The Lion King 4K UHD (1994)

[shy86]

Well that's one off of my wish list!!!! This is my absolute favourite Disney Animation film ever!! Ordered my one from Australia (JBHifi) for £21.99 shipped, as I don't think they will release this in the UK, but if they did it may be set at a ridiculous price. I think I will just add the disc to my UK 3D edition.

[WCD199317]

I open a topic since many weeks for the released of 4K here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=310145

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by MisterXDTV

Grain for a digitally animated movie?

They have used DNR and EE on their animated stuff tho

[jeremyparker84]

Originally Posted by Phil92

Release date: December 4th, 2018
Source: Disney
Artwork:

[Show spoiler]

The cover looks great! Can you post your Disney source link? Thanks!

[RustinCohle]

'Oh it's Disney, so the sound is going to suck.'

[jayman3]

Dumb question, but how much more can an animated film be improved in 4K?

Unlike live-action, there's not a whole lot of added detail to be seen. Unless it only means higher contrast in color.

I don't know, I'm no expert so maybe someone (Geoff) can educate me.

[MechaGodzilla]

Give me Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and especially (because it's my favorite) Fantasia, Disney!

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

'Oh it's Disney, so the sound is going to suck.'

Yep and it will suck in a remix

[Nagamura]

Damn, I’m in love with that artwork! Definitely my favorite cover art out of all the releases. Can’t wait to get my all time favorite movie for the like 5th time. Lol

[Skrazem]

Will be my 5th copy. I regret nothing.

[BluRayHiDef]

I'm waiting for Disney's Hercules. It's my favorite animated film by Disney.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by BluRayHiDef

I'm waiting for Disney's Hercules. It's my favorite animated film by Disney.

Disney

[PowellPressburger]

Will be interesting to see reviews for this.

Im guessing it will be their current HD transfer from digital files Upscaled to 4K

Right?

Just wish we had ghe actual 35mm film prints scanned at 4K as an option.

[nmeofthast8]

Originally Posted by Paul.R.S

Is The Lion King really gonna hit UHD BD before The Force Awakens?

Wonder how (much) long(er) it will take for them to get to Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone and Bruckheimer stuff. 20th anni for Enemy Of the State next month!

I would love to get Enemy of the State in 4K (see my screen name). The Rock, Con Air, etc. would be great too.

Lion King will be a day one purchase. Pretty much any Disney animated from the 90s is on my list.

[Jimmy Smith]

Originally Posted by MisterXDTV

Lion King was digitally rendered with the CAPS System at 2K Resolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput...ced_using_CAPS

and for this reason I think the 2011 3D version is probably still the best version. This doesn't interest me but I would love 4k versions of Disney's older films

[legends of beyond]

Oh Man, that opening with HDR. Can't wait.

[The Mad Kiwi]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Will be interesting to see reviews for this.

Im guessing it will be their current HD transfer from digital files Upscaled to 4K

Right?

Just wish we had the actual 35mm film prints scanned at 4K as an option.

You know, it's funny. A friend of mine suggested that 35mm scans of these in 4K would probably yield better results than the original CAPS files because the 4K may reveal pixelization and jagged edges that the 35mm would smooth over. It'll be interesting to see how Lion King holds up upscaled.

I love the cover art for this, and I told myself that other than select favorites, Walt Disney Animation Studios films are the only titles I have on Blu that I'm double dipping for on UHD, even the upscaled 90s-2000s ones. So I'm looking forward to this, but I'm honestly more excited for The Little Mermaid which is rumored to be coming around the same time.

[Deciazulado]

I think the CAPS were about around 1280 x 2048 (the 4:3 video editions had a sliver more height that the widescreen 1.66 video and theatrical 1.85) and were high bits (16bits) files so there should be some color improvement retaining the full chroma and depth.

[starkrogersthor91]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

Isn't it shot on film?
Disney's animation is notorious for their excessive use of DNR on the BDs.

Never understood those who want grain on their animated titles. Yes, some of these were shot on film, but I feel like it’s something that’s unavoidable in the filmmaking process.

Me personally? I’d like these presented as if we were looking directly at the original artwork pre-filmic artifacts. But, that’s an unpopular opinion around here.

[MisterXDTV]

Originally Posted by davlee1991

Never understood those who want grain on their animated titles. Yes, some of these were shot on film, but I feel like it’s something that’s unavoidable in the filmmaking process.

Me personally? I’d like these presented as if we were looking directly at the original artwork pre-filmic artifacts. But, that’s an unpopular opinion around here.

It doesn't matter anyway in this case: this is digitally animated like every other Disney animated titles from the 90's....

The last "traditional" Disney feature (hand-painted cel) was "The Little Mermaid" (1989)