Titanic 4K UHD (1997)

[Member-222782]

They shouldn’t let just anyone on these boards. They should make people fill out applications and ask test questions. Anyone rambling on incoherently and making random statements is red flagged lol

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by matbezlima

I think that the original aspect ratios are now being reserved more than ever, easily, and it has been so for years. The major reason is that TVs have gotten far bigger, so the issues from not utilizing the full zTV screen become far more negligible. Also, the TVs changing the standard aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 worked wonders. The latter ratio is far more accomodating to widely different common aspect ratios, without wasting too much of the screen.

I always laugh whenever I think of how ridiculously small Ben-Hur would appear in a 4:3 TV if you preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio.

The worst offender nowadays regarding aspect ratio really is broadcast TVs. That said, they generally opt to stretch the image rather than crop it. I think the former is the less evil of the two poisons.

I'll take cropping any day over stretching. Stretching aspect ratios is the work of the devil. But broadcast in general sucks because one way or another they always find a way to ruin it. Only good thing about stretching is sometimes you can force it back to the right ratio with the TV, but sometimes they stretch it to some half-ratio thing where you cant just force it back. A lot of older 4:3 stuff for instance is not fully stretched to16:9, but stretched wide enough so the side bars are less thick than they should be, but not eliminated, which is the worst because there's no way to force it back to 4:3. If it was stretched to 16:9, many TVs can force it back to 4:3 in the aspect ratio settings, but not if it's a half-stretch.

[matbezlima]

Originally Posted by mar3o

I'll take cropping any day over stretching. Stretching aspect ratios is the work of the devil. But broadcast in general sucks because one way or another they always find a way to ruin it. Only good thing about stretching is sometimes you can force it back to the right ratio with the TV, but sometimes they stretch it to some half-ratio thing where you cant just force it back. A lot of older 4:3 stuff for instance is not fully stretched to16:9, but stretched wide enough so the side bars are less thick than they should be, but not eliminated, which is the worst because there's no way to force it back to 4:3. If it was stretched to 16:9, many TVs can force it back to 4:3 in the aspect ratio settings, but not if it's a half-stretch.

I said that "stretching" is the lesser evil, but I want to make clear that I dislike both.

But honestly, the worst problem with watching movies on broadcast TV is not the aspect ratio, but the cuts to make the film fit the commercials and the overall programming. A two-hour long movie gets butchered to less than an hour and a half.

I noticed this ever since I was a kid. I even talked about this sometimes to classmates, and some of them had also noticed the issue of films being cut on TV, and disliked it as well.

[matbezlima]

I just discovered that Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse is streaming in HBO Max here in Brazil in the 16:9 aspect ratio, which is not as wide as the theatrical aspect ratio. They cropped both sides. Whenever they have a shot that has relevant information outside the frame (like text), it temporarily becomes the theatrical aspect ratio.

The 16:9 felt off. I would rather have the theatrical aspect ratio. But I admit it's not as bad as it could be, it's still perfectly watchable. And I admit that stretching the image would be infinitely worse, thank God they didn't do that. Streaming services seem to far prefer cropping than stretching. Though the vast majority of what is available in streaming is thankfully in the original aspect ratio. And they didn't dare destroy the ultrawide aspect ratio of Ben-Hur.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by matbezlima

I always laugh whenever I think of how ridiculously small Ben-Hur would appear in a 4:3 TV if you preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio.

I watched it on LD on a 27" Sony set for years.

[Ben_UK]

For 12-15 years I watched all my movies on a 14” Saisho TV from the other side of my room too (where my bed was). Smaller than a postage stamp springs to mind.

[Pieter V]

New special features breakdown:

TITANIC: Stories From the Heart (36 minutes)
TITANIC: 25 Years Later with James Cameron (42 minutes)
Behind-the Scenes presentation hosted by Jon Landau (34 minutes)
Trailer Presentation hosted by Jon Landau (8 minutes)

[Geoff D]

When I were a nipper I watched my treasured collection of widescreen VHS tapes on a 14” TV.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

When I were a nipper I watched my treasured collection of widescreen VHS tapes on a 14” TV.

19” here. Hear that, ladies? I’m bigger than Geoff.

[tankryankr19]

Curious what the bitrate will be on this one, I'm estimating around 45mb/s to 50mb/s, basing it off The Way of Water and Interstellar's 4K bitrates

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

When I were a nipper I watched my treasured collection of widescreen VHS tapes on a 14” TV.

I had a 13-inch black and white set that I watched my VHS tapes and played SNES on when I was a kid.

[musicmen]

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[escvnte]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

New special features breakdown:

TITANIC: Stories From the Heart (36 minutes)
TITANIC: 25 Years Later with James Cameron (42 minutes)
Behind-the Scenes presentation hosted by Jon Landau (34 minutes)
Trailer Presentation hosted by Jon Landau (8 minutes)

No mention of the deleted scenes, the Celine Dion video in 4K and Dolby Atmos (the song has been on Apple Music and Tidal in Atmos/Sony's 360 RA 7.1.4 format for some time, now) and all the trailers.
I personally would like to have the deleted scenes remastered in 4K, other than ALL the trailers and TV spots.

[geomon]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

19” here. Hear that, ladies? I’m bigger than Geoff.

Zenith 24 inch.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

When I were a nipper I watched my treasured collection of widescreen VHS tapes on a 14” TV.

13" here. I guess they don't make everything bigger in the US...

[Show spoiler]

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

When I were a nipper I watched my treasured collection of widescreen VHS tapes on a 14” TV.

I remember going to Best Buy and picking up widescreen VHS tapes. The FOX titles usually came in clamhell packaging. I was usually the only person in the section and people would look at me funny. I mean why would I want black bars at the top and bottom of my screen? I did have a 32 inch TV though, I am no heathen.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by geomon

Zenith 24 inch.

Okay, Shaft.

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

New special features breakdown:

TITANIC: Stories From the Heart (36 minutes)
TITANIC: 25 Years Later with James Cameron (42 minutes)
Behind-the Scenes presentation hosted by Jon Landau (34 minutes)
Trailer Presentation hosted by Jon Landau (8 minutes)

The segment will end with Landau throwing up middle fingers and saying "screw your The Abyss and True Lies on 4K".

[matbezlima]

Landau has stated that True Lies, The Abyss and Aliens are coming out in 4K.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

19” here. Hear that, ladies? I’m bigger than Geoff.

I grew up with a massive 25" in the 70's-80's! That was just the living room of course. My bedroom was a 13", then a 19".