Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Dolby Announce 4k titles mastered in new Dolby Vision™ (1 Viewer)

Burbank, January 5, 2015—Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (NYSE: TWE) today announced that the first slate of 4K titles mastered in the new Dolby Vision™ format will include recent blockbusters like Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Storm, and The Lego Movie, scheduled for release in early 2015.

Dolby Vision, a complement to both HD and 4K, is a new imaging technology that helps content creators and television manufacturers deliver a dramatically different visual experience—astonishing brightness, incomparable contrast, and captivating color—that brings entertainment to life before your eyes via over-the-top (OTT) online streaming, broadcast, and gaming applications.

“The future of imaging and television is full of amazing possibilities, and we’re eager to expand our partnership with Dolby to deliver a steady pipeline of Dolby Vision titles, starting with Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Storm, and The Lego Movie, to consumers in 2015,” said Jim Wuthrich, President, Americas, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. “By leveraging Dolby Vision to unlock artistic intent in a completely new way, we are able to provide home audiences around the world with dramatically enhanced picture quality that fully engages their senses and brings Warner Bros. movies to life in their living room.”

The initial lineup of titles has been remastered on the FilmLight® Baselight system, for the first time using Dolby Vision, and includes greater brightness in a fuller palette of rich new colors and deeper nuanced darks never before seen on TV. Dolby and Warner Bros. are collaborating to prepare the initial slate of titles in time for the launch of Dolby Vision technology enabled TVs, as well as a pipeline of additional catalog and new release titles throughout 2015.

An end-to-end solution, Dolby Vision works from content creation to distribution and playback, and it is already receiving support from critical points in the ecosystem including A-list Hollywood directors, executives at major studios, OTT service providers, TV manufacturers, and operators worldwide.

“Dolby is thrilled to offer a technology that enables consumers to enjoy the filmmaker’s creative intent via an expanded color palette, enhanced dynamic range, and dramatically increased contrast ratio. This lets viewers experience greater detail and more lifelike images than ever before,” said Curt Behlmer, Senior Vice President, Content Solutions and Industry Relations, Dolby Laboratories. “Now with Dolby Vision enabled displays, TV manufacturers can offer consumers who purchase Warner Bros. movies in Dolby Vision a dramatically improved visual experience that engages their senses, regardless of screen size or viewing distance.”

About Dolby Vision

Dolby Vision delivers a dramatically different visual experience—astonishing brightness, incomparable contrast, and captivating color—that brings entertainment to life via OTT online streaming, broadcast, and gaming applications.
Even though most content is captured and rendered using technology that produces the colors and brightness of real life, much of that richness is lost by the time it gets to your living room. That’s because current color-grading standards are based on the limitations of current television technologies and require that the content be altered to match their display performance—dramatically reducing the range of colors, brightness, and contrast.
Dolby Vision changes that, giving creative teams the freedom to use the full gamut of colors, peak highlights, brightness, and contrast, with the confidence that those will be reproduced faithfully on televisions that feature Dolby Vision technology.

About Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) creates audio, video, and voice technologies that transform entertainment and communications in mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For nearly 50 years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear, and powerful in Dolby®. For more information, please visit www.dolby.com.
Dolby and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Vision is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. FilmLight is a registered trademark of FilmLight Ltd. S14/28558 DLB-G

great... now how do consumers watch at home? there aren't a lot of 4k delivery technologies yet let alone hdr+atmos.

vudu is the closest thing i can think of that could deliver 4k HDR + Atmos streaming-wise.

netflix+prime could... but msot of the appliances/devices that deliver HD already will need a major upgrade to support the new 265 codec

And no mention of the 2 3D titles actually being in 3D- yawn.

JediFonger said:

great... now how do consumers watch at home? there aren't a lot of 4k delivery technologies yet let alone hdr+atmos. vudu is the closest thing i can think of that could deliver 4k HDR + Atmos streaming-wise. netflix+prime could... but msot of the appliances/devices that deliver HD already will need a major upgrade to support the new 265 codec

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Netflix supports dolby vision, 4k, and via dolby digital + atmos

Pointless without suitable hardware and a (at least) 10 bit home consumer version.

as long as we get The Dark Knight looking less terrible, why not,

Any advancements being pushed by a studio on an optical disc format is good news to me. At least they haven't completely written off physical media yet.

FanboyZ said:

as long as we get The Dark Knight looking less terrible, why not,

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What's wrong with The Dark Knight BD?

whats wrong with D 6500

Robert Crawford said:

What's wrong with The Dark Knight BD?

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http://www.avsforum.com/forum/150-blu-ray-software/1089714-dark-knight-comparison-pix.html#post15171192

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Michel_Hafner said:

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/150-blu-ray-software/1089714-dark-knight-comparison-pix.html#post15171192

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What makes anybody think that these things WON'T happen with 4k as well?

Dale MA said:

Any advancements being pushed by a studio on an optical disc format is good news to me. At least they haven't completely written off physical media yet.

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There's nothing in this announcement that references new or existing disc support.

Dolby Vision delivers a dramatically different visual experience—astonishing brightness, incomparable contrast, and captivating color—that brings entertainment to life via OTT online streaming, broadcast, and gaming applications.

