There are many significantly cheaper bluray players than PlayStation consoles. I’d wager that only a handful of a percent of console owners have ever watched a bluray movie on their PS5, because barely anyone buys and watches blurays, and people who buy consoles are overwhelmingly buying things digitally.
They should though because the difference between a movie on streaming vs on bluray at what’s supposed to be the equivalent quality is just not comparable, audio being the most obvious compromise streaming services make that I always spot and I’m not even a massive audiophile and have bad tinnitus to deal with too.
There are many significantly cheaper bluray players than PlayStation consoles. I’d wager that only a handful of a percent of console owners have ever watched a bluray movie on their PS5, because barely anyone buys and watches blurays, and people who buy consoles are overwhelmingly buying things digitally.
It’s more that it’s a two birds one stone kind of situation. 4k bluray players still fell expensive considering all they do is play blurays
A bluray player can be bought for like a hundred bucks even here in Australia. They’re not expensive.
They don’t sell because no one gives a shit about physical copies movies.
They should though because the difference between a movie on streaming vs on bluray at what’s supposed to be the equivalent quality is just not comparable, audio being the most obvious compromise streaming services make that I always spot and I’m not even a massive audiophile and have bad tinnitus to deal with too.
Audi is one of those areas where 99% of people can’t tell the difference between 192kb/s and FLAC, especially through.
Same with video - most people are watching on crappy TVs from way too far of a distance, with things like motion interpolation turned on.
There’s a very low bar for “good enough”, and above that is irrelevant. Streaming services are more than good enough for 99% of the population.