Yeah, and I was thinking of single layer BD (25 GB)…dual layer might take a week.
It varies - 50gig is not unusual. The downloads I’ve seen are always way, way smaller than the real Blu Rays I own. The shops where you are are probably better than pirating sites, of course, but I’m still sceptical that they’d bother ripping a real Blu Ray quality disc.
That all depends on how fast your DSL download speed is.
In my case, about 3 Mb/s. If I paid more, I could get 6. And that’s as fast as it gets.
You probably live in the UK or Canada. In the US Netflix have most movies and TV shows from the 90’s to now.
People spent a lot of money going from VHS to DVD and people don’t want to spend that kind of money to blu ray.
Problem is blu ray came out too soon after DVD. People don’t like spending lots and lots of money every 10 years for new better thing just because it better sound and picture.
I hope your ISP didn’t try to sell you that those are broadband speeds. Even the FCC wouldn’t agree they are.
Nope, but aside from satellite, it’s the only data service available in my county. Not happy about that. One company has locked out all other competition - especially cable competition.
On the plus side, I would rather buy Blu-Ray discs than watch downloaded but highly compressed video. I wouldn’t download even if I had a wide data pipe.
Some movies deserve Blu-Ray and are stunning on a large, high-quality television.
As others have said upthread though, I have gotten pretty selective about which movies that I’ll pay extra for BD quality. For the movies that deserve it, I won’t hesitate.
For those that do download or stream movies/video: does your ISP limit or “throttle” your data? If so, how many movies or tv shows can you get before you get throttled or penalized?
Why wouldn’t you download movies even if you had the bandwidth? The HD movies from iTunes, for example, might be highly compressed, but they are not poorly compressed. In fact, they are virtually indistinguishable from what you’d see watching a blu ray movie. Push the “buy” or “rent” button and it’s ready to watch in seconds.
When you watch streaming services, do they allow you to see all of the special features and hear the commentary tracks? Commentary tracks are **VERY **important to me and that is why I still buy blu ray movies.
I just did a real quickie check. The largest Jurassic World BR-rip torrent I saw was almost 10GB. 1080p. Clearly not the maximum quality. (Hmm, Satyricon is 32GB. Must be more Fellini fans out there than I thought.)
Yeah, there are 20GB+ movie torrents out there. I have no idea who is tossing bandwidth at those.
Blu-ray is basically seen as a videophile’s format. There are many videophiles. But not as many as regular folk as in the heyday of DVDs. Most people don’t give a rat’s posterior about extras, commentary, etc. These are the same people who were fine with VHS.
Few streaming services offer much of anything in the way of extra content.
It’s not the size of the file that matters, it’s the quality of the compression.
As an example, the iTunes HD version of Jurassic World is 5.6 gigs. I haven’t compared it personally, but if it’s like other iTunes HD movies vs Blu-ray comparisons I’ve seen, they are largely indistinguishable.
I own about 200 movies on DVD. I have no cable, no computer (aside from my tablet) and most of my movies are pre-1950’s.
So Blu-Ray is meaningless to me.
Another one here who thinks DVDs are good enough. I don’t feel like spending the money to replace my entire collection, as most likely I will also move to streaming. Can I stream everything I own? Nope…but I can stream a lot of it, and eventually probably at least 75% of it.
I have about 200 movies on DVD. Maybe more. I don’t care about any extras: no commentaries, no nothing. I just wanna watch the movie.