Recent content by DanH1972

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    UHD Review Aliens UHD Review

    My god, they really borked this and ESPECIALLY "True Lies." The AI processing makes a lot of shots look like they were made in Unreal Engine rather than the real world. Then you have ping ponging shots of hyper detail and waxy smoothness like T2. "The Abyss" and "Titanic" at least have...
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    UHD Review Aliens UHD Review

    The lack of a decent bitrate tends to dumb down film and TV releases all by itself. Then there are some streaming companies that insist on further manipulation of the soundtracks to appease the masses and their lower end sound systems.
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    Pre-Order Paramount Presents! Primal Fear (1996) (4k UHD) Available for Preorder

    Like "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," I would suspect that this Presents title will stay at around $30 with no price drop in sight.
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    Pre-Order The Big Country (1958) (Reissue) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Damn! I wonder who would actually pony up the money to do as good a 4k scan (or greater) and cleaned up master as possible for a 4k Blu-ray? This is such a wonderfully subversive "anti-Western genre trope" classic.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - JFK -- in 4k UHD

    Another vote for the theatrical cut in 4k. It flows better IMHO.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Stalag 17 -- in 4k UHD

    When using 4k media there are also the benefits of a greater pixel bit depth, wider gamut, and dynamic range to eek out small gains in the source for older movies compared to the more limited 8 bit, Rec 709 Blu-ray format. If anything, you are less likely to get visible banding with 4k, which...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Roman Holiday -- in 4k UHD

    If you are going off of your player's video bitrate meter, then you are getting a false perception. The meter can only read the HDR10 data layer. Roman Holiday is a 12 bit, dual layered FEL Dolby Vision encode and so, like many Paramount DV encodes, the HDR10 layer was basically sacrificed in...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Is Paris Burning? -- in Blu-ray

    Gert Frobe's voice was dubbed over by a different actor in post on "Goldfinger."
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    UHD Review Enter the Dragon UHD Review

    If you like low bitrate video and lossy audio and not actually owning anything (you lease, you don't buy "digital"). To me, that's not a great deal any way you slice it. You cannot download a high bitrate 4k version anyway off of iTunes.
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    Pre-Order Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters 2 (1989) (4k UHD Combo Limited Edition SteelBook Double Feature) Available for Preorder

    I thought they were re-releasing the Fright Night Steelbook that sold out extremely quickly.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Cinderella (1950) -- in 4k UHD

    Snow White comes out on 4k Blu-ray later this year from the same restoration team. Hopefully, other big name classics follow suit next year with as good or better 4k clean up efforts. Time is ticking on physical media and it would be nice to have all the classics and their renaissance titles...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Avatar - The Way of Water -- in 4k UHD & 3D

    That's a whole other kettle of fish. Nolan went the exact opposite way... who needs highs and mids, when we can have BASS!!!! And... Dialog? We don need no stinkin' dialog!
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Avatar - The Way of Water -- in 4k UHD & 3D

    It's the whole mix for sound bars thought process. They don't have subwoofers, so why have low bass? There was talk in the industry about this practice of no longer mixing to high end home theater system standards a while back and some studios moved over to that MO and others like Sony and WB...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Avatar - The Way of Water -- in 4k UHD & 3D

    I'm going to have to disagree on the Atmos track. It's a pretty typical Atmouse mix. Sure, it's more than just a static 7.1.2 or 7.1.4 encoding with no 3D objects as per most Disney Atmos tracks. This time it actually has 3D objects that pan around in a larger speaker volume (even the Front...
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    UHD Review Superman 5-Film Collection UHD Review

    At least the compression might be handled better on the 4k disc.
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