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EddieLarkin wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:37 am

Ribs wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:43 am Sony has slowly and quietly been doing new discs with Dolby Vision for older discs, which they’ve done for Ghostbusters and Karate Kid in their recent box sets and Labyrinth in its anniversary special edition last year. This continues that trend and adds Dolby Vision where there wasn’t one in the past. I don’t have a DV capable TV so I’m not even sure if there is any possibility it would constitute any comprehensible difference when viewed in HDR10.

They've been re-encoding them too, with a higher bit rate and thus better grain compression. So you'd get that from the HDR10 base (since Sony do not use DV FEL the two "layers" are identical, except for the DV tone mapping metadata obviously). But the difference is going to be very difficult to see or appreciate unless you're a major pixel peeper.

Those who can use DV though should definitely opt for these new discs over the old ones, as essentially no TVs are capable of tone mapping early Sony HDR10 discs properly.

jegharfangetmigenmyg wrote:Forced subtitles? Really? Honestly, I thought that was a ghost of the past. I understand the will to protect traditions and the mother tongue, but if I was French with perfect ability to understand English, I would definitely be annoyed to have subtitles forced on me. Subtitles in cinemas are of course understandable.

swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:42 am Is there a list somewhere of discs that have received these kinds of upgrades, other than what Ribs has mentioned? That would be a good thing to keep track of in this thread

swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:51 pm Thanks. Is there an Amazon listing specifically for the improved Ghostbusters edition?

EddieLarkin wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:53 pm

swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:51 pm Thanks. Is there an Amazon listing specifically for the improved Ghostbusters edition?

As with Karate Kid, these new discs are exclusive to an LE box set of all 3 films, and in Ghostbusters' case it's already sold out:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghostbusters-Ult ... B09LGK58M5

Individual editions will presumably follow eventually.

Finch wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:39 pm Early word on the Phenomena release from Arrow (and Synapse) is very good (no surprise given the former's track record).

denti alligator wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:57 pm

EddieLarkin wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:53 pm

swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:51 pm Thanks. Is there an Amazon listing specifically for the improved Ghostbusters edition?

As with Karate Kid, these new discs are exclusive to an LE box set of all 3 films, and in Ghostbusters' case it's already sold out:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghostbusters-Ult ... B09LGK58M5

Individual editions will presumably follow eventually.

I thought Ghostbusters was in the good column. What happened?

"It has come to our attention that there is an English audio encoding error on the new 4K Ultra HD Disc of John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. Paramount Home Entertainment has corrected the issue and is immediately creating new discs, however the initial shipment of discs has reached some retail outlets. Fans who purchase a disc with a white UPC barcode on the package and would like a replacement should email [email protected] for instructions. The corrected product will be shipped free of charge. If your disc package has a yellow UPC barcode, then it is the corrected version and you do not need a replacement."