![]() If you pay $39.95 or more for a UHD-BD maybe wait for a sale? especially if you already have the BD copy. I don’t know whether others agree? It’s a bit hit and miss and the format has been around long enough we shouldn’t need to debate this.īecause of streaming, disc sales are continuing to decline but I’m not going to spend $100+ a month to have all the streaming services when their movies are often not even as good quality as my BDs - seems average punter doesn’t seem to care as much? I’ve been a bit disappointed by some movies and really impressed by others. Many UHD-BD films take the pre 1991 digital soundtracks from the BD version and if you are lucky they should do a new telecine scan at 2160p. I only hope studios keep investing in the higher quality UHD-BD films but some films I bought just show off the film grain that much more as they were cheap transfers, possibly upscales from the BD versions? I guess most of us are in a similar situation unless you have a decent six figure salary and lots of extra cash to burn. My gear upscales 1080p BDs pretty well and current cost of living pressures and lack of work during past 2.5 years of COVID means I just don’t have the $$$ to spend on discs every year anymore as much as I would like too, and haven’t for a while. I often wait for 20% or 30% off various discs at JB - they seem to do that 4-5 times a year, esp for older films, sometimes you can get a classic like this for only ~$20 on UHD-BD. And which idiot decided to put DVD and BD region locks back? Panasonic DP-UB820 is a great buy even if it’s a little dated. Only us connoisseurs are forking out money for $3-4K on OLED, another $2-4K on an AVR and probably similar money for our 5.1 or maybe 7.1 systems plus a decent another $500-$700 for a multi HDR capable UHD-BD player to really appreciate the quality. Lol.ĭVDs apparently still the number one selling format, (no idea why) and that’s a 24 year old SD format! My BD collection tops out around 500 discs (DVDs even more but rarely if ever watched these days) but I’m being very selective with replacing BDs with UHD-BD - v.sick of paying for the same film from DVD > Bluray > UHD-Bluray unless they spent extra money remastering or doing something special and I don’t mean Steel Book version. We have to keep buying optical discs to convince the studios to spend money on the quality versions and not just upscale 2K/BD stuff at the cheapest price. ~$30 is not bad for a UHD-BD version but I seem to caught in a loop updating to the next disc format as they come out. Milla does an OK job, but it’s a stand out for Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman is amazing as usual.Ĭhris Tucker is my least liked character in this film but it has a decent plot, good score, great action, amazing costumes and for the time it was made very early in the CGI VFX days, pretty amazing for 1997. I have the remastered Bluray and it gets a watch from time to time but a 2160p version might be nice. This is still in my top ten considering when it was made probably one of Luc Besson’s best films and won an Oscar for costume design iirc.
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