The Future of Home Video

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#276 Post by Noiradelic » Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:46 am

calculus entrophy wrote: Is it bad form... if you've seen these films dozens of times all the way through?
No, if you've seen the complete films at least a few times, you're pretty much off the hook. Viewing eccentricities that casual movie fans might find peculiar have been mentioned in this forum more than once. At least one has its own thread.

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#277 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:29 pm

Calculus entrophy, did you sit next to Steven Soderbergh on a flight?

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#278 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:14 pm

It does seem touching that Soderbergh feels that action films are watched primarily for their dialogue or narrative. Is that why Haywire wasn't a success?

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#279 Post by calculus entrophy » Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:50 pm

domino harvey wrote:Calculus entrophy, did you sit next to Steven Soderbergh on a flight?
LOL! I guess I'm like an arthouse version of "that dude". This moment reminds me of back in the 80's when we would take a longer funk/disco track and just sample the breakdown and loop it.

Good thing that never took off.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#280 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:43 pm


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Re: The Future of Home Video

#281 Post by tenia » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:15 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:DVD is dead, long live DVD
Which is a very good read, but people already buying BDs from independant labels like Criterion and Arrow won't learn a thing.

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#282 Post by Tommaso » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:01 am

The vinyl vs digital comparison is rather misguided. Those who say that vinyl sounds better than cd have never listened to music on a really good cd player (if you play your cds on a dvd player it's a different story, though). It's more like cd versus mp3, with the quality of streams or mkv rips being the mp3 equivalent to the real thing, i.e. blu or dvd.

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#283 Post by Trees » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:12 am

A little project I have been working on for almost two years now: I now have all of my movies on a portable harddrive, which is about 3.5TB and very fast: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HXAV0X6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I have rips of every disc I own as MKV on this drive, so no matter where I travel, I always have all of my movies with me. I have these sortable by director name and title, as well as, in some cases, by studio. For example, I have all the Ghibli titles sortable. I am getting ready to start on Drive 2 soon, as the 3.5TB capacity is almost filled up.

I know some people like to keep films in the cloud, but for me, my travel so often takes me to places with poor internet connections that I feel better having the files in hand.

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#284 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:45 pm


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Re: The Future of Home Video

#285 Post by Ribs » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:10 pm

It's not - the effects are upscaled from 2K but the source video is proper 4K.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#286 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:18 pm

Note to self: never listen to Martin Liebman about anything

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#287 Post by Emilio » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:22 pm

Ribs wrote:It's not - the effects are upscaled from 2K but the source video is proper 4K.
How so? The DI of 'The Martian' is 2K isn't it? No matter that it was shot in 5K. Or do you think somehow a new master was created?


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Re: The Future of Home Video

#289 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:43 pm

Same 2K->4K thing mentioned in the review that just went up for Exodus: Gods and Kings

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#290 Post by perkizitore » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:01 pm

A UHD BD can hold twice the data of a standard blu-ray, so even from a 2K scan you should be getting a better picture! That's good enough for me, I doubt that we will see the majority of art house films getting 4K scans in the near future.

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#291 Post by tenia » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:08 pm

They got me at "2K assets up-converted to 4K".
Emilio wrote:
Ribs wrote:It's not - the effects are upscaled from 2K but the source video is proper 4K.
How so? The DI of 'The Martian' is 2K isn't it?
Indeed, and that's actually the case for most of the movies released in this 1st wave of UHD BD.
So, except if I'm totally wrong regarding the whole process flow, when he says "it's 5K down to 2K up to 4K", Martin should actually be quite spot-on.
perkizitore wrote:A UHD BD can hold twice the data of a standard blu-ray, so even from a 2K scan you should be getting a better picture!
Not only that, but they're also using the more efficient (well, when used properly of course !) H265 encoder.

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#292 Post by Emilio » Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:29 pm

tenia wrote:
They got me at "2K assets up-converted to 4K".
Emilio wrote:
Ribs wrote:It's not - the effects are upscaled from 2K but the source video is proper 4K.
How so? The DI of 'The Martian' is 2K isn't it?
Indeed, and that's actually the case for most of the movies released in this 1st wave of UHD BD.
So, except if I'm totally wrong regarding the whole process flow, when he says "it's 5K down to 2K up to 4K", Martin should actually be quite spot-on.
perkizitore wrote:A UHD BD can hold twice the data of a standard blu-ray, so even from a 2K scan you should be getting a better picture!
Not only that, but they're also using the more efficient (well, when used properly of course !) H265 encoder.
Yes well. Try not to spill the Kool-Aid, or were you being sarcastic? :?

And especially in the case of 'The Martian' and 'Exodus...', which are VFX-dominated films, it seems quite meaningless to speak of 5K raw camera assets, when the path of said camera assets is hardly direct-to-the-DI. Understatement of the week.

