For me I'd combine them if I was set on limiting the shelf space it took up. I'm similar to yourself in so much that with the films I really love, I want some special packaging to set them apart a bit and have them be something I can display and enjoy even when I'm not watching the film. For those same films though, I also want to watch them in the highest quality available. You can actually buy stick on disc holders that you can add to steelbooks, so if the bluray steelbook only has one space for a bluray, you can stick a disc holder onto the other side and pop in the 4K so you have the best of both worlds.
Yes I did this a lot with my Blu-rays, I would add the DVD I had previously to the Blu-ray case. How I afford my hobby is when I go searching for additions to my library in the secondary market, I keep an eye out for things I can resell. I use that resell money to buy items I will keep. It makes it so I'm not blowing my pay cheque or getting in to credit card debt for my hobby. Since 4K's, unlike DVDs, are extremely popular in the secondary market and can be sold for a good amount of money, I hesitate combining it and lose out on that sale. The money could be used to buy a film I don't have yet.
I personally hate fancy packaging like the Steel Books and less standard boxsets , good solid spindle hold the media in traditional clamshell. I am no collector, I buy my physical media to always be able to enjoy my classic favs forever WE ALL Will agree to Physical all day no matter our differences in opinion of packaging. 4k vs Blu Ray depends on the movie to me if I wait for the 4k version of a recent blu ray remaster. I also worry sometimes about the SFX , Waterworld looks great on the Blu Ray Arrow from couple years ago, but the fires on Exxon Valdez look almost MS paint so on 4k its more obvious I assume so I just keep my Blu Ray. Elvira is perhaps the first 4k I personally have bought that the Image quality doesn't SCREAM to me 4k, like all the other 4k I have bought. Also I find the Kino Lorber 70/80s Blu Ray look really good that are also mostly just Blu Ray and barebones, Remo Williams Blu Ray by Kino is great considering I am only used to it from HBO , VHS and the budget MGM dvd.
I have hundreds of 4ks and Blu Rays.. there isn’t much difference in clarity between most of them.. the main difference is in Dolby Vision and to a lesser extent, Atmos.. Atmos can be outstanding but usually isn’t implemented as well as it could be. Dolby vision adds a lot to a 4K, however.
Is your goal to keep and enjoy the movies for yourself, or sell them for money later? I think that's a big part of the calculation. If the goal is to sell it, then selling it now is as good as selling it later -no one knows how the market for it will be in the future. 4k is the best version, so I'd keep the best version and upgrade it to a steelbook later.
Understand this way too much. I triple dipped on a few, lebowski was one of those films. Aliens and blade runner as well. Not worth it if sound and pic is the same. M:I 1-3 is a good example of that. Keep your lebowski blu steelbook. Not worth that upgrade in my opinion.
@rudely77 I buy and replace, I have some films in two copies but that is usually because of the film being included to two different numbered series like in the Criterion and later in Indicator or Masters of Cinema line. Otherwise I sell one to get money for other movies I don't have.
No dilemma, 4K all the way.
For me I'd combine them if I was set on limiting the shelf space it took up. I'm similar to yourself in so much that with the films I really love, I want some special packaging to set them apart a bit and have them be something I can display and enjoy even when I'm not watching the film. For those same films though, I also want to watch them in the highest quality available. You can actually buy stick on disc holders that you can add to steelbooks, so if the bluray steelbook only has one space for a bluray, you can stick a disc holder onto the other side and pop in the 4K so you have the best of both worlds.
Yes I did this a lot with my Blu-rays, I would add the DVD I had previously to the Blu-ray case. How I afford my hobby is when I go searching for additions to my library in the secondary market, I keep an eye out for things I can resell. I use that resell money to buy items I will keep. It makes it so I'm not blowing my pay cheque or getting in to credit card debt for my hobby. Since 4K's, unlike DVDs, are extremely popular in the secondary market and can be sold for a good amount of money, I hesitate combining it and lose out on that sale. The money could be used to buy a film I don't have yet.
I personally hate fancy packaging like the Steel Books and less standard boxsets , good solid spindle hold the media in traditional clamshell. I am no collector, I buy my physical media to always be able to enjoy my classic favs forever WE ALL Will agree to Physical all day no matter our differences in opinion of packaging. 4k vs Blu Ray depends on the movie to me if I wait for the 4k version of a recent blu ray remaster. I also worry sometimes about the SFX , Waterworld looks great on the Blu Ray Arrow from couple years ago, but the fires on Exxon Valdez look almost MS paint so on 4k its more obvious I assume so I just keep my Blu Ray. Elvira is perhaps the first 4k I personally have bought that the Image quality doesn't SCREAM to me 4k, like all the other 4k I have bought. Also I find the Kino Lorber 70/80s Blu Ray look really good that are also mostly just Blu Ray and barebones, Remo Williams Blu Ray by Kino is great considering I am only used to it from HBO , VHS and the budget MGM dvd.
I work in number one technology disc factory. Blu Ray disc and 4K disc are same, we all laugh.
you see no difference watching a Blu-ray to a 4k on a 4k television?
I have hundreds of 4ks and Blu Rays.. there isn’t much difference in clarity between most of them.. the main difference is in Dolby Vision and to a lesser extent, Atmos.. Atmos can be outstanding but usually isn’t implemented as well as it could be. Dolby vision adds a lot to a 4K, however.
@@jhberg17 good to know this as I'm not that advanced as of yet.
Is your goal to keep and enjoy the movies for yourself, or sell them for money later? I think that's a big part of the calculation. If the goal is to sell it, then selling it now is as good as selling it later -no one knows how the market for it will be in the future. 4k is the best version, so I'd keep the best version and upgrade it to a steelbook later.
Understand this way too much. I triple dipped on a few, lebowski was one of those films. Aliens and blade runner as well. Not worth it if sound and pic is the same. M:I 1-3 is a good example of that. Keep your lebowski blu steelbook. Not worth that upgrade in my opinion.
@@rudely77 i was thinking the same thing
@rudely77 I buy and replace, I have some films in two copies but that is usually because of the film being included to two different numbered series like in the Criterion and later in Indicator or Masters of Cinema line. Otherwise I sell one to get money for other movies I don't have.
no dilemma put the 4k into the steelbook…
4Ks rubbish. Too dark, weird teal colours a nd freezes up.
@@StevenDavies-el8ss bad experiences i assume.
@@theignorantintellectual Yes. Totally underwhelmed. Apparently you need an expensive Oled to get the benefit 😂
@StevenDavies-el8ss yes, I don't have that tv either. I will buy one once the tvs i have go on the fritz