Back to the Future Trilogy 4K UHD (1985-1990)

[PissedOffPeoN]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

I'm not a fan of the flimsy steelbook outer box. Anyone think the LOTR/Hobbit sets will be similar because that would suck....

The press release photos would indicate otherwise.

I hope not.. still getting it though.. .

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by PissedOffPeoN

I hope not.. still getting it though.. .

Heh...same here man!

[K1NG J0RDAN]

I’m gonna have to stop ordering from Best Buy online. Getting things a little early is cool but hearing multiple loose discs inside.. Waiting to exchange on Tuesday now.

[Hek_qwerr]

Originally Posted by K1NG J0RDAN

I’m gonna have to stop ordering from Best Buy online. Getting things a little early is cool but hearing multiple loose discs inside.. Waiting to exchange on Tuesday now.

are they scratched?i would only care if they are, i mean you are gonna open them regardless and use them

[crissrudd4554]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

There are no 2.0 tracks besides the commentary tracks.

Ahh fair enough.

[K1NG J0RDAN]

Originally Posted by Hek_qwerr

are they scratched?i would only care if they are, i mean you are gonna open them regardless and use them

From my experience, they probably are. 4K’s are too fragile.

[Member-38928]

Originally Posted by K1NG J0RDAN

I’m gonna have to stop ordering from Best Buy online. Getting things a little early is cool but hearing multiple loose discs inside.. Waiting to exchange on Tuesday now.

I have opened at least 10 new Blu-ray cases with a loose disc or 2 inside and have not once seen a loose disc with a scratch on it. Furthermore most stores allow exchanges as long as its for the exact same one. Go ahead and open it!

[stratford]

Originally Posted by SpazeBlue

What did you say about the Chalk, punk?

SpazeBlue tone down your wording, then I'll happilly answer you.

[SpazeBlue]

Originally Posted by stratford

SpazeBlue tone down your wording, then I'll happilly answer you.

It was just a joke. Sorry if I offended you.

[The Edge]

Originally Posted by K1NG J0RDAN

I’m gonna have to stop ordering from Best Buy online. Getting things a little early is cool but hearing multiple loose discs inside.. Waiting to exchange on Tuesday now.

That’s not Best Buy’s fault or their problem, however. Blame the people putting the discs in the cases fresh off the manufacturing line.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by SpazeBlue

It was just a joke. Sorry if I offended you.

SpazeBlue That is all right not a problem. As others noticed, I had a comic dig at Beetle juice chalk edition-4k that was sharply marked up compared to the ordinary 4k edition. Goonies was another 4k with a standard edition and a 'How much!!" edition Have a good day now

[K1NG J0RDAN]

Originally Posted by The Edge

That’s not Best Buy’s fault or their problem, however. Blame the people putting the discs in the cases fresh off the manufacturing line.

Regardless of who’s at fault, it’s annoying. I did open the set and sure enough the 4K disc of the first movie was the one loose and it’s scratched.

[Croweyes1121]

Originally Posted by Arese

BTTF II
Here, in terms of the image pretty much same comments as above.
However, the ATMOS soundtrack on this movie is a big disappointment! Right off the bat you can tell that something is off, especially when you watch BTTF II right after the first. The voices are not as clear as in the first movie for some reasons? I don't understand how can they mess that up? The voices are muffled as if they were speaking with a mask over their mouth ( I exxagerate but coming from the first movie it sounds like that). Really odd, even my GF whose not at all into analysing image quality and sound noticed it straight up and told me is there something wrong with the speakers?
Eventually, you get used to it as the movie goes on but that's not all. As I as saying above for BTTF1 I was gladly surprised by how they added more surround sound details to the track but in BTTF2 it wasn't as impressive. The surround channels are used but not as cleverly as in BTTF1. In the first episode you could tell that sound engineers sat down and actually tried to create a new soudtrack from scratch by today's standards and it works. I don't think they hage done that for BTTF 2.
So yeah, enjoyed watching BTTF 2 because it's my favorite BTTF but technically I'd say it was a disapointment.

This seriously concerns me. I hope someone else can confirm or deny this. Maybe you got a bad copy...?

[hoejunter]

Originally Posted by Croweyes1121

This seriously concerns me. I hope someone else can confirm or deny this. Maybe you got a bad copy...?

