Physical media collection, mostly 4k

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I thought I'd start my 4K bluray collection off for films I enjoy rewatching in maximum quality (in Plex), supporting the format. It seems the standard price for a lot of 4K bluray films is £20 and a handful over that. There are some boxsets that are great value like 8 Nolan films. Other must have's like LOTR isn't too bad considering what you get.

Finding what I could on Amazon I was up to £1000, then moved everything £20 and over to 'save for later' and it went down to £544.

Shopping for 4K bluray films on Amazon seems to be more difficult than it needs to be. Can anyone recommend places other than Amazon to purchase 4K bluray films please? Anyone else got their physical disk collection?

HMV still exist, nice (I think I last shopped there 20 years ago), and a much better 4K bluray shopping experience with clear categories. I guess it comes down to shop around and wait for the deals. Have some 4K blurays come and gone for some films? (engage fomo)

There are some films that aren't yet on 4K bluray, for whatever reason, like There Will Be Blood, I would jump on that if it's out one day. (just found it's apparently coming soon woop). Film grain, in 4K, yes please. And equally there are some 4K fails like Terminator 2 and Aliens, better off getting the untouched 1080p version (James Cameron used filters to remove film grain and AI upscaling to increase details, but technically that's what the director wanted sooo I know better than James Cameron, I guess it's personal preference).

The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?

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I'm not actually too bothered about expensive collectors editions, I just want the 4K bluray as cheap as possible.

 

[keyser van someone]

Yeah the Guardian article was interesting but I was already set on starting a 4K bluray collection.

Thanks I'll take a look. HMV have a 2 for £30 sale thing as well.

I used to have a flac collection of all my albums until it was too much hassle to manage, now I use Tidal and that works of me for music, can download stuff and play without data while in the car which is also great.

 

[keyser van someone]

And then there is playback options. I was looking at getting an Xbox Series X (or PS5) but they both lack dolby vision.

The world of 4k bluray players seems to be either get a £350 or £900 player (no), and they make some noise (argh). I remember a little noise from previous 1080 bluray player.

Probably better to stick to copy/Plex and upgrade HDD space as and when needed (old drives then used as backup, or maybe I already have that with the physical disks!). I already got the 4k bluray optical PC drive ages ago thinking I would need it and then never used it, so that's already sorted.