eat_a_burrito
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The question I want answered before I pre-order anything is what element this came off. Warner has 1939's Gone With the Wind arriving on 4K Blu-ray on 3 November in the US and 2 November in the UK, in a Collector's Edition and a Limited Edition SteelBook. The three-disc SteelBook holds the UHD, a Blu-ray, a digital code for the US, and a second Blu-ray of bonus material. Collector's Edition adds lobby cards, a mini standee to display them, a two-sided mini poster, a ticket reproduction, a bookmark and a twelve page booklet. UK Collector's Edition is listed at 49.99 pounds, the standalone SteelBook at 34.99 dollars.
Special features are listed as to be confirmed, and so is everything that actually decides whether this is worth owning. Nothing published says whether it is a fresh scan or the existing high resolution restoration regraded, and nothing says how the HDR pass was handled.
That second one matters more than usual. This is three-strip Technicolor, and the colour on it is not naturalistic to begin with, it is a dye process with its own look that people have spent eighty years arguing about. HDR gives a colourist enormous headroom to push those dye densities somewhere the original prints never went. Done with restraint it can finally hold the sunset silhouettes without clipping. Done with enthusiasm it turns every dress into a neon advert and the fire sequence into something out of a video game.
The paper premiums are lovely and completely beside the point. Anyone seen a technical spec sheet on this yet, or is TBC still all there is?
Special features are listed as to be confirmed, and so is everything that actually decides whether this is worth owning. Nothing published says whether it is a fresh scan or the existing high resolution restoration regraded, and nothing says how the HDR pass was handled.
That second one matters more than usual. This is three-strip Technicolor, and the colour on it is not naturalistic to begin with, it is a dye process with its own look that people have spent eighty years arguing about. HDR gives a colourist enormous headroom to push those dye densities somewhere the original prints never went. Done with restraint it can finally hold the sunset silhouettes without clipping. Done with enthusiasm it turns every dress into a neon advert and the fire sequence into something out of a video game.
The paper premiums are lovely and completely beside the point. Anyone seen a technical spec sheet on this yet, or is TBC still all there is?
