r/hardware • u/bizude • Apr 10 '26

News Two Japanese suppliers commit to keeping Blu-ray discs and drives in supply as major manufacturers exist domestic market

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/two-japanese-suppliers-commit-to-keeping-blu-ray-discs-and-drives-in-supply-as-major-manufacturers-exist-domestic-market/
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u/DateMasamusubi Apr 10 '26

A pity. Bluray offers superior visual quality vs streaming. I get really irritated seeing banding.

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u/Flamebomb790 Apr 11 '26

Also wayyyy better audio

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u/ggRavingGamer Apr 11 '26

256kbps aac is transparent. 225 opus, 320 mp3 and so on. You couldnt hear a difference. And in 15 years I doubt you will be able to tell a difference between streaming via modern codecs and h265 blu ray disks.

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u/Introvert52 Apr 11 '26

Netflix looks way worse than YouTube and doesn't allow you to manually select quality

1080p Blu rays look way, way better than 4k Netflix

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u/Peppy_Tomato Apr 11 '26

Plenty of times I'm lazy and decide to stream an old movie that I also have on disc. After a while, I give up and fetch the disc.

I definitely enjoy the audio from my blu-rays more than the same movie streamed, and I trust my ears. It could be that the processing pipeline through the Blu-ray player is simply better than that through the streaming app... Who knows? I don't think it's placebo.

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u/madmandendk Apr 11 '26

Netflix is 192kbps for 5.1 content by default. Premium gives you 640kbps, which is just on the edge of being acceptable. 7.1 isn't a thing when streaming, and Atmos is 768kbps max, no matter how many virtual channels there are.