4K Blu-ray Has Arrived

[StealthySkeptic]

I also currently am just fine with a 32'' TV that does 1080p, and I have 25 Blu-rays, 50 DVDs, 45 UltraViolet movies, and 15 iTunes movies, all of which look fantastic, although even with the smaller screen I still give the edge to Blu-ray (and I can also order a Blu-ray on Amazon for less than it costs to buy on digital). Do you have mostly discs or digital?

I also have a 32" 1080p TV. My only use for discs to to rip to digital. Practically everything I watch is stored on my media server - most of it encoded to less than 1080p. I have 12 terabytes of primary storage and 10 terabytes of secondary storage. At 4K, I'd be shopping for more - but why?

What do you use to rip your discs? I use my MacBook Pro's internal DVD drive and HandBrake (working with VLC, which has the necessary libraries to break the DVD DRM). What's nice about HandBrake is that I can set it to output the file as 1080p MP4, which makes it a breeze to import the file into iTunes and then play it on my Apple TV. I also saved some shelf space one time by ripping eight DVD movies into iTunes files and then burning them back onto a blank data DVD, which plays perfectly in my Sony BDP-S3100 Blu-ray player. But having a media server sounds really awesome!

For me, I just got the best of both worlds tonight by ordering the Blu-ray of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and getting the standard definition rental of the movie on Amazon Instant Video, which is one of the many reasons I think both disc and digital can coexist, even in the 4K format war.