UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[nicolas]

Hatari (KL) is a solid upgrade despite poor compression but the new master couldn’t be a bigger improvement: https://slow.pics/c/VUdrR3I2

Cinemaniac also did caps for their Snake Eyes UHD and it’s a small upgrade at best since the older master is strong but I don’t want to judge yet as the grain looks strangely even and thick to my eyes in the OCN-sourced shots, which doesn’t fit with KL’s usual quality. It may be that they did it like Turbine Germany have done where they took older masters and applied a layer of fake grain on top to make it appear newer. Since the old master is of better quality, it would be suitable for such a thing and with KL nothing surprises me. Their master for Below also looks similarly processed, which can even be seen in BR.com’s caps. This is just speculation at this point but we’ll see. https://slow.pics/c/4nlcnvXF

[vanshady]

Is the Rocky set supposed to be in the disappointing category? According to https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewto ... 37#p786436 and viewtopic.php?t=17181&start=1100#p788570

[nicolas]

Is the Rocky set supposed to be in the disappointing category? According to https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewto ... 37#p786436 and viewtopic.php?t=17181&start=1100#p788570

You’re referring to the first iteration of this set before the issues were corrected. The encodes are still as previously but I’d definitely say it’s a blue category release. You can use the 1-6 set as that’s essentially the one to go now. According to Geoff / BR.com, Rocky V looks good whereas Rocky Balboa doesn’t have the best encode as they encoded the two cuts of the film separately on one disc instead of seamlessly branching them. I’ve watched parts 1-4 last year and found the presentations in PQ and AQ really good.

[vanshady]

Ah I see, good to see that studios actually fix their sets, thanks

[nicolas]

Ah I see, good to see that studios actually fix their sets, thanks

Not always but thankfully they did it here as the problems were quite substantial.

[nicolas]

Happy new year everyone! Thanks for all the great interactions in 2024. Looking forward to what’s surely another exceptional year for physical media.