

Sure, services like Netflix and Amazon Video are making a slow crawl toward 4K. Believe it or not, that’s still higher quality than you’ll find on any streaming service.

Blu-Ray, on the other hand, supports uncompressed 4K video, along with multichannel, uncompressed audio. The highest resolution achieved on DVD is only 480p-less than your average YouTube video. Blu-Ray Quality Is Still Better Than Streamingīy now, most people recognize DVD as a low-resolution format. Need an example? A new Blu-ray copy of Aliens is just $11, while a digital license (which might disappear one day) costs $15.

There are still a few outlets where you can purchase and download movies, but it’s often cheaper to buy the discs. If you want to own movies and TV shows, you’re going to need a DVD or Blu-ray player.
