Two Words. Comcast OTT. I'll bet money they want in on the skinny bundle market. Also, I'd bet that Netflix doesn't care anymore about the classic TV market. They dropped more than 50% of their total catalog over the last 2 years. That means they likely let some contracts just lapse.
Has anyone been using Spectrum's TVE platform to watch VOD/Live content? Ever tried to go below channel 32 recently? CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CW, and our local affiliates in Los Angeles are no longer on the Roku, Xbox, and Android "My TWC" or "Spectrum" apps. They were available a few weeks ago...
BD branching is really expensive. While popular in the 2nd-4th years of BD, UHD BD is too new and still processor-intensive to edit. The crew at Deluxe likely did what they were directed to do and did it very well, it appears. I am looking forward to watching this soon!
HDR has a few flavors now, just to clarify on the OP's point. HDR10 with static 2086 metadata and the 2084 curve, Dolby Vision with dynamic metadata/12bit possible/PQ curve/2020 gamut, HLG with the 709-capable gamma curve for down-mapping, and one loosely called PQ10 which uses the 2084 PQ...
India censor card - This is on the disc since Warner is producing the fewest number of SKU's possible per territory to cover worldwide distribution. This film has no "edits" that needed to be made to achieve censor approval. Just FYI.
Oh my dear lord, we have appeased the Gods again. With all humility, the team at Warner Bros. Compression thanks you for your kind words, Mr. Harris. Cjplay.
There's no flagging for anamorphic in HD DVD or BD. The authoring systems ignore any flags in the VC-1 and 264 streams, which do support flagging. You can trick the authoring system into playing anamorphic, though, at least on HD using HDi coding. Unsure about in BDMV or BD-J modes, though...
Robert, This is very flattering, but I know (as well as you) that great masters make great compressions, so hats off to Warner Mastering. We just did the compression. They did the hard stuff! Cjplay.