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 original Trek movies or Lawrence of Arabia have still not been released on UHD disc, the latter is available for streaming.
Let me get to the point, many years ago I remember reading the Bond flicks were treated to the Lowry digital 4K scans, I recall also reading last year that these old scans would not hold up to scrutiny and be suitable for UHD disc, I can believe that because they do not even hold up to close scrutiny for the blu ray format.
My question if anyone knows concerns the original camera negatives for the Bond films, do they all survive and can they be scanned for new UHD disc releases, which studio would be responsible for this and since Bond has been on every home format to date what are the likely chances of new UHD discs coming, perhaps in time for the next James Bond movie.
I can only hope the smaller labels like Arrow or Shout who have been releasing blu rays based on 4K scans might one day release UHD discs as well but I think the margins are likely far too small for that to happen, it does not help that they charge a sizeable premium for UHD discs over the blu ray, I think a reasonable premium is £5 or $5 and not double the price or £10 more that can sometimes be the case, that does not help sell a format.
Add to the fact UHD is supposed to be superior yet studios like Disney are filtering the bass so the stuff below 30hz is not felt in the mix, they are not the only one, you can technically see this using REW and waterfall graphs, you can also fix it using MiniDSP and a Umik mic and BEQ so all is not lost there but it baffles me how the reviewers are not noticing this issue, it shouldn’t even be an issue, in the days of DVD we had awful edge enhancement added but wonderful full and deep bass on the audio track, that’s lossy audio, blu ray came along and everything was fine for years, then something changed.
I believe the issue is the mobile phone crowd, they watch these $200m dollar blockbusters, audio visual feasts on their HDR ready 6 inch mobile phone screen, audio is being altered for them and the sound bar crowd, to the detriment of those of us with capable systems, the people buying UHD have very good audio equipment and do not need their audio to be neutered, provide a mix for the phone and sound bar folks.
Getting way off track here but annoyed to hell that a new format like UHD was launched before HDR was ready and could be calibrated properly and they then go and mess up quite a number of films with neutered audio tracks, how many films even utilise ceiling speakers in an Atmos or DTS X mix in an exciting way, it’s all lazy and incompetent
Anyways, it’s disappointing that films such as the original Trek movies or Lawrence of Arabia have still not been released on UHD disc, the latter is available for streaming.
Let me get to the point, many years ago I remember reading the Bond flicks were treated to the Lowry digital 4K scans, I recall also reading last year that these old scans would not hold up to scrutiny and be suitable for UHD disc, I can believe that because they do not even hold up to close scrutiny for the blu ray format.
My question if anyone knows concerns the original camera negatives for the Bond films, do they all survive and can they be scanned for new UHD disc releases, which studio would be responsible for this and since Bond has been on every home format to date what are the likely chances of new UHD discs coming, perhaps in time for the next James Bond movie.
I can only hope the smaller labels like Arrow or Shout who have been releasing blu rays based on 4K scans might one day release UHD discs as well but I think the margins are likely far too small for that to happen, it does not help that they charge a sizeable premium for UHD discs over the blu ray, I think a reasonable premium is £5 or $5 and not double the price or £10 more that can sometimes be the case, that does not help sell a format.
Add to the fact UHD is supposed to be superior yet studios like Disney are filtering the bass so the stuff below 30hz is not felt in the mix, they are not the only one, you can technically see this using REW and waterfall graphs, you can also fix it using MiniDSP and a Umik mic and BEQ so all is not lost there but it baffles me how the reviewers are not noticing this issue, it shouldn’t even be an issue, in the days of DVD we had awful edge enhancement added but wonderful full and deep bass on the audio track, that’s lossy audio, blu ray came along and everything was fine for years, then something changed.
I believe the issue is the mobile phone crowd, they watch these $200m dollar blockbusters, audio visual feasts on their HDR ready 6 inch mobile phone screen, audio is being altered for them and the sound bar crowd, to the detriment of those of us with capable systems, the people buying UHD have very good audio equipment and do not need their audio to be neutered, provide a mix for the phone and sound bar folks.
Getting way off track here but annoyed to hell that a new format like UHD was launched before HDR was ready and could be calibrated properly and they then go and mess up quite a number of films with neutered audio tracks, how many films even utilise ceiling speakers in an Atmos or DTS X mix in an exciting way, it’s all lazy and incompetent