4K Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads

[batman2000]

This thread is for when you want to know the answer to something 4K related, but don't want to make a whole individual thread for it. Or can't make a thread. Or don't want to get roundly mocked.

No question too small! Or too dumb!

[Opips3]

I can't remember it older on title. Maybe Lawrence of Arabia and The bridge on the river Kwai

I just tell you it's illegal to 4:3 screen for UltraHD 4K. Must minimum 1:78:1 screen to maximize 2:39:1 screen.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Opips3

I can't remember it older on title. Maybe Lawrence of Arabia and The bridge on the river Kwai

I just tell you it's illegal to 4:3 screen for UltraHD 4K. Must minimum 1:78:1 screen to maximize 2:39:1 screen.

Get your paws off my Casablanca. Oh wait, that was filmed in 35mm...how was it scanned for the Bluray? I dont recall.

[Pieter V]

Captain Phillips
Men In Black
Ghostbusters
Bad Boys
The Da Vinci Code
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Guns of Navarone
Taxi Driver
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

These are all confirmed by Sony.

Man of Steel
Pacific Rim

Confirmed by Warner Bros.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

You don't? There is one main master and it was scanned in 8K.

Thank you, Pieter! There's one I'd love to see in 4K too. But don't...don't apply HDR to it, the image data is either there or it isn't at this point...

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by JJ

Thank you, Pieter! There's one I'd love to see in 4K too. But don't...don't apply HDR to it, the image data is either there or it isn't at this point...

Ignore my reply, Casablanca was scanned in 4K. I saw Lawrence of Arabia, in your quote. Oops.

[Opips3]

Originally Posted by JJ

Get your paws off my Casablanca. Oh wait, that was filmed in 35mm...how was it scanned for the Bluray? I dont recall.

it fine on Bluray but not UltraHD 4K. I love Casablanca. How scanned for the Bluray? Film copy to computer digital restored movie to bluray. I guess.

[Brad1963]

Fox has confirmed The Omen and Independence Day are coming.

[Adam_ME]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Fox has confirmed The Omen and Independence Day are coming.

ID4 makes perfect sense to tie into the new movie. Hopefully Sony does the same when the new Ghostbusters hits theaters. I could also see them releasing the first two Robert Langdon flicks in time for Inferno. And Paramount's rumored to be prepping the Abrams' Star Trek flicks. I figure we'll get those either when Beyond hits theaters or home video.

But I ain't holding my breath for the entire Harry Potter series when Fantastic Beasts comes out at Thanksgiving.

[Coenskubrick]

Originally Posted by Opips3

I can't remember it older on title. Maybe Lawrence of Arabia and The bridge on the river Kwai

I just tell you it's illegal to 4:3 screen for UltraHD 4K. Must minimum 1:78:1 screen to maximize 2:39:1 screen.

TVs are 1.78:1, not 2.39:1, and so is the UHD resolution standard, so there is no "maximizing for 2.39:1 screen". 2.39 and 4:3 take up the same portion of pixels on a 1.78 ratio screen, which is the reason 1.78 was chosen as the new TV standard in the first place, so they are equally maximized for 4k TVs.

[Vashetti]

Can't remember where I read it but Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness are coming sometime.

[Coenskubrick]

Originally Posted by Vashetti

Can't remember where I read it but Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness are coming sometime.

I don't think that's really what people think of when referring to "older titles". Technically, they are not new releases, but I think they probably mean titles more than like 15 years old, beyond recent memory, and perhaps before the introduction of the DI (digital intermediate). Hancock is older than Star Trek and that's already out so the OP probably thinks of 2009 as still "newer".

[batman2000]

the years i go buy 50s 60s 70s 80s-90s and early 00s

[Brightstar]

we in the uk have not even got a 4k player in stores let alone 4k titles its gonna be a long wait

[Vashetti]

Originally Posted by Brightstar

we in the uk have not even got a 4k player in stores let alone 4k titles its gonna be a long wait

I'm fine with waiting as it ultimately means we're going to have a better experience.

Firmware updates will eventually fix all the launch issues, the standards will also be better.

Seems like all the Fox titles will be inevitably re-released with better versions too as they're currently only on 66GB discs.

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by BluRay84

I can't even find any news in regards to the UK launch of 4k discs, I 'm guessing they're arrive around March/April like it seems to be for France and Germany.

we need a player first before we get the disks

[James Freeman]

I'll gladly buy LOTR on UHD-BR.

[Arch Stanton]

Originally Posted by Opips3

I can't remember it older on title. Maybe Lawrence of Arabia and The bridge on the river Kwai

I just tell you it's illegal to 4:3 screen for UltraHD 4K. Must minimum 1:78:1 screen to maximize 2:39:1 screen.

Possibly the same reaction I have to every one of your posts: wut

[James Freeman]

What you don't understand?

You can't crop 4:3 to Ultra Wide (2.4:1), too much of the picture is gone from top and bottom.
But 1.78:1 (16:9) can be cropped to 2.4:1 without worrying about loosing too much of the picture.

Which is directly related to the OP question... old movies are in 4:3 you know.

[Vashetti]

Originally Posted by James Freeman

I'll gladly buy LOTR on UHD-BR.

Anyone know the maximum res LOTR could theoretically go to? It was filmed on 35mm right?

Though they were 2K masters I believe, so any effects would be upscaled.

What's going to be frustrating, is waiting for the LOTR EE UHD to release. The Theatricals always come first.