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this has gone back down to £40, not bad for 6 films
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Still too rich for me. Licence fee payers should get a discount
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Will the bitrate be higher with HDR? Im still waiting for samsung to update my tv to do netflix hdr, and sony to release the pro hdr update for netflix.
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Isn't HDR just a layer of metadata added to the source material.
HDR was the same bitrate as 4k - 15.26Mbps so as above there is no difference.
Thanks for this, slightly more tempted at £25, but my UB700 arrived today and I could have PE2 by tomorrow from Amazon lol
1. How badly do I want it?
2. Do I really need it tomorrow?
First world problems.
I picked up the Martian from CEX today and got Ghostbusters with the player so I have some material I can try at least.
I have 2 episodes left to watch and then may stick it on the MM, maybe look out for it.
so it appears the SDR (no HDR) version they send is the same bitrate, I had wondered whether they (incorrectly) baggaged 10bit colour under the title of HDR, so maybe distributed an 8bit colour depth version, saving 20%.
netflix site says you can get the HDR at 1080p too, if you do not have 4K BB bandwidth.
I have 2 episodes left to watch and then may stick it on the MM, maybe look out for it.
Is it not a badge of honour to proudly display in ones collection and show to visitors ?
and maybe use for storing valuables - burglars would not look in there
I would say cash in now, the original blue seems to have showed some price resurgence but went very cheap.
Still too rich for me. Licence fee payers should get a discount
New formats are always expensive. Can't get over people who spend thousands on 4K TVs and players and then moan about the cost of the discs. Even £30 for PE2 is a bargain for over five hours of reference-quality content.
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Shame PE2 is still only 24Hz.
It must have been shot at a higher frame rate than that?
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It doesn't logically follow that people with nice TVs automatically think all their other cheaper AV stuff constitutes value for money. Or are you one of those that spends hundreds on cables just because you have an expensive TV? Wealthy people are wealthy because they're able to form rational opinions on vfm, not just base it on some arbitrary fallacy like 'I've got a great TV, so that must make UHDs great value too'.
£30 is more than 3 months of unlimited UHD Netflix, almost half the annual Prime subscription, etc.
I'm not passing judgement on anyone's wealth or what they consider value for money. I'm asking what the point is in buying a 4K HDR TV and a 4K HDR Bluray player if you're then going to moan about the cost of discs. It's like buying a Ferrari and then moaning about the price of petrol.
Neither of which offer anything like the image quality of the PE2 Bluray. You get what you pay for.
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Whilst aware that you may not have even been referring to me, I haven't got a 4K Blu-ray player either as I think they're also too expensive at the moment.
The rest is just value perception.
That's fair enough. I'm sure some people are happy with just the TV and the 4K streaming service options. For those who want the ultimate in quality however, there's the option of 4K Bluray players and discs. What I'm saying is that I don't understand why someone would fork out for a player, which aren't exactly cheap, then claim the discs are too expensive. The vast majority of titles are £20, with some less than that and plenty on 2-for-£30 deals at the likes of HMV. This is perfectly in line with what Blurays cost when they were launched, and DVDs before them. £30 is more than reasonable for PE2 as it's effectively a box-set with over 5 hours of content.
Commercial/legit discs don't use dyes, they are pressed with glass masters.
It's only burnable discs (DVD-R,CD-R,BD-R ..etc) that use different dyes that the lasers use to burn the pits into.
yes, I had forgotten (So do you want to make Blu-ray Discs? - MEDIA-TECH )
but even though they are pressed could be some optical/physical property out of spec and firmware correctable.?
I thought Oblivion had some manufacturing problems too (in addition to 4k transfer debate) - maybe return your failing pe2's ?
Article suggest 10-15 year disk life span !
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Has anyone tried the original Ghostbusters in 4K UHD ? I am debating whether it is worth buying. I currently have the bluray and it upscales pretty well, buy according to the reviews they are saying the HDR adds a little bit more to the picture over the blu-ray.
Got it with my player. Haven't felt the slightest urge to put it on lol
EDIT: Ah just noticed you said the original one. I was on about the awful reboot.
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Do you mean the original or the rubbish reboot?Got it with my player. Haven't felt the slightest urge to put it on lol
Edit: ah OK saw your edit.