But if you’re like the vast majority of people and haven’t taken the expensive plunge into 4K yet, there’s great news for you. With the arrival of 4K TVs there’s been a shift from electronics companies towards developing players for the arrival of the new 4K Blu-ray format (marketed as “UHD”). A cleaner, sharper picture and more dynamic audio are pretty much a guarantee with even the most basic of Blu-ray players. If you’re got a shiny new OLED big-screen television sitting in your lounge room, you will see a difference in quality with Blu-ray. So yes, predictions of the death of optical discs as a format is a bit premature. You simply can’t get that with a digital download.
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Blu-ray also lets you play a movie with the latest surround sound technologies such as Dolby Atmos. And while we may mostly be perfectly happy streaming our music online, a digital movie download can’t come close to Blu-ray for picture quality. And yet, there’s still a lot to be said for buying your entertainment on disc – especially when it comes to movies and TV shows.īlu-ray Disc is an ever-evolving format that’s the ideal way to get high-quality high definition video into your home. So there’s no doubt the video and sound quality of digital downloads has come forward in leaps and bounds over the past few years.
In the case of movies, you can even buy digitally with all of the “extras” from the physical disc versions of the film included.
There’s a lot of appeal in buying digital – instant access, with no need to travel to a store or wait for delivery.
And whether it’s music, movies or games, we’re getting an ever-increasing amount of our entertainment directly from the Internet.