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Jan 2019
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#1244 |
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Apr 2021
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Great 3D picture quality on this one. Had no expectations going in and at times the movie was silly but I enjoyed it.
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#1245 |
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Sep 2023
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This film has some nasty audio clipping. For example, around 11:30 when the Chris Tucker is saying "a lot of things gotta happen", his voice has high frequency distortion in it. Given how much care and effort was put into the video side of things, I find this sloppiness on the audio front to be utterly bemusing. At first, I thought it was something wrong on my end, but I replicated it on two completely different systems. It's present on both the UHD and regular BD disks too.
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a videophile reference quality movie that everyone with a 4K Blu-ray player should place in their collection to show people what the 4K Blu-ray format can do. I have only once before seen such a high-quality movie like this before. I will go into more details a little on in my post why everyone that is a videophile should own this movie (I enjoyed director Ang Lee movie and Vin Diesel is a good actor, but even if one does not like this movie, it’s a must have 4K Blu-ray disc for that amazing image quality that I have only experienced once before). The lossless 13.1 Dolby Atmos sound quality sounded good on an old year 2008 7.1 Dolby TrueHD core audio system.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk had a budget of $40 million dollars and box office sells of $30.9 million dollars. Movie was rated R by the MPA for “Language throughout, some war violence, sexual content, and brief drug use”. There was no nudity in this movie and when the MPA says sexual content I believe they may be talking about a few deep kissing scenes between a man and a woman with lip content. However, even though there is no nudity or sexual situations in the movie, verbally some of the soldiers that are off duty talk about sex once and awhile and that is where the R rating for sexual content occurs. While I did not notice any drug use in this movie, I guess the smoking scene must not have been tobacco smoking and must have been marijuana instead, since the MPA claims there was drug use in the movie. It’s rare but sometimes I reboot during a movie similar to a human being falling asleep, but when that happens I always back the movie up so that I do not mis any scenes in the movie (just joking, but I really do back up a movie or start the movie over in the rare chance I fall asleep). Again, I believe the fictional drug use in this movie was rare in one smoking scene and the sexual content was verbal only unless the kissing scene was considered sexual content, and that is why the MPA mentioned why the movie earned the R rating along with language and war violence. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a fictional movie, but in many ways a realistic movie. Billy Lynn is a 19-year-old US Army specialist from Texas who earned a silver star during his tour in Iraq. The movie shows the hard life of an American soldier and like any career there are positives and negatives. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a 2016 movie that was released on the 4K Blu-ray format on 2-14-2017. This fictional and realistic story takes place in the year 2004. Politics about the Iraq war are briefly mentioned with some family members against the war, while most the family members supporting their son Billy and supporting the Iraq war. Movie shows American soldiers experiencing flashbacks from the war and having some minor mental issues from the stress of near-death battles in Iraq. Movie talks about the low year 2004 salary of a solider being only around $30,000. Many people volunteer for the military by enlisting in one of the branches like the army, in order to keep America and many other parts of the world safe. Movie shows some people have respect for the people in uniform, however other people in society show some disrespect for active military servicemen. But sometimes the fictional characters from the army provoke the verbal or physical fight while at home. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was an interesting movie that was co-produced between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. Overall, I thought director Ang Lee who was born in Taiwan did a good job with the movie showing both positives and negatives of a military career and the horrors of war (every career in the world has both positives and negatives). Some people might not like this movie since it shows some negative things that off duty servicemen sometimes do and the movie was most likely not politically correct sometimes. This is a fictional movie and one scene in the movie shows a nightclub bar employee illegally allowing army solders under the age of 21 into a bar so they can drink alcoholic beverages. While many people believe that people as young as 18 years old should be able to drink alcoholic beverages, that nightclub employee that worked for the nightclub could have been fired and arrested if someone found out that he broke the law and let adults under the age of 21 into the bar (but this is a fictional movie and such events in real life might be rare). Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk shows the negatives and positives of the movie industry, live stage events, etc. Some people like this movie while other people dislike this movie. I guess more people disliked the movie instead of liked it because of the box office sells were very low and the movie lost money. Billy Lynn does remain faithful to the army and his squad while on duty and off duty since an army squad have a close friendship with one another. Even if one does not like this movie, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a must own movie on the 4K Blu-ray format for videophiles. