local supermarket has stopped selling Blurays

[robemcdonald]

First world problems and all that, but it thought it strange with only a month or so to go until Christmas that this should happen. They have also stopped selling video games as well. Bizarrely though they have started stocking Vinyl records.

Cool story Bro etc..

[Ikemi]

I think you've inadvertently traveled back in time ... or you live in Hull.

[J4CKO]

Vinyl is retro, everything else is now delivered by the net.

Music via Spotify, Youtube etc, and video is pretty much on demand exclusively, I would quite cheerfully launch every DVD, CD and Blueray in our house, but the wife still loves buying them, and books, piles of bloody books, she has about 100 cookery books yet rarely cooks anything from one.

[robemcdonald]

I have to say some sort of temporal anomaly was my first thought.

I don't live in hull but the supermarket in question is a Morrisons.

[robemcdonald]

I prefer bluray to streaming as it seems to be much better quality (with the possible exception of Netflix, but they don't have the latest movies)

[jamieduff1981]

I live somewhere that doesn't have cheap & easy access to massive amounts of data at high speed (i.e. a city). Movies and music in a physical format still have a valid place.

[PixelpeepS3]

I stream the majority of TV that i watch these days (netflix/plex) but still have to have a bluray collection that i can rip to HDD.

The problem with relying on streaming services is that due to licencing they won't always have the same films available.

Also, internet down? - no TV either? - forget it!

[Shakermaker]

I noticed my local Sainsburys has started doing Vinyl now as well

[jamoor]

I went to get some casettes from my local Woolworths and they seem to have shut down.

[ecsrobin]

Shakermaker said:

I noticed my local Sainsburys has started doing Vinyl now as well

Likewise so has mine, the gaming department is also pretty much no existent now.

[Rick101]

Last night I watched something called a DVD!

Not watched one for years but was looking for something under the kids bed and found a couple of boxes of them.
Some great films I haven't seen in ages. I love the streaming services but the content is distinctly towards series.

Watched American Gangster, Extended director's edition last night.

Have Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface and the Godfather (1 & 2) lined up to watch. Don't have a DVD player anymore so watching through the old xbox360. Seems quite funny having to pause it and press play from the title screen to get it going

So many good films on disk. Everything from Toy Story to White Men Can't Jump to Full Metal Jacket. I'll be keeping them for a while yet.

[p1stonhead]

I havent watched a disk for about 3 years. Only realised the other day that I dont actually have a DVD player other than on the xbox which I have only ever used for gaming.

Disks died out a lot quicker than I expected them to.

[Jimmy Recard]

I can't really rely on my internet to watch films in decent quality so I buy a lot of DVDs. Mostly online though

[gl20]

What speed do you need for streaming to be equivalent quality to blu ray? Like others on here, we live in the sticks. 5-6 MPS but just signed to fibre optic which is going to give us about 15. Would that even be enough? Up to now it's always been blu ray if we've wanted decent quality.

[p1stonhead]

I have 100meg cable from Virgin and I can stream 3 or 4 HD streams at once without trouble.
I can stream 4k easily too for example.

I would say 15meg would do a single HD stream easily.

[BoRED S2upid]

This is because blue ray never took off the masses don't buy them. My mate owns a second hand DVD shop and can't give the things away.

[gl20]

p1stonhead said:

I have 100meg cable from Virgin and I can stream 3 or 4 HD streams at once without trouble.
I can stream 4k easily too for example.

I would say 15meg would do a single HD stream easily.

Good to know. Right now on Amazon etc it can get pixelated and does the black screen pause every 5 mins or so

[LeoSayer]

They still have a place for me, but only for stuff that I know I'll want to watch many times in the future without having to have the right subscription to Sky, Netflix, Amazon or whatever.

But I'll only buy a few each year and rarely from supermarkets, usually online.

[aww999]

I definitely prefer the quality of blurays over streamed stuff. They may both have 1920 x 1080 dots on the screen, but the bandwidth for each dot is much higher on a bluray - no compression artefacts, better depth of colour etc. What is the Mbps of a full-fat bluray?

[robemcdonald]

aww999 said:

I definitely prefer the quality of blurays over streamed stuff. They may both have 1920 x 1080 dots on the screen, but the bandwidth for each dot is much higher on a bluray - no compression artefacts, better depth of colour etc. What is the Mbps of a full-fat bluray?

Exactly this. Even Netflix 4K isn't as good as bluray imo (yes I have a 4K tv and sufficient download speed)