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    Chalkboard text vanishing in a pan is the tell that DNR went too far

    The complaint doing the rounds about the new Magoo Christmas Carol disc comes with a very specific example, and it's the detail that makes me believe it. During the All Alone In The World sequence, the words and images on the chalkboard reportedly disappear as the camera pans across them...
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    Ben-Hur 1959 on 4K pulls straight tens, and 2.76:1 is a projector problem

    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...
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    Veronique 4K reportedly keeps the grain, which is where displays get tested

    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...
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    A Soylent Green 4K review reminds me the film is more than the punchline

    A Soylent Green 4K UHD review went up this week and I have not got the disc, so treat this as a note rather than a verdict. What struck me is the framing the reviewer used: you probably remember the ending, but do you remember how good the rest of it is. That is exactly the problem with this...
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    Roman Holiday on UHD - what does 4K do for 1953 black and white?

    Roman Holiday is getting the UHD treatment, and the write-up I read spends nearly all of its space on Peck, Hepburn and how well the thing still charms 70-odd years later. Which is fair, it does. It also says close to nothing about the disc, and for a catalogue release from 1953 the disc is the...
  6. Felia

    Criterion's 30 disc Kubrick box keeps the original mono next to the 5.1

    Criterion's complete Kubrick set is dated 20 October in the US and the disc count is thirty. Thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, UHDs presented in Dolby Vision. The line that matters to me is sitting in the spec sheet where most people will skip it: the original soundtracks...
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    Somewhere in Time is up for 4K preorder with nothing said about the transfer

    Somewhere in Time has turned up as a 4K UHD preorder, which for a 1980 catalogue title with a following this devoted is not a small thing. What has not turned up is any word on where the picture is coming from. No mention of a new scan, no note on who graded it, no extras list, nothing about the...
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