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I was talking about the importance of encoding earlier...here is a good example. This is the movie Thief which came from a 4K transfer. Note how much more detail and rendered film grain is visible on the Arrow disc vs the Criterion which has less superior encoding...

Yes, the range does seem more limited. It almost looks like the gamma has been raised giving way to blacks that are not quite as deep. The color for better or worse is warmer too where as the Warner disc had a more cool tone. From reading that Mann interview, he at least admits to making...

The problem is the encoding of the disc is poor and a lot of detail is being lost as a result on the new BD. The encoding process is just as important as the transfer itself when it comes to the final product. You can take a perfect 4K transfer and ruin it on the disc (as we've seen before)...

Yes, the BD stemmed from a new 4K transfer. http://ew.com/movies/2017/05/12/michael-mann-heat-4k-bluray/