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

[Sherlock_Jr]

Originally Posted by bubble blu

How many people will watch these and believe that the picture quality is better!
Mastered in 4K lol. Most of the bond movies were mastered in 4K and dont see no
4K badge on them. The wizard of oz was mastered at 8K. Gimmick Gimmick Gimmick.

Keep in mind, there's a difference in the negative being scanned at 8K and how the final image is mastered.

[Toptube]

Originally Posted by Canada

"Keep in mind, these are NOT actual 4K Blu-rays. They’re essentially the BD equivalent of Sony’s Superbit DVDs from a few years back – simply mastered from 4K source material with high video data rates, but still just 1080p. My personal response to these is similar to my reaction to the Superbit DVDs back in the day: If you can master Blu-rays in better quality, why haven’t you been doing it all along?"

Bill Hunt Digital Bits

Well with Superbit DVDs, there's less room leftover for extras.

There's already so much bitrate potential in Blu-rays, I doubt adding to the bitrate will noticeably change anything over a transfer that already averages in the high 20's or 30's.

What's going to make the improvement will be (potentially) better scans/transfers used to make these Blu-rays.

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by blurayjunkie

I will have to check out the review on GhostBusters when it comes out. (If it's good I might pick it up) If these are mastered in 4K will they be 4K resolution when played on a 4KTV and 4K player? Or will it be Up Scaling tricks? AKA not real 4K

They are mastered from 4k sources but still encoded at 1080p so playing them back on 4k equipment would be no different than playing any other BD on 4k equipment, it will be upscaled.

[blurayjunkie]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

They are mastered from 4k sources but still encoded at 1080p so playing them back on 4k equipment would be no different than playing any other BD on 4k equipment, it will be upscaled.

That's what I thought, thanks for responding to my post.

[tylergfoster]

This article doesn't specify any new titles, but it says that 100 are finished and 70 are currently in the works.

http://rewired.hollywoodreporter.com...tending-446605

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

This article doesn't specify any new titles, but it says that 100 are finished and 70 are currently in the works.

http://rewired.hollywoodreporter.com...tending-446605

Fingers crossed they've done new scans for The Life Of Brian and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Do Sony still own any rights to Robocop, it would be awesome if they did a fresh remaster of it? The Fox Blu leaves a lot to be desired.

Whilst they're at it, I really wish they would release a Blu-Ray edition of Ghostbusters II. That title is long overdue.

[SGB]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

Do Sony still own any rights to Robocop, it would be awesome if they did a fresh remaster of it? The Fox Blu leaves a lot to be desired.

MGM own RoboCop. They struck a new master of the film last year, but it's yet to be released on blu and probably won't be until the theatrical release of the remake.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by SGB

MGM own RoboCop. They struck a new master of the film last year, but it's yet to be released on blu and probably won't be until the theatrical release of the remake.

Verhoeven approved? got a source there sparky?

[SGB]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

Verhoeven approved? got a source there sparky?

Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read about it. Don't recall if the new master was supervised/approved by Verhoeven, either.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by SGB

Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read about it. Don't recall if the new master was supervised/approved by Verhoeven, either.

I've never read anything concrete about a remaster being done for Robocop, just rumors mainly.

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I've never read anything concrete about a remaster being done for Robocop, just rumors mainly.

Here you go. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55220

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

Here you go. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55220

I appreciate it.

[MovieReviews331]

CNET says the new mastered in 4k titles DO have a quality improvement over the original blu-ray discs. They talked about how the bit rate has been raised by foregoing the extras on the disc to make a better picture. To me this sounds like the first release of Avatar on blu-ray. They went without extras to raise the bitrate, but the collector's edition with seamless branching seems to have the same PQ to me even though they packed more onto the disc. Has anyone read actual reviews of these yet? Anyhow here is the article: http://www.cnet.com.au/sony-mastered...-339344100.htm

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

I would not be surprised if The Amazing Spider-Man and Total Recall are completely identical to the existing releases.

ASM looks better there is more detail resolved, the colour is identical as I thought as the RED colour scheme has held any changes back.

Are there any shots of the original Spider-man?

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by MovieReviews331

CNET says the new mastered in 4k titles DO have a quality improvement over the original blu-ray discs. They talked about how the bit rate has been raised by foregoing the extras on the disc to make a better picture. To me this sounds like the first release of Avatar on blu-ray.

To me it sounds like Superbit on DVD.

[psychomugs]

Announcement on the Spider-Man sequels? Wouldn't bite if it's just the one.

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by MovieReviews331

CNET says the new mastered in 4k titles DO have a quality improvement over the original blu-ray discs. They talked about how the bit rate has been raised by foregoing the extras on the disc to make a better picture. To me this sounds like the first release of Avatar on blu-ray. They went without extras to raise the bitrate, but the collector's edition with seamless branching seems to have the same PQ to me even though they packed more onto the disc. Has anyone read actual reviews of these yet? Anyhow here is the article: http://www.cnet.com.au/sony-mastered...-339344100.htm

Cant speak for all the releases but I received Ghostbusters on Saturday and only 32Gb of the disc is used so there is plenty of room left for extras but guess they want to make this whole line 'extra-less'

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

To me it sounds like Superbit on DVD.

Bar the expanded colour and new masters, superbit was the old masters on the whole just with higher bitrate

[Dubstar]

any online reviews of 'Spider-Man' yet ?

[HeavyHitter]

***Patiently waiting for "Mastered in 4K" Bram Stroker's Dracula***