Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K UHD (1977) (40th Anniversary Edition)

[ditcin]

I recently watched the original theatrical version and thought it was great. Yes, it's not as bright as the previous release from years ago, but it has the look of how it was in the theater when I was it 12 times upon first release. The sound is really clear too. I just saw it in the theater again last month and that was terrible with audio distortion and the picture quality was blurry.
I think this UHD edition is fine.

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by XGEEKEDGERX

I'd hardly call it a disaster, in fact i'd say it's the opposite and I might be bucking the trend amongst OLED owners here as I've viewed this on my Panny LED and the C7 back to back. I think it looks rather great through my set up, grain and all.

Great to hear - I will be watching my copy by this weekend.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Go get yours now! I did the second it went live! http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/CloseEncounters.html

Got it.

[TexDomer]

I have been checking this thread to see how the UV code redeems and have seen people have had issues with how Vudu is handling the redemption. The main issue was if you redeem at the Sony Pictures Store site nothing was getting pushed to Vudu unless you called Sony and then after that only one cut out of the 3 was porting over to Vudu. I had not seen any updates on this issue so I wanted to report that Vudu now has all 3 cuts available and all 3 do transfer into Vudu when you redeem at the Sony pictures store. Still only HDX since Vudu does not have the UHD copies yet but your UV library will show you as owning all 3 cuts in UHD.

[Colson]

Originally Posted by TexDomer

I have been checking this thread to see how the UV code redeems and have seen people have had issues with how Vudu is handling the redemption. The main issue was if you redeem at the Sony Pictures Store site nothing was getting pushed to Vudu unless you called Sony and then after that only one cut out of the 3 was porting over to Vudu. I had not seen any updates on this issue so I wanted to report that Vudu now has all 3 cuts available and all 3 do transfer into Vudu when you redeem at the Sony pictures store. Still only HDX since Vudu does not have the UHD copies yet but your UV library will show you as owning all 3 cuts in UHD.

I redeemed on Sony's site and got all 3 cuts on Sony's site and VUDU. This was on release day.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

If you guy are talking about sonypictures.com/uvredeem, I haven't been able to redeem a thing there for weeks. The site comes up, but with a message box about being down for maintenance.

But for most codes, I did find that going to Vudu.com directly and redeeming there did the trick. Sign in, then pull down the Services menu.

Chris




Chris

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by NotASpeckOfCereal

If you guy are talking about sonypictures.com/uvredeem, I haven't been able to redeem a thing there for weeks. The site comes up, but with a message box about being down for maintenance.

Is your browser set to look for a refreshed version of the page?

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Is your browser set to look for a refreshed version of the page?

Crossing streams is a reality of thread-based, multi-page conversations.
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[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by NotASpeckOfCereal

Crossing streams is a reality of thread-based, multi-page conversations.
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I thought crossing the streams was considered quite dangerous and could result in cataclysmic destruction and ripping the time space continuum

[bluescholar]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I thought crossing the streams was considered quite dangerous and could result in cataclysmic destruction and ripping the time space continuum

No, no nothing as devastating as that, only total protonic reversal.

[kingdoxie]

Originally Posted by NotASpeckOfCereal

If you guy are talking about sonypictures.com/uvredeem, I haven't been able to redeem a thing there for weeks. The site comes up, but with a message box about being down for maintenance.

But for most codes, I did find that going to Vudu.com directly and redeeming there did the trick. Sign in, then pull down the Services menu.

Chris




Chris

Same message here but it's not really down, just sign in normally. Redeemed about 5 codes over the last week.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by kingdoxie

Same message here but it's not really down, just sign in normally. Redeemed about 5 codes over the last week.

Ah, so it is -- thanks. I guess they're fuzzy on the whole down/not down thing.

Chris
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[Nick Laslett]

Originally Posted by robgmun

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This is just after Ned gets blasted by the light and sees the UFO, then in the distance more light at the next Cross-roads.

UHD


2007 BD


Notice how the details have been obliterated and you can't even make out the sign in the UHD (they're the same frame more or less) also how the grain is so heavy it's shifted to the green and producing grain colours that weren't originally there.

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Unless someone can give me some setting i can calibrate my TV too, then i'm starting to think about selling my UHD on, what a massive disappointment

Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest just did a YouTube clip “LG E7 OLED TV Review vs B7”

Time stamp 3:20 mins for the discussion of HDR tone mapping and clipping on a scene from Mad Max Fury Road.

You see the exact same issue where the HDR tone mapping blows out the highlights and clips badly.

Calibration won’t fix this issue. On the 2017 OLEDs LG implemented Active HDR triggered by Dynamic Contrast Low. In the clip he shows how it effects the highlights.

[s2mikey]

Finally watched this last night. Its a solid transfer & presentation although certainly not mind-blowing. IMO the extra pixels did more for the "upgrade" over the blu-ray than the HDR did this time. I know that most of the praise for these UHD releases goes to the HDR effects and I usually agree but here the level of detail(aka more pixels) in many scenes was more appreciated than highlghts here or there were. Nice grain too - it was very "filmy" without being obnoxious which is perfect to me.

If I had to pay $20 bucks or more I wouldnt have bothered but as an Amazon lightning deal I guess it was a worthwhile buyt. Nice that ALL 3 versions of the film are in 4K too. Thats not always the case so props to those that made that happen.

[Xorp]

I bought this late October from Amazon, a month after it's initial release.

I didn't come with a slipcover. Did this release never come with a slipcover or did I order it too late to get one?

[horroru]

Originally Posted by Xorp

I bought this late October from Amazon, a month after it's initial release.

I didn't come with a slipcover. Did this release never come with a slipcover or did I order it too late to get one?

It was released with a slipcover, Amazon can be hit or miss with that.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Go get yours now! I did the second it went live! http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/CloseEncounters.html

No disco theme since Williams requested it be left off. Very disappointing for those that grew up with it on the original release. I get that it wasn't part of the film, but come on - Williams must know many people still consider that theme part of the soundtrack since they grew up with it.

[bradnoyes]

Just got this today and as I was unwrapping it my 2-year old looked at it and said, "Watch movie? Watch garbage?"

Kid has a lot to learn.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by mar3o

No disco theme since Williams requested it be left off. Very disappointing for those that grew up with it on the original release. I get that it wasn't part of the film, but come on - Williams must know many people still consider that theme part of the soundtrack since they grew up with it.

This doesn't mean anything. This is not important.

[bradnoyes]

Originally Posted by robgmun

Oh wow, after tonight little comparison i did i can't agree with you GeoffD, in fact there's something seriously wrong with this transfer, it's worse then i feared:

This is just after Ned gets blasted by the light and sees the UFO, then in the distance more light at the next Cross-roads.

UHD


2007 BD


Notice how the details have been obliterated and you can't even make out the sign in the UHD (they're the same frame more or less) also how the grain is so heavy it's shifted to the green and producing grain colours that weren't originally there.

Had a chance to watch this last night and I have to say that I didn't experience anything like this or the other pictures posted. Grain looked good to me and the HDR scenes weren't so washed out (I could clearly see the sign in the frame posted above).

Only issue I noticed with the disc were a handful of scenes that looked almost TOO good compared to the rest of the movie. It felt more like I was looking through a window as opposed to watching a film. IIRC it happened mostly towards the end of the film in some of the close-ups and some wide shots of the spaceship. All in all I really enjoyed it. I'm liking these old releases more and more after recently watching this, A Few Good Men, and Dracula.