4k blu ray

Face/Off on early HD is the disc I reach for when someone tells me the format's first wave still holds up. Robert Harris described it as amazing plastic video, no detail, video game imagery, and that is exactly what I remember. It was one of those transfers where the noise reduction had been...

Been refreshing the BFI IMAX booking page every few days hoping a 70mm seat opens up, and I've given up, it's solid through the end of September. So the home release date matters more to me than usual. November 17 for 4K Blu-ray and digital, same day, US only for now. UK and Australia haven't...

Someone raised the Curzon label question over on HTF and it hit a nerve, because I have been round this loop with boutique art-house discs more than once. The Three Colors Trilogy UHD gets pointed to as the example of them doing it properly. Then you go looking for Paris, Texas and it is out of...

The news doing the rounds is that Disney has formally retired the 20th Century Fox name, which had been living on borrowed time since the studio was renamed 20th Century Studios a few years after the acquisition. It stays on older titles, obviously. Nothing reaches back into a disc already...

Robert Harris has put up one of his short verdicts on the 1959 Ben-Hur in 4K, and it is about as clean a scorecard as that format produces. Image in Dolby Vision gets a 10 on both his forensic and his non-scientific marks, audio in Dolby Atmos gets a 10, it makes use of 4K and works well there...

Early word on the Curzon 4K of The Double Life of Veronique is that the new restoration lands close to what the recent Criterion Three Colors 4K discs did: fine grain now clearly visible, more detail pulled out of the shadows, and a 5.1 track that people are calling glorious. Reportedly the...

Someone on Home Theater Forum put the collector's dilemma better than I've managed to. He wants pre-2015 Blu-rays of things like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Rain Man, The English Patient, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Fugitive, but keeps not buying them in case a 4K edition turns up, and...

This is the bit of the Dolby Vision 2 rollout that's going to annoy people. Dolby has confirmed that existing Ultra HD Blu-ray players can potentially work with the new format without a new optical drive or a rebuilt player architecture, because most of the processing lives in the TV. The...

The Toy Story 5 disc details landed and one line is worth flagging: it is shipping on a 100GB 4K Blu-ray. Disney almost always uses the 66GB tier unless a film runs long, and this one is 102 minutes. Short film, biggest disc. That is more bitrate headroom than a 102-minute animated feature...

Worth reading this one carefully before the pitchforks come out, because it is a single reported customer and not a mass deletion. A Reddit user says the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings trilogy they bought through the Google Play Store in 2022 vanished from their library. The screenshots they...

Someone on Reddit went to watch the Extended Edition trilogy they bought from Google Play back in 2022 and found it gone. Not delisted, not shuffled into a different tier, just gone from a library they had paid for. When they asked Google for a refund or a gift card, the chat agent told them the...

The 4K disc of Project Hail Mary is out and the way it handles aspect ratio is going to annoy a specific group of people here. The Earth-set flashbacks are 2.39:1. The mission scenes, which the reviews say make up most of the film, were shot for IMAX and sit at a screen-filling 16:9, with...

Severin has put The War Game and Threads out on 4K UHD, and the disc spec on the Watkins film is the odd one. The War Game is a 48 minute 16mm black-and-white BBC telefilm from 1966, 1.33:1, and it arrives with Dolby Vision and HDR10 grades plus DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono spread across the two...