Sony "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray Titles May 14 and July 16

[42041]

Originally Posted by Dragun

If there's enough space left over after increasing the bitrate for the feature, they should include the commentary tracks on the feature disc and the other features on another disc. I don't know how much space commentary tracks generally take up, but they don't need to be lossless.

Commentary is 170MB-ish for a 2 hour movie. Not sure why Sony didn't include that stuff since they had the space.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by 42041

Commentary is 170MB-ish for a 2 hour movie. Not sure why Sony didn't include that stuff since they had the space.

That's all? That's only .17 of a GB.

[stlcards]

Why doesn't Sony just include a second disc with the bonus features on all these "4K" releases?

[Tech-UK]

Originally Posted by stlcards

Why doesn't Sony just include a second disc with the bonus features on all these "4K" releases?

The ideal situation, but additional cost for Sony to create and press the 2nd disc.

[Skog]

Surely every special features/extras fanatic already owns all extras on DVD/BD...do they need to hear the commentary again

[wesslan]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Yeah, it was wrong that Sony did that with Total Recall.

And Angels & Demons. Would have bought that and Total Recall if they have kept the extended cuts

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by Skog

Surely every special features/extras fanatic already owns all extras on DVD/BD...do they need to hear the commentary again

It'd be nice to listen to the audio commentary while watching a proper video presentation.

[marine92104]

I finally picked up Karate Kid today at Fry's Electronics here in CA.

They had all of them in stock.

I can verify that indeed there are English subtitles for the Chinese speaking parts. Verified in chapter 6.

I'm not sure why the other person said they were not there.

I tried it in multiple Blu-ray players & the subtitles are there.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by marine92104

I finally picked up Karate Kid today at Fry's Electronics here in CA.

They had all of them in stock.

I can verify that indeed there are English subtitles for the Chinese speaking parts. Verified in chapter 6.

I'm not sure why the other person said they were not there.

I tried it in multiple Blu-ray players & the subtitles are there.

Did you have to toggle them on, or did the subtitles display without your prompting?

Also, are there two English subtitle streams, one that only translates Chinese dialogue and another that subtitles all the dialogue?

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by marine92104

I finally picked up Karate Kid today at Fry's Electronics here in CA.

They had all of them in stock.

I can verify that indeed there are English subtitles for the Chinese speaking parts. Verified in chapter 6.

I'm not sure why the other person said they were not there.

I tried it in multiple Blu-ray players & the subtitles are there.

How does it look? never seen it and if I was going to buy it I would go for this one

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Skog

Surely every special features/extras fanatic already owns all extras on DVD/BD...do they need to hear the commentary again

With you on that, I find I barely listen to them anymore used to on every disc on DVD

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Seems some may be up for pre-order for July 16, tho Amazon is not specifying anything at the moment:

Godzilla Blu-ray

Men in Black Blu-ray

Moneyball Blu-ray

Pineapple Express Blu-ray

Spider-Man 2 Blu-ray




btw, people's reactions are fantastic. They make slightly improved quality versions and instead of being happy people react strangely. Reminds me of the reaction when VHSers faced with LDs, LDs faced DVDs, CDs faced SACDs and DVD-As, DVDs & HD-DVDs faced BDs. The more things change...

The current Moneyball looks very good, but there is some EE baked into it. Hopefully, it's gone for this release.

[marine92104]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

Did you have to toggle them on, or did the subtitles display without your prompting?

Also, are there two English subtitle streams, one that only translates Chinese dialogue and another that subtitles all the dialogue?

No. They come on automatically when the Chinese parts are spoken. That's why I'm baffled as to why the other person had a problem with them.

I didn't have to turn them on. I just pushed play & skipped to Chapter 6.

[marine92104]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

How does it look? never seen it and if I was going to buy it I would go for this one

I haven't watched the movie all the way thru. The grain always looks better resolved with the high bitrate & the colors were really vibrant.

My Sony mega-changer does xvycc color & my Kuro according to the forums I read says it accepts xvycc color.

It was a stellar transfer.

I'll be picking up Men in Black, Godzilla (guilty pleasure of mine) & Spider-Man 2 as long as it has the extended cut.

I'm really concerned that Sony won't put the extended cut on there since they left it off of Angels & Demons & Total Recall.

I would have picked up Angels & Demons if it had been the extended cut.

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Seems some may be up for pre-order for July 16, tho Amazon is not specifying anything at the moment:

Godzilla Blu-ray

Men in Black Blu-ray

Moneyball Blu-ray

Pineapple Express Blu-ray

Spider-Man 2 Blu-ray

I'll double dip on Moneyball and Pineapple Express.

[The Rider]

Missing Extended Cuts and Bonus Feautres are a big minus fot this series, I hope they inprove this.

[Dragun]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

btw, people's reactions are fantastic. They make slightly improved quality versions and instead of being happy people react strangely. Reminds me of the reaction when VHSers faced with LDs, LDs faced DVDs, CDs faced SACDs and DVD-As, DVDs & HD-DVDs faced BDs. The more things change...

I'm fine with the Ghostbusters improvement, though they should have made a definitive edition with the new transfer AND extras.

These studios are pretty frustrating sometimes. Sony gives us marginal improvements on releases that were pretty good to begin with, while Universal's overly DNRed releases don't have much chance of being re-released with better transfers.

[JavaJulien]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

It'd be nice to listen to the audio commentary while watching a proper video presentation.

That and ideally, if the new transfer included the same content as the old, there would be no need to keep the old disc.

[TimeandTimeAgain]

I am selling Ghostbusters and Glory tomorrow and get the 4K version

[zoran]

Ordered from b n noble, buy 2 get I free, around $14 each, A&D, Spidy, GB, for $10 each.