Which is why we now have Ultra-HD Blu-ray. An UltraHD picture with HDR on a disc. Also supports Dolby Atmos
There's certainly a place for streaming but currently even "4k" netflix is barely Blu-ray quality and for that you need a TV with built-in Netflix App. For picture quality Ultra-HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray are the only format worth bothering with. Netflix is nice but there's honestly a lot of crap on there. If I want to watch a certain film there's a chance that it's not on netflix and there's no guarentee that a film will be on Netflix forever, with physical media you know you'll have it forever.
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thegroutch
17 Aug 165#2
This just in, CeX sell cheap blu-rays
In other breaking news, DFS are having a sale
cicobuff
17 Aug 163#22
MKV is NOT a compression format, MKV is a container.
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clingon
17 Aug 16#1
Heat for being able to pay with bitcoin :smile:
thegroutch
17 Aug 165#2
This just in, CeX sell cheap blu-rays
In other breaking news, DFS are having a sale
crgritchie
17 Aug 16#3
LMAO! so true though :smile:
ad19
17 Aug 16#4
Blue Valentine at £1 is worth a watch; great film although not the most lighthearted....
In more 'recent' news, Poundland sell chocolate for £1
Thoughtful
17 Aug 16#6
I love this please do some research first and then gets it wrong! Blu ray is currently 50GB with 25GB per layer. Current format only allows 2160p but there are Quad Layers coming with 128GB (just about hitting the market now), called Blur Ray XL.
Compression formats such as MKV are lossless, and many people are now ripping their collection onto HDD and then selling their discs on Ebay. The issue being the physical size of a large disc collection, and the ease of locating media from a menu as opposed to a library.
Istanbul_Kop
17 Aug 16#7
Picked up Keith Lemon the Film
Was looking for new and creative ways to torture the poor souls I keep in my dungeon.
Perfect, and for 50p too!
Mikemadden5
17 Aug 161#8
100% correct, i buy blu rays to watch on my projector and 7.1 surround sound, there is no comparision bewteen a blu ray's quality and streaming version's
Mrdom
17 Aug 16#9
We are currently in the odd situation where illegal downloads can be full Blu-ray video and audio quality (for example a 40 ish gb uncompressed rip with DTS-HD sound) which by definition is exactly as good as the Blu-ray, but if you want to pay for a legal download you have to compromise on quality. With a very large number of people on fast broadband with unlimited downloads taht shouldn't need to be the case. Plus new compression formats could cut that down by almost half and retain the quality.
kvee
17 Aug 161#10
Tell that one to Blockbusters
lanc1979
17 Aug 162#11
But be quick if you want to get sale prices at DFS, I've just an advert that says the sale ends this Monday.
lanc1979
17 Aug 16#12
Can I have a P please Bob?
I used to get all my videos and DVDs from Bob Holness.
Rubisco
17 Aug 161#13
That's actually an urban myth, your video and DVD vendor was in fact a man called Raphael Ravenscroft.
joanddan7
17 Aug 161#14
Whilst I don't disagree with most of what you say... Vinyl was "dead".....
physical sales will always exist... its human nature to want to own and keep physical items.
Digital is here to stay but I believe more and more physical and digital dual selling will just get bigger and bigger..
Blu-Ray with HD copies online and Vinyl/CD with DL codes and Books with codes....
its already a thing and itll get bigger.
joanddan7
17 Aug 161#15
Rental and owning is a completely different thing....
neilmonaghan56
17 Aug 16#16
It's strange how this deal has went so hot. it's like people didn't know that they have been selling blu-rays for as cheap as this for years on their website. Just a pity they don't sell them for 50 pence or a pound in their actual shops.
portal
17 Aug 161#17
You'd have to pay me to watch most of those movies...., however, thanks OP. Someone might get an odd bargain or 10.
cicobuff
17 Aug 16#18
I would not personally say Blu Ray is a dying format, granted more people are streaming than ever, the same as more people are buying compressed music formats, however there will always be audiophile and videophile fanatics out there.
As for your comment on 4K streaming vs 1080P Blu Ray, you are partially correct, 4K streaming is marginally better than 1080P Blu Ray. Whilst 4K adopts a more efficient H265 Codec than H264 the streaming quality on the likes of Netflix has been proven to be marginally better at best, and obviously in the sound department still only is Dolby Digital Plus.
The same as with 1080P PPV streams in comparison to Blu Ray, 4K streams fall significantly short in comparison to UHD Blu Ray...another 'dead' format.
