HDR Discussion Thread

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by gkolb

So, basically, you’re stalking Tom Cruise?
I thought that was Ben Stiller’s job.

also chronicling the lesser known (but also deserving ) cast and crew too including - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15693856

and
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...n#post15625628

and, eventually -
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...d#post15697488

for otherwise, I fear you guys might never have heard/known about them.

P.S.
And as to the women , also probably, to you guys relatively unknown (but appreciated ) is one of the cast who studied locally (at UCI).

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

This is the Top Gun thread; Maverick, fighter jets, motorcycles, Tom Cruise looking half his age, HDR screens and screams and prayers, ...and robots.

Close up of the F/A-18 fighter jet taxiing out to runway 11/29 for the side-by-side shoot (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15634835 )



P.S.
Note to gkolb, the aviator piloting the jet is Vern, Tom can’t do 2 things like that at once

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3C...ature=youtu.be

Very recently, like several days ago, Peter Doyle gave a presentation in Europe as to his work on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I’m hoping an extract of that portion of the master class eventually makes it onto YouTube.

[puddy77]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Yo RAH (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...m#post15228314
), how’d you like dem HDR apples -
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/it...fe/id297250466

Have you (or anyone) watched It's A Wonderful Life yet? Just wondering how it looks in HDR.

Also released another classic in HDR, The War of the Worlds (1953).

[Noremac Mij]

Originally Posted by puddy77

Have you (or anyone) watched It's A Wonderful Life yet? Just wondering how it looks in HDR.

Also released another classic in HDR, The War of the Worlds (1953).

It’s a Wonderful Life in DV on iTunes looks spectacular.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Liam Neeson would not appreciate your killjoy attitude

*waits for the inevitable Penton segue into something unrelated regarding Liam Neeson, either that or a picture of the telephone pole outside Neeson's house*

[LordoftheRings]

*Waits, Tom Waits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUy...ature=youtu.be

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

*waits for the inevitable Penton segue into something unrelated regarding Liam Neeson, either that or a picture of the telephone pole outside Neeson's house*

documenting I was there at 'the pole' is certainly safer than giving away the entire plot of the freakin flick

Anyway, since you mentioned it, not only #8 (Liam), I also like #5 on the list too - https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=82&story=4154

As you may not get her over there on TV in the U.K. though, she’s a pretty fine journalist covering the Prem league for us U.S.A. folks.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by gkolb

So, basically, you’re stalking Tom Cruise?
I thought that was Ben Stiller’s job.

And don’t you make fun either, as you too read this thread avidly, I gave you (as well as Waboman) your shot at being an extra in Top Gun: Maverick pages back with a link to this heads-up -
https://twitter.com/vivsdcasting/sta...13292425883649

vis-à-vis her facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pg/VivienneChangCasting/posts/ )
before it was booked and if chosen, you could have been in this unforgettable scene –

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15726075

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Lol. I tell ya, PM, it's an uphill battle. I feel rode hard and put away wet. But that's why God gave us tequila and beer. Tomorrow will be one of those days as I go in for an MRI on my knee. Here's my ten cents, my two cents is free and it's a 2-for-1... don't eat the yellow snow and don't get old. First round is on Al Bundy.

what the hell happened to your knee?!?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by puddy77

Have you (or anyone) watched It's A Wonderful Life yet? Just wondering how it looks in HDR.
Also released another classic in HDR, The War of the Worlds (1953).

I have not, but I noticed that Noremac has already chimed in for you.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

jets

http://www.jetman.com/loft/

[nousefouraname]

Not sure if this is the place to put this, but here it goes. This is going to sound crazy, but I'm realizing I don't think I like the HDR experience. Unless something is wrong with my Sony X900E, I think the picture is too dark even in a pitch black room on nearly all of the 4k discs I own. I've tried playing with everything and unless I turn up artificial color setting like Live Color to max, I'm not happy with it. I've elected to just turn HDR off.

