Many people are lamenting the apparent slow demise of Blu-ray. The image quality these players offer is much higher than that of streaming, featuring a bitrate that can go up to 128 Mbps in the case of 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays. Most streaming services are somewhere between 15 Mbps and 25 Mbps.
tbf that’s just a setting/feature of streaming services, they are capable of uping the quality to match that of Bluray they just feel the demand isn’t there which means there’s a gap in the market
In Australia we now have 500mbit plans for under $100 a month, so it’s definitely capable of going up to 4k blu-ray quality
Also 8k TV’s are on the way out as well, it just looks like people are happy with the quality of video these days
Modern encoding formats can also do a lot better quality at a lower bitrate than Blu-ray, and do dynamic bitrate depending on the amount of change in a scene.
Like you said, most people just don’t care. The quality is good enough.
UHD bluray uses H.265. That’s one of the best codecs available right now. AV1 can do a bit better for certain content, but it’s not a huge difference. Basically nothing supports H.266 yet and AV2 is still in development.
I don’t know about australia, but for the united states the OTA broadcasts in my area are 1080p. The tv shows are at most recorded in 4k, but most are 1080p.
Why buy an expensive 8k tv, and then have virtually no content to play on it?
Yeah exactly, same situation in Australia with OTA
I understand there’s some issue with radio frequencies and they think it’s better to have like 10 channels playing garbage at 720p rather than 1 channel at 4k but even on https://www.9now.com.au/ the quality is garbage AND the player is awful as well, I just don’t understand how we’re like 20 years into video streaming and the regular players still suck so bad at it