I find it somewhat amusing with the hype surrounding such crap as LED Backlit 4K televisions which technically are not the best for displaying 4K source materia,l being sold cheaply to the masses who will never buy a UHD Blu Ray player, and have no reference material to make the most of their substandard 4K panels anyway.
Whilst I have adopted FLAC myself over NAS to my AV Receivers the only advantages I get over CD (unless I get any 24 Bit masters) is convenience. I do at times get annoyed (same with streaming video) with rewind/fast forward sluggishness or freezes.
I have become annoyed that FOX have stopped releasing several of its shows now on Blu Ray in favour of streaming and puzzlingly we have a general public wanting the best in sound and vision yet are quite happy to buy the source for it, yet do not want to get the best out of it.
Streaming has its pluses, but at the same token is also taking us a step backwards, at least until the bandwidth is there to rival physical media, we have not even got that far with Blu Ray.....and with a new physical format in UHD Blu Ray still are a long way off.
Mikey90
17 Aug 16#19
Sime nice deals there, voted hot!
My 2 pence on the blu ray vs digital debate.
For pure picture and sound quality - blu ray disc > blu ray rip download > 1080p streaming
For the on the go, mobile lifestyle of a lot of people nowadays - 1080p streaming > 1080p download > blu ray disc
Same for 4k.
I believe physical will die out eventually once streaming quality is at the same level. In my opinion it probably won't be for at least 20 years, until everyone has a fast enough internet connection, the streaming sites stream in the full quality the movie was actually shot in and/or some other format is invented.
JDBall
17 Aug 16#20
Great Price! purchasing now :smiley:
NimrodsSon
17 Aug 16#21
they are not as good, but good enough for 95% of consumers.
cicobuff
17 Aug 163#22
MKV is NOT a compression format, MKV is a container.
WalkerboyUK
17 Aug 161#23
Huh?!?
The price on the website is the price in store. Always has been.
The only time you'd experience different is if the store hadn't got around to re-labelling the boxes and then, if you can prove the price on the website, they will match.
I checked the Watford stock before I popped out at lunchtime, and whatever was listed on the website was the same price in store. Wasn't going to buy crap for the sake of it though.
KateBeckinsaleGetsMeHard to WalkerboyUK
17 Aug 16#26
I 100% agree with you on the 1st part but not the 2nd part. But I really hope I'm wrong and your rite.
danjames922 to WalkerboyUK
17 Aug 16#32
It will be exactly bluray because it's an uncompressed rip...
bubblegum2910
17 Aug 16#24
I agree you will never stream over the internet high quality blu ray. However more and more people are ripping blu rays using things like handbrake, makemkv, anydvd, to a hard drive or nas. Then of course you can stream from your home nas. Using Kodi/Openelec/LibreELEC/Plex/ The quality, might not be exactly blu ray, but it will be pretty close.
dossdes
17 Aug 16#25
Wow, sterling really has fallen to an all time low
mullitover2012
17 Aug 161#27
Don't you just love when people analyse a deal, "DVD and Blu Ray are a dying format, check this link...." Get a life. Me, I just love a good deal, so hot from me. It's easy, if you don't think it's a good deal, just vote cold without the inane comments.
Mathaeus
17 Aug 16#28
Or worse..
Rubisco
17 Aug 161#29
Both sterling and culture.
Morpheus_00
17 Aug 16#30
Looks like the 'straight to video' description of sh1t movies should now be replaced with 'straight to 10p trade in at CEX'. 10p trade in...surely pride wouldn't let you trade in anything for 10p!
Morpheus_00
17 Aug 16#31
Just spent a largely fruitless half hour trying to find positive IMDb reviews for any of these titles. I'm ashamed of myself.
kreames
17 Aug 16#33
They never said anything about 1080p blu ray better than 4k streaming, also what they said about CD/vinyl is right, why you mention lossless formats is beyond as they're not even available from iTunes and the like. So you would have to buy the 'CD' and rip it in FLAC yourself
Franzkill
17 Aug 16#34
Your spot on with the streaming/home media comparison but I don't agree with your point about audio CDs being superior. You have digital types like FLAC and WAV which are just as equal if not better than the original source plus not forgetting about upscaling techniques you can apply when ripping to a computer for example.
groakybaby
17 Aug 16#35
Ordered 9. Good bargains to be had if you hunt around. Just hoping they arrive in reasonable condish.
It's always a bit of a gamble with cex I find :smiley:
s3mon78
17 Aug 16#36
Try and get a refund . I spent £20 kept 2 at£ 7.50 and they could work out the refund I got home they emailed me 3 recipt that I of the lad in the shop couldn't even read for £11 ...??????...... that obviously why they work in cex
there one thing cex is good for and that is price match so I can get more from game
Googlyhead
17 Aug 16#37
Thought I'd give CEX another chance and filled a basket of cheapies.
