Journey to Space 4K UHD + 3D (2015)

[Pieter V]

Journey to Space 4K Blu-ray

[jono3000]

Definite buy for me

[spectre08]

oh yeah, I'm gonna need this

[Opips3]

Fake cgi space.

[Dubstar]

I'm curious what the price will be for this - and when the preorders will be up

[applemac]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I'm curious what the price will be for this - and when the preorders will be up

Same. fox just put up their UHD preorders for 26.99 msrp 39.99.
I would expect shout to be closer to msrp though, but since they are short subject maybe around 30?

[Dubstar]

even though most of these IMAX features are no more than 45 minutes in duration paying over 25 bucks seems a bit steep - they better throw on a bevy of special features to justify the price.

[applemac]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

even though most of these IMAX features are no more than 45 minutes in duration paying over 25 bucks seems a bit steep - they better throw on a bevy of special features to justify the price.

The current IMAX editions run around $20 new, 3D between 20-30.

[eriaur]

Cover art: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=272067

[spectre08]

4K and 3D in the same box.

there you go people, it is possible.

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Journey to Space 4K Blu-ray

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/column...ts/010516_0800

Also includes the Blu-ray 3d so I MIGHT buy this.


Still wish they had included it in the standard. If they can fit 4k at 60 FPS they certainly could have included 3d 24fps and 30fps (48/60 if you count each eye). Doesn't matter if there was no current material digitally already ready for this (although I think there may actually be). Could have been left totally as optional.


I continue to plan not to buy 4k version when 3d version exist.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by spectre08

4K and 3D in the same box.

there you go people, it is possible.

Yes, because the 2D and 3D Blu-ray is on one disc, i.e. the 'legacy' BD is 3D by default. But I don't think you'll be seeing too many UHD + 2D + 3D 3-disc combos.

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yes, because the 2D and 3D Blu-ray is on one disc, i.e. the 'legacy' BD is 3D by default. But I don't think you'll be seeing too many UHD + 2D + 3D 3-disc combos.

Yeah, it looks like your'e right. I think this really only works because the movie is only something like 40 minutes long.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by spectre08

Yeah, it looks like your'e right. I think this really only works because the movie is only something like 40 minutes long.

Not really, no. The way that MVC 3D encoding works is that it stores a flat left eye image on the disc and encodes the 3D 'difference' in the right eye stream, ergo every single 3D Blu-ray ever made has a 2D left eye stream on the disc.

BUT not all 3D discs are authored in such a way as to allow the 2D end user access to the left eye stream via disc menus, as studios have taken more and more to 'locking' the playback to 3D equipment only. Often this is because the 3D colour grade is so different from the 2D (taking into account the colour tint of the glasses, lower brightness output etc) that playing back the left eye in 2D results in a less than optimal experience, though I'm sure Shout will have done their due diligence in this case.

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Not really, no. The way that MVC 3D encoding works is that it stores a flat left eye image on the disc and encodes the 3D 'difference' in the right eye stream, ergo every single 3D Blu-ray ever made has a 2D left eye stream on the disc.

BUT not all 3D discs are authored in such a way as to allow the 2D end user access to the left eye stream via disc menus, as studios have taken more and more to 'locking' the playback to 3D equipment only. Often this is because the 3D colour grade is so different from the 2D (taking into account the colour tint of the glasses, lower brightness output etc) that playing back the left eye in 2D results in a less than optimal experience, though I'm sure Shout will have done their due diligence in this case.

The point is that there is no extra copy needed if they don't want to lock up the 2d viewing. An AVC 2d version is always present.

[ADWyatt]

There's something that I'm confused about. The Amazon ad states that this is in 1:33, which is the width of old analog television (4x3, rather than 16x9). Will we have black bars on the left and right, will they zoom in to get rid of the black bars, thereby cutting off the picture top and bottom, or are only certain parts of the film in 4x3, while the rest is in 16x9?

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by ADWyatt

There's something that I'm confused about. The Amazon ad states that this is in 1:33, which is the width of old analog television (4x3, rather than 16x9). Will we have black bars on the left and right, will they zoom in to get rid of the black bars, thereby cutting off the picture top and bottom, or are only certain parts of the film in 4x3, while the rest is in 16x9?

It might be the IMAX standard of which is something like 1.43:1

[blu-rigel]

I really hope it will be in the original IMAX format. Everything I have seen of the IMAX Blu-ray releases, to date, has been cropped to be 16x9. The old DVD's were in the IMAX standard so you didn't lose any of the image. Of course the DVD resolution couldn't do justice to the IMAX film's resolution, but the blu-ray cropping was quite annoying. I can't stand seeing a shuttle launch on their Blu-ray's and the top of the rocket is cropped off as it sits on the launch pad.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by ADWyatt

There's something that I'm confused about. The Amazon ad states that this is in 1:33, which is the width of old analog television (4x3, rather than 16x9). Will we have black bars on the left and right, will they zoom in to get rid of the black bars, thereby cutting off the picture top and bottom, or are only certain parts of the film in 4x3, while the rest is in 16x9?

And you trust amazon's specs....why?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Tns49

The point is that there is no extra copy needed if they don't want to lock up the 2d viewing. An AVC 2d version is always present.

Which has the potential to look like ass, sure. But then if someone's buying a 3D / UHD combo pack then the plain ol' 2D version will be furthest from their minds I guess, so in that case the quality of the 2D playback doesn't really matter.