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One of the classic comedies of the 80's doesn't receive a quality 4k release? That's just crazy! Hopefully, Universal reserved the 4k rights for themselves or licensed this title for a 4k Blu-ray someplace else.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Another vote for the theatrical cut in 4k. It flows better IMHO.

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...

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...

Gert Frobe's voice was dubbed over by a different actor in post on "Goldfinger."

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.

I thought they were re-releasing the Fright Night Steelbook that sold out extremely quickly.

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...

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!

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...

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...

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

Except for the absolutely horrid encoding that a properly compressed HEVC 4k disc would potentially rectify.

You also have 10 (or 12 with FEL DV) bit pixel data as well as WCG, higher chroma sampling, and more dynamic range to work with. There is more to 4k discs than just resolution.

Depending on the state of the camera negatives (or whatever sources WB used), I would imagine the image was cropped, so they could digitally adjust for any gate weave the technicians might have encountered during the scan. You need to give up some image real estate in order to pull off this...

For the life of what? Prime and other streaming services lose their film title licenses all the time.

And it should be your last. Streaming "purchases" are leases, not ownership in the same sense as a disc. Plus, low bitrate streaming doesn't handle film grain well and has lossy audio.

Paramount has always treated Trek as a b@stard stepchild on home video. Here, only ST: TMP Director's Cut of the classic films got a Dolby Atmos remix. They still use a little too much DNR and some shots can look quite waxy.

The Kaleidescape version already has the Dolby TrueHD lossless Atmos track, which will be included on the upcoming 4k disc. It was recently analyzed via the Trinnov Atmos viewer and unfortunately, it looks to have the hallmarks of another "Atmouse" track: Lack of low bass frequencies (filtered...

While I would like Apple to provide a bitstream audio mode option like a Blu-ray player, from my understanding, what the Apple device is doing is starting the decoding and decompression process of DD+ to PCM internally, rather than letting an external device do that step. That way Apple can add...

This is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea. NO, just NO!

But that's the point of the movie... Stewart's character turned into a creep and indirectly endangered and helped kill the object of his affection.

The current 4k releases are clearly older 4k scans and Lowry restorations that were produced for the Blu-ray's years ago. Frozen grain and other anomalies plague these releases. Unless EON or Amazon actually ponies up for new scans and superior restorations, I fear the classic Bonds will be...

Sony released a few 4k discs with end credits menu popups, but seems to have stopped the practice. Some normal Blu-ray's still get that popup. And yes, the popup on Zorro has been eliminated on the 4k steelbook.

The increased bitrate is mainly due to the lesser amount of what Dolby calls Spatial Compression for home Dolby Atmos using the TrueHD lossless codec. Both Atmos tracks are 24 bit/48 kHz. Spatial Compression is their way of getting up to 118 potential individual objects at one time and a 7.1.2...