Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales
variety.com
Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales::Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Blu Ray is still the best quality you can get. Streaming services will compress the shit out of everything (even when they pretend you give you “4k”) and pirate rips are all over the place. Buying a Blu Ray (and ripping out yourself if you do please) is a great investment because you own it, the quality is great, the discs have been designed to last 100 years or more, and they have capacity that will be able to deal with 8k and probably what comes after that too.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      100% this. People jizz themselves over resolution and dynamic range all while having no idea that their image quality is shit due to compression destroying the bitrate of the video they are viewing.

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      With tools like radarr the quality is usually what you want now a days but it takes up a lot of space so you have to pick and choose what’s worth it

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        So if it’s going to take up space I’ll just rip the 4k disc directly and keep the menus, extras and know that I’m not transcoding it to keep the original quality.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I have no problem finding 1:1 Bluray rips but they’re 30GB-100GB files, which adds up quick if you’re starting a collection.