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6-Film Terminator Collection (DVD)
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But I'd avoid this deal - DVD, and a single thin case for 6 discs? Nah, give me a nicer looking box set.
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There are so many special features included on DVDs that, due to laziness, licensing, or going cheap by the studio... those features were not [some or all] put on the blu-ray release. Add to this the number of movies that have not had a blu-ray transfer at all and only exist on DVD (or worse yet, still VHS with no DVD release). Studios come and go, get bought out, licenses are traded, transferred, bought, lost, etc. Copyrights, song rights, and other issues turn transfers into nightmares.
There were also many extended cuts put out on DVD that never made it to their blu-ray release. Tombstone, for example, has an Extended Special Edition DVD that has the 134 minute Director's Cut that the blu-ray nor 4K never transferred. My wife never saw the extended cut until a few weeks ago and said "well, those extra scenes explained a few continuity issues in the original cut." She hadn't seen the movie in years and realized what the extended parts were and what meaning they had. Plenty of other examples out there.
Next, a good 4K player can do upscaling well. I watch my movies on an 85" TV using a Panasonic UB820. Sure I can notice a difference between blu-ray and DVD, but the DVDs look pretty damn good being stretched beyond the screen size they were made for (32"-40" screens were "big screen" around that time) thanks to the good upscaling!
Do I want the best format... of course! But unless a movie has special meaning to me, or it is something that would take advantage of 4K, then I still stick with the blu-ray or even just the DVD. Yes, blu-ray upgraded the picture and most of the time get the 7.1 soundtrack, and 4Ks usually get an Atmos upgrade and maybe some HDR. But honestly aside from the soundtrack upgrade, many 4K's have the original "grainy" look as it should and unless the 4K is fixing a screwed up blu-ray transfer (like the Star Trek blu-ray movie release in 2009 which was all washed out but the 4K corrects it back to theater release color and grain), I will not upgrade most of my library to 4K because blu-ray is just fine (or DVD). So why upgrade if you don't need to in some respects. Some 4Ks were also poorly transferred or highly color shifted and look like crap (T2, Abyss, any James Cameron 4K involvement, and many others).
But I'm a movie fan and enjoy physical media. My collection is over 11,000 and still growing, and this is for other reasons - Streaming is expensive, compressed audio & video, and good luck finding 80% of what I have on-hand anywhere on streaming unless it's a pirate site, which is even more of a compressed stream so you have artifacts, poor audio, and equal or lower quality video than DVD. Most others are older people who only went as far as DVD and wasn't going to upgrade their library but they never bought a blu-ray player either. Every gamer has had a PS2 or higher that has played DVD's and there's still those millions of players out there. You can find a portable DVD player in any thrift shop for $20-$30 or new for $60, whereas there are very few portable blu-ray players (and even less 4K portables). Every pc has/had a DVD player until recently so anyone could play DVD's who owned one. I only know people in my movie circle that have a blu-ray player in their pc, and that's mainly to rip to their media server.
So for all these reasons and more, DVD's still outpace blu-ray and 4K sales and is why they are still sold individually, or included in blu-ray and some 4K releases. Don't downplay the almost 30-year old DVD format released 1996 in Japan and 1997 with Twister in the US). It has it's place and isn't going away, and with streaming getting so segmented and expensive along with edits, dubs, and cuts being made to streaming versions of movies... not to mention the fact that you don't OWN your streaming purchases... physical media is making a comeback.
There are so many special features included on DVDs that, due to laziness, licensing, or going cheap by the studio... those features were not [some or all] put on the blu-ray release. Add to this the number of movies that have not had a blu-ray transfer at all and only exist on DVD (or worse yet, still VHS with no DVD release). Studios come and go, get bought out, licenses are traded, transferred, bought, lost, etc. Copyrights, song rights, and other issues turn transfers into nightmares.
There were also many extended cuts put out on DVD that never made it to their blu-ray release. Tombstone, for example, has an Extended Special Edition DVD that has the 134 minute Director's Cut that the blu-ray nor 4K never transferred. My wife never saw the extended cut until a few weeks ago and said "well, those extra scenes explained a few continuity issues in the original cut." She hadn't seen the movie in years and realized what the extended parts were and what meaning they had. Plenty of other examples out there.
Next, a good 4K player can do upscaling well. I watch my movies on an 85" TV using a Panasonic UB820. Sure I can notice a difference between blu-ray and DVD, but the DVDs look pretty damn good being stretched beyond the screen size they were made for (32"-40" screens were "big screen" around that time) thanks to the good upscaling!
Do I want the best format... of course! But unless a movie has special meaning to me, or it is something that would take advantage of 4K, then I still stick with the blu-ray or even just the DVD. Yes, blu-ray upgraded the picture and most of the time get the 7.1 soundtrack, and 4Ks usually get an Atmos upgrade and maybe some HDR. But honestly aside from the soundtrack upgrade, many 4K's have the original "grainy" look as it should and unless the 4K is fixing a screwed up blu-ray transfer (like the Star Trek blu-ray movie release in 2009 which was all washed out but the 4K corrects it back to theater release color and grain), I will not upgrade most of my library to 4K because blu-ray is just fine (or DVD). So why upgrade if you don't need to in some respects. Some 4Ks were also poorly transferred or highly color shifted and look like crap (T2, Abyss, any James Cameron 4K involvement, and many others).
But I'm a movie fan and enjoy physical media. My collection is over 11,000 and still growing, and this is for other reasons - Streaming is expensive, compressed audio & video, and good luck finding 80% of what I have on-hand anywhere on streaming unless it's a pirate site, which is even more of a compressed stream so you have artifacts, poor audio, and equal or lower quality video than DVD. Most others are older people who only went as far as DVD and wasn't going to upgrade their library but they never bought a blu-ray player either. Every gamer has had a PS2 or higher that has played DVD's and there's still those millions of players out there. You can find a portable DVD player in any thrift shop for $20-$30 or new for $60, whereas there are very few portable blu-ray players (and even less 4K portables). Every pc has/had a DVD player until recently so anyone could play DVD's who owned one. I only know people in my movie circle that have a blu-ray player in their pc, and that's mainly to rip to their media server.
So for all these reasons and more, DVD's still outpace blu-ray and 4K sales and is why they are still sold individually, or included in blu-ray and some 4K releases. Don't downplay the almost 30-year old DVD format released 1996 in Japan and 1997 with Twister in the US). It has it's place and isn't going away, and with streaming getting so segmented and expensive along with edits, dubs, and cuts being made to streaming versions of movies... not to mention the fact that you don't OWN your streaming purchases... physical media is making a comeback.
I was just being unnecessarily cheeky. You are right! This is a great summative post too.
My only point of contention is with the second-to-last paragraph…. "of what I have on-hand anywhere on streaming unless it's a pirate site, which is even more of a compressed stream so you have artifacts, poor audio, and equal or lower quality video than DVD"
It sounds like you'd really be surprised with the great lengths people have gone to making things accessible in excellent quality …
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