I got a friend to lend it to me and watching it in HDR10... I mean the picture is rampant with compression errors, especially with the chroma and the film grain. I can't believe some of you think it looks fine in HDR10. The errors show up in almost every single scene. If there is even a semblance of a solid color in a shot, the chances it has chroma errors is like 80% on this codec. The green splotches are almost everywhere (obviously, click on them to see them full size to see the compression errors):
On her lab coat, the cabinets in the back.
Almost anywhere here where there is a white object.
On his banjo and some of the white portions of the dog.
Here the street is littered with those green splotches.
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Other than the plants, there shouldn't be any green here, but there is (again the green splotches).
Top-right corner here.
Above her hair.
On the yellow wall here.
Above the plant and next to the bricks here.
On the newspaper clippings and basically anything that is supposed to be any shade of white.
On the newspapers.
On the newspapers.
On the newspapers.
On the collar of his coat.
On his coat and on the chef's clothing.
Anything white here (i.e. the cooks).
On the left wall.
Basically the whole bottom-left quadrant here.
Between the branches here.
On the truck and other light-colored areas.
The right side.
The right side again with the whiter areas.
Above her head here.
Basically this whole shot.
Those green splotches (the chroma errors) are everywhere. And these screenshots
are only from the first 15 minutes. And as you can also see, the grain in some of those is
rough. And it is not much different actually watching in motion. Interestingly, the chroma is a little masked in motion, but the grain looks worse in motion than it does on the screenshots. The grain freezes sometimes, then it suddenly changes a few frames later (almost like it forgot to it was supposed to be different in every frame), sometimes it's completely gone, other times it looks clumpy... I mean the whole thing almost looks like I compressed it on YouTube.
It is basically a complete disaster. If this was years ago when 4K/HDR was still a new thing at least there'd be a semblance of an excuse there. But we're well into it right now and we're still getting this crap. It's pretty unacceptable. And I'm amazed people are still trying to spend money on it and buy it.
I shudder to think how
The Great Escape and
Dressed to Kill will look after seeing this. Now I wish Criterion would have done these on 4K instead as they seem to be doing a much better job with the format compared to Kino now. Oh the irony.
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