The Martian 4K UHD (2015)

[Bluyoda]

No slipcovers on these? That's going to be a major letdown for many, possibly a dealbreaker.

[Opips3]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

No slipcovers on these? That's going to be a major letdown for many, possibly a dealbreaker.

If you can talk to cat? Good understand Yoda!

Yes, slipcovers there use on UltraHD 4K because they are Eco black case are slime! 😺

[StingingVelvet]

Neat they did as much 4k as they could. I still doubt I'd go back and make this one a priority once I upgrade, but cool they're doing the best disc possible.

[wesslan]

Will upgrade for sure, nice black cases, upgraded (hopefully) audio and a pretty good price for both 4K+blu-ray

[Pieter V]

The Martian is just one (recent) title. What about the oldest title: Life of Pi (2012)?

[MisterXDTV]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

The Martian is just one (recent) title. What about the oldest title: Life of Pi (2012)?

Life Of Pi was shot 2.8K in 3D, I think that will we be a simple upscale re-graded for HDR....

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by MisterXDTV

Life Of Pi was shot 2.8K in 3D, I think that will we be a simple upscale re-graded for HDR....

I was more thinking about the ARRIRAW Files. Hopefully those were separated stored to worked out again.

Time will tell, how good these releases will be. Caps-a-holic- will do the job.

........ if there are UHD Blu-ray players for PC's by then.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by MisterXDTV

Life Of Pi was shot 2.8K in 3D, I think that will we be a simple upscale re-graded for HDR....

Possibly, especially given how much of that movie is sheer VFX anyways.

BUT...for Alexa in general it's still very much worth their time going back to the 2.8K (or 3.4K Open Gate) Alexa capture and upscaling from there, as a 16:9 ARRIRAW frame is 2880 x 1620 which is more than double the pixels of the eventual 2K finish (2880x1620 = 4,665,600, 1998x1080 (1.85 DCP) = 2,157,840)

When Sony uprezzed Skyfall to 4K from Alexa you can bet they didn't just upscale the 2K end product and it looked stonkingly gorgeous (even when blown up to IMAX by all accounts) so there's still value in going back to the ARRIRAW stuff too.

[Brightstar]

How much disk space do these new UHD disks have ? I know blu ray is 50GB

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by brightstar

how much disk space do these new uhd disks have ? I know blu ray is 50gb

100gb

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by spectre08

100gb

really ? or are you pulling my leg

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by Brightstar

really ? or are you pulling my leg

nope

50GB, 66GB, and 100GB variants

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by spectre08

nope

50GB, 66GB, and 100GB variants

so what is 100GB for LOTR ?

[wesslan]

Originally Posted by Brightstar

so what is 100GB for LOTR ?

Well todays 4K streaming movies are also very big so more discspace = better for everyone.

Keep the bonuses on a separate disc and max out bitrates for video och audio I say Not many BDs use their full potential so would be nice to have a better start for UHD.

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by wesslan

Well todays 4K streaming movies are also very big so more discspace = better for everyone.

Keep the bonuses on a separate disc and max out bitrates for video och audio I say Not many BDs use their full potential so would be nice to have a better start for UHD.

yeah, stuff the extras on the BD, I doubt any of them will be in 4K anyways.

[Geoff D]

These will be just like 3D IMO: virtually bare bones with a 2D BD pack-in that has the extras. Most of the available disc space will be given over to the main movie anyway (especially if TL discs are going to be hard to come by), with perhaps a brief occasional 'exclusive' feature in 4K.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by spectre08

nope

50GB, 66GB, and 100GB variants

Don't think we'll see 100GB discs for a while.

[bruceames]

Frame by frame "adjustments" by a colorist? Is this after-the-fact for a home video release, or was the movie already graded that way for the theater? I certainly wouldn't want to see some colorist come in and tinker with movies shown years ago in a different grade (or even one shown yesterday for that matter).

[eriaur]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Possibly, especially given how much of that movie is sheer VFX anyways.

BUT...for Alexa in general it's still very much worth their time going back to the 2.8K (or 3.4K Open Gate) Alexa capture and upscaling from there, as a 16:9 ARRIRAW frame is 2880 x 1620 which is more than double the pixels of the eventual 2K finish (2880x1620 = 4,665,600, 1998x1080 (1.85 DCP) = 2,157,840)

When Sony uprezzed Skyfall to 4K from Alexa you can bet they didn't just upscale the 2K end product and it looked stonkingly gorgeous (even when blown up to IMAX by all accounts) so there's still value in going back to the ARRIRAW stuff too.

A fine piece on ALEXA XT 3.4K and HDR:

https://www.arri.com/news/news/new-a...2k-for-uhd-tv/

[Geoff D]

Yeah, the dynamic range of the Alexa ensures that an HDR grade ain't no thang, and ARRI also came up with an in-camera 4K upscaling solution a while ago. IIRC it was intended more for ease of use on TV/indie workflows than for movie use (the former often being very squeezed for time while the latter takes things a bit slower and often needs untouched source capture for VFX plates etc) but still, they're fully aware of all this stuff and how their equipment jives with it.