4K Ultra HD releases not offering the quality of what the format is capable of

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Originally Posted by Geoff D

Love that "100 percent of the movies from Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and other related studios are not really UHD resolution" quote, you've just got to love well-informed journalism like this. It literally reads like some mook who's just bought a 4K TV who's wondering why UHD doesn't look as good as a Blu-ray on Torch mode.

This is precisely why I don't listen to the established "voices" in the tech community: they keep proving themselves to be complete IDIOTS.

I have seen some 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray titles that are really 2K quality and upscaled to 4K Ultra HD, but because of HDR and because HEVC being a better codec those titles sometimes look around 5% better when compared to the standard 1080P Blu-ray release.


As technology improves and storage gets more cheaper, I am sure one day all studios well use 4K or higher digital intermediates like Sony currently does (and 50% of Lionsgate titles do). On a side note since the 1939 Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind received a 8K scan of the original film negative, those two titles would be ideal for release on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format.


According to Joe Kane in another article (pages 42,44, and 45 in the June 2018 issue) one needs a 6 foot image to properly see what is in a 1080P image and a 12 foot wide image to see what is in a 2160P image. And a 24 foot image is needed to see all the detail in a 4360P image. So most people well be able to see a better picture from a 720P HDR image when compared to a 2160P image that does not use HDR. Yes HDR is more important for picture quality when compared to resolution detail.

It sounds like sometimes the images we are getting on 4K Ultra HD come from 480i and 720p source material and not even 1080P quality.

Here is a few interesting quotes from page 44 and page 45:


"A lot of what follows supports the presenter's position that resolution above 1080p isn't important. I am expanding on this parameter because I want 720p and 1080p and 2160p to be part of UHD and HDR."


"You could have a 2160p image with only 720p resolution in the content. That's how I justify wanting 720p to be part of consumer HDR. I don't see a lot of program content remotely approaching 2160p in real resolution, let alone 1080p."