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was shot digitally in native 4K and printed at 120fps and also 60fps for movie theaters (some theaters 24fps and 2K Blu-ray 24fps). As most people are aware since around the year 1890 around 99% of movies use the 24fps frame rate since that is more economical for both film stock and digital storage. The higher the frame rate the more expensive the production cost will be since one is using more film and more digital storage. It is my understanding that Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was shown in select IMAX and Dolby Cinema theaters in native 4K in 3D at a frame rate of 120fps (that is 60fps right eye and 60fps left eye). However, if one got to see Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk in a 2D theater with a modern digital DLP projector then the movie was shown at 60fps. What is so special about this 4K Blu-ray disc release is that this movie is native 4K HDR10 at 60fps (60Hz) instead of being native 24fps (24Hz). This is the second time I have seen a native 60fps movie at 60Hz. The 2K Blu-ray format maxes out at 1080P at 24fps. And with the standard 2K Blu-ray format if one wants 1080P there is only one frame rate 24fps (24Hz). The advantage of the 4K Blu-ray format is that it offers native 60fps (60Hz). As many people already know I am using an old year 2008 Pioneer Elite Signature series PRO-101FD reference 2K plasma display that was top of the line until around the year 2016-2018 when quality 4K OLED displays surpassed the year 2008 Pioneer Elite plasma in overall picture quality (but when it comes to motion quality the Pioneer plasma will beat any flat panel display including OLED. Only a high-end DLP projector will beat the plasma when it comes to motion quality). While I should have upgraded my 2K Pioneer plasma with a 4K OLED screen in 2016-2018, now I am holding off until 2026-2028+ with planned upgrade to 8K display or 8K projector. I have owned a native 4K LCD computer monitor since 2015, but when I connect a year 2016 OPPO UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player to the year 2015 4K computer monitor, all I see is an increased resolution detail and overall my year 2008 2K 50 inch Pioneer plasma has a better picture quality when it comes to black levels, colors, and nice smooth motion of 72Hz using 2D triple flash technology. When I played the Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk on an old year 2008 Pioneer plasma, I was surprised at how good native 60Hz (60fps) material looks when being shown at native 60Hz. Wow, and very awesome motion quality at 60fps!! While this 4K Blu-ray is standard 2D, the amount of depth in the motion made the movie feel like 3D. I have become a big fan of high frame rate movies after watching this movie in native 60fps at 60Hz on a Pioneer plasma. If I owned an OLED screen the limitations of the OLED screen motion quality would mean a double flash to 120Hz would need to occur. *** If one has an old native 60Hz display that displays at true 60Hz then buy this movie, totally awesome experience. DLP projector owners should experience 60fps with incredible motion quality better than any other display on the market *** This Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk movie had a realism that I have only seen twice in my life, at times the images at 60fps felt like I was watching a 3D movie even though the screen is 2D, the depth in the image was amazing. Color quality even at HDR to SDR conversion was amazing. I wish James Cameron would make the Avatar sequels at native 60fps for 2D and 120fps at 3D. Of course, 240fps for 3D or 2D would be better, but remember the higher frame rate means a much larger movie budget needs to occur. I would not complain if movies are made at 480fps for theaters since they could be converted to 60fps (60Hz) for home displays. The year 2006 2K Blu-ray format is 2D quality at 1080p/24fps. The year 2010 Blu-ray 3D format is 48fps 2K quality with 24fps right eye and 24fps left eye. If one day the BDA approves a new 8K Blu-ray format in 2026-2028+ then the BDA should make the players capable of doing 8K 3D at 120fps or 4K 3D at 240fps. But I wish I could have seen this movie in true 3D 120fps with 4K, maybe one day. Because of limitations of my display and A/V receiver the native 4K Blu-ray disc with lossless 13.1 Dolby Atmos was downscaled to 2K SDR with 7.1 Dolby TrueHD core audio. Disc 1 is a BD-100 4K Blu-ray disc, Disc 2 is a BD-50 Blu-ray 3D disc, and Disc 3 is a BD-50 2K Blu-ray disc. A total of 87.1GB of space is used on the BD-100 4K Blu-ray disc. A total of 37.5GB of space is used on the BD-50 Blu-ray 3D disc, a total of 31.5GB of space is used on the BD-50 2K Blu-ray disc. The HEVC video bit rate for this movie was over 100Mbps for many scenes in the movie. I experienced flawless perfect playback on my year 2016 OPPO UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player. Several reverse scans and a true reference quality BD-100 disc from Sony Pictures. The small amount of extra features on the 4K Blu-ray disc is native 4K with a mixture of 24fps or 60fps depending on what is being played. All the other extra features are on the enclosed 2K Blu-ray disc using the MPEG-4/AVC codec at 2K (1080P) quality. There is an enclosed frame packed Blu-ray 3D disc that uses 48fps (24fps right eye and 24fps left eye). The old year 2010 Blu-ray 3D format does not support high frame rate like 120fps (60fps right eye and 60fps left eye). Also I do not own a 3D projector at this time. This is a must own 4K Blu-ray disc for all videophiles. Find a DLP projector that outputs 60fps or a plasma that outputs 60Hz, then you will experience motion quality and 2D images that look almost like 3D images. I have become a big fan of high frame rate movies, and this is the second high frame rate 60fps movie that I have seen. It is my understanding that only two high frame rate 60fps titles have been released on the 4K Blu-ray format. The first title released was Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk that was released on the 4K Blu-ray format on 2-14-2017 using HDR10. However, the second title released on the 4K Blu-ray format with high frame rate 60fps was Gemini Man (released with Dolby Vision HDR on 1-14-2020). When comparing the two movies the Gemini Man has a better picture quality when compared to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Perhaps the 12 bit Dolby Vision HDR encode of Gemini Man makes the movie look better and perhaps since 60fps high frame rate technology had been improved, might be the reason why I felt Gemini Man looked better then Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Here are the links to the only two high frame rate 60fps 4K Blu-ray discs in existence. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Billy...166477/#Review https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gemin...252674/#Review Last edited by HDTV1080P; 12-16-2024 at 02:29 AM. |
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My Panasonic UB820 plays this in SDR. I tried setting the player to both 4:4:4 and 4:2:0. Any idea how to get HDR? I have a Sony x900f TV.
My PS5 is playing it in HDR, though interestingly it said it was an invalid disc at first. Ejected it and retried it, then it worked. |
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Not a fan of HFR, it just makes it apparent you’re watching a production, a performance. Although I think the movie itself looks just utterly fantastic |
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