Argo, The Town, Mad Max (1979) 4K UHD pre-order

[MattPerdue]

I'd down for Argo since that has a 4K master.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by MattPerdue

I'd down for Argo since that has a 4K master.

All 4 shot on film. They'll probably just get rescanned anyways.

[MattPerdue]

Originally Posted by ray0414

All 4 shot on film. They'll probably just get rescanned anyways.

If I can get confirmation on that then yeah I'd be good for them all.

[Scorpion Soldier]

Definitely down for Argo and The Town! I do hope The Town includes the extended cut as well as the theatrical cut though.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by MattPerdue

If I can get confirmation on that then yeah I'd be good for them all.

Imbd.com has very detailed camera specs for all 3 movies. They can sometimes be wrong about DIs, but camera lists for older movies are almost always spot on. All shot on film with film cameras.

[MattPerdue]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Imbd.com has very detailed camera specs for all 3 movies. They can sometimes be wrong about DIs, but camera lists for older movies are almost always spot on. All shot on film with film cameras.

I was talking about the masters for the UHD discs. Like if Warner Brothers comes out and says "These are sourced from 4K masters" or something like that.

More so in relation to The Town. Mad Max shouldn't be an issue and we already know Argo is 4K. I just hate the idea of buying a UHD disc for a film where the source is a 2K DI. I know UHD Blu-ray is "more that just resolution" but I don't want my collection to just be full of upscales. And with Warners I'm just never sure.

Though I'm wondering if that Mad Max disc is even gonna get release over here. I see WB has it for foreign territories but MGM still has it over here in the US. Not that I can't import if I choose to get it but just curious on that one.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by MattPerdue

I was talking about the masters for the UHD discs. Like if Warner Brothers comes out and says "These are sourced from 4K masters" or something like that.

More so in relation to The Town. Mad Max shouldn't be an issue and we already know Argo is 4K. I just hate the idea of buying a UHD disc for a film where the source is a 2K DI. I know UHD Blu-ray is "more that just resolution" but I don't want my collection to just be full of upscales. And with Warners I'm just never sure.

Though I'm wondering if that Mad Max disc is even gonna get release over here. I see WB has it for foreign territories but MGM still has it over here in the US. Not that I can't import if I choose to get it but just curious on that one.

If it's rescanned for 4k the DI doesn't matter. That's the beauty of shooting on film instead of digital.


Uhd discs are region free so you can always important if needed.

[Pyoko]

Originally Posted by ray0414

All 4 shot on film. They'll probably just get rescanned anyways.

I wouldn't bet on it for The Town, and I don't think the word "just" ever enters into it when rescanning a film, especially with these DI movies as I assume they never cut together a complete physical negative after editing, which means even more work piecing it together from all the separate reels again (anyone with insider knowledge please correct me if I'm wrong.)

And for these older DI movies that were done way before HDR became a consideration, do they go back to some archived ungraded source, or are they just trying to artificially punch it up from the already compressed/graded SDR master? I assume and hope it's the former, but we've already seen many examples of things that should have been archived but weren't (the scan of Baraka for example.)