my reasons for not buying a lot of films on UHD discs
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- There are some aspects of movies on UHD disc that I love, such as them being region free. But there’s also a whole list of things which turn me off from collecting UHD
- I have a modest-sized TV. Meaning, my viewing experience doesn’t really gain massively from the bump up in resolution which UHD experience offers.
- I’ve already collected most movies I care to own. Often three times over.
Often in multilple editions. So adding UHD is problematic simply in terms of storage space. I’ have a certain sentimental attachment to a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays I own. They’re milestones marking my decades long film journey. I don’t see myself getting rid of these „outdated“ formats merely to make room for this superior UHD format. A format I didn’t ask for.
- I don’t want to collect upscales from 2K masters.
I really love watching films shot on analog film. You just cannot beat analog film texture. So I largely watch and collect movies made prior to 2001. So automatically the majority of newer movies where both filming and colour grading are done digitally are of little or no interest to me. And the older movies, the ones I potentially want to collect, seem to be pretty often mishandled on UHD, bringing me to the next point:
- I am not prepared for revisionist colour grading.
I am appalled by reviews of some UHD releases. Don’t get me wrong, I’m hugely excited about UHD as the medium that enables us viewers to experience our favourite movies in best possible image and sound quality. But what if image quality is in hands of indifferent or incompetent people? I’ll just post a picture of three movies I’d love to own on UHD, but which look horrific, if the screenshots made available online are anything to go by. As long as they keep getting colours that wrong, I’ll stick with my Blu-rays, thank you.
- I find standard black UHD cases boring. Nothing to add here.
- I have a premonition that UHD is the new laserdisc.
While it’s certain that there’s no 8K or 16K coming, I somehow don’t see the UHD disc being the final physical format. Streaming alone will never have 100% of the home video market. I can totally imagine a new storage device, probably tiny in size, capable of storing completely uncompressed master files of movies. You know, the original file that ends up compressed to fit on your UHDs and Blu-rays.
It would be a digital equivalent of having your very own negative of your favourite movie. There could be many exciting features, such as a choice of color grade. Imagine toggling on and off colour grade the way you choose filters on Instagram.
- Lack of peer pressure. I have many collector friends and the only ones who buy UHD are those who cannot help it. They’re obsessive collectors and in their case it’s more of a vocation than a genuine pleasure. They’re hard-wired to collect. I can’t say I envy them.
- I just don’t seem to care.
Quite frankly, I didn’t ask for this. I watch loads of films, mostly at home, and I find that Blu-ray does the job just fine. Honestly, you should have seen my excitement when I got my first DVD player and a handful of movies to go with it. Now that was an upgrade. Back in the day, the Internet wasn’t the home of movies yet. Movies lived at the cinema, in rental stores or on your shelf. So there was a tangibility and a finality to them. Whereas nowadays, movies are infinite. In the time it took me to to record and upload this video, dozens of new movies have become available on a multitude of platforms, with tons of new series going into production for the likes of Netflix. There’s just so much more content out there now I’m feeling discouraged to even try it.
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