4K Blu-ray Player VS Amazon Prime Video... Pros vs Cons

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I was looking at one of my favorite movies today (I mean, looking at the technical specs on the Prime Video page), and it says it's a 4K HDR movie. But knowing that streaming videos are compressed, I take it this means the movie on Amazon isn't really a genuine 4K... it's "4K" and is presumably lower quality than the same 4K movie watched on a 4K HDR blu-ray player... right?

And if so, how much better do you think a 4K movie is watched on the blu-ray player vs compressed video "4K" streaming from a site like Amazon?

I take it watching a "4K" movie streamed from Amazon vs watching it on a blu-ray player is similar to the difference between playing one of our favorite modern video games at 4K vs playing that same game at 4K while running DLSS at ultra performance or something, right?

So even though Amazon labeled the movie "4K" ... it's compressed video with upscaling or something like that kinda like DLSS, and thus not a genuine 4K...?

And perhaps more importantly, I heard somewhere the colors in streamed movies aren't as good as colors from a 4K blu-ray disk.

How much difference do you think it makes?

Assume the viewer in all of these scenarios has a 4K OLED monitor to view the game/movie on.

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Also if the detail of the image is better with blu-ray players because they transfer data faster than streaming internet video, wouldn't the image detail potentially be FAR better yet if the movie companies just let users download the digital movie files to their PC SSDs to watch that way?

Well, yeah but first off downloading DRM'd stuff to playback is usually not worth doing it because of the DRM and if it was truly high quality video then you'd have to actually download a huge file first before you start watching it which I have to admit is kind of offputting because a lot of times with video available online I am just looking for a piece of watch a little bit or something like that, I'm not always prepared to spend an entire hour and half to watch a full movie so downloading t he full movie for a piece kind of sucks besides one of the thing so streaming video is that you can access it from anywhere so if you're at work you can continue watching a piece where you left off at home. With downloaded video that's not going to happen.

Just for clarity and reduce a chance of misinterpretation I didn't mean like watching a movie while you're supposed to be working, I meant like on break/lunch or being anywhere maybe waiting for your tires to get changed or something.

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Also if the detail of the image is better with blu-ray players because they transfer data faster than streaming internet video, wouldn't the image detail potentially be FAR better yet if the movie companies just let users download the digital movie files to their PC SSDs to watch that way?

Well, yeah but first off downloading DRM'd stuff to playback is usually not worth doing it because of the DRM and if it was truly high quality video then you'd have to actually download a huge file first before you start watching it

People already do that for every video game on Steam, and some of the more modern games are probably considerably larger downloads than a movie would be.

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Well, yeah but first off downloading DRM'd stuff to playback is usually not worth doing it because of the DRM and if it was truly high quality video then you'd have to actually download a huge file first before you start watching it

People already do that for every video game on Steam, and some of the more modern games are probably considerably larger downloads than a movie would be.

Probably equivalent to 4k remuxes, or a bit bigger but it's not night and day difference. If you're talking about a triple A game that just got released, then yeah they are like 70 GB. So you're telilng me you'd like to download a full remux 4k iso or whatever before you get to play it back every time you want to watch a piece of a movie?