I've looked at discs like Solo among others and it's hard to make out any detail and I'm not getting the deep colors that some rave about with HDR. Turning HDR off, I immediately see a decrease in the integrity of the blacks and shadow detail, but the picture is overall more pleasing to the eye and, honestly, looks more like what I remember in the theater for some of these movies.

Is there something I'm missing here?

[avs commenter]

Originally Posted by nousefouraname

Not sure if this is the place to put this, but here it goes. This is going to sound crazy, but I'm realizing I don't think I like the HDR experience. Unless something is wrong with my Sony X900E, I think the picture is too dark even in a pitch black room on nearly all of the 4k discs I own. I've tried playing with everything and unless I turn up artificial color setting like Live Color to max, I'm not happy with it. I've elected to just turn HDR off.

I've looked at discs like Solo among others and it's hard to make out any detail and I'm not getting the deep colors that some rave about with HDR. Turning HDR off, I immediately see a decrease in the integrity of the blacks and shadow detail, but the picture is overall more pleasing to the eye and, honestly, looks more like what I remember in the theater for some of these movies.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Solo is a very dark film and I kinda prefer the HD version. Try some of the recent Marvel movies like Thor and Avengers. The HDR is fantastic.

[Penton-Man]

Since some of you guys are interested in perspective as to some of the shots in Top Gun: Maverick, like this past one -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...n#post15711907
^ ->


before the above ^ scene, scouting the ocean backdrop from the viewpoint of the camera operator at the exact same spot (street post as marker)
(opposite direction for your guys’ perspective, without the talent in frame) –

later on I’ll try to outline with lines, circles and such a satellite view to geographically show aerially exactly where/what I mentioned in post #7424 - “taxiing out to runway 11/29 for the side-by-side shoot”.

[Penton-Man]

Meanwhile, for those who don’t like to learn about filmmaking involving motorcycles or jets, work on this -
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Bugatti-Chiron-42083

Inspired by the full-size project -

How the LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron Driving Life Size Model was Made Documentary - YouTube

or, for you TV fanatics, who change-out every couple of years, the teasing has already begun…. https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/27/...r-lg-ces-2019/

....for those who have been following this thread for the past several years, you’ll know I, for one, after HDR, am most interested in (and have been patiently waiting for all the ducks to get in place) for this next-gen TV feature - https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/16/...ts-broadcasts/.

Enough for now, work beckons.

[avs commenter]

Not really HDR related, but did you guys hear they are making a new Top Gun movie?

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

And don’t you make fun either, as you too read this thread avidly, I gave you (as well as Waboman) your shot at being an extra in Top Gun: Maverick pages back with a link to this heads-up -
https://twitter.com/vivsdcasting/sta...13292425883649

vis-à-vis her facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pg/VivienneChangCasting/posts/ )
before it was booked and if chosen, you could have been in this unforgettable scene –

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15726075

I'm still waiting for you to oil me up!

Originally Posted by solarrdadd

what the hell happened to your knee?!?

They think I tore my meniscus. The MRI is to find out for sure. Happened back in August. I've been ignoring using my super powers of self healing but I tell ya, like my get up and go, my super self healing powers got up and went. It got to be too much and I eventually conceded and went in. Getting old.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

documenting I was there at 'the pole' is certainly safer than giving away the entire plot of the freakin flick

Anyway, since you mentioned it, not only #8 (Liam), I also like #5 on the list too - https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=82&story=4154

As you may not get her over there on TV in the U.K. though, she’s a pretty fine journalist covering the Prem league for us U.S.A. folks.

Knew that Greengrass was a Palace fan, I had to lol when reading an interview with Matt Damon and he said he took the piss out of Greengrass for being a Palace fan. It's our lot in life.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by avs commenter

Not really HDR related, but did you guys hear they are making a new Top Gun movie?

Never heard of it. In development or filming?