4k hdr

Blade Runner 2099 finally has a confirmed premiere date, which after the delays is more than I expected this year. My first thought was not casting or plot. It was whether it will actually look like a Blade Runner thing once it goes down a streaming pipe. 2049 is about the hardest material...

A batch of catalog titles turned up in 4K with HDR and it is a strange spread. Con Air, Speed Racer, Sleepers, Deep Blue Sea, Eraser and Drop Zone, sitting alongside The Ninth Gate and Fight Club. That is three or four completely different problems being addressed with the same tool. The mid...

The running list of 4K HDR titles in the Apple TV store got its July update and there is one entry on it that made me sit up: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. That cut has been a white whale for two decades, screened theatrically, endlessly rumoured for a home release, and now it turns up as...

With the tournament wrapped up I keep coming back to the coverage question, because it was the most under-discussed thing about this World Cup on the picture quality side. There were two primary feeds going out: 1080p60 SDR and 1080p60 HDR. A 4K HDR (HLG) feed did exist for rights holders, but...