriented movies like LOTR and so one could probably be nice on bluray. Bluray is 4k right? Could be a good excuse to get a 4k TV. 😛
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BluRay is 1080P, BluRay UHD is 4k. And yes, the marketing retards swapped the horizontal and vertical resolution used for ads going from 1080P to 4k.
 
Captante said:
I have an 80gb PS3 which I bought mainly to play BD's not games.

It's connected currently but been a long time since its done anything but waste small amounts of electricity doing nothing. 2.4 ghz-only wifi really limits its usefulness for streaming and I game on my PC exclusively.

I also have roughly 25 select BD movies still sitting around somewhere. Sold off most of my "run-of-the-mill" stuff years ago but hung onto a few classics like LOTR, Matrix, Spiderman 1/2 among others.
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That's exactly why I bought my PS3 in 2006, though I started buying a lot of PS2 games for it. That's $600 for a Blu-Ray player and PS2 with the option to start playing PS3 games in the future... except it eventually died. 🙁

Cheapest stand-alone player back then was $1,000 (Sony BDP-S1000, IIRC)!
 
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Red Squirrel said:
But the tech supports it? So most newer movies are probably going to be in 4k? Obviously a remake of a movie made 10-20 years ago probably won't be in 4k and if it is, it just got upconverted and remastered.
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BD was introduced at 1080p to push new 1080p sets from Sony, since HDTV was either 720p or 1080i at the time. 4K BD came much later and adoption was stifled by stupid decisions, like making 1080p-only editions of movies that are also available on 4K for more money. That practice continues to stifle adoption today. Strangely, the PS4 Pro didn't support 4K BD but the XBOX One S did. This further slowed adoption in a period where more people than ever were ditching physical media. Now that the PS5 supports it, we may see a mini resurgence but it will never reach the same heights as standard 1080p BD now that most people stream.
 
Oh ok did not even realize there was two types of Bluray. I can see a 4k movie being worth buying if you have a nice big TV that can support it, as you probably won't get that kind of quality even with a 4k rip you download, or a stream, due to compression etc. So for a movie that is cinematic in nature like say, LOTR or something could very well be worth while.

Right now I don't even own a DVD or Bluray player though lol.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Oh ok did not even realize there was two types of Bluray. I can see a 4k movie being worth buying if you have a nice big TV that can support it, as you probably won't get that kind of quality even with a 4k rip you download, or a stream, due to compression etc. So for a movie that is cinematic in nature like say, LOTR or something could very well be worth while.

Right now I don't even own a DVD or Bluray player though lol.
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Most 4K UHD Blu-ray movies also include a 1080p version for older players but when the 1080p-only edition is cheaper and good enough it will fragment the market and further slow sales of 4K.

When we get 8K VR goggles that can replicate the IMAX experience I expect to see 4K get a bit more popular. 😉
 
...oh yeah: Same thing happened with Blu-Ray 3D. If you had a 3D HDTV and a 3D-capable BD player, you'd find that new releases would come in two editions with the 3D edition costing more (and often including the 2D version alongside it).

If I were Sony I would've mandated that every 4K movie have a basic 25GB 1080p encode on the first layer for backwards compatibility with the 4K version on the extra layers (4K players can read more than two layers). I would've discouraged having separate 1080p and 4K editions for new releases.

To help with the adoption of the original BD format, Disney decided early on to include DVD copies with every BD version they sold and for a short while the DVD version also included the BD. Of course, the only reason a DVD version existed at the time was so that a it would be in the DVD aisle too... or else parents would buy that Dreamworks DVD to shut their kids up with the in-car entertainment system. 😉 Disney eventually started selling DVDs without Blu-rays again but similar logic should have been applied to the launch of 4K UHD BD. It would help speed adoption of the new format and eliminate concerns about what version is compatible with what.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Right now I don't even own a DVD or Bluray player though lol
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I still have a Toshiba HD-DVD player in a box that was very lightly used ... I've forgotten the model but it was a mid-ranger with an upgraded chipset. Should have sold it back in the day before BD won out.

I also have a nice Panasonic DVD player that belonged to my mom. That one is set up in my bedroom but its been literally years since I used it.
 
I have a Panasonic DVD player in my game room. Wife still uses it to play some basic workout dvds when she exercises. We talked about getting a BD player once, a few years back, since BD discs are pretty cheap. However, we only have an older model of LCD TV which is not even 1080, she quickly shot down the idea as I could use it to get a new TV. lol
 
Captante said:
I still have a Toshiba HD-DVD player in a box that was very lightly used ... I've forgotten the model but it was a mid-ranger with an upgraded chipset. Should have sold it back in the day before BD won out.

I also have a nice Panasonic DVD player that belonged to my mom. That one is set up in my bedroom but its been literally years since I used it.
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I've got an HD-A2, used it to watch a movie (Streets of Fire) earlier this year 😛
I forgot how long it took to boot up.
 
nakedfrog said:
I've got an HD-A2, used it to watch a movie (Streets of Fire) earlier this year 😛
I forgot how long it took to boot up.
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Motivated me to look mine up ... it's a Toshiba HD-A30.

And I totally forgot I actually have an IDE HD-DVD 5.25in Toshiba PC drive (read-only no write) ... unfortunately the fastest PC I have access to with a PATA/IDE port is my vintage 2006 X2 6400+!
 
Captante said:
Motivated me to look mine up ... it's a Toshiba HD-A30.

And I totally forgot I actually have an IDE HD-DVD 5.25in Toshiba PC drive (read-only no write) ... unfortunately the fastest PC I have access to with a PATA/IDE port is my vintage 2006 X2 6400+!
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I actually still have an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive as well, hooks up via USB and has allowed me to rip a number of my HD-DVDs 😎
 
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