UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[Finch]

Selling is such a pain.

Did you order from Orbit? I did, got it yesterday, didn't even open it and I am sending it back tomorrow for store credit. Yes, I have to cover return costs but I prefer that to trying to sell on eBay.

[dwk]

No, I ordered the Scream 4 steelbook from Lionsgate Limited.

[Finch]

Sorry I meant the Day 4K since you had buyers remorse about that disc like I did.

[dwk]

Oh, oops. I ordered from Gruv (so I could use the extra 15% off for a first purchase code.) Too late, anyway, as I already opened the damned thing. I'll just live with it until somethng better comes along.

[Finch]

Desperate Living (Criterion) Chris' review

Hairspray (Criterion) Chris' review

[nicolas]

The Arrival (Lionsgate) - terrible compression
Click (Sony) - terrible compression
The Boys in the Band (VS / Cinematographe) - caps
Mortal Kombat (Arrow) - caps

[nitin]

is Boys in the Band a non-nuclear HDR grade from VS?

[tenia]

Click (Sony) - terrible compression

Oof, that's an absolute garbage of an encode.

[nicolas]

Sadly that’s par the course for whoever does their MOD titles. I imagine it’s Allied Vaughn as they’re taking care of the manufacturing and distribution as well. The BDInfo stats suggest that they’re often, if not always encoding these with an overall bitrate that targets a specific value instead of any sort of optimization. The one, virtually worthless saving grace is that they’re avoiding the filtering that Sony’s in-house team applies to their encodes.

[nicolas]

is Boys in the Band a non-nuclear HDR grade from VS?

That is possible as a different colorist than VS’ usual guy worked on this. Maybe they even received the master from Paramount.