Top 10 Reasons Blu-ray DOESN’T Suck

I came across a very funny video from Cinemassacre the other day about why Blu-ray sucks, and although he had some valid points, here’s my counter argument with 10 Reasons Why Blu-ray DOESN’T Suck!

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#Bluray
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[JeffRauseo]

I love James/Cinemassacre and his video! This is all in fun - but I think they’re still good reasons!

[batman]

With physical media, you get to keep the movie forever. If a streaming service loses the rights to the movie, too bad. I only use streaming to watch movies in genres that I’m only mildly interested in. I also think if one has a physical media collection, they can pass their collection on to the next generation. Your kids will know what kind of movies you were into. They won’t know if you stream everything.

[WTDProductions]

Having a collection of your favorite movies to not only watch in high quality but also to display/share your tastes with your friends is so fun. Sure, there’s Letterboxd and stuff, but it’s so much better to physically explore someone else’s collections

[Otokichi]

1. Film Preservation.
2. Special features galore.
3. Durability
4. Boutique Labels (Arrow Video, Scream Factory, Vinegar Syndrome, etc.)
5. Space savings.
6. Badass artwork.
7. Lossless audio.
8. HD video.
9. More digital codes.
10. Blu-Ray is for collectors and enthusiasts.

[realizedvisions]

As a graphic designer, I loved creating DVD menus in Photoshop and creating/adding motion/special effects in After Effects. Bluray has boring menus.

[Xayjohns]

I love Blu-ray Discs. I'm still relatively new to 4K Blu-rays because I want the transfer to justify the purchase, and I'm selective about which ones I buy. But Blu-rays are great.

[ShawnBoyko]

I think Anchor Bay was the Scream Factory of the DVD era.

[thehobbsguy]

I think both of you are right. I miss the robust special features and creative menus on DVD, but the quality of the actual content on bluray is obviously better.

[Jon]

My favorite aspect is how durable Blu-rays are, so many of my DVDs got either scratched or cracked in the middle ring, but I haven’t had any issues like this with 99% or so of my Blu-rays.

[Krypton_Ken]

No doubt, blu-ray is still great. When it comes to upgrading, blu-ray is almost always an automatic for me but 4k is just case by case.

[NoirFan]

BluRay is awesome. Still brilliant image quality & good value also. I do buy 4k but for the most part I don't see a lot of titles as worth the inflated price of the upgrade, the leap in quality is not that significant to justify it, in a lot of cases you can barely notice an improvement at all. A lot of the 4k restoration work done even when then downscaled to 1080p still looks superb even without true 4k.

[ASeasonInSidewinder]

I still collect on BluRay due to the price gap with 4K and my budget. I recently purchased The Batman on BluRay and was blown away by how much better the 1080p disc looked and sounded when compared with a 4K stream. The colour palette, dynamic lighting, fluidity of motion were all drastically improved and the Dolby Atmos sound through my 7.1 surround headphones was incredibly immersive. I still love my standard BluRays.

[joes]

Criterion deserves all of the credit with the concept of special features on LD. The “Banned” Bond commentaries on their three 007 releases are still somewhat legendary.

[BEAVISKORNHOLIO]

I agree with these reasons Jeff I still love blurays and try to buy them whenever I can and the picture quality is outstanding for a lot of movies and tv shows and the protective covering on the back makes it even better to have

[Lefiath]

James Roofe is a wholesome guy, a great dad and he saved me from the dark times. Unfortunately, he's a bit tech illiterate, and his Blu-ray video was awful. Props to you for finding out the courage to set the record straight, and hopefully the Bimmaniacs (aka cinemassacre diehard fans) won't eat you alive.

[ptectn]

Great video...Anyone who "seriously" says Bluray sucks obviously never seen a VHS tape or watched 480i TV growing up LOL. I love nostalgia and miss the old days but not when it comes to video/audio quality. Nothing better than seeing an old movie from 70s/8os in Bluray or 4K to marvel at how much better it looks now as opposed to back on my old massive 26 inch 1980's era TV. LOL.

