Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[JackTwist]

Originally Posted by Krynoid-Man

Does anyone else have an issue while watching the film in Dolby Vision on a Panasonic DP-UB450EB-K where the letterbox bars keep flickering?

Are you viewing this on a LG OLED by chance? Are there specific scenes where you notice this behavior?

[Krynoid-Man]

No a Hisense H43B7500UK. I only watched the first 5 minutes or so but it seemed to be most prominent during the opening titles and the scene with Loomis and the nurse in the car.

[JackTwist]

Originally Posted by Krynoid-Man

No a Hisense H43B7500UK. I only watched the first 5 minutes or so but it seemed to be most prominent during the opening titles and the scene with Loomis and the nurse in the car.

I'm not familiar with that display. I have rarely seen this issue occur where the screen is misinterpreting the black point of the image and causes the letterbox bars to flash. The only way I've known to resolve this was to lower the brightness setting by a single point. Depending on the TV, this could be called something different. I apologize, I don't know more about your specific TV.

[Krynoid-Man]

Unfortunately the Hisense won't let my access the settings menu during Dolby Vision, so I can't change the brightness. The only option I can change is to choose between "Dolby Vision Bright" and "Dolby Vision Dark", and the issue is still there on both.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by JackTwist

I'm not familiar with that display. I have rarely seen this issue occur where the screen is misinterpreting the black point of the image and causes the letterbox bars to flash. The only way I've known to resolve this was to lower the brightness setting by a single point. Depending on the TV, this could be called something different. I apologize, I don't know more about your specific TV.

I've had that on a few UHDs. LG TV, Samsung player. I thought maybe the connections were dodgy, but nope.

[kamkam]

i have a oled c9 65inch and its does the same thing. Flickers like crazy

[Dxtra30]

$7.99 Black Friday Deal on Best Buy site but totally missed out.. It's a lock for this price IMO!!
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hallowe...?skuId=6293286

[HarcourtMudd]

^^^ As for the letterbox bar flickering thing, it is probably not caused directly by the display, or the disc itself. At best, it may be certain combinations for player, AVR, and display that may result in this. Myself, I have this title and have watched it several times with no problems whatsoever. My equipment chain is Oppo 203 --> Denon 6400H --> LG C9 (65")...

[Krynoid-Man]

Originally Posted by Krynoid-Man

Does anyone else have an issue while watching the film in Dolby Vision on a Panasonic DP-UB450EB-K where the letterbox bars keep flickering?

Same thing happens on all my Dolby Vision enabled discs and when I watched a film on Netflix on DV, so it's the TV that's the problem. I'll have to stick to watching stuff in HDR10 until I can get a new display (which will probably be a while because I only got the Hisense a few months ago)

[Dxtra30]

Originally Posted by Dxtra30

$7.99 Black Friday Deal on Best Buy site but totally missed out.. It's a lock for this price IMO!!
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hallowe...?skuId=6293286

Came back in stock for a bit the other night and snagged one for $7.99 not a bad deal IMO! .. It will be my first 4K movie! Huge horror fan here!

[cuzzin]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

It's a downmix.

Oh, really? Didn't they screw that up once before with the original 35th anniversary Blu-ray? How'd they manage to do it again, especially after they fixed it for the Scream Factory set?

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by cuzzin

Oh, really? Didn't they screw that up once before with the original 35th anniversary Blu-ray? How'd they manage to do it again, especially after they fixed it for the Scream Factory set?

I may be wrong on this, but I believe it was Shout Factory who made sure that Anchor Bay included it.

Regardless, it should've been included on the UHD.

~Matt

[JackForrester]

Which 4k editions carry the original mono and not the downmix?

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by JackForrester

Which 4k editions carry the original mono and not the downmix?

I think this is the only one:

[JackForrester]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

I think this is the only one:

Thanks Herbert. Funny that the site only lists the 7.1 remix and the 5.1 German track.

[Markgway]

The only thing that put me off buying that German release is that they changed all the titles to German.

[JackForrester]

Originally Posted by Markgway

The only thing that put me off buying that German release is that they changed all the titles to German.

Yeah, that's a common practice in Germany. What's wrong with using subtitles?

[bobbyh64]

It’s a conspiracy meant to annoy people who want to have the original version of the movie in 4K with the original mono.

[cuzzin]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

It’s a conspiracy meant to annoy people who want to have the original version of the movie in 4K with the original mono.

It annoyed me into not buying, but maybe...

[KubrickKurasawa]

When you hear that 7.1