Weathering with You 4K UHD (2019)

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Originally Posted by beck_

Thanks! Just for my understanding, the main BD you get in the US, which one is that? Is that the bad one? I'm wavering between getting the 4K and Blu-ray. If the 4K really is a bunch better I think I'll go with it.

The BD included looks really good. The Italian Dynit Blu-ray is a bit better encoded, but there's zero English support, so it's not an option for most. As for the UHD... it does have a good deal of artificial sharpening applied, but it has better compression due to over double the bitrate of the included BD, and doesn't have an LPF applied (I don't think the US BD has an LPF applied, but it for sure isn't on the UHD).

The HDR is "fake," not because of nit count, but that the film was originally composited in SDR (and in 1920x1080p), thus this is a faux-HDR pass, but it apparently looks really good, and comparisons between the BD and UHD show it.

The other main reason to get the 4K is for the collector's edition contents, with the 100+ book from the Japanese CE fully translated into English, and a fully subtitled "making of" documentary, which is awfully rare for anime (and especially 90 minutes long like this one!).