4K Movies Releases

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well, I take that to mean, one way or another, your Black Cats lost . I try to always look forward to the future…even the far future, for example, I hope, if not for this year’s World Cup, at least for 2018, we (the U.S.) get Gedion….http://extramustard.si.com/2014/02/2.../?xid=ob_blogs

Well, put it this way. We would of had a virtual free pass to final as the semi final tie was against Sheff United. Meaning an historic double cup final appearance AND a guaranteed European slot. What happens next? Our manager decides to play a virtual reserve team against Hull which basically ended our hopes of a trophy and killed the feel good factor at the club. To say I was angry would be an understatement. Me and many thousands of fans who feel betrayed IMO

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Our manager decides to play a virtual reserve team against Hull...

Wow, I didn’t know. That is pretty upsetting. Now you’ve gotten me worried as I still haven’t watched the Arsenal quarter final and I hope Arsene didn’t save his best players for this week’s Champions League match.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by saprano

...They want to sell us pixels. As if that's the only thing makes up a picture.

Even if you aren’t a big resolution freak, 4K tvs will eventually drive the offering of other visual improvements/features like adding increased bit depth to consumer displays.

[Penton-Man]

What some creative 21-year olds accomplish in 4K - http://www.hdvideopro.com/blog/edito...eam-in-4k.html

Although, please nobody ask me to comment on the phrase “a visually lossless 4K stream at an average of 6Mb/s”

[Steedeel]

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...rever--1233232

I will have some of that!

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

What some creative 21-year olds accomplish in 4K - http://www.hdvideopro.com/blog/edito...eam-in-4k.html

Although, please nobody ask me to comment on the phrase “a visually lossless 4K stream at an average of 6Mb/s”

Gotta say, if they had said 14-15Mb/s, I could of accepted the idea of a great compression scheme at work but 6, just like Red was also saying, I'd really like to hear the science involved in that.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...rever--1233232

I will have some of that!

That kinda reminds me of a chat I had with my dealer where I buy most, if not all my PC gear and electronics. He went to the Sony Dealer show and brought up a point I though was interesting about 4K, even now.

He went in with pretty much the same idea as most if not all of us, half-baked, no content. But on one particular set (can't remember) he mentioned how good the scaling and processing of the set was, he likened it to the first Oppo upscaling DVD players. We all remember how awesome our DVDs started to look on our HD sets, and it was just awesome upscaling at work. He basically told me, for him it's the same. No real 4K but upscaled BD was phenomenal in his opinion (an opinion I can't refute or support as I haven't even really looked at a 4K yet).

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

That kinda reminds me of a chat I had with my dealer where I buy most, if not all my PC gear and electronics. He went to the Sony Dealer show and brought up a point I though was interesting about 4K, even now.

He went in with pretty much the same idea as most if not all of us, half-baked, no content. But on one particular set (can't remember) he mentioned how good the scaling and processing of the set was, he likened it to the first Oppo upscaling DVD players. We all remember how awesome our DVDs started to look on our HD sets, and it was just awesome upscaling at work. He basically told me, for him it's the same. No real 4K but upscaled BD was phenomenal in his opinion (an opinion I can't refute or support as I haven't even really looked at a 4K yet).

Several years ago I had a pioneer DVD player and it scaled to HD beautifully. I honestly believe that a lot of people who were unconvinced about the benefits of bluray and HD in general were watching on a 200 pound budget 32 screen with washed up blacks and horrific artefacts. As a rule the mainstream are idiots IMO.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...rever--1233232

I will have some of that!

I watched Arsenal play in the F.A. Cup quarterfinal last night. Hey, with Man City out, we’ve got an excellent chance of bringing home some silverware this year.

The Champions League result was not unexpected and we shouldn’t have placed ourselves in that position of the draw to begin with by finishing second in Group F when we only needed a draw against Napoli.

I figured we were doomed going into the remainder of Champions League play. Anyway, on to Wembley.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

Gotta say, if they had said 14-15Mb/s, I could of accepted the idea of a great compression scheme at work but 6, just like Red was also saying, I'd really like to hear the science involved in that.

Go down the hall on the left and enter the door with the sign that says “Marketing”.

