Quote:
Originally Posted by aphid
I thought this was a huge downgrade. They robbed the image of the atmosphere the blu-ray had. They jacked up the brightness, homogenized the color and used severe local contrast boosting to lead people into believing it's 4k and hdr. When Carl is on stage near the end of the movie you will see dark edge haloing around his body and instances where bright edge halos surround the mouths of actors. This haloing is different than your typical sharpening artifact. They are thicker and have a more gradual falloff so as not to immediately jump out as an artifact. Also the portion of the credits where there is a yellow gradient you'll see the gradient does not smoothly transition to black, but makes an abrupt jump to black and banding is among the rest of the gradient.
|
The UHD has issues but I don't think it's that bad, and I like it a lot more than the BD. The early scenes and scattered others are super bright, yes, but if you compare it to the BD they're very high contrast scenes in general, the UHD is just following that template with added kick like most Universal catalog conversions. I saw some banding in the boat attack scene and some minor clipping but nothing like you're talking about really, and SDR comparisons don't really mean much.
I would guess it will always be a release some like and some don't though. Luckily the BD looks pretty damn good for its age.