Physical 4k disc vs Streaming?

HUGE difference between running your own local streaming (Plex) vs Netflix/etal.

Plex (using directplay) can deliver 4K Blu-ray Rips that are native Blu-ray quality. Those sources would be called remuxs and they are 45-80gb for a 4K remux.

A UHD 4k Blu-Ray disc is much better quality than a comparable stream. As mentioned before, the compression really decreases the quality on a stream. Someday this won't be the case, but if you're wondering if it is worth it to buy a 4k player, I would say go for it.

I must have lost my eye in the past 15 years or so. When I first had my own house I set up a theater room with an HD projector, 130" screen, surround sound, ran all my equipment to a closet.. had to vent the closet... It was an amazing experience, only in 720 back then, well it claimed 1080 but I ran everything 720 through my receiver.

Today I am happy with my 65" bedroom TV, it is a lower end Visio 4k that I exclusively stream on and I think the quality is great. We can run discs on the living room TV but my kids dominate that. It is a shame that is where my surround sound is, because 90% of the time they use a headset. I no longer have a theater room, different house, more kids, less extra rooms. The only extra room now is a shop/gun room/gym. My wife wants to build a house, it will have a dedicated theater again, I will go bigger than I originally had, always got to one up the past.

I have really gotten WAY more use out of my TV the past 2 months with everything shut down, I find Disney+ to have the best streaming quality out of Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Disney+. I use to never watch anything on TV, it would go days if not weeks without getting turned on if there wasn't a football or basketball game on, now it gets used daily. Not for hours on end, well except when I binged Waco not to long ago.