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It's pretty safe to assume that SDR on UHD is always going to be Rec. 709, but there are exceptions. All the Toho Godzilla UHDs are BT.2020. Depending on your display settings, you may have to manually switch to BT.2020 in order to prevent everything from looking desaturated. But with the...

It's true that metadata doesn't necessarily prove anything, especially since it's sometimes just plain wrong, but clipping in the highlights doesn't necessarily prove anything either. Plenty of UHDs (especially early ones) have clipping because they were mastered poorly. It's been a learning...

Also, it's not a government standard, so the word "legal" doesn't really apply.

Absolutely not. It's just one of the capabilities of the format. You have 4K with HDR, 4K with SDR Rec. 709, and even a few 4K with SDR BT.2020.

That's what we were told. There's probably not a consistent story here, depending on who you talk to.

I understand that, and I agreed with that. But while most inventory issues these days do come down to replication issues of one sort or another, Disney has acknowledged off-the-record that they didn't anticipate the demand.

"Massive" is relative. By the current standards for physical media, these are bestsellers. They're not massive sellers compared to the salad days when physical media sales were much higher than they are now, but they're still a hit. Disney didn't anticipate getting as many preorders as they did...

Replication is an issue across the board, but it's not just that in this case. They also didn't forecast accurately. No, they're anything but the biggest sellers, but they're still selling significantly more than what's typical these days.

Disney had no clue about how these were to going to sell. They didn't replicate enough to meet the initial demand. There's more coming.

My Oppo 205 has always been hypersensitive to any blemishes that it perceives, even on new discs straight out of the shrinkwrap that look perfectly clean. Much more so that my 105 or any previous generation players were. A disc cleaning usually takes care of it. That said, The Abyss played fine...

Restoration workflow ≠ original scan, so anything is possible. The waters are always muddy in these kinds of arguments.

The LD extras that you refer to in your last sentence, yes. They're detailed elsewhere. I don't have the disc in my hands yet, but someone else from our site does.

It appears that they do, in a similarly slightly altered form as was done for the DVD. The content is there, but the accessibility has naturally been altered a bit.

There is an excuse, because whatever techniques are used to create a home video master, including AI upscaling (which is really just an advancement over digital sharpening tools that have been used for a long time now, for good or for ill), it's still a very different thing than replacing an...

In dealing with comments about this on social media posts and elsewhere, there's a hilarious disconnect between people complaining about the processing and it not being "true" to the original experience, mixed with complaints that the wide shot of the NTI ark still looks terrible and should have...