Lawrence of Arabia 4K UHD (1962)

[TheSweetieMan]

Cool.

I hope District 9 is coming soon.

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by TheSweetieMan

I hope District 9 is coming soon.

The sooner these are both out, the sooner I can complete my 4K Lawrence of District 9 Supercut.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by TheSweetieMan

Cool.

I hope Boyz N the Hood is coming soon.

Fixed

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

The sooner these are both out, the sooner I can complete my 4K Lawrence of District 9 Supercut.

Lawrence of Joburg.

"The trick, Wikus, is not minding that it hurts." - Scientists removing his prawn arm, probably

[Talal86]

I've only watched bits and pieces on tv years and years ago, so basically this will be a blind buy

[nick4Knight]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

I'll just pretend I didn't read this... because we all know it's Paul Blart 2 that we really need!

I'm waiting for the Dolby Vision + atmos Adam Sandler commissioned netflix-tie-in-deal sequel that will go right to the top of the reference HDR list for many an aficianado round these parts.

Paul Blart 3: The Blartening




... I'm sorry Lawrence of Arabia. I truly am. To sully your thread like this

[LexInHD]

Paul Blart 3: The Last Mall Cop Awakens and Paul Blart 4: Rise Of The Mall Cop will be shot back-to-back. The prequel, titled "Blart", will be shooting while those two are in post-production.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I am anxious to see how it compares to The Bridge on the River Kwai since they're only 5 years apart.

What? Kwai was shot 35mm scope while Lawrence was 65mm flat (and scanned in 8K for this restoration, albeit finished in 4K). Five years apart, fifty years apart, it doesn't matter: as good as Kwai looks, numerous lap dissolves aside, Lawrence is going to straight up murder it. Even any dissolves or fades in Lawrence are essentially first gen material because it was cut to A and B rolls, and as no-one was asleep at the wheel *cough* 2001 then all such editorial decisions should be present and correct.

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

I think I’m more excited about not having to read everyone comment in the Sony threads about this anymore.

I was gonna reply to this with "I think you have it confused with District 9?" but then I see Sweetie has dutifully chimed in with the inevitable D9 threadcrap.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

What? Kwai was shot 35mm scope while Lawrence was 65mm flat (and scanned in 8K for this restoration, albeit finished in 4K). Five years apart, fifty years apart, it doesn't matter: as good as Kwai looks, numerous lap dissolves aside, Lawrence is going to straight up murder it. Even any dissolves or fades in Lawrence are essentially first gen material because it was cut to A and B rolls, and as no-one was asleep at the wheel *cough* 2001 then all such editorial decisions should be present and correct.


I was gonna reply to this with "I think you have it confused with District 9?" but then I see Sweetie has dutifully chimed in with the inevitable D9 threadcrap.

Lol I’m sure people are sick of me mentioning Boyz n the Hood all the time.

[azmodeous]

That sound you hear was me shouting for joy reading this news.

[LordoftheRings]

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[evanft]

100 gb triple stack?

I wasn’t planning on masturbating today, but here we are.

[Geoff D]

I think they'll be fine with squeezing this onto a 100GB. I'd have preferred a 2-disc split as even 2x 66 would be 132GB, but as it is the movie is not exactly a bewildering Bay-esque editing nightmare which the compression has to chase after (2 Lawrence 2 Furious), it's letterboxed @ 2.20 which cuts down on the amount of picture area that needs encoding, and it won't have many foreign language dubs to soak up space.

[HeavyHitter]

I'm not worried. Sony has been pretty darn good at encoding.

Imagine if this was SC? lol

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

Lol I’m sure people are sick of me mentioning Boyz n the Hood all the time.

Maybe I should start posting about 2046 in every Sony disc thread, to make it a trifecta.

[DaveFi]

Originally Posted by TheSweetieMan

Cool.

I hope District 9 is coming soon.

iTunes has an excellent 4k/Dolby Vision transfer for $5. I Airplay it to my Vizio with my iPad.

[professorwho]

The JP Mastered in 4K release was on 2 discs, as we all know. Disc 1 was 139 min, and Disc 2 was 87 min. Now, in a perfect world, I'd love it if Sony replicated this with the UHD- Disc 1 being a BD-100, and Disc 2 being a BD-66; but, it probably won't be the case.

Sony is very good with compression, but even I have some doubts, albeit tiny, as to whether or not they can fit it on just one disc- this is a 3 3/4 hour film, after all.

[brainofj72]

It’s crazy to think about how the first (and only, actually!) time I saw this was on DVD via a small-ish CRT in my bedroom when I was in high school. This is gonna be quite the upgrade. I’ve always been hoping to find a 70mm screening, but this will have to suffice.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by professorwho

The JP Mastered in 4K release was on 2 discs, as we all know. Disc 1 was 139 min, and Disc 2 was 87 min. Now, in a perfect world, I'd love it if Sony replicated this with the UHD- Disc 1 being a BD-100, and Disc 2 being a BD-66; but, it probably won't be the case.

Sony is very good with compression, but even I have some doubts, albeit tiny, as to whether or not they can fit it on just one disc- this is a 3 3/4 hour film, after all.

Again: the film has a lot of very still or slow moving scenes as well as very fine grain, coupled with a letterboxed presentation and minimal foreign language tracks. All of this in the hands of a skilled compressionist is no reason to unduly worry.

I'm not saying it's THE most optimal presentation but the reference to the Mi4K is apt because I generally regard UHD and BD capacity to be quite similar in terms of how much content (relative to UHD and HD) can be put onto them before things really start to suffer. Point being that while a two-disc version would be best, they put the whole movie on a single BD without overtly damaging it and I believe the same holds true for UHD.

Yes, Sony squeezed more refinement out of the dual disc Mi4K version but the regular BD was still a fabulous encode, all 3 3/4 hours of it with an average bitrate of just 22 Mb/s, for the same reasons as described above. The overture and intermission also take up several minutes of that quoted running time, during which the bitrate can drop away to minimal levels.

By my calcumalations they could use an average bitrate of 50 Mb/s and still have plenty of room on a 100GB for the Atmos audio and maybe one or two low bitrate dubs.

[cherbert]

It's been an iTunes exclusive for a while now. I guess the exclusivity must be expiring.