It's too early to be talking about this as the specs has not been set yet but was wondering if the BDXL blank discs will be able to copy the official 4K/UHD Blu-ray discs and will slysoft be ready for this new format? What do you guys/gales think?
I'm curious about that too. The format is starting to become available. One way to find out it just buy one of the BD's released with 4K. Here is a selection of movies on Amazon that are 4K.
Just a note: Those discs are still regular 1080p Blu-ray, they are just taken from a 4k Master. AnyDVD HD will handle all of those fine.
No Ultra HD Blu-ray player or disc has been released yet and protection methods for the new format haven't been officially revealed (that I know of at least)
As for Slysoft handling them, I highly doubt they will for a while at least as I'm sure new protection methods will be even more sophisticated, plus it will be such a small market it might not be worth the time/effort/expense (if it's even a possibility)
Nope.I thought these new 4K movies were really 4K using a 3 layer 100GB format.
Really? Care to share a link or two?There are several standalone players and BD burners that are BDXL 100GB compatible and 4K compatible (or claim to be).
Really? Care to share a link or two?These original disks will also appear as 1080p compatible if the hardware or player is not compatible with the 4K format.
I doubt it. What makes you think so?IMHO the market for 4K is going to be huge.
I stand corrected on that and mislead by the adverts.
Ultra HD has 4 times the resolution of 1080p and the hardware is just around the corner. I see this as a natural evolution as DVD was to Blu Ray. There will be a huge demand for the higher resolution.
I have 110" projection screen and Sony 1080p SXRD projector and I can tell you blu-rays are good enough for big screens at least my size, I watch from 10' away from the screen and I don't see the pixels, maybe SXRD technology is unique on that as it provides little to no black gap between pixels, But the picture looks damn good, I'm sure UHD will look crispier on my screen but it's more like for a really bigger screens, So 4k for 55" is useless unless you sit right next to the screen playing video games. I think if rental firms start carrying UHD discs the format will take off, otherwise it will be just a rich's market.I would think that the improvement from 1080P to 4K will be marginal (if that) unless you are using a screen bigger than 65", especially if you're using a projection and a really big screen that's like 8 to 12 feet across.
Nr. 8K is already on the horizon for large screens, UHD will in my opinion be ephemeral and fail (disk based). It will very quickly be replaced by the real jump (Nr. 8K). These systems are being pushed at the shows as we speak. Nr. 8K @ up to 120 fps.
Buy UHD TV 65" and larger, but not the media.
But there are a lot of people buying 4K HDTV's these days, especially this weekend in the USA thanksgiving day sales. There is a potentially huge 4K audience now that the prices are reasonable.
Nr. 8K will of course be around much longer and generate much higher confidence, the public will not ever buy into higher than that, (at least not in our lifetime.) famous last words LOL
Yes BD may well be the last physical format.
But the storage needed for higher and higher resolutions needs to be much higher, even with the new compression techniques.
Cloud storage is pathetic and untrusted, and also if you have ever had the experience of watching a Movie in this way from these Companies you will understand LOL. Plus it is nowhere near as good as an actual BD Disk in quality.
So we sort of have 2 options. Store it ourselves on Hard Drives or store it per Title on Physical Disk.
I have 32TB storage that I use for BD and Blu Ray but how many people would do that and also that storage would need to be much higher and backed up/mirrored.
The high size of storage is becoming a real problem for people and Companies with backing up, even with the fastest point to point transfer.
So I am on the fence re it being the "Last" of disks because the irony is that its coming round to full circle now, where that option, i.e. physical disks is the easiest.
Yes BD may well be the last physical format.
But the storage needed for higher and higher resolutions needs to be much higher, even with the new compression techniques.
Cloud storage is pathetic and untrusted, and also if you have ever had the experience of watching a Movie in this way from these Companies you will understand LOL. Plus it is nowhere near as good as an actual BD Disk in quality.
So we sort of have 2 options. Store it ourselves on Hard Drives or store it per Title on Physical Disk.
I have 32TB storage that I use for BD and Blu Ray but how many people would do that and also that storage would need to be much higher and backed up/mirrored.
The high size of storage is becoming a real problem for people and Companies with backing up, even with the fastest point to point transfer.
So I am on the fence re it being the "Last" of disks because the irony is that its coming round to full circle now, where that option, i.e. physical disks is the easiest.
I probably won't get the UHD BD format, due to the current cost, and the fact that I'm more than pleased with the Blu-ray collection that I have right now.
However, if the prices for UHD BD ever get to around Blu-ray, than I might decide to switch over to that format.