Screenshot Comparisons 4K

[TbeRw01]

Originally Posted by SCS_Shoug

on some K-Scape encode caps you posted was just from re-encoding or something.

Screenshots are lossless, of course. I have years of experience in capture and encoding, and I wrote all the scripts that most people are using in this thread. Do not worry about that.

[Kolkusz]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse SDR vs HDR comparison

HDR screenshots, in order to view them correctly on Windows, you must use a Chromium browser with Windows HDR enabled, and the brightness slider set to the value of 31.

[SCS_Shoug]

Originally Posted by TbeRw01

Screenshots are lossless, of course. I have years of experience in capture and encoding, and I wrote all the scripts that most people are using in this thread. Do not worry about that.

That is immensely disappointing then, especially for the exorbitant prices they charge for the hardware. Sucks to see they likely set and forget with their encodes considering how wildly varying they can be here. Looking at the Poor Things caps, some have much better grain on K-Scape, some are kinda tied between K-Scape and BD, and a few I noticed the MA STREAMING has more grain! And the Poor Things K-Scape encode is huge too, over 80gb for HDR10!

[TbeRw01]

Originally Posted by SCS_Shoug

That is immensely disappointing then, especially for the exorbitant prices they charge for the hardware. Sucks to see they likely set and forget with their encodes considering how wildly varying they can be here. Looking at the Poor Things caps, some have much better grain on K-Scape, some are kinda tied between K-Scape and BD, and a few I noticed the MA STREAMING has more grain! And the Poor Things K-Scape encode is huge too, over 80gb for HDR10!

MA almost always has more grain than Blu-ray disc encodes. They also have a lot of encoding artifacts, which are very visible in motion. So Kscape definitely has the best version of Poor Things... The comparisons I posted are pretty much random, but it's not hard to find an ugly MA frame. e.g.: https://slow.pics/c/T2yNNcD1

[SCS_Shoug]

Originally Posted by TbeRw01

MA almost always has more grain than Blu-ray disc encodes. They also have a lot of encoding artifacts, which are very visible in motion. So Kscape definitely has the best version of Poor Things... The comparisons I posted are pretty much random, but it's not hard to find an ugly MA frame. e.g.: https://slow.pics/c/T2yNNcD1

It's definitely the best, but it sucks that in frames like this you still get the encode crapping itself a bit in the highlights like some poor Criterion and Kino encodes. Makes me wish we'd get a Poor Things 4K with Disney's own encoding, which is usually fantastic.

[jpilla415]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)[/SIZE]

New UHD (Base Layer) vs New UHD (Base Layer + FEL) vs HDR10 Only UHD

https://slow.pics/c/nMTpcwKB

Tone mapped to SDR @ 125 nits. Colors and luminance are not representative.

[jpilla415]

Jurassic Park III (2001)

New UHD (Base Layer) vs New UHD (Base Layer + FEL) vs HDR10 Only UHD

https://slow.pics/c/ROPW9ck0

Tone mapped to SDR @ 125 nits. Colors and luminance are not representative.

[Deadend45]

Originally Posted by TbeRw01

So far, some of the HDR10/DV titles (Mad Max, The Accountant, The Last of Us) I tested were pretty bad and disappointing: washed-out colors, raised blacks, incorrect brightness, and worse compression than the Blu-ray Disc. You can read about my first experience with it here.

Is the post before yours the price of Kaleidescape titles?

[TbeRw01]

Con Air 1997

K-Scape vs iTunes vs 1080pBD

https://slow.pics/c/gIduGjYr

*HDR images must be viewed in HDR on Chrome, Edge or opera.

[Kolkusz]

Top Gun: Maverick SDR vs HDR comparison

HDR screenshots, in order to view them correctly on Windows, you must use a Chromium browser with Windows HDR enabled, and the brightness slider set to the value of 31.

[Spartan21]

Originally Posted by TbeRw01

Con Air 1997

K-Scape vs iTunes vs 1080pBD

https://slow.pics/c/gIduGjYr

*HDR images must be viewed in HDR on Chrome, Edge or opera.

When is Con Air coming to 4K UHD on disc? The K-Scape looks beautiful.

[fkid]

From what I've noticed, once a catalogue title appears on iTunes with an obvious improvement/4K remaster, it gets announced for upcoming UHD Blu-ray release within 6-12 months, if not sooner. I think it's been about 6 months now, time will tell though, as much depends on Touchstone and Disney/SONY.

[TbeRw01]

Look Who's Talking 1989


K-SCAPE vs 1080pBD
https://slow.pics/c/RcolbMb8


*This one had the highest capture bitrate I've ever seen:
1782 Mb/s (1235gb)

[Ben_UK]

Originally Posted by Spartan21

When is Con Air coming to 4K UHD on disc? The K-Scape looks beautiful.

My guess would be at some point this year, based on nothing.

[jpilla415]

Jurassic World (2015)

New UHD (Base Layer) vs New UHD (Base Layer + FEL) vs HDR10 Only UHD

https://slow.pics/c/wrhDxrvA

Tone mapped to SDR @ 125 nits. Colors and luminance are not representative.

[Kolkusz]

The Batman SDR vs HDR comparison

HDR screenshots, in order to view them correctly on Windows, you must use a Chromium browser with Windows HDR enabled, and the brightness slider set to the value of 31.

[TbeRw01]

Avengers: Infinity War 2018

KSCAPE(86gb) vs UHD-BD(55gb) vs IMAX Disney+ (18gb)

https://slow.pics/c/ASW3bI2T

*HDR images must be viewed in HDR on Chrome, Edge, or Opera.

[Deadend45]

Originally Posted by fkid

From what I've noticed, once a catalogue title appears on iTunes with an obvious improvement/4K remaster, it gets announced for upcoming UHD Blu-ray release within 6-12 months, if not sooner.

Lol! Not for Fox/disney titles but yeah that fantasy has been posted since the start of the UHD format. haha

[TbeRw01]

Star Trek 2009 (wtf)

Kscape vs UHD-BD
https://slow.pics/c/gWYLRvaC

Batman Begins 2005

Kscape vs UHD-BD
https://slow.pics/c/vTvyxcHk

*HDR images must be viewed in HDR on Chrome, Edge, or Opera.

[SCS_Shoug]

Originally Posted by TbeRw01

Star Trek 2009 (wtf)

Yeah that one's a pretty infamous case. Was done super early in the format's life before Dolby Vision had the potential to salvage Paramount's B-team encodes, and has never gotten redone, whether by Paramount or Plaion.