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Well, speaking for these two movies I got a nice little increase in PQ on both UHDs, for despite Cloverfield having been shot HD it was lensed on such cameras as the Viper and the Sony F23, not just some rinky-dink Panasonic camcorder, and it looks surprisingly classy at times. The UHD brings...

Quite right, they created deliverables for 24fps, 60fps and 120fps and used RealD's 'True Motion' software to created "weighted averages" (interpolation) of the 120fps source frames that were truer to the inherent motion blur characteristics of the respective <120 masters. I've got the UHD on...

I have the disc and usually sit 6ft from my 55" 4K. The wonderful thing about 4K res sets is that they lack the visible pixel structure of 1080p direct-view displays when you get within a certain distance, so at that kind of range my viewing is unhindered and doesn't normally expose a disc so...

At the risk of sending everyone's eyes rolling into the back of their heads with my amateur sleuthing, it may very well have been a 6K scan for a 4K finish, owing to the necessities of oversampling (or so I've heard). You want 4K from an ARRISCAN, you've got to set it up to do a double-flash...

There are other uses for grain. How some 100-percent proof genuine Universal moonshine? They could call it Colt 35mm and get Billy Dee Williams in for the advert.

Ah, there's the trademark RAH sarcasm. For a moment there I was wondering if you were going to impart that AAWIL was shot on the same no-grain "Russian film stock" as GoldenEye was (chortle chortle tee hee, we are laughing!) but I tell you what, I'll never think of a grain silo in the same way...

Here you go Bruce: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/10/restoring-jaws-for-bluray-michael-daruty-on-grain-management-making-changes-for-spielberg-more/ And also this, a slide from a webinar by them Kodak peoples: Come on, be honest, you guys are just sore because us armchair experts...

Well, filmmakers were fully aware that what they were shooting on the negative was not going to end up on the screen in a 1:1 manner, that it would be duped down several times by the time it hit a regular 35mm release print, and the look of the grain changes from element to element. For that...

Man, if the look of AWIL is the result of the slightest dab on the pedal re: compression and not some heavy-handed grain management then I dread to think what it'd have looked like had they been any more aggressive with it. It's unquestionably better than the old edition as the sharpening is...

While the detail is sensational the sense of filmic texture looks incredibly weird to my eyes, like someone's gone crazy with the watercolour filter in paintshop, it looks like something shot on digital video and not early '80s 35mm. I genuinely hope this is a one-off from Universal and not a...

My copy's already on the way, along with GBII for good measure. Can. Not. Wait.

Gotta agree with Bruce on this, I thought the film was a diverting enough piece of fan service but in terms of "popcorn movie" status I've got a bunch of movies that do it so much better than this (the original JP, for one), and I didn't take kindly to all the smug meta references to blockbuster...

Dude, stay away from the 'Mastered in 4K tech', it's the usual marketing snow job from Sony.

RAH, the problem with the 'Mastered in 4K' setting on Sony's 4K equipment is that it's part of the 'Reality Creation' processing suite, and even with the sliders on the RC settings set to minimum with just Mi4K set to on it's still applying a layer of de-noising to the image which reduces grain...

It's hard to add to the chorus of approval without repeating what someone else has said, so effusive has been the praise, so I must resort to making up a word: this restored Blu-ray is utterly spanktabulous.

The Director's Cut was sourced from the extant MGM transfer, it wasn't created from the 4K International scan. And while there have been a couple of editing boo-boos RAH is still correct in the main: the Shout set is superb.

Fascinating read as always, RAH.

That's pretty much spot on with the evolution of product generations. If we take the original Sony BDP-S1 out of the equation then the change from the BDP-S300/500 to the S350/550 generation was HUGE, the latter players were so much smaller and faster (whilst still well built) it wasn't funny...

It's a Sony show, 4K is pretty much a given for a big-budget show like this. Skyfall was given a 4K finish despite having been lensed on the 2.8K Alexa. They've gone back to 35mm anamorphic for Spectre, so it should look absolutely gorgeous. (I know a lot of people drool over Skyfall and it's...

I'm a big advocate of having the original audio, but if a remix isn't too sacrilegious then I can live with it, even if there are minor changes.

Sure, I didn't say that he didn't have anything to do with it, as he fashioned the story and rewrote the script with Larry Kasdan and was of course heavily involved in post, but in terms of the day-to-day shooting of the picture he spent the least time on set compared to any of the other movies...

The book makes it quite plain that Marquand did first unit, Lucas did second, meaning that George was basically on-hand for most of the shooting of the movie (as well as post, which we knew about anyway). Tony Daniels gave a cryptic response when asked about who he deferred to on set (meaning...

I should think that the disc will be region free (if not a single 'one size' release for all regions) and will be soon be available to import for peanuts if Universal's remastered Apollo 13 and Breakfast club were anything to go by.

Just watched it. I know I'm late to the Blu-ray party but what a lovely Blu-ray it is. Not perfect, as RAH noted in the first post, but overall it's gorgeous and the reworked 5.1 is a treat (the Euro BD has no mono track but given how much more respectful the 5.1 is this omission won't keep me...

I disagree, I think it's a spanking new transfer BUT Warners have still decided to massage the grain on the opticals, and not subtly. Thing is, several scenes which don't have any opticals - both sequences with Jack being treated by his physician, as you said, plus the forced perspective stuff...

We'll probably have 8K by the time Lucas carks it.

That's a good point, Herr Lip. We know for a fact that Lowry did a 4K restoration of the trilogy in 2012 (the info was put up on their website before being taken down, and the movie was included in their sizzle reels with clips that were not from the old 2004 transfers) so I think we will see a...

As tempting as it is to think Disney would give Fox the big FU by not releasing any new editions (as in remastered movies or whatever) until the Fox distribution deal supposedly ends in 2020, they would be certifiably insane if they missed out on celebrating the 40th anniversary of the saga in...

I can't pick it up on the clip played thru my computer but I can hear it when watching the Blu-ray on my surround system, although I can only *just* catch it and even then I have to be right up close to the centre speaker and be playing it back at (or close to) reference level. -10 dB down and...

I think RAH said that about 90% of the film is fine 'as is'. Whether they'd need to redo the whole film if they were to retouch the other 10% using the current 'state of the art' tools 3 years later is only something RAH can answer with any certainty.