Fox Studio to Create All Movies in High Dynamic Range, Ultra HD for Home Viewing!!

[Himmel]

Marking the biggest commitment yet to high dynamic range (HDR) content, 20th Century Fox has decided to make versions of all of its new movies in Ultra HD (UHD) with HDR for home entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. It also intends to make HDR UHD versions of its recent releases, including X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Maze Runner.

High dynamic range — meaning a wider range between the whitest whites and blackest blacks in an image — is viewed by many Hollywood tech leaders as the key feature that will create a more noticeable picture advancement for viewers, certainly compared with Ultra HD (4K resolution, or four times the resolution of HD) alone. But while many tech industry leaders are in agreement on taking an HDR path, the challenge is how to implement it while sidestepping a potential format war.

To do this, the recently formed studio and manufacturer coalition UHD Alliance is aiming to work swiftly to create an agreed-upon, consistent and inter-operable HDR quality specification for home entertainment. (Standards bodies such as the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers are also doing HDR standards work.)

Also:
Dolby has developed a Dolby Vision HDR format, and Vizio is expected to be the first set maker to release Dolby Vision-supported TVs. Fox has not made announcements with regard to this format.

Hollywood is also eyeing HDR for cinema. Dolby Vision is also starting to roll out (Disney’s Tomorrowland will be the first film to be released in the format at a handful of Dolby Vision-equipped theaters), and Imax’s recently launched laser projection system provides HDR support.

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[Optimus]

[leburn98]

Anyone else find it hilarious that the one studio who is pushing this new UltraHD Blu-Ray, is the same company who has just recently ceased production of physical media for arguably their most lucrative TV property?

[GC Riot]

HDR is for me a far more interesting aspect of UHD than the increased resolution, so this is all-around great news if you ask me.

[aiman04]

I would love HDR for standard blu-ray instead.

[toddly6666]

great, more reasons to turn films into looking like tv soap operas (like Michael Mann new films).

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

great, more reasons to turn films into looking like tv soap operas (like Michael Mann new films).

I don't think that is what HDR is. It's the opposite in my opinion, the colors will look more natural and life-like. Like you get with a good DSLR. Or have you mistaken HDR with HFR?

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by aiman04

I don't think that is what HDR is. It's the opposite in my opinion, the colors will look more natural and life-like. Like you get with a good DSLR. Or have you mistaken HDR with HFR?

I think so.

But either way, this is getting ridiculous - a 5 out of 5 rated Blu-ray is good enough.

[jscoggins]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

I think so.

But either way, this is getting ridiculous - a 5 out of 5 rated Blu-ray is good enough.

People said that about LD and DVD.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

People said that about LD and DVD.

Im gonna stick with my VCDs.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Im gonna stick with my VCDs.

I don't think VCD lived long enough to catch up in America.

[EvaDK]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

People said that about LD and DVD.

LD had an analogue picture. DVD was good enough for the ~30" screens that existed when that format emerged.

I really don't see a mass market for anything above the Blu-ray format we have now, unless we're talking enthusiasts with +80" inch screens etc.

This will be a niche market at best, just like 3D blu-rays.

The whole home entertainment market is slowly moving towards the internet anyway and away from physical media.

[jacobsever]

HDR as in high dynamic range? For video? Yikes, count me waaaaay out.

Unless HDR means something different for video than it does for photography, how in the world would this look good? HDR photography has it's places, but looks so artificial. Looks un-worldly.



If this is the same thing for video, that would just mean everything is going to look like 300. Keep it away. WELL FAR AWAY.

[lolwut]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

I think so.

But either way, this is getting ridiculous - a 5 out of 5 rated Blu-ray is good enough.

The Dark Knight is a 5 out of 5 rated Blu-ray.