As of the second quarter of 2014, 17 percent of Internet-connected households have streaming-media players, NPD Group said.īut Matsuda believes a lot of the world will continue to use optical discs. Streaming media is also becoming more convenient with players from Apple, Roku, Amazon, and Google.
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And subscription services offer access to a library of titles so people can watch as much as they want - and try new TV shows or movies without having to decide whether it's worth the per-show price tag. With services from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Google, and others, people can watch the video they want immediately rather than having leave the house to get a disc. It's not clear exactly now much of the market wants the best of the best, though: people have flocked to streaming services despite difficulties with bandwidth and image quality. "The packaged media and that enclosed, stable environment - that's part of being the best of the best," Matsuda said. The new format also will be able to show 4K video at 60 frames per second, he said. The new specification also will improve color gamut dramatically and offer a higher dynamic range so details in shadows and highlights are visible.
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But there's more to 4K Blu-ray than just four times the number of pixels as in today's prevailing 1080p video, he added. Using physical media instead of relying on fallible and often limited Internet connections means Blu-ray discs can provide the best possible image quality, he said.
It will start licensing the technology in the spring or summer of 2015, and the first 4K Blu-ray players should arrive by the holiday-shopping season of that year, said Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association global promotions committee.
The Blu-ray Disc Association is most of the way done defining a version of its optical disc technology that can handle high-resolution 4K imagery, the group said Friday at the IFA electronics trade show here. Streaming is fantastic for TV shows or original content, but I don't know if I will ever abandon my physical or home-stored media.Much of the world is shifting to streaming video delivered over the Internet, but don't count out optical discs just yet.
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But no matter what, I am such a huge fan of proper 4K HDR with Atmos or DTS:X, that when it comes time for a proper movie session, I go to the disc/Kaleidescape versions 100% that it's an option.ĭon't get me wrong. It's beyond just quality, but the overall experience to me. And sometimes your internet decides to burp and you get kicked out momentarily. At least where I'm at, sometimes it bounces between HD and SD, or goes from 5.1 to 2.0 stereo then back. My biggest problem with streaming is how VARIABLE the experience can be during a single viewing. That was via a 4K Apple TV for what it's worth. Don't get me wrong, it would've certainly been good enough for most kids (and even most adults), but I've been spoiled enough to where I only want the best. On the Netflix version, the colors were more muted, I'd see slight artifacting, and the soundtrack lacked the clarity and overall oomph that I was used to. Recently, it was most noticeable with Moana where I streamed it just to see the difference between that and the bit-for-bit blu-ray copy on my Kaleidescape system. Although streaming can generally be very acceptable to most, and is sometimes even quite good, there can at time certainly be a noticeable distinction between the streaming version and the disc version. But streaming may be good enough, depending on how picky you are. There is also the issue of sound quality, and, again, you should expect the disc to generally win in that competition as well.īottom line is, if you want the best source, get the disc. However, whether you will notice any difference or not is another matter, as, judging from what I have seen and what I have read people claiming online about the size of their TVs and how far they sit from their TVs, most people sit too far away from their TVs for 4k to matter.Īlso, of course, your internet connection must be good enough to stream the data, which, presumably, you have already checked and made sure your internet connection is fast enough. The discs are pretty much always better, as they pretty much always use less data compression. That is consistent with my experience with streaming 1080p versus 1080p BD discs, and streaming SD content versus DVDs. For example:Īnd the same is true in other countries for example: According to online reviews that I have read, the data compression for streaming 4k makes it generally inferior to 4k discs.
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