4K / Ultra HD Blu-ray: Discounts and deals
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Expendables III and Ender's Game are $19.99 a pop at frys.com.
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I guess the problem is, physical media is suffering a slow death and this format may be the LD of our generation.
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I'm not upgrading again. It's the law of diminishing returns. UHD isn't going to improve the experience enough to justify the ridiculously high added cost. Few films will benefit and most aren't worth the upgrade—"You can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig." Two-thirds of us still prefer DVDs and never made the transition to Blu-ray. An even smaller fraction of the high definition audience will buy into UHD and it will give new meaning to the words "niche market." Sorry folks, it's DOA. I've never had so much dis-interest for new technology. Yawn.
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I'm pretty much taking the approach of not buying stuff again and again each time a new generation of media comes out, not unless it is deeply discounted and I feel like I'm getting much more than what I have already.
I do admit to upgrading a good number of dvds to bluray but only when the price dropped to $5 or less. The majority of my bluray collection are new stuff I never owned before. While I don't plan to upgrade to 4k anytime soon, there will come a time that's not too far in the future when it becomes cost-effective to buy the 4k version of new movies especially since the regular bluray is included. My plan is to only buy the newest movies in 4k and I will probably stop buying regular blurays now and wait for the 4k version to drop in price.
No plan to buy the 4k player till a year or two from now. Can't afford it. But that won't stop me from collecting 4k movies when prices really drop even if I don't have the machine to play it yet.
I do admit to upgrading a good number of dvds to bluray but only when the price dropped to $5 or less. The majority of my bluray collection are new stuff I never owned before. While I don't plan to upgrade to 4k anytime soon, there will come a time that's not too far in the future when it becomes cost-effective to buy the 4k version of new movies especially since the regular bluray is included. My plan is to only buy the newest movies in 4k and I will probably stop buying regular blurays now and wait for the 4k version to drop in price.
No plan to buy the 4k player till a year or two from now. Can't afford it. But that won't stop me from collecting 4k movies when prices really drop even if I don't have the machine to play it yet.
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This belongs exactly where it is. As deals come up, we can get an idea of who's buying now. Just because some people, including myself, say we're not jumping in quite yet, there will be those who are and it'll be good to hear from them.
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Think of the Amazon deals thread. It's for DEALS. Sure, people stray off, but every once in a while people have to get reminded that it's meant for posting deals. Again, there's a thread in the HD forum where we're talking about the pros and cons of 4k blu ray. Why not stick to that thread if we're going to argue about the format or when we plan on buying in.
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This is a Bargains forum. Discussion should therefore be primarily oriented around bargains. It's okay if things briefly veer off-point as a natural part of the discussion, but "is Ultra HD Blu-ray as a format worth it?" really has no place here. There's a thread for that in the appropriate forum. I really don't want this to end up like, say, the PS Vita Deals and Discussion thread at CAG which is 95% chatter and borderline-zero deals.
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Speaking of, I picked up Ender's Game from Fry's. So first 4K purchase for me. I passed on Expendables 3 because, well it's Expendables 3. Now I need to be on the lookout for a player...
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This is a Bargains forum. Discussion should therefore be primarily oriented around bargains. It's okay if things briefly veer off-point as a natural part of the discussion, but "is Ultra HD Blu-ray as a format worth it?" really has no place here. There's a thread for that in the appropriate forum. I really don't want this to end up like, say, the PS Vita Deals and Discussion thread at CAG which is 95% chatter and borderline-zero deals.
Forum has been way too quiet these days. Seeing deals to get excited about has been few and far between. Just remembering the old days when the forum used to be jumping with discussions of all kind.
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Think of the Amazon deals thread. It's for DEALS. Sure, people stray off, but every once in a while people have to get reminded that it's meant for posting deals. Again, there's a thread in the HD forum where we're talking about the pros and cons of 4k blu ray. Why not stick to that thread if we're going to argue about the format or when we plan on buying in.
This is a Bargains forum. Discussion should therefore be primarily oriented around bargains. It's okay if things briefly veer off-point as a natural part of the discussion, but "is Ultra HD Blu-ray as a format worth it?" really has no place here. There's a thread for that in the appropriate forum. I really don't want this to end up like, say, the PS Vita Deals and Discussion thread at CAG which is 95% chatter and borderline-zero deals.