Oh and there have already been some, admittedly rather subjective, pic comparisons between UHD and the BR where there is NO visible increase in detail/resolution whatsoever. 5K assets my a...

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#293 Post by Brian C » Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:24 pm

Unless a lot has changed in the last year, when I stopped working at a movie theater, most big studio films aren't released theatrically in 4K, much less the indie releases.

And here's the thing - I defy anyone to be able to tell the difference between 2K and 4K theatrical without prior knowledge of what you're seeing.

This whole 4K Blu thing is basically a snake-oil scam, as the explanation posted by Ribs above proves. Look at the contortions they have to go through to justify calling it 4K.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#294 Post by tenia » Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:50 pm

Emilio wrote:Try not to spill the Kool-Aid, or were you being sarcastic? :?
I wasn't sarcastic at all, quite the opposite actually.
I truly find it flabbergasting (and fascinating somehow) for the UHD to be launched with a whole bunch of titles which aren't even sourced from a native 4K master. It seems just silly overall. There are movies who have 4K DIs, why not using these instead ?
(on the other end, Skyfall had a 4K DI despite being shot at 2.8K, so...).
There is an article on Highdefdigest summing this up : http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/ultra ... always-4k/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Every single film that Warner plans to release on the 4k Ultra HD format is a 2k movie.
When adding FOX,
that’s 13 launch titles from two major studios, and only a single movie was actually produced at 4k resolution and even that one was mostly photographed in 2k
However,
‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ – Shot on 35mm, with a 4k DI
‘Chappie’ – Shot in 5k, with a 4k DI
‘Hancock’ – Shot on 35mm, with a 4k DI
‘Salt’ – Shot on 35mm, with a 4k DI
‘The Smurfs 2’ – Shot in 4k, with a 4k DI
Elysium also had a 4K DI from a 3.3K shooting, so it would have been better than all of those 13 titles.
Brian C wrote:Look at the contortions they have to go through to justify calling it 4K.
"We had a Blu Ray, we downgraded the picture to DVD resolution, and then we uprezzed it again to HD. It must thus be HD ! Or, and there's something else which was done by some professional guys who doesn't have anything to do with resolution but hey ! IT WAS DONE BY PROFESSIONAL GUYS !" :roll:

What stuns me the most though is how much communication is shifting more and more from the increased resolution to the HDR and color reproduction (while forgetting to remind everyone that the 2-steps norm makes many 1st Gen UHD TV limited in this specific area).
I alos read a fascinating discussion on homecinema-fr about how UHD video-projectors might have difficulties to reach the peak whites needed to properly exploit HDR... except by using algorithms allowing to remap the whole color grading but adapted to the video-projector (which is what Dolby Vision algorithm seems to be doing, but that comes with a cost).

Plenty of fun at the horizon ! \:D/

I also wish plenty of luck to all the studios to get the movies' colorists to do frame-by-frame adjustments for each of their UHD releases. I guess these guys have plenty of free time.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#295 Post by calculus entrophy » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:14 pm

What a time......more simultaneous change than I've seen at one time.

changing business models
changing studios
changing formats
changing infrastructure

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#296 Post by TMDaines » Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:11 pm

tenia is correct. You are essentially paying for pre-rendered upscaling. Very odd.

Then again people have been positively reviewing Criterion's practice of having HD versions of extras on their Blu-rays that are clearly bloated upscales.

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#297 Post by Emilio » Wed Mar 02, 2016 5:34 pm

tenia wrote:
Emilio wrote:Try not to spill the Kool-Aid, or were you being sarcastic? :?
Plenty of fun at the horizon ! \:D/
It's a funny thing indeed to read the pro/consumer reviews of the titles released so far. With all the (aforementioned) inconsistencies in the chain multiplied one senses the headscratching when trying to properly evaluate the picture quality.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#298 Post by David M. » Wed Mar 02, 2016 5:46 pm

Keep in mind that resolution is the least visible of the picture quality attributes. The advantages of the wide color gamut and HDR are a bigger deal.

It's a shame the studios didn't have the foresight to do better than 2K finishing though.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#299 Post by movielocke » Wed Mar 02, 2016 6:21 pm

David M. wrote:Keep in mind that resolution is the least visible of the picture quality attributes. The advantages of the wide color gamut and HDR are a bigger deal.

It's a shame the studios didn't have the foresight to do better than 2K finishing though.
monitor technology limitations.

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Re: The Future of Home Video

#300 Post by Numero Trois » Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:57 am

The worst countries to be in if you’re in the DVD business
Who buys or rents videos, when you can stream through Netflix and other services? With streaming video now rapidly expanding abroad, the worldwide DVD industry might be poised for collapse.

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