Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by dotancohen on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:03AM (#29933925)

Sell it to me! Seriously, I'd love to hear how much better the quality could be. I miss 35 mm and spot (and hear) digital artifacts often and it drives me crazy.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by nottorp on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#29934027)

Get a blu ray (not even UHD) of Matrix (the 1999 one, there were never any sequels) and compare the lobby explosion scene with any torrent or stream.

Mind, it's not worth it for most movies. However, those flames are a good example of why bandwidth can matter.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by dx034 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:30AM (#29934203)

But even a 20GB file? Streams are much more compressed, but I found files >20GB or so to be pretty much the same quality.

Which doesn't really matter though, you can also find 40GB files of most movies, they should (if encoded well) definitely match the quality.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by cbg0 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:45AM (#29934329)

It varies quite a bit, I see a lot of banding in various scenes on my TV with 20GB WEB-DLs compared to an actual 4K BR rip.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by rosndo on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:31AM (#29934830)

In most cases that is to be expected because WEB-DLs tend to be poorly encoded. You should be looking for a remux.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by oauea on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:33AM (#29935686)

High quality torrents exist? I could download this right now: BD66 / m2ts / Blu-ray / 2160p / Scene / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / HDR10. It's a 64GB file.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by dopa42365 on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:07AM (#29936167)

Yep, just search for "FraMeSToR" releases.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by iamacyborg on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:17PM (#29937163)

Yeah, at that point you're basically just downloading a bluray rip.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by wing-_-nuts on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:38AM (#29934924)

I bought a copy of planet earth / blue planet II to test out my new fancy oled this year. It's a damned near religious experience watching those series in 4k.

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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by chungy on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:45PM (#29938394)

Blu-ray 1080p movies tend to be around 35-45GB per title. 4k movies tend to be around 70-100GB per title.

The disc capacity contributes a lot to disc authors tweaking codec settings to value quality above file size. Visible artifacts are fairly rare even on complex scenes. You could practically believe you're watching a lossless source.

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