4K Movies Releases

[Geoff D]

Nice. Not the haircut, the display I mean.

[montyb]

Originally Posted by ray0414

It depends what tv u have.

On samsungs, I recommend deepcolor off until samsung fixes it.

On the lg oled, a user posted pictures and it definitely looked like deepcolor options on for both was the best way to go!

What does Samsung need to fix on their displays? Does your Samsung peak out the Backlight and Contrast every time you watch a UHD disc? I have the JU7500 and I must turn my settings down when the movie starts (I turn them down when the menu is on and I still have to turn the settings down once the movie starts) because my Backlight jumps to 20 (I like it at 9) and Contrast jumps to 100 (I like it at 85). This high setting blows the picture out and is WAY too bright and looks awful for UHD.
And definitely Deep Color OFF.

[montyb]

Originally Posted by DRS

I would not recommend it.

Turning off Deep Color resulted in significant banding and visual artifacts for me. Deep Color on provided the best overall PQ and HDR effect.

Are you on the latest firmware?

Just read a UHD blu ray review of The Martian and even High Def Digest suggests turning the Deep Color ON when you see banding when the HDR is utilized.

[Penton-Man]

Yo Adrian, I’m back….at least for a little while. Thanks for holding down the fort. BTW, Engadget says ‘4K is everywhere’ ….http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/12/u...rts-streaming/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Like ive been saying (along with some of the pros like stacey spears), HDR is the real game changer.

Stacey is a bigger advocate of higher spatial resolution than you apparently presume.
That said, like many recreational (hobbyist) folk, sometimes even the best pros are confused about some things...



And, once in awhile are in need of some educatin

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by ray0414

HDR is the real game changer. 4k is just along for the ride.

Well I wouldn’t characterize 4K quite like that (in such a demeaning fashion)….perhaps I’ll do a follow-up post for another day as I must move on to see what other folks have said during my absence.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Richard Paul

The ITU broadcast HDR document was approved earlier this month and it will be voted on later this year. A HEVC proposal was recently posted for it:

Transfer function: Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) or SMPTE 2084 (PQ)

bolding by moi ^

imagine that

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Richard Paul

...Color formats: RGB, non-constant luminance YCbCr, and ICtCp (I have never heard of ICtCp and it looks like they just made it.

Originally, the idea (making something better) came from cutting edge color science work first proposed last autumn by scientists and academicians from Dolby Labs, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tubingen.

“I” stood for intensity value and the two C’s stood for the resulting color difference channels storing the chroma information. The original naming was meant to reference the IPT and Y’CbCr models that inspired the new color encoding model.

The goal was (by building on previous proven transformations) to co-optimize a color space for both HDR and WCG encoding efficiency as well as color volume mapping performance. The results of the work suggest this was accomplished with the materials and methodology used. For instance, fewer code values were needed for ICC as compared to Y’CbCr or Philips’s Y’’u’’v’’ model and ICC was found to be very robust without demonstrating typical drawbacks like hue-nonlinearity in the blues.

[Penton-Man]

^ As an aside, the lead author (Jan) for the investigation into the above described new color space spoke on wide color gamut wrt D-Cinema at last year’s HPA, which included exhibition of his material by a Christie 3P 2D laser projection system which was onsite as hinted here (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...0#post10370282 ) to readers of Blu-ray.com well before the final official schedule (to include that fact) was posted on the HPA website.

Jan in action from last year’s Tech retreat…

[Penton-Man]

The baton has been passed from….




To.....

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

from fellow cinematographers and Steven S....
'The Revenant' Cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivoâ€� Lubezki -Â* Variety Artisans - YouTube

For those who aren’t aware of, but would like to follow Chivo’s still photography…
https://www.instagram.com/chivexp/?hl=en

[dvdmike]

Hall is still better

[tyrok]

4K Blu-ray featured in the 2/28 Best Buy Ad:

[Poya]

Apparently, Best Buy has first dibs to 4K Blu-Ray, according to this very site that says they were available at 2/14. I'm at Best Buy right now and I can't don't them. It's at Topanga, California.

[carr857]

Go to another store.

[Richard Paul]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Originally, the idea (making something better) came from cutting edge color science work first proposed last autumn by scientists and academicians from Dolby Labs, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tubingen.

“I” stood for intensity value and the two C’s stood for the resulting color difference channels storing the chroma information. The original naming was meant to reference the IPT and Y’CbCr models that inspired the new color encoding model.

The goal was (by building on previous proven transformations) to co-optimize a color space for both HDR and WCG encoding efficiency as well as color volume mapping performance. The results of the work suggest this was accomplished with the materials and methodology used. For instance, fewer code values were needed for ICC as compared to Y’CbCr or Philips’s Y’’u’’v’’ model and ICC was found to be very robust without demonstrating typical drawbacks like hue-nonlinearity in the blues.

That makes sense and after reading a bit about the IPT color space it does sound a lot better than YCbCr (or YDzDx) since it is based on human perception.

[K i r a]

Originally Posted by Poya

Apparently, Best Buy has first dibs to 4K Blu-Ray, according to this very site that says they were available at 2/14. I'm at Best Buy right now and I can't don't them. It's at Topanga, California.

Shared my store's display here

Maybe they'll update to that in a few days? It is featured in their national ad, so I can't imagine any Best Buy NOT having something advertised so prominently by open time Sunday.

[Viking61]

Sony Pictures issued a press release for Scandinavia about the 4K UHD blu-ray launch. The press release stated that the 6 first titles will be the same as in the States and will be launched on May 2 for the Scandinavian countries, and they will soon be followed by more titles. The ones specifically mentioned in the press release are:

• Captain Phillips
• Men In Black
• Ghostbusters
• Bad Boys
• The Da Vinci Code
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Guns of Navarone
• Taxi Driver
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Viking61

Sony Pictures issued a press release for Scandinavia about the 4K UHD blu-ray launch. The press release stated that the 6 first titles will be the same as in the States and will be launched on May 2 for the Scandinavian countries, and they will soon be followed by more titles. The ones specifically mentioned in the press release are:

• Captain Phillips
• Men In Black
• Ghostbusters
• Bad Boys
• The Da Vinci Code
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Guns of Navarone
• Taxi Driver
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

No surprises there

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by Viking61

Sony Pictures issued a press release for Scandinavia about the 4K UHD blu-ray launch. The press release stated that the 6 first titles will be the same as in the States and will be launched on May 2 for the Scandinavian countries, and they will soon be followed by more titles. The ones specifically mentioned in the press release are:

• Captain Phillips
• Men In Black
• Ghostbusters
• Bad Boys
• The Da Vinci Code
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Guns of Navarone
• Taxi Driver
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Article link?

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Viking61

Sony Pictures issued a press release for Scandinavia about the 4K UHD blu-ray launch. The press release stated that the 6 first titles will be the same as in the States and will be launched on May 2 for the Scandinavian countries, and they will soon be followed by more titles. The ones specifically mentioned in the press release are:

• Captain Phillips
• Men In Black
• Ghostbusters
• Bad Boys
• The Da Vinci Code
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Guns of Navarone
• Taxi Driver
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington