The Green Knight (Scanbox)

[hm83]

I recently bought the Scandinavian Blu-ray edition of The Green Knight released by Scanbox/Soul Media. Unfortunately this edition have a lot of problem. To my understanding Scanbox use 25GB Blu-ray discs instead of 50GB discs. This results in a lot of anomalies and defects, especially in darker scenes. For example there is a lot of banding, to a point where it gets overwhelmingly distracting. Still there is a decent amount of detail in the daytime scenes. I'm pretty worried that other movies I bought from Scanbox will have the same problems. Have anyone else experienced this?



How can a serious company release a product in this state? Don't they have some kind of quality control? One of the reasons that we buy physical media is to avoid things like this. This is unfortunate since Scanbox do have a lot of interesting movies in their line-up.

I have contacted Scanbox and I'm currently waiting for a response.

[israels]

Yeah, I’ve learned to stay away from nordic releases unless they’re dirt cheap.
Usually barebones with various technical issues.
And still they complain that nobody buys blu-rays.

[Tuc0]

Originally Posted by israels

Yeah, I’ve learned to stay away from nordic releases unless they’re dirt cheap.
Usually barebones with various technical issues.
And still they complain that nobody buys blu-rays.

It is spreading to the 4K's as well unfortunately.

[Ellum]

Originally Posted by Tuc0

It is spreading to the 4K's as well unfortunately.

Do you have any examples?

[Tuc0]

Originally Posted by Ellum

Do you have any examples?

I would say Django 4K is a prime example. I think it was even a burned not pressed disc and the recent No Time to Die disc from SF suffers from a much more unhealthy bitrate and the lack of DV as well compared to other countries releases. I don't have any other release of Midway but the nordic release is a pretty much 45 bit on its peak and lacks DV as well so I wouldn't be surprised if it looked quite different to the counterparts.