4K Movies Releases

[Fritz]

I'm excited about this technology and how movies are going to look on these displays but I'm mystified by how it's been handled. Wouldn't you want to put your best foot forward as an introduction to this evolution in home entertainment? Why not release Jaws or Gone with the Wind...


"It terrorized you in 1975...now the terror is back and looking better than ever..." OK, so that was bad, but you know what I mean, something that makes people who love cinema clamor for more! The Last Witch Hunter for Christ's sake...*yawn*...that's 1981 at the local mom and pop video store with a six pack of beer stuff. I would have come out of the gate with something designed to rip your head off.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

P.S. to ^ the UHD Blu-ray player availability aspect (or lack thereof) as mentioned at the very end of the article reminds me of something.

Question to anyone, as the timing of this is kind of funny because it’s true and not an April Fools joke….What new company is planning to begin operation on April 1, 2016?

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/25/so...business-unit/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

@Penton-Man: Please use one single post to multi-quote people.
This is a bad habit of you. Thank you.

@ Pieter V , I’ll take it under consideration, but it is what it is , as I am routinely multi-tasking while posting on Blu-ray.com. and I never know when I’ll be interrupted (which is often) by something (online or offline) more critical than voluntarily posting on a free internet forum.

I find it better, personally, to get some sort of response out…even if they are compartmentalized in dedicated single posts. In the past I’ve found that while in the midst of multi-quoting I’ve been interrupted by a phone call which I’ve had to take, email I’ve had to urgently respond to, task that requires immediate intervention, etc. that I have to abandon the whole multi-quote thing which results in getting no response out at all as my time devoted to the forum has ‘expired’. My professional and personal life takes precedence. I do what I can, perhaps I’m just too simple minded.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

@Penton-Man: Please use one single post to multi-quote people.
This is a bad habit of you. Thank you.

He's always been doing that, leave him. I like the freeness of the thread.

Thank you.

[singhcr]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

@ Pieter V , I’ll take it under consideration, but it is what it is , as I am routinely multi-tasking while posting on Blu-ray.com. and I never know when I’ll be interrupted (which is often) by something (online or offline) more critical than voluntarily posting on a free internet forum.

I find it better, personally, to get some sort of response out…even if they are compartmentalized in dedicated single posts. In the past I’ve found that while in the midst of multi-quoting I’ve been interrupted by a phone call which I’ve had to take, email I’ve had to urgently respond to, task that requires immediate intervention, etc. that I have to abandon the whole multi-quote thing which results in getting no response out at all as my time devoted to the forum has ‘expired’. My professional and personal life takes precedence. I do what I can, perhaps I’m just too simple minded.

Please ignore him, Penton, my friend. I unfortunately do not get a chance to visit here as often as I would like, but whenever I do I always make sure to read your posts as they contain a wealth of information. Your efforts are much appreciated.

[Geoff D]

Yep, keep doing what you're doing Penton. First the football, now multi posting, seems like we got da forum police up in here.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep, keep doing what you're doing Penton. First the football, now multi posting, seems like we got da forum police up in here.

So how about that 4K football? Huh?

Actually I came in here to ask what 1 launch movie do you guys think would look the best? The kind that pops out of the screen & smacks you in the face good.

[Opips3]

Originally Posted by Derb

So how about that 4K football? Huh?

Actually I came in here to ask what 1 launch movie do you guys think would look the best? The kind that pops out of the screen & smacks you in the face good.

I want to watch cheerleaders babes 4K.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Opips3

I want to watch cheerleaders babes 4K.

He's talking about "world football" (aka soccer and not USA Football) - there's no cheerleaders. Just the occasional superfan with scary looking chest implants.

[eriaur]

Sunset Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqqkTdwv50

ALEXA XT and 65 mm film on SUNSET SONG

ALEXA XT Studio with ARRI/ZEISS Master Anamorphic lenses to capture studio scenes in ARRIRAW, and an ARRIFLEX 765 to shoot exteriors on 65 mm film. Principal photography took place in early 2014, before the release of the ALEXA 65.


