I was mostly overjoyed with the UHD presentation of AUJ, which my wife and I watched tonight. But I have to say, midnight blue and orange is something I strongly associate with this film, having watched it so many times on Blu-ray, so the new grade, especially during the "Out of the Frying Pan" scene, is going to take some getting used to. It looks more natural (with the exception of the fiery pinecones, which are almost unnaturally intense in Dolby Vision on my OLED), but the skies are a much more subdued shade of blue. I initially thought there was something wrong with the calibration on my projector, which handles HDR poorly enough that I do an HDR-SDR conversion in the OPPO every time I project a 4K disc and load my REC.709 profile, but, yeah, I brought the player into the living room, set HDR back to auto so it would engage Dolby Vision, and the presentation was fairly similar to what I saw via the projector.
Long winded way of saying: yeah, it's quite lovely. But it's different, and for a movie like this that gets spun annually in my household, it's probably not something I'm going to get used to for a long time.
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