Planet Earth II 4K UHD (2016)

[Oscar Rothman]

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Planet Earth II 4K Blu-ray

[RealorFake4K]

I am stoked to get this on UHD! Also, $60 MSRP is a pretty good starting point for 6 hours of Real 4K content. This better be a demo worthy transfer!

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I wish they would do a 'Pole-to-Pole' two hour episode for theaters in 4K. It would be perfect for Fathom to pick-up.

[Firecrackker]

Awesome. How many episodes is this?

[RealorFake4K]

Originally Posted by Firecrackker

Awesome. How many episodes is this?

6 one hour episodes.

I don't subscribe to cable anymore... is the US getting 60 minute shows with 20 minutes of commercials (edited for time) or 90 minute shows with 30 minutes with of commercials (full 60 minutes)?

[zmarty]

This is awesome! I wanted to make a thread to whine that BBC should release this in 4K. So glad that they are, and so soon.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

All I can say is they better not have crammed a bunch of episodes per disc and bit starve the video like they did with the last Planet Earth sets.

This would also be awesome in Dolby Atmos!

[BenjaminG]

Oh my god.

Fantastic news.

[Lion]

Awesome!

Watched the Africa series at the weekend and that was magnificent and at a Constant avg bitrate of 37/38 Mbps.

hopefully the UK version will show up soon!

[reanimator]

This is terrific news. The original PLANET EARTH is one of the titles that made me jump to bluray in the first place. Really looking forward to this!!!

[Geoff D]

Awesome sauce.

[theone2610]

God I hope this supports HDR! Nature doc in 4k HDR would be pure visual heaven if those UHD HDR demos are anything to go by.

[Sky_Captain]

Originally Posted by Lion

Awesome!

Watched the Africa series at the weekend and that was magnificent and at a Constant avg bitrate of 37/38 Mbps.

hopefully the UK version will show up soon!

Hopefully it's not just getting a US release simply because BBC America distribute through Warner.

[Lion]

Well I've looked at the UK BBC Shop and also searched under the ASIN: B01LTHYICS. no luck yet. The normal Blu-ray is released on 5th December.

[cleeve]

Is it safe to assume that this is going to be a native 4k release?

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by cleeve

Is it safe to assume that this is going to be a native 4k release?

The whole point of BBC's Planet Earth II was that the entire program was shot in native 4k with the latest digital cameras. It will have consistent quality throughout whereas the original PE had a mix of various camera qualities; not all of them even HD grade.

[tyrok]

I figured that this might be the first show released in UHD when David Attenborough mentioned it was shot in 4K on The Graham Norton Show. It does seem like it might be somewhat upscaled like the first series:

http://www.redsharknews.com/producti...lly-shot-in-4k

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by tyrok

I figured that this might be the first show released in UHD when David Attenborough mentioned it was shot in 4K on The Graham Norton Show. It does seem like it might be somewhat upscaled like the first series:

http://www.redsharknews.com/producti...lly-shot-in-4k

Not everything was done in 4K, true. Sometimes you can't.

-Some footage on remote locations
-Waiting for animals to turn up for the camera lens

In episode two, I saw a RED Camera. So that is native 4K.

[SlaughterX]

Excited!

[Dubstar]

They should release "Enchanted Kingdom" on UHD - I'd be very happy

[BluRyan]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but wasn't 'Planet Earth' the first 'TV on BD' release? My how time flies! Fitting if so that 'Planet Earth II' is the first 'TV on UHD' release. Hopefully the first of many!

EDIT: Just realised Sopranos beat it by a few months, but still, first BBC release!