What was the decision-making process behind shooting both digitally with ALEXA and on 65 mm film with the ARRIFLEX 765?

The film had been in development for some time and when I came on-board the producers and Terence had already settled on digital capture for the studio work and 65 mm film for the exterior landscapes. Of course I wholeheartedly agreed with that decision and we also all agreed on the ARRI ALEXA as by far the best camera for the digital portions.

The landscape plays such a strong role in the film and the book from which it derives; the characters are very much seen as 'part of the land', and 65 mm film would be the perfect medium to capture the magnificence of the landscapes, rendering them with the clarity of the human eye. For this reason we shot with very deep stops to hold detail to the far horizon. It was almost three-dimensional in feel.

What measures did you take to match the look of 65 mm film to ALEXA?

Early on, an ALEXA recording ARRIRAW was tested side-by-side against 35 mm and 65 mm negative for a series of wide landscape shots, in order to gauge the perfect mix of mediums. It was surprising, or maybe not, that the ALEXA and the 65 mm meshed perfectly. When you think about it, the 65 mm is virtually grain-free; with some light filtration on both the film and digital, a really closely matched feel and texture was possible.

Since the SUNSET SONG shoot you have tried out the ALEXA 65 on a different project; what were your initial thoughts on this digital 65 mm system?

When I first saw our ALEXA 65 rushes it made me feel like we are in a beautiful moment when cinema is defining itself -- like 1916 all over again. I had concerns about some really white diaphanous curtains we shot, but the ALEXA 65 dealt with the very high exposure so well -- exactly as I saw it in my head. The curtains glowed but were full of detail, and the shadow detail in the room was also superb; it looked like well-exposed film to me. For a first pass at challenging the sensor with extremely high contrast, I could not have been happier.

ARRI is on the right road with the ALEXA 65 -- please keep on! It is only by challenging the technology that we will advance the art-form and the technology in equal measure. It's not called the 'bleeding edge' for nothing and it truly is hard work, but totally worth it. It's the same chances that they took at the dawn of the 20th century. If you don't take those chances, you don't advance the art-form. I'm totally with you in that endeavor.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by saprano

He's always been doing that, leave him. I like the freeness of the thread.
Thank you.

I tried my hand at HDR HFR figure skating and there were no complaints.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by singhcr

Please ignore him, Penton, my friend. I unfortunately do not get a chance to visit here as often as I would like, but whenever I do I always make sure to read your posts as they contain a wealth of information. Your efforts are much appreciated.

With my posting style, it expeditiously facilitates me in planting the seeds for having others think about things like attaining the best possible picture quality

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Not all metadata is equal.
There is static metadata and dynamic metadata...

on this thread long before other consumer discussion groups on the world wide web outside of Blu-ray.com do…..which I think instills a bit of jealousy in some.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep, keep doing what you're doing Penton. First the football, now multi posting, seems like we got da forum police up in here.

“The good news is the whiskey works.” < do you know who said it in which movie?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

He's talking about "world football" (aka soccer and not USA Football) - there's no cheerleaders. Just the occasional superfan with scary looking chest implants.

Unfortunately with regards to our brain surgeon moderator, the cheerleaders are no longer available in St. Louis…
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=10115 , but I’ll always remember with fondness his pic titled “One for the gentlemen”.

Just out of Geneva…. https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128s1.pdf

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by eriaur

ALEXA 65

eriaur, do you know what yet to be released feature motion picture was shot on the Alexa 65 with 50 year old lenses?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

SMPTE

Reminds me, for you projectionists out there reading that don’t read the memos . This movie… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1292566/
will be released in Feb. in SMPTE DCP format (hard drive as well as DCDC delivery).

[eriaur]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

eriaur, do you know what yet to be released feature motion picture was shot on the Alexa 65 with 50 year old lenses?

Big mistake on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/...ef_=tt_dt_spec (APO Panatar on Alexa 65)

https://vimeo.com/81434922

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

“The good news is the whiskey works.” < do you know who said it in which movie?

No sir, I do not.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

No sir, I do not.

Lost in translation

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Lost in translation

I thought I understood him perfectly well, hardyharhar