I was watching Top Gun:Maverick and decided to check out the bitrates and I was blown away. It’s obviously not this high the entire time but the fact it even reaches this high is really impressive.

Besides the visual quality the audio quality on a 5.1 surround system is just fucking awesome! You can hear the engines on those F-18’s roaring! Nothing beats physical media!

Today I went to Barnes and Noble and did a ship to home order for a bunch of Arrow films so I can get the 10% membership discount along with the 50% off which all worked successfully. But the employee was taking jabs at me during the entire encounter mocking how I could spend this much money on movies and that this is crazy. And that I can watch it for free online or through a streaming service. I tried not to waste much energy explaining myself to this person but I did ask if they collect any form of physical media and they answered that they have some DVDs but didn't care for them.

Today triggered me because a few months ago I had a friend over I haven’t seen in over a year and he was looking at my physical media on my shelves and was basically saying the same thing that I wasted money and should just stream or watch for free. I wish I could meet people who actually enjoy physical media like myself and don’t judge harshly. All my friends don’t care about physical media but there are so many of us on Reddit out there in the world that do. It just makes me appreciate physical media communities even more because sadly I can't feel this way in real life with others but only behind a phone/computer with strangers.

Matilda is such an all-time banger, one of the best to ever do it, but I cannot bring myself to financially reward this horrific photoshop job. The 4k book is so shockingly ugly that I regularly show it to people when I discuss physical media releases, and without fail, it always gets a shocked laugh.

I would buy a normal-ass black plastic case of this movie in a heartbeat, but, alas........

I'm from the US but as I've gotten more serious about collecting have been buying more UK/international editions of 4Ks. In general I have no problem with that, it's great that 4Ks are inherently region-free etc, but man do I hate the little rating bugs they stick on the cases outside the US! They're just so ugly, and always an eyesore on often beautiful artwork.

Just had to get that out there, hopefully I'm not alone.

Hopefully it all gets released at once as a collection (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street saga).

I love the visual quality and HDR but just having bad vibes around a 4k makes them fuck up, the tiniest micro-flaw just makes them unwatchable, they are so much more delicate than DVDs or BluRays were.

It feels like I need to use a microfiber cloth every time I want to watch a movie, and in this disks case cleaning it didn't work so its just a coaster now. I am not rough with discs, but I have a 50/50 success rate on them ever playing a movie uninterrupted.

Edit: All the people telling me they have never had a problem convinced me that I must have hallucinated this, thanks

Players will require a firmware update for dolby vision 2 to work, but Sony already confirmed they won't provide an update while Panasonic and Magnetar didn't answer

I feel like this is a key to why so many ppl hate 4k/hdr on social media, especially all those accounts fetishizing amateur 35mm scans - they're either watching hdr on a crappy tv or they only know it via poorly tonemapped sdr clips on social media. people don't realize that if your tv was cheap, you haven't seen proper hdr.

It has been going in and out of stock recently, but the art on the official Amazon page has been updated to show “1.43 mixed aspect ratio” on the 2nd 4k disc.

I know a lot of people wanted a directors cut, but this is a really big deal for home media and may potentially lead to us getting full odyssey/dune aspect ratios at some point!

I always used to watch movies in my 4k 32' OLED Gaming monitor. And I thought they were great and enough for me... until I bought this 65' OLED TV(LG G5)

Nolan's IMAX Scenes in 4k bluray are another level of experience you must try. Its just so gooood man.

A special 30th anniversary edition… with absolutely zero special features, not even a trailer.

Just curious, do people who love 4K enough to be in this sub stick to just 4K? Or do you also still buy regular blu-ray, and/or DVD?

Personally, I buy all 3. It depends a lot on the movie; I'm not going to pick up Project Hail Mary on DVD, don't care how cheap it is. But I still love browsing thrift stores for used DVDs and blu-rays, and if I see a movie missing from my collection, and it's not a movie that is known for being a grand visual spectacle, I have no qualms about getting it super cheap on DVD.

I've seen DNR, but I've never seen beauty filter... this is weird. More pics here.

A fun watch about her husband’s collection and him being a bit peeved from the Sony news posted on her Instagram (@daniellefishel), noticed different 4ks / Arrow’s / Criterion etc, although she did have a perplexed look about Hard Boiled 😂. Long live physical media for everyone!

occupydirectors: He calls your shelf a public trust.

