The Elephant Man (1980)

[anthonyls]

I'll wait for the UHD to come down in price a little bit and just pass on the Criterion. Sorry folks but PQ is pretty important to me. Afterall, isn't that the real reason we all ditched DVD in favor of blu rays to begin with.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by anthonyls

I'll wait for the UHD to come down in price a little bit and just pass on the Criterion. Sorry folks but PQ is pretty important to me. Afterall, isn't that the real reason we all ditched DVD in favor of blu rays to begin with.

Yeah but UHD being better doesn't make Blu-ray quality bad. Eventually something will be better than UHD and so forth. You can't really fault people for choosing to stop somewhere. And frankly Blu-ray probably is the end of the road for a lot of movies, as far as disc format is concerned.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by starsteam

Yeah but UHD being better doesn't make Blu-ray quality bad. Eventually something will be better than UHD and so forth. You can't really fault people for choosing to stop somewhere. And frankly Blu-ray probably is the end of the road for a lot of movies, as far as disc format is concerned.

There can't be anything better than UHD, really, other than lossless compression. 35mm film is roughly the equivalent of 4K, so there's no more information to get, so that's all the detail there is.

Originally Posted by yoloswegmaster420

How could it have been the perfect title to put out when Paramount doesn't even license UHD rights?

Because they could've put it out themselves? The master was already done.

Originally Posted by slimdude

Criterion doesn't need to release 4K movies they have their own strategy, and they're not mandated to don't have to jump on the bandwagon either.

Their own strategy to be inferior, I guess. "Not mandated to don't have to" is English?

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

Their own strategy to be inferior, I guess.

Criterion is not holding a gun on you or anybody else to buy their blu-rays. If you don't like their blu-rays then don't buy them. If you dislike Criterion so much, then why do you want them to release 4K movies. Dammit if they do dammit if they don't!

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Criterion is not holding a gun on you or anybody else to buy their blu-rays. If you don't like their blu-rays then don't buy them. If you dislike Criterion so much, then why do you want them to release 4K movies. Dammit if they do dammit if they don't!

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[mikesncc1701]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Criterion is not holding a gun on you or anybody else to buy their blu-rays. If you don't like their blu-rays then don't buy them. If you dislike Criterion so much, then why do you want them to release 4K movies. Dammit if they do dammit if they don't!

I know that reply wasn't for me but a lot of us feel there's no reason for them not to jump into the UHD game.

I love Criterion! I've been collecting their discs since the early 2000s and paying upwards to 200 dollars at the time for OOP titles like Salo, The Killer, Spinal Tap, How To Get Ahead In Advertising...the list goes on. I want Criterion to release 4K discs so I can support them! When stuff like his happens in an era where people pay specific attention to quality down to the last pixel, they're only doing themselves a disservice. I haven't bought this particular title on anything but DVD but given the choices presently, I'd buy the SC disc over the Criterion. If Criterion had announced this in UHD, I'd buy that one. It's not a complicated issue, you're just being an argumentative twat.