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"...whenever we have 8K TVs and content."
The TVs exist, but there won't be content for years and years. Companies barely stream usable 4K right now.
Because the bitrate over streaming is garbage. Get physical media if you want good 4k.
This is a genuine question but—what physical media? Blu-ray players are no longer being produced by name brands, and DVDs certainly aren't capable of storing the data.
Shield Pro + Plex = Blu Ray streaming
That doesn't sound like physical media. Still sounds like streaming, so isn't it still beholden to the same problematic VBR issues as other platforms?
Nope. Think about it, a blu ray player reads digital data. So you just store that data on a plex server and can directplay it, including passthrough audio for lossless surround or atmost.
Difference is a streamer is concerned with max device support, minimizing bandwidth and supporting users with variable internet rates. Locally, you don't have those constraints.
Most common streamers have plex support for pretty much any video codec. But only the Shield Pro (and another device) supports lossless audio too.
I use a setup like that to make the most of my A95L TV and Denon AVR with 5.1 channels. Just make sure to use an Ethernet cable, cuz blu rays use a lot of data.