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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Following on from the above reply, note the "it appears" qualification at the start of Bill's comment there, so this isn't even specific knowledge being relayed, it's a guesstimate by someone who, quite honestly, isn't as technically minded as people think he is.
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I guess ultimately, I can only trust my own eyes , and while I've only had a brief look at the first movie, it very much looked like native 4K to me - especially cross-compared with my old 1080p Blu-ray.
This is, though, why Jackson or Warner need to get out there and say exactly what was done with these releases. However we do know (via Twitter, if I recall) that the LotR trilogy is a native 4K re-scan, so it's entirely plausible that Jackson would have gone back to the camera files for The Hobbit and reassembled the movies in much the same way. Owning your own post-production house doesn't hurt
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He's already spread a bunch of bullshit around that Phantom Menace's UHD was transferred from a filmout (nope), that it and the other prequels had 'film look' processing applied to them (nope), he really does seem to just pull this stuff out of nowhere.
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Well, those are pretty obvious just from looking at them in all their primitive-digital-video glory. I haven't sat through them in their entirety (I didn't bother to buy the UHDs of the prequels but have access to the 4K versions on Disney+) but they'd rank for me as three of the most pointless UHD releases ever.