Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

could write a whole thread on this given my background in film digitization.

a couple caveats:

- not all streams are created equal. sometimes you’re watching an ugly old transfer, other times a new UHD remaster in dolbyvision. very variable. disney+, netflix, and apple the leaders in quality imo, but still some bad apples here and there (pun intended).

- not all discs are created equally. you can also watch a bad transfer on blu-ray. not necessarily a guarantee of anything.

that said, in general:

- blu-ray discs don’t waver in quality in response to network conditions like streams do. for example, you’ll see consistently tight grain structure that doesn’t go softer/sharper or more/less apparent.

- good blu-ray players have more sophisticated HDR handling than any streaming method, which will help HDR content not get clipped/unnatural while retaining detail.

- blu-ray discs give you uncompressed audio, not lossy mp3 or aac, but this might only matter to you if you have a decent sound system.