Invasion of the Body Snatchers 4K UHD (1978)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Dr. Humbert

Any brands that are particularly susceptible to it?

Seems to be fairly common across LG and Sony sets I think.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Dr. Humbert

Any brands that are particularly susceptible to it?

My LG 2016 UH8500 and any DV signal has major issues with flickering/brightness fluctuations. My first UHD player (x700) did it and playing any media file with DV also has the same issue. My new player is the Panasonic 420 which doesn't even support DV since I figured why bother buying a DV player when my TV handles it so poorly.

[Dr. Humbert]

Originally Posted by mar3o

My LG 2016 UH8500 and any DV signal has major issues with flickering/brightness fluctuations. My first UHD player (x700) did it and playing any media file with DV also has the same issue. My new player is the Panasonic 420 which doesn't even support DV since I figured why bother buying a DV player when my TV handles it so poorly.

I have a TCL 5 Series which is considered pretty cheap but it seems to handle DV quite well. I watch all my HDR/DV movies in complete darkness. The only title that was very problematic was Studio Canal's The Fog. My player is an LG UBK90.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by mkc

I also noticed a few flecks of dirt during the opening credits. If this was a new restoration, I would have thought they'd clean up the dirt.

This was commonplace in the pre-digital era...any shot with credit overlays, subtitles or some sort of optical effect would often have spikes in grain, "dirt" or other visual anomalies. It's actually kind of a fun little game, knowing when a location card or optical is coming up when the grain enters.

[bradnoyes]

I watched this earlier this week, and first off, what a movie! Can't believe I've never seen it. I could see this growing to become an all-time favorite. It felt utterly timeless to me and it still resonates. In a lot of ways it felt more modern to me than most contemporary films in the genre. Great performances and direction. The whole thing felt so authentic.

I thought the disc was great, but bear in mind I watched in Dolby Vision on an Oppo and OLED77C1. YMMV with a different setup. I don't have the best eye for compression issues and nothing really stood out to me here. Someone mentioned flickering earlier (I have had this issue previously with SC's The Fog and to a lesser extent the original Halloween release) but the picture held up wonderfully on my viewing.

I had been on a bit of an unlucky streak with catalog blind buys lately. Lots of stuff added to the sell pile. But I'm glad to say that the streak has been broken. I loved this one.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

This was commonplace in the pre-digital era...any shot with credit overlays, subtitles or some sort of optical effect would often have spikes in grain, "dirt" or other visual anomalies. It's actually kind of a fun little game, knowing when a location card or optical is coming up when the grain enters.

Dude. When watching a movie of a certain vintage and the quality seems to dip for no apparent reason in a shot I go "dissolve"

[SHARKTOPUS]

I just got the 4K Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and although I'm happy with how it looks there is some audio missing. The scene in the taxi cab does not have the audio of the voice coming over the radio that was present on the Scream Factory release. Has this been mentioned before and is there a solution?

[Spartan21]

I have the Sony A80J OLED and the Panasonic 820 Blu-ray player. I put the 4K on and I noticed a ton of flickering, even in the beginning with bright scenes...and all scenes pretty much. How can I fix this? I've played tons of 4ks with this setup and I've never had this issue before. The Blu-ray is fine, but the 4K is not.

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by Spartan21

I have the Sony A80J OLED and the Panasonic 820 Blu-ray player. I put the 4K on and I noticed a ton of flickering, even in the beginning with bright scenes...and all scenes pretty much. How can I fix this? I've played tons of 4ks with this setup and I've never had this issue before. The Blu-ray is fine, but the 4K is not.

Have you installed the firmware update for the 820? We have the exact same setup and this disc was flicker.com before I updated my player.

~Matt

[Spartan21]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Have you installed the firmware update for the 820? We have the exact same setup and this disc was flicker.com before I updated my player.

~Matt

Ahh, no. I have not. I'll do that. Thanks!

[GiorgioV]

Same here. Panasonic DP-UB9000.
The flickering stopped after I updated the firmware (which, btw, is always a fearsome experience for me).

[sojrner]

Originally Posted by Spartan21

Ahh, no. I have not. I'll do that. Thanks!

Did the update resolve your flicker issue? (I am curious as I am looking at the 820 or 9000 for a player change)

[jd7723hz]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

I had been on a bit of an unlucky streak with catalog blind buys lately. Lots of stuff added to the sell pile. But I'm glad to say that the streak has been broken. I loved this one.

What discs have you had issues with? Are we talking 4k releases?

[bradnoyes]

Originally Posted by jd7723hz

What discs have you had issues with? Are we talking 4k releases?

I haven't had disc issues. Just a streak of blind buys that I did not enjoy.

[jd7723hz]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

I haven't had disc issues. Just a streak of blind buys that I did not enjoy.

Sorry that's what I meant. Thought it would be worth sharing your experiences so others don't have similiar disappointments.

[bradnoyes]

Originally Posted by jd7723hz

Sorry that's what I meant. Thought it would be worth sharing your experiences so others don't have similiar disappointments.

It's just entirely subjective. Some of the movies I disliked are beloved classics in the eyes of many so I don't think it would be productive to list off a bunch of movies I didn't like in the Body Snatchers thread. FWIW Body Snatchers seems to have righted the ship and the last few blind buys for me have been great, and since I feel better about listing movies I DID enjoy I'll say that I really loved Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Eastern Promises.

[Vriess]

So is there a fix now for the flickering on the 820/9000 DV discs like Vigilante?

[Spartan21]

Originally Posted by sojrner

Did the update resolve your flicker issue? (I am curious as I am looking at the 820 or 9000 for a player change)

Yes it did!

[JBL]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Indeed. There's absolutely no excuse for HDR10 presentations to have issues like we're seeing here and on some other releases. If HDR10 is done properly, it should produce an outstanding HDR presentation.

Maybe there is an incentive to make DV look better when compared to HDR10? Total Recall (1990) looks not so great in HDR10, but looks right when DV is clicked on.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by SHARKTOPUS

I just got the 4K Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and although I'm happy with how it looks there is some audio missing. The scene in the taxi cab does not have the audio of the voice coming over the radio that was present on the Scream Factory release. Has this been mentioned before and is there a solution?

I put my copy of the included Kino BD on the other night and thought the audio seemed unusually low even with the 2.0 track that I didn't recall thinking with the SF release so I found a nicely priced used copy of the SF release to compare (especially after reading your post), just compared them and low and behold the audio is much stronger on the SF. I'm sticking with the SF release. Kino seems to have a real hit and miss issue with the audio on their releases for some reason. Not sure why they feel the need to make adjustments to it if it already sounds good.

EDIT: One of the worst offenders of this is Kino's Summer of Sam release. I thought the audio was straight up terrible on the Kino so I found a nicely priced used copy of the OOP Touchstone release and it's literally one of the best audio tracks I've ever heard. Not sure what the hell happened with the Kino.