No one is frowning on opinions. There have been plenty of them expressed in the other thread.
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Nope. And if you think about it, it's what Blu-ray should have been in the first place, as far as actual data capacity on a disc. I was expecting almost all Blu-ray movies to be on a BD-50, with the best possible picture. And whatever happened to the BD-100 disc for epic movies like Lawrence of Arabia or Spartacus. Never happened.
BD-25s, baby. That's what I see the most. Even when a studio COULD increase the bandwidth, they throttle it.
And when there are a shitload of new features? We see studios cram their features on a BD-50 with a feature movie. Doesn't happen all the time...but it happens enough to where it should NOT happen.
And remember when the idea of putting DVD releases on Blu-ray to save space if there was no Blu-ray release...that didn't happen, either.
Blu-ray still has so much potential, but once again, the studios have moved on to something else, and we'll see even more data-confusing releases.
BD-25s, baby. That's what I see the most. Even when a studio COULD increase the bandwidth, they throttle it.
And when there are a shitload of new features? We see studios cram their features on a BD-50 with a feature movie. Doesn't happen all the time...but it happens enough to where it should NOT happen.
And remember when the idea of putting DVD releases on Blu-ray to save space if there was no Blu-ray release...that didn't happen, either.
Blu-ray still has so much potential, but once again, the studios have moved on to something else, and we'll see even more data-confusing releases.
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But was that an industry idea or a consumer idea? It seems a lot of discussion here was that the industry didn't want to do that because it wanted to sell the idea of BD as a picture format and not a storage medium for SD content. So yeah, you could certainly cram a ton of SD TV episodes on a BD, but there could be confusion if people expected HD content as well.
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Nope. And if you think about it, it's what Blu-ray should have been in the first place, as far as actual data capacity on a disc. I was expecting almost all Blu-ray movies to be on a BD-50, with the best possible picture. And whatever happened to the BD-100 disc for epic movies like Lawrence of Arabia or Spartacus. Never happened.
Glad we went back to talking about discounts here....I'm waiting for players to start dropping sub $400. I'll buy in at $300.
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$29.99 is a decent price to me. 3D Blu-ray movies sell discounted for $27.99, and most regular blu-rays are around $24.99. Considering the Ultra HD version includes the 1080 blu-ray inside, it's a reasonable price difference to upgrade, at least for the day-and-date new releases. I suppose catalog titles should be $19.99 though. I bought dozens of 3D blu-rays before I had the ability to watch them when the difference was $5. I'll do the same with Ultra HD. If the upgrade price is $5, I'll pay the difference to future proof my collection.
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$29.99 is a decent price to me. 3D Blu-ray movies sell discounted for $27.99, and most regular blu-rays are around $24.99. Considering the Ultra HD version includes the 1080 blu-ray inside, it's a reasonable price difference to upgrade, at least for the day-and-date new releases. I suppose catalog titles should be $19.99 though. I bought dozens of 3D blu-rays before I had the ability to watch them when the difference was $5. I'll do the same with Ultra HD. If the upgrade price is $5, I'll pay the difference to future proof my collection.
The dilemma comes when they release a 3D version and an Ultra HD version. Which version to get? Each offer a viewing experience unique from the other. For the time being, only because I can play 3D, I will buy 3D without regret and will buy Ultra HD some time in the future when the cost have gone down. I have felt the pain of buyer's remorse during my long history of collecting DVD, HD-DVD and bluray-always kicking myself for buying stuff way too early and seeing prices dropping with the passage of time.
Do take advantage of these sub-$20 prices now if you are jumping into 4k now as there will likely be a period where you'll be lucky to see prices this low. But prices will surely drop as 4k becomes commonplace. Give it a year.
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Yet the ones from Fox that I saw at Best Buy were the only ones I even CONSIDERED buying, since the ones that did have slips all had Best Buy's dumb stickers on them. Question is who would pay $30 for a disc that did have a store sticker on the slipcover?