Black Panther 4K UHD (2018)

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by smackrabbit

Review copies, mine included, arrived yesterday.

How do we get hold of review copies as early as you did?

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

How do we get hold of review copies as early as you did?

Chris and I both work in the industry. I am a senior technical editor and reviewer for Sound and Vision magazine. Chris has his own AV website, referencehometheater.com and also writes for The Wirecutter.com.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

How do we get hold of review copies as early as you did?

It seems YouTubers also receive review copies for their channels, not even that "big" of channels either, might I add.

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

Chris and I both work in the industry. I am a senior technical editor and reviewer for Sound and Vision magazine. Chris has his own AV website, referencehometheater.com and also writes for The Wirecutter.com.

Glad to hear that you and some other pros participate here.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

Watched this UHD Blu-ray last night. The picture quality was first rate. Very detailed, excellent shadow detail and nice colors. Considerably better than the theatrical viewing I saw, which I found slightly underwhelming picture wise.

The audio is par for the course with Disney. I had to watch about 10 dB higher than my usual listening level and even with that (full reference) it felt unbalanced. There are moments of low, low bass (usually the music, not the sound effects) and dialogue sounds fine, but the rest of the track feels anemic and flat. I was also underwhelmed by the Atmos mix, which did a decent job with surrounds but almost no sense of atmosphere or directional effects above.

Cheers Kris. As mentioned above the opening scene was so dim in the 2K projection I saw that I could hardly see what was going on, and I'm not exaggerating. That the UHD brings it up a bit is a good thing.

[Legend293]

Is this releaseing on tuesday along with digital? Keeping seeing digital and 4k release on the 8th.

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Cheers Kris. As mentioned above the opening scene was so dim in the 2K projection I saw that I could hardly see what was going on, and I'm not exaggerating. That the UHD brings it up a bit is a good thing.

I remembered the same thing but it looked great on disc.

[TheSweetieMan]

I got to see this in Dolby Cinema.

Can't wait to see how good this looks on disc!

[legends of beyond]

Yet another example of why most theater projectors suck.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Legend293

Is this releaseing on tuesday along with digital? Keeping seeing digital and 4k release on the 8th.

This coming Tuesday is digital only and next Tuesday is physical.

[LordoftheRings]

Why can't Disney take a clue from Warner, Sony, Paramount, Universal and Fox studios for sound mixes?

Their sound mixers should listen to Blade Runner 2049.

First Disney killed their 3D Blus here in North America, and now they're killing their 3D sound mixes.
They used to deliver high caliber 3D pictures...PIXAR, and superior sound too.
What's happening!

[Legend293]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Why can't Disney take a clue from Warner, Sony, Paramount, Universal and Fox studios for sound mixes?

Their sound mixers should listen to Blade Runner 2049.

First Disney kill their 3D Blus here in North America, and now they kill their 3D sound mixes.
They used to deliver high caliber 3D pictures...PIXAR, and superior sound too.
What's happening!

I think Disney just wants to get rid of physical media as quick as possible.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Why can't Disney take a clue from Warner, Sony, Paramount, Universal and Fox studios for sound mixes?

Their sound mixers should listen to Blade Runner 2049.

First Disney kill their 3D Blus here in North America, and now they kill their 3D sound mixes.
They used to deliver high caliber 3D pictures...PIXAR, and superior sound too.
What's happening!

This is Disney Home Video's fault - this isn't the sound mixers fault, this is someone at DHV meddling with the original mixes and downmixing them - for some reason both Pixar and Marvel studios have no problem with this either

[smackrabbit]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

I remembered the same thing but it looked great on disc.

Yep, that scene was so bad at the theater I made a mental note for when the disc arrived. So much better at home.

[r9800pro]

Originally Posted by Legend293

I think Disney just wants to get rid of physical media as quick as possible.

Originally Posted by Dubstar

This is Disney Home Video's fault - this isn't the sound mixers fault, this is someone at DHV meddling with the original mixes and downmixing them - for some reason both Pixar and Marvel studios have no problem with this either

Audio mixes are bad even for cinematic releases. Unless it is IMAX or cinema people raise the volume to higher levels, audio mixes have the same issues as the home releases.

[mata7]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Why can't Disney take a clue from Warner, Sony, Paramount, Universal and Fox studios for sound mixes?

Their sound mixers should listen to Blade Runner 2049.

First Disney kill their 3D Blus here in North America, and now they kill their 3D sound mixes.
They used to deliver high caliber 3D pictures...PIXAR, and superior sound too.
What's happening!

easy, this is what happening, you guys keep buying this disc so they can careless they got you money , vote with you wallet dont buy it if you dont like the low audio, thats the only way you can make a change and probably make then to listen, crying about it on forums it will not change anything, i know i wont buy it

[LordoftheRings]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBv...ature=youtu.be

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Bonux:

[Show spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgX_...ature=youtu.be

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by r9800pro

Audio mixes are bad even for cinematic releases. Unless it is IMAX or cinema people raise the volume to higher levels, audio mixes have the same issues as the home releases.

Actually 'Age of Ultron's (IMAX-Laser) 12-channel mix was far and away superior over the Dolby Atmos mix - Marvel's sound design teams are flat across the board pedestrian and inconsistent. Disney's movies are totally hit or miss lately, in how effectively Atmos object based mixing will be implemented.

[Hardback247]

Again, if the sound really is such a huge problem, why don't any of you call Disney up and ask them to fix it in the future?

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by Hardback247

Again, if the sound really is such a huge problem, why don't any of you call Disney up and ask them to fix it in the future?

Yeah let me get right on that, good thing I have their number saved in my phone.