[Justineilavery]

I think one of the overlooked features of Blu ray discs that are an improvement over DVD was the correct frame rate resulting the correct pacing of a film. DVD's are 25 fps as opposed to 24 fps. Though at a glance this doesn't look like much but makes a big difference especially if you are watching a longer film like a Lord of the Rings film or The Dark Knight.

[Braconara]

Agreed 100%. Would also be cool to have the option to get 4k discs solo and not with the blu ray version anymore. Anyone like me with a 1, 000+ Blu-rays feels like we're paying double when getting the 4k variant, since good chance is we already own the individual Blu-ray and don't have use for the additional disc. Seems like a handy excuse to charge $15 extra and end up with hundreds of doubles that you don't need.

[ddc]

Hugely agree. For a physical collector of even a fairly modest collection, 1080 Blu is likely to forever be the bulk of their discs. I only have a library of 300 & barely 20% of my collection has moved to 4K. If I bought everything in my BD collection on 4K that’s currently available, it still wouldn’t top about 25%.

Most passionate collectors have a larger library than mine, & many far, far larger. 1080 Blu is always going to be the bulk of a collection - that alone (& there are other reasons) makes them important.

[seanlintner]

I agree 100% in my background of 35 years working in Retail Management I have had experience with this very topic.
Back in the day when all we had as consumers was retail music/video stores to purchase whatever new releases had come out we went to one of the many stores to make these purchases. One of the companies I managed was a Sam Goody/Musicland Group store in the new malls Simon Properties built in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. They had many locations but VHS and Laser Disc were the primary video formats at that time. After 6 years of working with them I left the company and went to work as a Manager for Blockbuster Music. I was fortunate to be one of the Managers who was responsible for ordering inventory, special orders, etc. As a movie buff and lover of Home Theater in the early days I always kept up on A/V equipment and formats, ie: Cassettes, CD's, Vinyl, Mini-Disc, VHS, and a new format DVD. I could only order a handful of titles then mostly from Warner Brothers. I told my Store Manager DVD will replace VHS and eventually of course it did. DVD started taking off even though DVD players were $500-$600 dollars. I remember some of my friends saying it will die just like Laser Disc.(Not likely I said) Fast forward to PS3 console comes out and Blu-ray players as well HD was born. After 5 years with the Music division of Blockbuster the company decided to sell off the chain of 400 locations to a company called Wherehouse Ent. Ultimately the new company did evaluations of stores that were doing well and the ones who didn't.
I got wind my store was going to be closing so I left and two days later I started with the video division of Blockbuster and stayed for five and half years. Blockbuster wasted no time buying everything they could on Blu-ray it was great. The partnership Blockbuster had with movie studios was strong and that's how they had so many new releases. After over ten years with Blockbuster I left for a job offer I couldn't refuse and it was out of retail. The crazy part is I knew about Netflix back then and there mail DVD program. Blockbuster tried the same thing. He'll Blockbuster even had the opportunity to purchase Netflix and turned it down. That was a mistake even before the public knew about streaming service Netflix was working on. I believe it could have saved Blockbuster. So many people think it was Netflix that brought down Blockbuster, but it was not. It was a bad financial deal the VIACOM put Blockbuster in. VIACOM wanted to buy Paramount pictures and they leverage Blockbuster to buy it. When the markets started tanking in 2007, 2008, 2009 it started to take a toll on Blockbuster. Sure was a great company to work for.
As time went on a new format came out 4K UHD BLU-RAY which I have to say is as to date the best format of physical media has. Yes you can purchase a 4K UHD player or now with next generation game console PS5 or Xbox and get the best of both worlds. In my opinion. Until these next generation consoles run there course physical media is here to stay. Plus movie studios see the opportunity to remaster back catalog titles and have them on 4K UHD. Some day physical media will fade away but not for the collectors and old school lovers out there. I apologize for being so long however I've seen the change in consumers and music and movie studios have had to change along as well streaming has gotten better. But until old 30-40 year old coaxial cable is replaced with fiber optic physical media will still rain superior not to mention most of the western and other parts of the USA barely has dial-up internet. As a country we are behind technology wise. Hell we do not even have high speed rail.
Hopefully we'll get there we have too.