Sony "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray Titles May 14 and July 16

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall, The Other Guys, The Karate Kid, Battle: Los Angeles, and Angels & Demons are recent movies. Unless Sony completely botched their previous Blu-ray releases (or intentionally sabotaged them), these new discs will not look much different.

Ghostbusters was in dire need of restoration in the first place. Taxi Driver was already restored for the DigiPak release.

So, in short, you have no idea what you are talking about to infer that these releases are nothing more of a quick cash grab for mindless consumer sheep. Got it. Thanks.

[marine92104]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall, The Other Guys, The Karate Kid, Battle: Los Angeles, and Angels & Demons are recent movies. Unless Sony completely botched their previous Blu-ray releases (or intentionally sabotaged them), these new discs will not look much different.

Ghostbusters was in dire need of restoration in the first place. Taxi Driver was already restored for the DigiPak release.

I have to agree with JamesDevil. The jury is still out.

Those titles have been released but not at the bitrate & new compression of these discs.

I don't knock a title until it has been seen. Ghostbusters was restored for the last Blu-ray release. It did have a high contrast problem but that was fixed since it was remastered for the new release.

Supposedly the rest of the these titles were also & with a much higher bitrate.

I'll wait to see the reviews & then pass judgment.

[jamesdevil]

Ghostbusters is consistently at 32-38 Mbps. You don't even have to look at that to know this is a drastic upgrade. I'm pretty shocked to be honest. I don't know if it is just a good match with the disc and my player but man the color palette is gorgeous.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

So, in short, you have no idea what you are talking about to infer that these releases are nothing more of a quick cash grab for mindless consumer sheep. Got it. Thanks.

Why is Sony hiding these from reviewers, then?

[MifuneFan]

IF there is a difference between the existing releases that had 4K scans and these new "Mastered in 4K" releases, it will likely be marginal at best, and they'll lack all of the extras included on those prior releases.

Marginally inferior PQ + Bonus Material >>>>>> Marginally better PQ + nada/zilch/nothing

Not to mention the fact that you're paying a lot more for some of these releases compared to the existing ones

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

Why is Sony hiding these from reviewers, then?

How do you know they are 'hiding' them from reviewers. Link?

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

IF there is a difference between the existing releases that had 4K scans and these new "Mastered in 4K" releases, it will likely be marginal at best, and they'll lack all of the extras included on those prior releases.

Marginally inferior PQ + Bonus Material >>>>>> Marginally better PQ + nada/zilch/nothing

Nothing 'marginal' about Ghostbusters. Keep your old disc for the special features.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

How do you know they are 'hiding' them from reviewers. Link?

Release Date: Today

Online Reviews: None

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

Nothing 'marginal' about Ghostbusters. Keep your old disc for the special features.

Try reading. Ghostbusters did not have a 4K scan originally by all accounts.

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

Release Date: Today

Online Reviews: None

...and that means they are intentionally hiding it? Again, link?

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Try reading. Ghostbusters did not have a 4K scan originally by all accounts.

Sorry, didn't see your '4k' caveat. Since you haven't seen the difference though firsthand it is weird you'd make a broad statement about all the releases though. Sort of a pointless use of keystrokes.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

...and that means they are intentionally hiding it? Again, link?

There's no link b/c there aren't any reviews!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

Sort of a pointless use of keystrokes.

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[marine92104]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

There's no link b/c there aren't any reviews!

There's a lot of releases that are reviewed after the discs come out. It doesn't mean they are hiding them from the reviewers.

You have to remember these are catalog releases.

Take for example "An Officer And A Gentleman" & "Runaway Bride" that was released recently.

They were catalog releases & reviewed after they came out.

Where's your logic? Again I'll wait until the reviews come out. It's senseless to make statements without viewing a title unless everyone here are compressionists for the studios & can logically say there will be no upgrade in PQ.

[wjasoncul]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

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[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by marine92104

There's a lot of releases that are reviewed after the discs come out. It doesn't mean they are hiding them from the reviewers.

You have to remember these are catalog releases.

Take for example "An Officer And A Gentleman" & "Runaway Bride" that was released recently.

They were catalog releases & reviewed after they came out.

Where's your logic?

Those are Paramount titles licensed to Warner. They're of low priority to Warner, which is going to put its resources into promoting their own movies first.

[marine92104]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

Those are Paramount titles licensed to Warner. They're of low priority to Warner, which is going to put its resources into promoting their own movies first.

So your saying that there are no other catalog titles that come out before being reviewed.

Do you even look these things up before typing?

Why don't you go thru the latest catalog reviews & see how many are reviewed after being released.

Catalog titles are always a lower priority than new releases regardless of studio.

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

There's no link b/c there aren't any reviews!

Correlation does not imply causation.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

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[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

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