List of 4K film transfers on Blu-ray shot on film (non-digitally shot)

[L'armée des ombres]

Ok guys
After sleeping on it, this will be a film only thread.
Digitally shot films will need another thread

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by L'armée des ombres

Ok guys
After sleeping on it, this will be a film only thread.
Digitally shot films will need another thread

thank you.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

thank you.

Thank you back guys for your great response

[eChopper]

interesting that Cool Hand Luke came from a 4k scan . ANyone have a link?

[Rizor]

From a few pages back, the remaining titles from Criterion's "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" set were scanned at 4K, according to the packaging:

Head
The King of Marvin Gardens
Drive, He Said
A Safe Place

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

If Angels and Demons is already done in 4K, why the hell another re-release?

Sony is starting another "Superbit" thing.
They re-release the film with no extras and claim there is a mindblowing difference.
There will be a difference but not a big one i would think regarding this title.
This is the old "milking" the title that Sony did so well in the first years of the DVD

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by Rizor

From a few pages back, the remaining titles from Criterion's "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" set were scanned at 4K, according to the packaging:

Head
The King of Marvin Gardens
Drive, He Said
A Safe Place

Added

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by eChopper

interesting that Cool Hand Look came from a 4k scan . ANyone have a link?

It's mentioned in this article from 2007. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...ay,_HD_DVD/648

The article mentions Bonnie & Clyde, Blade Runner, Sudden Impact and Magnum Force got the 4K treatment. I'm fairly certain Dirty Harry did as well.

As I've mentioned before, Warner has been scanning movies at 4K since about 2003/2004 so it's not necessarily a measure of quality. While movies like Cool Hand Luke, Sudden Impact, Magnum Force, and Blade Runner all got 4K scans the Blu-rays suffer due to anemic bitrates and cramming the movies onto BD-25s.

[Dubstar]

can someone find a link to whether Vertigo and The Birds were 4K scans I could only find one mention of it, but wanted a second verification.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by Canada

"Keep in mind, these are NOT actual 4K Blu-rays. They’re essentially the BD equivalent of Sony’s Superbit DVDs from a few years back – simply mastered from 4K source material with high video data rates, but still just 1080p. My personal response to these is similar to my reaction to the Superbit DVDs back in the day: If you can master Blu-rays in better quality, why haven’t you been doing it all along?"

by Bill Hunt

This isn't a Sony thread for their 4K BD's. Which i agree are already the same as any 4K mastered bluray downscaled to 1080p. This thread is for 4K mastered (and i guess higher since there are movies with 8K scans on the list) films in general.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by saprano

This isn't a Sony thread for their 4K BD's. Which i agree are already the same as any 4K mastered bluray downscaled to 1080p. This thread is for 4K mastered (and i guess higher since there are movies with 8K scans on the list) films in general.

Saprano
Canada was quoting Bill Hunt over at Digital Bits.
And you're right, this is for those films mastered in 4K and higher

[eChopper]

Originally Posted by Rizor

It's mentioned in this article from 2007. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...ay,_HD_DVD/648

The article mentions Bonnie & Clyde, Blade Runner, Sudden Impact and Magnum Force got the 4K treatment. I'm fairly certain Dirty Harry did as well.

As I've mentioned before, Warner has been scanning movies at 4K since about 2003/2004 so it's not necessarily a measure of quality. While movies like Cool Hand Luke, Sudden Impact, Magnum Force, and Blade Runner all got 4K scans the Blu-rays suffer due to anemic bitrates and cramming the movies onto BD-25s.

thanks for the link.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by L'armée des ombres

Saprano
Canada was quoting Bill Hunt over at Digital Bits.
And you're right, this is for those films mastered in 4K and higher

Yeah i know he was. Just reminding people.

[42041]

So are we including newer movies on this list as well? I'm not sure that's a very useful thing until an actual 4K format comes along, since a high-quality 2K DI doesn't look much different from a 4K one at 1080p.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by 42041

So are we including newer movies on this list as well? I'm not sure that's a very useful thing until an actual 4K format comes along, since a high-quality 2K DI doesn't look much different from a 4K one at 1080p.

This will be a film only thread.
Films that we can confirm one way or the other that are mastered in 4K.
No 2K DI.
Digitally shot films will need another thread

[42041]

well, if we're including new movies...
there's the aforementioned Lincoln: http://www.technicolor.com/en/hi/cre...s/news/lincoln
while we're on Spielberg, War Horse was also mastered in 4K: http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publi.../War_Horse.htm
Many of the Coens' recent films were mastered in 4K:
True Grit: http://motion.kodak.com/motion/About...s/truegrit.htm
A Serious Man: http://www.rogerdeakins.com/forum2/v....php?f=5&t=950 (this is the personal forum of the DP, see second post)
No Country for Old Men: http://www.rogerdeakins.com/forum2/v....php?f=5&t=285

The digital master of, er, The Master, was 4K, though it was also printed photochemically: http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/09/f...m-35mm-and-4k/

There are many other 35mm -> 4K DI films, but I'm too lazy to google at the moment.

[Onlysleeping23]

Originally Posted by Scholer

Man the last par states that ''the film'' was far more beautiful and that it would become more difficult to continue ''the process''. Even an idiot can understand that he was talking about a print. And Tarantino will undoubtedly make some photochemical prints himself.

"Richardson notes that Tarantino initially wanted to try a photochemical finish, but ultimately conceded to the realities of digital distribution. “He wants to get this film in as many theaters as possible,” Richardson comments. Even so, he continues, “my work with Yvan essentially duplicated what we would have done in the lab. We worked in points. Of course, there are more variables in the digital space, so we can work with quarter points, but the concept remains the same.”"

"....Deluxe’s proprietary Adjustable Contrast Enhancement silver-retention process was applied to the Western portion of the story in the print dailies, and the team applied a digital approximation of that look to the CinemaScan dailies and to the final grade."

Bolded for emphasis.

[brian9229]

I thought wizard of oz was a 4k transfer. Thats what it showed on the restoration clip thats on the extras.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by brian9229

I thought wizard of oz was a 4k transfer. Thats what it showed on the restoration clip thats on the extras.

Wasn't that produced for the DVD?

[AlexBC]

Originally Posted by Rizor

From a few pages back, the remaining titles from Criterion's "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" set were scanned at 4K, according to the packaging:

Head
The King of Marvin Gardens
Drive, He Said
A Safe Place

But I think it's important to notice that they were not from OCN, but from film prints.

That puts the quality of these titles way bellow the average quality of 4K scans (which are usually from the original camera negatives), and basically kills the advantage of the 4k scan.

This can be easily seen by checking the review captures here at BD.com.