Blurays in bundle with 4K Blurays not including new transfer

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I started this thread about this matter which I hope it doesn't become a trend.

From what I understand the new Mummy releases and the first harry Potter movies that had new scans, didn't include that latest transfer in the Blu-ray which is bundled with the 4K disc.

I don't know if anyone else is upset about this thing.
i really wanted to buy those movies and now i can't.
(the previous blurays are much inferior by today's standards).

Do you think this will become a trend forcing us to switch to 4K?

[ravenus]

Well definitely some of the studios are going to go at least for a while with this model to see if they can't "coax" viewers to see the superiority of 4K by only allowing comparison with a dated HD master (and part of it is being too indifferent to issue a freshly authored BD).

[RoboDan]

Blade Runner: The Final Cut contains a Blu-ray with the previous VC-1 encode.

[AgentOrange]

Not all that surprising, unless they are going to release the 4K remaster to blu-ray as a new SKU (which they really should be doing). But if there is no new blu-ray SKU, it's not surprising they are just using the old discs. Though it really is a shame and a waste - particularly for those that will never switch to UHD. I guess we'll see next time something like Mummy is re-packaged, if they'll ever offer upgraded discs.

[nitin]

Only some of the Sony titles (and even then only in the US) have a 4K remastered blu Ray included, and Warner's Unforgiven (even The Prestige and Batman Begins in the Nolan set are re-encodes using the old blu ray masters).

[kingdoxie]

There's another thread on this topic started in December, search and ye shall find.

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Originally Posted by kingdoxie

There's another thread on this topic started in December, search and ye shall find.

Well, I don't know what keyword to use to search.
Maybe the moderators can merge both threads.