Otherwise…..follow me and scroll down and compare the textures in the pdf simulations on page 36 (uncompressed) to page 38 (HEVC @ 6 Mbit/s) – https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/events/webi...dHD_update.pdf

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I watched Arsenal play in the F.A. Cup quarterfinal last night. Hey, with Man City out, we’ve got an excellent chance of bringing home some silverware this year.

The Champions League result was not unexpected and we shouldn’t have placed ourselves in that position of the draw to begin with by finishing second in Group F when we only needed a draw against Napoli.

I figured we were doomed going into the remainder of Champions League play. Anyway, on to Wembley.

I'm still gutted by events last week, that word Wembley gets me !

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...rever--1233232

Originally Posted by pentatonic

....I'd really like to hear the science involved in that.

Follow me thru the cornea, the aqueous humor, the lens and vitreous humor at least to the back of the eyeball.

Some of the science behind the ‘immersive effect’ experienced at the closer screen-to-eye distance by the author of that techradar 4K article is due to the presentation of imagery upon a larger portion of his retina (not just the foveola) but the fovea, the parafoveal field, the perifoveal field and even retina peripheral to that…..

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...er#post8143848

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I'm still gutted by events last week, that word Wembley gets me !

A place to visit on my bucket list, for sure.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Go down the hall on the left and enter the door with the sign that says “Marketing”.

Otherwise…..follow me and scroll down and compare the textures in the pdf simulations on page 36 (uncompressed) to page 38 (HEVC @ 6 Mbit/s) – https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/events/webi...dHD_update.pdf

Wow, even 10Mbs is horrible, 6 is, well, much much worse than horrible

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Follow me thru the cornea, the aqueous humor, the lens and vitreous humor at least to the back of the eyeball.

Some of the science behind the ‘immersive effect’ experienced at the closer screen-to-eye distance by the author of that techradar 4K article is due to the presentation of imagery upon a larger portion of his retina (not just the foveola) but the fovea, the parafoveal field, the perifoveal field and even retina peripheral to that…..

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...er#post8143848

I should of remembered that post as I read it well and researched it more, doh!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

A place to visit on my bucket list, for sure.

We could and should of been going there TWICE!

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

He went in with pretty much the same idea as most if not all of us, half-baked, no content. But on one particular set (can't remember) he mentioned how good the scaling and processing of the set was, he likened it to the first Oppo upscaling DVD players. We all remember how awesome our DVDs started to look on our HD sets, and it was just awesome upscaling at work. He basically told me, for him it's the same. No real 4K but upscaled BD was phenomenal in his opinion (an opinion I can't refute or support as I haven't even really looked at a 4K yet).

He's not wrong. The scaling in my Sony 4K set is superb. (As well it should be, because us Britishers have no commercial 4K content as of yet.)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

He's not wrong. The scaling in my Sony 4K set is superb. (As well it should be, because us Britishers have no commercial 4K content as of yet.)

Any chance of some reviews once you do get that native content Geoff? Would love to hear your opinion on quality.

[Geoff D]

Chance'd be a fine thing! I'm not going in for Netflix's 4K option (TV won't support it so I'd need some sort of HEVC compatible streaming box device thingy which isn't even out yet anyway) so I'm hedging my bets on 4K Blu-ray, seeing as Sony's 4K download service seems to be dead in the water outside of the US.

But don't you worry about reviews, when I get my grubby little mitts on proper 4K goodness I'll be shouting it from the rooftops.

Speaking of which, I laughed like a drain when Samsung announced that their 4K content system (basically some movies on a portable HDD that you plug into the TV, but it's only compatible with Samsung sets) would include films like The Wolverine, World War Z, The Counselor and GI Joe Retaliation, because each and every one was finished at 2K...

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Chance'd be a fine thing! I'm not going in for Netflix's 4K option (TV won't support it so I'd need some sort of HEVC compatible streaming box device thingy which isn't even out yet anyway) so I'm hedging my bets on 4K Blu-ray, seeing as Sony's 4K download service seems to be dead in the water outside of the US.

But don't you worry about reviews, when I get my grubby little mitts on proper 4K goodness I'll be shouting it from the rooftops.

Speaking of which, I laughed like a drain when Samsung announced that their 4K content system (basically some movies on a portable HDD that you plug into the TV, but it's only compatible with Samsung sets) would include films like The Wolverine, World War Z, The Counselor and GI Joe Retaliation, because each and every one was finished at 2K...

Lol. Typical! Anyway thanks and can't wait for your reviews.