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Originally Posted by OtinG
I saw an article a few days ago where a guy who had purchased well over $10,000 worth of videos and music and games through iTunes somehow angered the god of Apple and had his AppleID shut down. As a result he lost access to all the digital content he had purchased, so of course he sued Apple. Apple is arguing that you really don't purchase digital content and that if you don't play by their rules they can shut off your access to it. Morals of the story: Don't anger the worm god that lives inside the Apple, and burn as many DVDs/BluRays as you can! 
Joking aside, I rarely buy BluRays anymore, though I tend to get them as gifts from time to time. But of course now that I have a 4K TV it would be better to have a 4K BluRay player and 4K BluRay disks than the old HD model I have, but I haven't convinced myself it is worth shelling out $200 or more for one. But since I mostly buy digital downloaded files from Amazon and Apple, I can get those in 4K, if they or offered in 4K. Apple kindly updated all the HD purchases to 4K after they released the first ATV 4K box. Amazon however, is too cheap to do that. I guess Bezos is focusing on paying off his ex and regaining wealthiest person in the world status! |
And that's why I run all the movies I buy on iTunes through deDRM and store the resulting mp4 file on multiple raid drives. When I can no longer remove the deDRM, I'll stop purchasing from iTunes and go with only blu-Ray. I actually watch on Apple TV, so everything is streamed from Apple (and yea, I really appreciate Apple updating to 4K as well), but I learned the keep back up copies and if you can't view it, it's not a back up copy lesson early on. I do the same with all my digital content - movies, ebooks, audiobooks. I spend a lot of money on digital content and believe in paying for what I get (i.e. I don't pirate), but I also don't believe in being a sucker.
I have a 4K/blu-ray DVD player (and a backup still sitting in the box, I'm a belt and suspenders kind of guy), but I also have a decent sized collection of DVD's and blu-ray disks. I have a few 4K but not many. I find that most of the TV shows that I buy are DVD or blu-ray. It's just too much of work to deDRM TV shows and most TV shows are filmed in a lower format anyway, so DVD is fine.
Where blu-ray and dvd's shine is when my connection to the internet is down (it happens from time to time) and for old, somewhat obscure TV shows and movies.