Today’s thought of the month is have the movie studios got it correct with the pricing structure here in the uk (and around the world) around their physical disc formats. Looking around today you can see an influx of dvd everywhere. Hundreds of them, then in smaller amounts blu-rays and a few if you can see them, 4k ultra hd Blu-ray. For a new release dvd in the uk you can pay £7 - £10 For the Blu-ray the price goes up to £15 For the 3D Blu-ray it’s £18 - £20 And for the 4k ultra hd Blu-ray is £25 (packaged with a blu-ray) This doesn’t take into account steelbooks or premium packages just the standard amaray plastic cased version. So what do you get for your money. DVD - 8.5Gb ——- MPEG-2 encoded 9.8Mb/s video 5.1 Dolby digital 0.384Mb/s lossy compressed audio 8bit colour Rec.709 16.7 million colours 720x576 PAL or 720x480 NTSC resolution - 0.4 / 0.35 million pixels Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) - about 300 nits B...
