UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Sean Connery - 6-Film Collection -- in 4k UHD (2 Viewers)

[Robert Harris]

I'm halfway through Dr. No. Straining to see much additional information, but I am seeing the best I've ever seen it look.

You’re seeing more than was visible on original prints.

 

[ahollis]

I watched Dr. No last night and throughly enjoyed it. I actually believe my enjoyment was from how wonderful it looks and sounds. It was never my favorite, but this new 4K sure helped me change my mind.

 

[Jack P]

Got through "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love". In the case of the former, this was the first time that I was able to see the girl photographer at the airport conversing with the phony driver (as Bond is making his call to Government House we see a long shot of him looking at them). I really never noticed that detail before.

"From Russia With Love" I had not seen in some years and I have to admit, the storyline is a bit too muddled because of the decision to introduce SPECTRE and have them playing the Russians and Brits off against each other. It literally takes an hour before the main plot finally kicks into high gear and even then there are still some muddled details up to the end. The introduction of SPECTRE in "Dr. No" is less obtrusive than it is here, frankly (though of course it established the gimmick of Blofeld and the white cat).

 

[sbjork]

You’re seeing more than was visible on original prints.

A simple point that seems to be incapable of being grasped in some quarters. These 4K remasters are by definition not "accurate" to how they originally looked. They look better.

Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Wes Candela]

I'm grabbing this
Can't read about it this release anymore.

Must own.

 

[Wayne_j]

I haven't read everything in this thread yet, but I haven't noticed anyone pointing out that the first 3 Bond movies are now in something that looks like 1.75:1 as opposed to the 1.66:1 of the original blu-rays.

 

[SwatDB]

I'm grabbing this
Can't read about it this release anymore.

Must own.

In that case, I wish you luck grabbing the UHD set while you can.

Bonus points if word can be spread about findings of the titles with the Lossless Mono mixes sound better than the previous Home Video Editions.

I believe some of us collectors are currently interested to hear a report (as we wait for other persons to fill us in) on the situation of this "Analog (VHS/LD) vs. Digital (DVD/BD and UHD) Audio Mix Band Wagon"

Thank you

 

[Lord Dalek]

I haven't read everything in this thread yet, but I haven't noticed anyone pointing out that the first 3 Bond movies are now in something that looks like 1.75:1 as opposed to the 1.66:1 of the original blu-rays.

Ye Olde "What was the OAR on the first three Bonds" debate strikes again (FTR Dr. No, FRWL, and Goldfinger were shot hardmatted at 1.66:1).

 

[SwatDB]

(FTR Dr. No, FRWL, and Goldfinger were shot hardmatted at 1.66:1).

 

[Robert Harris]

Ye Olde "What was the OAR on the first three Bonds" debate strikes again (FTR Dr. No, FRWL, and Goldfinger were shot hardmatted at 1.66:1).

Which means that they had to be further (minimally) cropped in projection.

1.75 sounds correct, and allows more image area than 1.85.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Which means that they had to be further (minimally) cropped in projection.

1.75 sounds correct, and allows more image area than 1.85.

1.75:1 is what Criterion went with for their laserdiscs. However there is quite a lot of old web forum posts claiming they were wrong to do this and they should be 1.66. Its like the inversion of Summertime.

 

[Robert Harris]

1.75:1 is what Criterion went with for their laserdiscs. However there is quite a lot of old web forum posts claiming they were wrong to do this and they should be 1.66. Its like the inversion of Summertime.

A bit different as the Bond films were neither shot nor printed open matte. Viewing Summertime at 1.37 vs matted provide different experiences.

 

[SwatDB]

A bit different as the Bond films were neither shot nor printed open matte.

As these were shot Hard Matte, correct?

 

[Robert Harris]

As these were shot Hard Matte, correct?

As I recall the matte was around 1.66. I have a few frames somewhere, and will see if I can post.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I’ve seen a print of Dr. No that was partially hard matted to something like 1.5 for some shots (didn’t appear to be fully 1.66 but I didn’t take out my slide rule) while other shots weren’t matted at all. But as I don’t know the provenance of the print, it’s not really evidence of anything other than itself.

 

[SwatDB]

I’ve seen a print of Dr. No that was partially hard matted to something like 1.5 for some shots (didn’t appear to be fully 1.66 but I didn’t take out my slide rule) while other shots weren’t matted at all. But as I don’t know the provenance of the print, it’s not really evidence of anything other than itself.

I was about to say the same thing about the ratio treatment.

 

[Wes Candela]

In that case, I wish you luck grabbing the UHD set while you can.

Bonus points if word can be spread about findings of the titles with the Lossless Mono mixes sound better than the previous Home Video Editions.

I believe some of us collectors are currently interested to hear a report (as we wait for other persons to fill us in) on the situation of this "Analog (VHS/LD) vs. Digital (DVD/BD and UHD) Audio Mix Band Wagon"

Thank you

OK, if I get it, I’ll tell you, but I can already kind of guess

If you wanna listen to it in Dolby Atmos, I hear that’s pretty good and it’s probably cleaned up

If you wanna listen to it as it was, I would imagine there’s a lot of crackles and Vinyl sounding pops.

But I’ll fill you in when I hear.

 

[Wes Candela]

I love how many of us jumped up to defend the man.
@Robert Harris


That’s respect.

 

[SwatDB]

OK, if I get it, I’ll tell you, but I can already kind of guess

If you wanna listen to it in Dolby Atmos, I hear that’s pretty good and it’s probably cleaned up

If you wanna listen to it as it was, I would imagine there’s a lot of crackles and Vinyl sounding pops.

But I’ll fill you in when I hear.

In the meantime we also have "Moshrom" as our Plan B in case the person want to save some dough.

Nonetheless, Good Luck

 

[Wes Candela]

In the meantime we also have "Moshrom" as our Plan B in case the person want to save some dough.

Nonetheless, Good Luck

Well, I wanna save money. That’s why I’m not buying this thing but, they got me because they put all the Sean Connery in one set.
It’s a hard one for me to pass up