4K Ultra HD releases not offering the quality of what the format is capable of

[HDTV1080P]

Hopefully studios well start to improve on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray releases, since many have 2K digital intermediates that have no better picture quality when compared to the standard Blu-ray disc (A select few 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray titles have a much better picture quality when compared to the standard Blu-ray disc). Some 11.1 Dolby ATMOS and 11.1 DTS X soundtracks have poor mastering quality for the height channels. Some studios do a proper job when mastering the height channels for Dolby ATMOS and DTS X.

The following are select word for word quotes from page 8 of the June 2018 Widescreen Review magazine

“And Dolby Atmos so far seems to be leading the pack of low-quality immersive Sound soundtracks,”



“As a result, the height channels are horrible, literally, on 90 percent or more of the UHD movies released with impressive Sound soundtracks so far. DTS X sounds a little better, but they have the same issue. Studios just won’t spend money on UHD disc soundtracks to make the soundtrack right,”


“But there’s no indication that more movie studios are moving to 4K digital intermediates anytime soon. That means 100 percent of the movies from Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and other related studios are not really UHD resolution AND they rarely have soundtracks worthy of the technology capabilities of any immersive Sound format.”


“Sony and associated studios did switch to 4K digital intermediates some time back, and Lionsgate seems to release about half of their movies with 4K digital intermediates, but those and IMAX are about the only titles you’ll get that do the format justice-“

[ROSS.T.G.]

[MattPerdue]

2K DIs are great and making 4K DIs is expensive as hell. Especially since a lot of studios still do 3D conversions which jack up costs further.

[Geoff D]

blah blah blah, upscales blah blah,

[imsounoriginal]

[Geoff D]

Love that "100 percent of the movies from Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and other related studios are not really UHD resolution" quote, you've just got to love well-informed journalism like this. It literally reads like some mook who's just bought a 4K TV who's wondering why UHD doesn't look as good as a Blu-ray on Torch mode.

This is precisely why I don't listen to the established "voices" in the tech community: they keep proving themselves to be complete IDIOTS.

[Fendergopher]

Those quotes sound pretty loony to me. Sure, it would be nice to live in a world filled exclusively with 4K DIs but that ain't gonna happen any time soon.

[imsounoriginal]

People lie and misinform and are somehow still allowed to spew nonsense that other people mistakenly take to heart. With all the nonsense about UHD out there, it's astounding that the format is actually doing well.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

People lie and misinform and are somehow still allowed to spew nonsense that other people mistakenly take to heart. With all the nonsense about UHD out there, it's astounding that the format is actually doing well.

Right? Its downright staggering that realorfake and HDD and Widescreen Numpty Review and all the other pillocks out there who simply do not have any idea of what they're talking about haven't managed to hole this format below the waterline.

Still, I guess the one good thing about everyone and their grandma being able to post nonsense online is that there's only so much bullshit one person could possibly take in all at once, so there's always the chance they might come across the views of someone who isn't out for the clicks and who might actually have a clue as to their chosen subject.

[GeneD5]

Everyone abandon ship, this bad girls going down!!!

[tama]

*Yawn*

[ROSS.T.G.]

[Kris Deering]

Who wrote the article??

[nick4Knight]

Troll... Trolllyyy trolllly trolllly trolllyyyy

Wait, there are people that legitimately believe pixel count is the main selling point of UHD. Now I sad again. Sad, sad world.

[Alister_M]

It's certainly off to a better start than the first wave of BDs with their overcompressed MPEG-2/VC-1 encodes and lossy audio.

[s2mikey]

Although the article and this post is certainly misleading, I would agree that there are a good number of UHD releases that are NOT meaningful upgrades to their blu-ray conterparts. And a few are simply garbage. It happens with any format but lets be realistic here too.

[TpFox]

With the amount of ignorance about the 4K format by someone with the username of "HDTV1080P", I'm not really surprised at the idiocy of this thread.

[wxman2003]

After reading this, I threw all my UHD discs away. I'm going back to my VCR.

[DJJez]

Yawn

[RodChester]

So you’re saying after many years of numerous DVD releases that could have been better, and many years of bluray releases that could have been better, we are going to get many years of UHD releases that could be better. Who would have thought?