In my experience, MM are far better in terms of the quality of the item and any after-sales.
If you were only looking at buying one item that postage charge instantly kills any chance of being competitive. The prices aren't usually any cheaper than MM/eBay, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the 50p items at MM for less than that postage charge alone.
Opening post
There's certainly a place for streaming but currently even "4k" netflix is barely Blu-ray quality and for that you need a TV with built-in Netflix App. For picture quality Ultra-HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray are the only format worth bothering with. Netflix is nice but there's honestly a lot of crap on there. If I want to watch a certain film there's a chance that it's not on netflix and there's no guarentee that a film will be on Netflix forever, with physical media you know you'll have it forever.
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In other breaking news, DFS are having a sale
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In other breaking news, DFS are having a sale
Blue Valentine Bluray
Compression formats such as MKV are lossless, and many people are now ripping their collection onto HDD and then selling their discs on Ebay. The issue being the physical size of a large disc collection, and the ease of locating media from a menu as opposed to a library.
Was looking for new and creative ways to torture the poor souls I keep in my dungeon.
Perfect, and for 50p too!
I used to get all my videos and DVDs from Bob Holness.
now its at the 28 year high for sales...
http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/vinyl-sales-record-store-day/
physical sales will always exist... its human nature to want to own and keep physical items.
Digital is here to stay but I believe more and more physical and digital dual selling will just get bigger and bigger..
Blu-Ray with HD copies online and Vinyl/CD with DL codes and Books with codes....
its already a thing and itll get bigger.
As for your comment on 4K streaming vs 1080P Blu Ray, you are partially correct, 4K streaming is marginally better than 1080P Blu Ray. Whilst 4K adopts a more efficient H265 Codec than H264 the streaming quality on the likes of Netflix has been proven to be marginally better at best, and obviously in the sound department still only is Dolby Digital Plus.
The same as with 1080P PPV streams in comparison to Blu Ray, 4K streams fall significantly short in comparison to UHD Blu Ray...another 'dead' format.
I find it somewhat amusing with the hype surrounding such crap as LED Backlit 4K televisions which technically are not the best for displaying 4K source materia,l being sold cheaply to the masses who will never buy a UHD Blu Ray player, and have no reference material to make the most of their substandard 4K panels anyway.
Whilst I have adopted FLAC myself over NAS to my AV Receivers the only advantages I get over CD (unless I get any 24 Bit masters) is convenience. I do at times get annoyed (same with streaming video) with rewind/fast forward sluggishness or freezes.
I have become annoyed that FOX have stopped releasing several of its shows now on Blu Ray in favour of streaming and puzzlingly we have a general public wanting the best in sound and vision yet are quite happy to buy the source for it, yet do not want to get the best out of it.
Streaming has its pluses, but at the same token is also taking us a step backwards, at least until the bandwidth is there to rival physical media, we have not even got that far with Blu Ray.....and with a new physical format in UHD Blu Ray still are a long way off.
My 2 pence on the blu ray vs digital debate.
For pure picture and sound quality - blu ray disc > blu ray rip download > 1080p streaming
For the on the go, mobile lifestyle of a lot of people nowadays - 1080p streaming > 1080p download > blu ray disc
Same for 4k.
I believe physical will die out eventually once streaming quality is at the same level. In my opinion it probably won't be for at least 20 years, until everyone has a fast enough internet connection, the streaming sites stream in the full quality the movie was actually shot in and/or some other format is invented.
The price on the website is the price in store. Always has been.
The only time you'd experience different is if the store hadn't got around to re-labelling the boxes and then, if you can prove the price on the website, they will match.
I checked the Watford stock before I popped out at lunchtime, and whatever was listed on the website was the same price in store. Wasn't going to buy crap for the sake of it though.
Your spot on with the streaming/home media comparison but I don't agree with your point about audio CDs being superior. You have digital types like FLAC and WAV which are just as equal if not better than the original source plus not forgetting about upscaling techniques you can apply when ripping to a computer for example.
It's always a bit of a gamble with cex I find :smiley:
there one thing cex is good for and that is price match so I can get more from game
In my experience, MM are far better in terms of the quality of the item and any after-sales.
If you were only looking at buying one item that postage charge instantly kills any chance of being competitive. The prices aren't usually any cheaper than MM/eBay, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the 50p items at MM for less than that postage charge alone.