Blu-ray vs 4K UltraHD: What’s The Difference & Should You Upgrade?

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My eyes are still adjusted to VHS 📼 😆

I own thousands of blu rays and I feel like the jump from blu to 4K isn’t as dramatic as the jump from dvd to blu was. There’s also no way I’m updating all of those blu rays I own to 4K for marginal improvement for some of them.

My rule of thumb is, if I already own a movie on Bluray and it received a quality transfer with good bonus features, I don't worry much about getting a 4k copy (Unless it's one of my favorites). If it's a movie I don't own yet, then I go for the 4k version, if available. The resolution bump definitely makes a difference. But, the biggest leap is having the HDR. You will see details and other things that you never even noticed in your movies, especially if you have a larger display.

Also 4k being region free is a big selling point you can buy a disc from any country and you know it’s going to play on my set up

Im happy with Blu-Ray. The main reason being that the cost to upgrade would be way to much for what I can afford.

I've tried watching 3 highly rated 4K discs back-to-back with their Blu-ray counterparts on my 65" 4K OLED TV and I could barely notice any difference even when I was seriously trying to find the difference. Furthermore, on 2 of the 3, I actually felt that I was slightly liking the look of the Blu-ray more than the 4K disc as the 4K image looked a little bit more artificial to me.

correct me if I'm wrong but to my eye, we've hit a threshold for movie quality. I've seen some 4k movies before and I'm always blown away by how great it looks. But I usually have a similar reaction to 1080, it still looks amazing. i cant even imagine anything greater than 4k and by then it probably would look artificial.

I collected movies and t.v. shows on VHS for years. When DVDs became affordable, I switched over and upgraded my VHS collection to DVD. No more rewinding tapes for me... and the picture was better too. Then Blu-ray's came along and the picture quality went up again. I started out by buying only movies that I didn't already own on DVD... but as time went on, I began the expensive task of upgrading my DVD collection to Blu-ray. That upgrade is still going on. Then 4K started up... and while the picture quality did go up again, I don't find the difference to be quite as pronounced. Some movies will never look all that good on 4K... or on Blu-ray either. In the end, I have decided that Blu-ray is good enough for me. If a 4K version of a film comes out that also has the Blu-ray at a reasonable price, I have no problem with that. My xBox One will play 4K discs even though my T.V. is not 4K. If Blu-ray ever goes away, I think I would probably look more to some sort of streaming alternative... rather than undertake a third massive and expensive platform upgrade. I have more than 6,000 films and television season sets in my collection. It would just be too time-consuming and expensive to do it again. Blu-ray is good enough for my needs.

Upgrading from SD to HD makes a world of difference on screens as small as 32", but the upgrade from HD to UHD is rather underwhelming on my 49" display from a normal viewing distance. I also have a 1080p projector with a screen of about 80" and I'm very happy with regular old HD even at that size.

I just started going into 4k as of today. I got a 4k TV, Ultra HD blu ray player, and started my collection with Top Gun: Maverick, Harry Potter Eight Film Collection, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. I didn't realize there was HDR and SDR, but I was lucky enough to get a TV with HDR. I watched Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets for the first demonstration of my TV and player, and I'm blown away at the quality of 4k. Makes watching all my favorite movies even more awesome!!! Very informative video and I subscribed. Thank you for sharing your insight!!!

Seating distance and screen size is important to getting a benefit from 4k.

Wait, so 4K isn't a scam?! Why do so many people feel the need to say so on my videos about 4K 😅 Great video pal

started watching your stuff since i got my PS5. Already started my 4k movie collection. Great videos my dude

My still upgrading my movies from DVD to Blu Ray,I still have a long way to go,as far as 4k goes not there yet I'm happy with my blu- rays,but Im thankful for this channel and others like it I have learned alot over a year span. Thank you again for the information.let's watch some movies!!!!!

Thanks for the detailed explanation of the differences between Blu Ray and 4K Blu Ray. Very helpful. And the 3 shot picture showing the difference between 4K, 1080P and 720P images, makes the difference in quality between the 3 formats crystal clear for me as I consider upgrading to a 4K TV.

Some early 4K discs need to be redone like T2, the first 3 bourne movies, Gremlins, Goodfellas!!

I’ll stick with Blu Ray. You have to get a new disc, a new player and a new Tv. I do get what you mean about the sound on a Disney movie.

This is just the video I needed to say - explained everything great for me. Just getting my first 4k 55 inch tv and wondering what the differences are between the different formats, and this has helped a lot. Thanks!

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