bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 5 days ago:
To you maybe not. It bothers some people and especially in cases when the stream isn’t optimal and the scene is dark it can be pretty bad.
Another difference is multichannel audio. It’s much less compressed on 4k Bluray, so if you have a surround setup most people report easily being able to tell a difference.
Also older movies with film grain is something streaming struggles with. (Check out this video about how confetti wrecks YouTube quality for an idea why) 4KBD has a much higher bitrate and will handle this noticably better. A proper scan of old film movies can still yield nearly 8k resolution footage! This also applies to any scene even in modern movies with a ton of stuff moving at once especially if the camera is moving around. The bigger and/or closer your screen is the more noticable this is.
If you care enough to have a decent home media setup, surround sound with a large 4K HDR screen it’s worth it.
But yeah for most people streaming is perfectly fine on the quality front.
But also you have the other benefit - you own the damn thing. It can’t be taken away. They sometimes have extra content with the discs. It doesn’t cost you a monthly fee.
I stream many things. But if I really like something I’ll grab the Bluray.
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 6 days ago:
At least the parts that used to be Mexican Territory, if nothing else.
Or all of it I’m good with that too
Although the fact that Mexico’s official name is “Estados Unidos Mexicanos”/“Mexican United States” does muddy things a bit.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 6 days ago:
I find the easiest way to spot the quality difference is a dark scene. On streaming look at the dark areas. You’ll likely see bands and patches of different levels of black if you pay attention.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 6 days ago:
Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.
4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.
- Comment on Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here 4 weeks ago:
Or finding content in 8k
- Comment on Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here 4 weeks ago:
8k has no place in the home. Anywhere, really.
When a single movie is hundreds of gigabytes it doesn’t fit on existing home media standards and the marked for physical media is dying too much for anyone to make a new one. Plus, streaming services are definitely not gonna jump on that kind of bandwidth usage. Unless they compress the shit out of it and lower the bitrate at which point while technically 8k you would probably see a decent 4k Bluray exceed the quality.
- Comment on Yule Tidings 4 weeks ago:
🎵_there goes my hero_🎶
- Comment on Tis the season 1 month ago:
I don’t think so
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 month ago:
Surely, unless you have medical issues it cannot be worth $1300/mo + deductible. You could save that yourself and probably get through most emergencies.
(This is statistically speaking, of course in an unlikely serious emergency you might sack up some insane costs.)
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
I would somehow make negative money I think
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
“Joke”
- Comment on Are anyone else's texts getting delayed after the RCS switch? 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m in a 5 person group chat, 2 Pixels, a OnePlus, and 2 iPhones. RCS works great for us so far
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how there’s much of any argument for it. It’s pretty clear that a person only officially becomes vice/president-elect after being voted for in the EC.
Though what happens it the EC elects a dead man? Many states REQUIRE their electors to vote as told. Probably would see more state level law crises at that point. Resolutions to make the electors vote for the VP candidate if the presidential one dies.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
Immich (Photo backup), Vaultwarden (FOSS Biwarden server for passwords)
- Comment on It was rigged? 2 months ago:
I think Tyson had the power in his arms to do some damage but he just did not have the speed to get in at all after 2 rounds. And he’d leave himself open if he tried.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 months ago:
With the boys
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 months ago:
That’s not how bankruptcy filings work
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 months ago:
Yes but slowly and using language they’re familiar with. Lure them into it
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
CRTs were fairly common until the early-mid 10s
I’d say born after 2008ish aren’t likely to be familiar with them, except seeing the odd one in their grandparents bedroom
- Comment on Problem? 2 months ago:
Sometimes it’s not like this though.
Sometimes it’s the solution that’s complicated
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update November 2024 2 months ago:
My pict-rs bucket is 409GB which is surprising since I’m pretty sure .zip is significantly larger than thelemmy.club
- Comment on Grr Windows 2 months ago:
Is zypper ref not required first I was never super clear on that
- Comment on Grr Windows 2 months ago:
Yeah and also you can just kinda do it in the background without much concern about it eating all your CPU or taking forever like Windows Updates does.
Also won’t take several minutes when you shutdown to do the “Preparing Updates… Don’t shut off your PC” like Windows.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 months ago:
1st that’s kinda weird
But also there actually is quite a bit of it already. Go to your user settings and make sure you have “Show explicit content (NSFW)” enabled.
There’s whole instances for this stuff like lemmynsfw.com. I see it in my feed (blurred, so I can use Lemmy at work lol) a lot especially if you scroll for a bit.
- Comment on Advertising 2 months ago:
Far from the only
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 2 months ago:
Agh Plex always runs me the wrong way… It acts like closed source software as much as is possible. Went with Jellyfin and it’s been great. But haven’t tried music.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 2 months ago:
It might could be worth it if you’re doing a shorter flight and just don’t have baggage but that’s rare.
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
Let’s say the summer average is 30⁰C or 303.15 Kelvin
The absolute coldest possible temperature is -273.15⁰C, or 0K.
Halfway between absolute zero and 30⁰C/303.15K is somewhere around -121⁰C/152K
So if it were half as hot in the summer, it would be colder than ever recorded on earth.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 months ago:
I think in this case prohibition should work fine…
The alternative is just… Get a non-disposable one and learn a bit of maintenance. Jesus.
- Comment on AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th 3 months ago:
The 9950X3D will likely be one of the best gaming CPUs around by raw numbers but some early leaks are showing it probably isn’t going to be worth the money over current chips like the 7800X3D - but wait for reviews obviously