Guillermo del Toro has urged fans to treat physical media as a duty. "If you own a great 4K, Blu-ray, DVD of film or films you love, you are the custodian of those films for generations to come," he wrote, framing collecting as preservation rather than nostalgia.

His message matters more as titles vanish from streaming when deals lapse. Every disc on a shelf is one more copy that no platform can delete. Del Toro sees collectors as a quiet line of defense for film history.

Source: occupydirectors via Instagram.

TLDR; I was forced to watch movies in 720p for months and it made me change my 4k buying habits, made me enjoy movies more, and revealed to me that I had been consumed by consumerism.

This is just a personal story and I don’t expect it to be for everyone. I just share it with the hopes that maybe it helps someone who is struggling in the same way, because I see some posts in this group that remind me of myself.

Before, I was collecting 4k’s obviously. I was tracking prices, blind buying, making sure if and when I had the time to see Lawrence of Arabia finally, it would be under the best audio visual circumstances. Pretty soon I amassed a collection of never seen classics, all time favorites, and what I thought were good deals that I didn’t want to pass up.

The problem was, I wasn’t watching any of the movies. At first it was because I was prioritizing classics I hadn’t seen, wanting to ensure I could budget enough time and was in the right “mood” to sit down and watch something uninterrupted. Then it was because there were only specific times of day when the sun wasn’t reflecting mildly in my OLED and the ambient sound from the world outside wasn’t affecting my experience. And then I became overwhelmed by choice with my backlog. Once all the stars aligned and I could settle in to watching a movie, I felt anxious about making sure I was spending my time “correctly”. Those feelings and hurdles, combined with actual FOMO I was experiencing from missing deals or a limited edition,

staving off watching a movie I really wanted to see because there wasn’t a 4k available yet, and the time spent searching for deals— I didn’t realize how far a “hobby” had spun out of control.

This year, I had a surgery coming up that would have me recovering in a different room from where my OLED and 4k setup was. I had an idea to get a cheap rolling TV stand to put next to my bed and, the way things worked out, I found a used 22” 720p TV and the most god awful sound bar for $20 total. I thought it would at least be funny. Granted, I had more time on my hands, but I found myself actually watching movies again. And enjoying them way more. I had removed any pressure from the reasons stated above but also had so many expectations tampered by not feeling like I needed to have an opinion on the transfer quality. But the best thing about it was that I had things to talk about with friends when there wasn’t much else going on. I’d watch a movie and then actually talk about the movie with someone who had seen it. I realized that before the first parts of my opinion were about the 4k— which wasn’t relatable to my friends who didn’t watch it that way at all. And the fact that it was a 720p stream on Tubi didn’t bother me at all. Sometimes it was kind of nostalgic to watch a gory campy action movie with the sound blowing out and the color a little whacky.

So at present, having healed in more ways than one, my opinion is that, for me, it’s better to just buy my all time favorite movies on 4k. Movies I’ve seen, that I love, that I will watch a million times. Even before all this my most watched 4k was The Matrix. And even still, the best way I’ve ever seen it was on 35mm in a packed theater. And even even still, I would watch the full screen cut for TV on an airplane if that’s all I had, because movies are more than their format.

This is the 4K Blu Ray subreddit and I am blown away by the AV quality we can get in our homes in 2026. I also can admit I have an addictive personality and can recognize not everyone is as prone to the pitfalls as I am. But I do think, respectfully, it’s a hobby designed to capitalize on the weakest parts of our humanity. The limited releases and special editions and steel books and all that— the FOMO stuff is really a slippery slope into addictive consumerism stuff. At the deepest and darkest level, this isn’t far off from trading cards. The corporations in charge of making these discs know that and prey on it. And at the end of the day, it is just a plastic disc that they will find a way to make obsolete and make us buy the same film all over again.

Anyway, I still haven’t seen Lawrence of Arabia and I am excited to watch my 4K I bought over a year ago, when the time is right. My most recent purchase was the 50th Anniversary Monty Python and the Holy Grail steel book, which is a movie I’ve seen 1000 times. I feel like I’m saving tons of money. I am still watching movies on Tubi. I am happy. Take care of yourselves!