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Pretty good for the HD version. Cheapest I can see on Amazon for seasons 1-11 Blu-Ray is $300.
The X-Files: Seasons 1-11 HD - $62.99 @ Google Play
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It starts on screening on SBS next week june 10. So it'll probably be available on "SBS on demand".
"'The X-Files' returns on SBS VICELAND in fully remastered HD"
Doesn't SBS On Demand cap the resolution at 720p and not have Chromecast support?
It has chromecast support. Not sure about the 720p cap
Do show last forever on "SBS on demand"?
Will Google movies last forever?
It should for my lifetime?
@Salinger: iTunes is shutting down but they are continuing to run the service as normal under a new name so no real change there.
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Was 125delivered for blue ray, was a good price when I got it back then, then got the last two seasons for bout 30bucks, it's worth holding out until bluray is cheap again.I prefer digital any day for series like this. Not having to change discs and store cases. Huge discount too.
Good price, I still prefer physical though for massive TV collections and concerns about digital DRM etc. Also there's a LOT of extras if you get the physical bluray when on sale for $110-130
the bit rate is so much higher on bluray also.
You notice the difference?
Yes, people notice the difference.
Did you notice the difference between VHS and DVD? Unless you're severely vision-impaired, you most certainly did.
The video bitrate differential between VHS (~3 Mbps when digitised) and most DVD releases (~4-8 Mbps) is much smaller than the difference between the average HD/1080 video stream (~8-12 Mbps) and a UHD/4K video stream (30-60 Mbps) you'll find on a Blu-Ray.
@Gnostikos: You're not comparing the same thing.
VHS and DVD isn't the same as 1080P to 4K transfer. It's night and day.
It's a lot harder to notice the difference from HD.
But if you said DVD to HD, then yes, you have to be blind not to notice the difference. But, that's resolution.
I'm talking about bitrate.
I could not tell the difference form something that's HD 4 Mbps to HD 9 Mbps unless it was an action scene. You would know that you need more bitrate to make sure those scenes aren't a blurry mess.
If someone said otherwise, I would say they're lying unless you're looking at direct screenshots or sitting 10cms from the screen.
I'm talking about bitrate.
So was I.
I could not tell the difference form something that's HD 4 Mbps to HD 9 Mbps unless it was an action scene.
Without context, that statement is meaningless. It's dependent on your hardware, your container/codec/compression, your preferred player/rendering engine and the image quality of your display panel.
From my experience, you don't have to be a videophile with a a +$100,000 home theatre setup to be able to discern a big difference in quality between a 2GB, compressed-to-death YIFY or YTS 1080P Blu-Ray rip that's probably averaging 5Mbps and a 15-30GB BD Remux rip that's pretty close to the actual bitrate of the original media (12 - 30Mbps or more), with the larger-size releases being 1:1 copies in terms of video bitrate.
@Gnostikos: I'm talking about a 4GB file using hi quality 2-pass H.264 optimized encoding that has a bitrate of 7Mbps.
I can't see a difference on a 75" TV vs a file that's 15GB with a bitrate that's 16Mbps.
However if I sat right in front, the action scenes and the very dark scenes are slightly better on the 15GB file.
There's no visual difference after a certain point. BD exceed 40Mbps.
Which was my point.
Totally need high bit rate for 90s tv shows that are filmed at well below streaming capabilities.
35mm has, very roughly, a resolution an order of magnitude greater than an HD 1920x1080 image. Admittedly that is a very rough calculation and is dependent on the film quality and environmental conditions (it is quite difficult to make a straight-forward comparison: see here). You don't even need the maths however; watch a DVD of Buffy or X-Files or Veronica Mars and then watch the Blu-Ray (or a competently encoded stream) and the difference is obvious.
That said your suggestion is correct for a lot of TV shows, if they were filmed on substandard or 16mm film, if suboptimal post-processing occurred or if the transfer to digital was done poorly. All often the case.
@BerkPatrol: Yes, like you said its a rough RESOLUTION match, but quality and details are still no where near bluray. It's my understanding that they go through a mastering process, and are often up-scaled anyway right? Hence the improvement from dvd to bluray.
I assume if your internet connection was perfect, you would achieve basically the same thing minus maybe audio formats?
@onlinepred: It is not a rough resolution match at all. In the best case scenario, film is an order of magnitude (ten times) higher-res than HD video.
Re the internet connection: I wish that were the case. Unfortunately the maximum quality streams of pretty much all the commercial streaming services are still noticeably worse than a Blu-Ray (that is if you're looking for it - which for some is hard to avoid).
As far as the improvement from DVD to Blu-Ray, I do think this is primarily a problem of resolution and bitrate. You just can't see the grain properly on a DVD, hence standard definition is not sufficient to relay all the detail on a negative. Try to read the text on a small item in the frame (say a newspaper). You can do it on a Blu-Ray, but often not on a DVD.
@BerkPatrol: Yea true. Really need a Bluray player at a good price that takes like 10 discs and manages them really well to allow binging.
You haven't seen any Blu-Ray 4K remasters of old classics like Black Hawk Down? Even the films that are remastered from degraded film stock that was professionally restored look a million times better compared to your average HD releases.
A full frame of 35mm film would have 5400 x 3600 pixels or 19.4 Megapixels. That format hasn't even been fully realised on today's digital media, and there's a long way to go before consumer-grade audiovisual hardware exceeds the limitations of old film stock.
It's just a question of film studios going to the trouble of actually putting out decent releases, which they're so reluctant to do given the market for UHD/4K/HDR releases is still quite small because most consumers are essentially stuck in the early 2000s when it comes to the level of quality they consume in digital media.
@Gnostikos: Considering most consumers don't even tune their tv lol and as we all know, picture quality doesn't solely rest on resolution! You have to polish and introduce many new details/colours into old 35mm films to make them look decent these days.
What you do with your older VHS tapes? lol
Chuck em in the bin if they're available on Blu Ray and rebuy them. Some things haven't been released on DVD or Blu-Ray though so you still need to hold onto the tapes for those.
What is a VHS tape?
It beat the Betamax tape.
I half blame the anti vaxers and conspiracy freaks on this show
Must not be the show if you're not one of them.
Sorry that’s a bit over my head
Love this show. Off to Europe soon and will be watching these on the flight there and back (BR rips)
Need mobile rips.
I hope Google Play matches this.
This is Google Play. Do you mean Amazon Video or iTunes perhaps?
Oh wow there must have been something wrong with my mind, I genuinely thought it said iTunes here.
Is it possible to only buy seasons 1-7.. I mean after those it kind of went…
yes the bluray boxset has Season 1-7.
I just love Dana Scully
I see this starts on sbs Viceland next week.