These uHD releases are selling like hot cakes, people love the new look, James Cameron must be happy, Disney must be very happy, it looks like our resident film restoration expert is happy, but I cannot help but feel they should have just scanned the OCN, cleaned up some dirt and debris and then...
I understand what you say but I think some directors go too far, they so wish that the film stock had been less grainy, that the picture could have looked so sharp that they are changing things dramatically and more often than not for the worse.
I mean take American Graffiti, if you remove the...
I think ultimately all that matters is how well something sells, no one cares what we say in forums.
i just watched My Fair Lady on UHD tonight, fabulous image quality, quite possibly the best I have seen on this format and the documentary on it was fascinating too, so much damage to the...
I view by projection and trust me this is not a 5 star image, never, not ever in a million years would it rise above 1, we need to stop all this A.I upscaling and DNR of the film grain.
You know what I was watching this last month, many Hitchcock classics, they have some interesting...
I am a little bothered by the framing, take this shot, the first is the UHD, the second from the blu Ray, you touch it to get the second shot, now look and you will see Willy and his dad are missing from the frame on the UHD, is this just for a few frames, do they appear in that shot, I don’t...
A lot of defending of 2001, so tell me why are some people not seeing the ringing, halo’s are not acceptable to me, yet they are there on this release, thats an epic fail in my book, yet the film gets a pass.
Being a perfectionist has nothing to do with this, i do not understand why so many...
I enjoyed Discovery, it was shown on Netflix in the UK, i love the 2.39:1 aspect ratio and hope they keep it for season 3.
Its the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek the motion picture, come on Paramount, spend some bucks and redo the fx of the directors cut and release on UHD 4k disc.
Watched both the German release editions of A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few a Dollars More last night, very pleased with A Fistful of Dollars, less pleased with the sequel which unfortunately contains too much sharpening, edge halos are a pet hate of mine and whenever you have dark outfits...
Something about Safari browser and iPad, I am having issues editing my post, when I mention 3D disc and films it should say Hondo, not Honda, that’s funny. I also agree, disc prices can be a bit high when they launch, I do tend to wait for lower pricing, it’s just a matter of money and what I...
It will be a slow death for disc, I think we are seeing now that smaller boutique labels, Arrow, Shout, Twilight a Time, Eureka, Kino are licensing titles that the studios would have released themselves in the past, this will continue for many years to come.
I never rated Samsung players...
I am having problems with the iPad and the site so I have to write a separate post, regarding $500 dollar blu ray players versus $100 dollar ones, where it counts, picture and audio, there should be zero difference, a decent low budget Panasonic delivers exactly the same performance as that $500...
It’s frustrating that we have not had any classic musicals released on UHD disc yet, it’s even more frustrating that they always wait for an anniversary year, if I look on iTunes they probably have some and that’s even more annoying that disc gets passed up first.
Glasses free tech unfortunately will only offer depth and very mild pop out, I do not want to invest in that but if it helps get more classic 3D releases then good as long as those 3D releases are not substantially altered to
It’s a shame about Disney, they muck up and dumb down their audio on...
I am the opposite, I felt Spectre was the more entertaining Bond flick, the reason being I thought the villains were better, I really did not like Javier Bardems bad guy in Skyfall and I also felt the plot was rubbish.
Having said that, I liked Adele’s title song much better than the one in...
The colour of the UK release looked nice to me, was it accurate, well i guess not after reading page one again, but why in a restoration did the BFI and Hammer not reference those dye technicolour prints.
Seems a missed opportunity if they were doing a restoration.
I am just waiting for a Sony XZ2 Premium owner to pipe in and tell me how great they all look on their screens.
How much is it down to the new encode versus the actual resolution.
An iTunes stream is equal to the UHD counterpart, I take your post as intended to be comedic, hence the smiley.
I enjoy watching some films on Netflix, its actually watchable even on my projector but it is inferior to a disc experience and my eyesight is rubbish these days, that’s just my...
I have the UK version, bought years ago, it looks good to my eyes, I doubt Warner will have improved upon it.
I prefer the film with the clawing at face sequence, censorship be damned.
Not wishing to be a snob but 65 inches is rather small to take advantage of 4K resolution and especially to see significant resolution advantages, i would argue that what you are seeing is an inferior blu ray experience because the Bond flicks are not using the latest and greatest scans and are...
I was joking about the click bait to get replies, I keep clicking links and getting annoyed, that’s the click bait sites but anyways I couldn’t see a smlley on my iPad which would have sold my joke. Bond on UHD would have been okay but I forgot to add a question mark to the end.
EDIT: Okay I see it selling for crazy money on Amazon De......pity, I want it,but that is silly money when I don’t know what the transfer is like.
One of my favourite eighties flicks.
I like it when they tell us more information on the case artwork or pre-release info, sometimes they will say scanned in 2k or 4K which in the case of an older film usually means you are getting a quality release.
Remastered can mean many things, sometimes it just means they added noise...
It was click bait to get replies, good honest click bait, don’t all sites use that method these days, I thought I would try it.
As for using the old masters which were indeed scanned in 4K, I really hope not, some of those tites look horrendous on blu ray, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a...
I have become very dismayed by some of the film studio’s with how they treat their catalog titles and especially with the way audio is being tampered with and bass frequencies filtered out, I bought a MiniDSP to fix the bass filtering issue.
Anyways, it’s disappointing that films such as the...
I recall an interview with Kurt Russell regarding Tombstone where he said he ghost directed the film and Sylvester Stallone told him George P Cosmatos was the director to hire for that.
Bearing that in mind, could it be that Stallone ghost directed Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and maybe Cobra as...