All three films sounded great to me

[Q-Tip]

Official review is up on here. As expected nearly a perfect score! So excited to get mine on release! Being Universal, it is always wise to be a little concerned on a new release... but looks like BTTF went the way of Psycho on 4K, best it's ever looked.

[SpazeBlue]

Originally Posted by Q-Tip

Official review is up on here. As expected nearly a perfect score!

[pdslost]

Just Finished all three! They look and sound great!! No issues here.

My box was half open(not taped all the way) plus cardboard corner of case holder crushed but amazingly steels were in perfect shape.

[mikematt101]

Does anyone know yet whether the BDs in the UK 4K set are remastered, or are they the old BDs as per the UK BD set?

[Poya]

I wish they’d include the original audio but the more I think about it, Atmos isn’t just about the ceiling speakers; it’s about making the audio more precise with object based tech and I assume most filmmakers of these films would have loved to have them. What do you all think?

[Uptight]

Originally Posted by Arese

So I watched the first 2 BTTF for now and here are my impressions

- BTTF 1:
Amazing, I really enjoyed watching it remastered in 4k. The grain is natural, considering the age of the movie I consider the image was clean.
However it's worth noting that I haven't been as impressed by the 4k Blu Ray as I was 10 years ago when I watched the 1080p remaster. I feel like the jump betweem dvd to BR was way more significant in terms of quality image than the jump betweem BR to UHD BR.
While 10 years ago the image amazed me on the BR, on the UHD BR what amazed me was the new ATMOS soundtrack which was clearly upgrade from the DTS HD master track on the BR (I think it was a DTS HD master right?)
The new Atmos soundtrack use a lot more the surrounds than the BR version. The first seconds are a prime example with all the clocks clocking using every single channel around us. Really impressed by the Atmos track which I believe was main attraction of the UHD BR. Don't get me wrong the image was still a delight to rediscover (thought the image wasn't consistent throughout the movie, some scenes you could tell that the actors' faces were digitally smoothed out) in 4k but like I said above the upgrade is only subtle at best compared to the BR. But that combined with the awesome Atmos track is a big win for me. I had a GREAT time rediscovering one of my favorite movie.

- BTTF II
Here, in terms of the image pretty much same comments as above.
However, the ATMOS soundtrack on this movie is a big disappointment! Right off the bat you can tell that something is off, especially when you watch BTTF II right after the first. The voices are not as clear as in the first movie for some reasons? I don't understand how can they mess that up? The voices are muffled as if they were speaking with a mask over their mouth ( I exxagerate but coming from the first movie it sounds like that). Really odd, even my GF whose not at all into analysing image quality and sound noticed it straight up and told me is there something wrong with the speakers?
Eventually, you get used to it as the movie goes on but that's not all. As I as saying above for BTTF1 I was gladly surprised by how they added more surround sound details to the track but in BTTF2 it wasn't as impressive. The surround channels are used but not as cleverly as in BTTF1. In the first episode you could tell that sound engineers sat down and actually tried to create a new soudtrack from scratch by today's standards and it works. I don't think they hage done that for BTTF 2.
So yeah, enjoyed watching BTTF 2 because it's my favorite BTTF but technically I'd say it was a disapointment.

I'm watching BTTF 3 tonight.

Something could be be off and you are right.

To investigate this further why not compare with the old Blu-ray and its DTS-HD MA 5.1 track...?

An odd thing I noticed was from this scene, which Universal put in Youtube:

Back to the Future Part II | Opening Scene in 4K Ultra HD | The Future of 2015 - YouTube

After 2 minutes, once the Delorean takes off (2m30s in the disc), the scene was taken from the 1st movie, but the sound effect is different NOW. Did they change only for this bit or there are other modifications? (If there are I still have not found).

And what about the 1st movie? I asked before if this bit is darker for the 4K when compared to the old Blu-ray:

https://imgur.com/8Ns4RCi

https://imgur.com/t2U2v9O

If it is, then it's revisionism (at least for these few seconds) because someone thought it should look like this and it was way brighter before (I watched BTTF many times and was always puzzled about this).

Which is also strange since what came before it was in fact wrong, since Marty arrived in 1955 at 06:00 AM, so scenes from the Peabody Farm are way too dark, with only a bit of sunlight.

Has anyone checked if any of the movies are darker than before? Not just this scene, of course.

A review that doesn't compare different media releases can't answer any of my questions.