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Michel_Hafner said:

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/150-blu-ray-software/1089714-dark-knight-comparison-pix.html#post15171192

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Hmmm, I 'm not seeing the problem in the screen caps. I see the cop has what appears to be a slight halo of edge enhancement but it is there in the DVD screen shot as well.

I believe that's Michel's point. What appears to have happened is that the elements used for both versions included the IMAX DMR files, which likely introduced artificial sharpening.

The Dark Knight has a very digital, processed look to it. A look I hate to see on analog movies.

Yeah, I thought the problems with THE DARK KNIGHT were well-known at this point.


Vincent

Vincent_P said:

Yeah, I thought the problems with THE DARK KNIGHT were well-known at this point.


Vincent

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I think that was the worst case of a new high profile big budget release being plagued by these issues.

It is ironic that both the director and camera man champion analog film but then the Blu-ray versions of The Dark Knight all have an overprocessed, digitized look that seems to be mostly attributable to the IMAX processing of the 35mm elements.

The Lego Movie, REALLY!? Just can't wait to be able to appreciate the finer textures of plastic in 4k. Then after that, home theater enthusiasts probably won't have to wait too long to have the opportunity to "feast" our eyes on The Cat In The Hat in glorious 4k.


Folks, more and more I'm getting a bad feeling about which films (though calling them films is incorrect for movies shot digitally) the studios will consider a priority for releasing on 4k Blu-ray. Afraid that Hollywood will concentrate almost strictly on comic book films, kiddie films, and sci-fi box office hits. (not that I don't appreciate some sci-fi, Gravity being a prime example)


But if the release pattern for 4k material ends up omitting serious films like Clint Eastwood's Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby, (which seems more & more likely) then I'm going to forget about investing in 4k equipment altogether. And we didn't hesitate to invest in the 4 1080p displays that we have in our home. (58, 60, 70, and 80 inch sizes)


My guess is that studio executives are carefully tallying up the sales figures of movies that are already on Blu-ray, and will only release catalog titles on the coming 4k disc format that moved a large # of units on 1080p Blu-ray. This means that you could forget ever seeing films like Judgment at Nuremberg or Inherit The Wind in 4k. And I really believe that even a more modern classic than those two, like In Cold Blood, (which I recently ordered on Blu) will never get a 4k release.


We have to face the fact that serious drama does not generally sell too well. I mentioned on another thread that Clint Eastwood had a difficult time finding support for his powerful film Mystic River, because while taking the script around Hollywood, several executives told Eastwood that their studios

were not interested in producing dramas. That relatively new attitude in some major segments of Hollywood film production, came as a shock to Mr Eastwood who had not imagined that any major studios would ever abandon dramatic films. At least this was the account of Clint Eastwood's experience in getting Mystic River made, that was included in a behind the scenes feature about that film.


Anyway, even as a pretty serious film collector, don't even think I have the stomach to buy film greats like Lawrence of Arabia or Apocalypse Now, for the 4th time. On Blu-ray they both look stunning, even on an 80" 1080p screen, and I can just make do with how sharp those grains of sand look already.

Mike Boone said:

The Lego Movie, REALLY!? Just can't wait to be able to appreciate the finer textures of plastic in 4k. Then after that, home theater enthusiasts probably won't have to wait too long to have the opportunity to "feast" our eyes on The Cat In The Hat in glorious 4k.


Folks, more and more I'm getting a bad feeling about which films (though calling them films is incorrect for movies shot digitally) the studios will consider a priority for releasing on 4k Blu-ray. Afraid that Hollywood will concentrate almost strictly on comic book films, kiddie films, and sci-fi box office hits. (not that I don't appreciate some sci-fi, Gravity being a prime example)


But if the release pattern for 4k material ends up omitting serious films like Clint Eastwood's Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby, (which seems more & more likely) then I'm going to forget about investing in 4k equipment altogether. And we didn't hesitate to invest in the 4 1080p displays that we have in our home. (58, 60, 70, and 80 inch sizes)


My guess is that studio executives are carefully tallying up the sales figures of movies that are already on Blu-ray, and will only release catalog titles on the coming 4k disc format that moved a large # of units on 1080p Blu-ray. This means that you could forget ever seeing films like Judgment at Nuremberg or Inherit The Wind in 4k. And I really believe that even a more modern classic than those two, like In Cold Blood, (which I recently ordered on Blu) will never get a 4k release.


We have to face the fact that serious drama does not generally sell too well. I mentioned on another thread that Clint Eastwood had a difficult time finding support for his powerful film Mystic River, because while taking the script around Hollywood, several executives told Eastwood that their studios

were not interested in producing dramas. That relatively new attitude in some major segments of Hollywood film production, came as a shock to Mr Eastwood who had not imagined that any major studios would ever abandon dramatic films. At least this was the account of Clint Eastwood's experience in getting Mystic River made, that was included in a behind the scenes feature about that film.


Anyway, even as a pretty serious film collector, don't even think I have the stomach to buy film greats like Lawrence of Arabia or Apocalypse Now, for the 4th time. On Blu-ray they both look stunning, even on an 80" 1080p screen, and I can just make do with how sharp those grains of sand look already.

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You're welcome to your opinion, but don't be dissing The Lego Movie! Some of us really enjoy this film especially in 3-D and will welcome it in 4K.