The Untouchables 4K UHD (1987)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by drfsupercenter

The issue is when movies actually remaster the standard BD as well, but then don't release it with the 4K. Like Scream.



Because not all of us have UHD players in every room of the house? I like having both discs so I can still use the regular Blu-ray on other TVs, take them to a friend's house who doesn't have 4K, etc. It's just a nice thing to have that shouldn't cost *that* much extra to include, and some companies cheap out and don't include it to save a dollar or two. And then they have the gall to ask the same price as all the other companies who include it.

Paramount very rarely remaster the standalone BD though. Scream was an exception, and that decision may have come from Miramax anyway.

[Guydowood]

One thing for certain, Paramount better deliver or.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgoDvnebHRw

[captveg]

Nice. Should be a huge upgrade.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by captveg

Nice. Should be a huge upgrade.

The 4K stream on Vudu and iTunes is stunning.

[drfsupercenter]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Paramount very rarely remaster the standalone BD though. Scream was an exception, and that decision may have come from Miramax anyway.

Yeah, I'm not saying they always do. But in some of the cases (like Scream) where it's released as UHD-only, they *do* have a remastered regular Blu-ray, too which means I'd have to buy them separately which is a huge waste of money.

[VIDEOgameDROME]

Cool. Good movie.

[punisher]

How great was Connery in this movie???.....

[AdmiralNoodles]

Originally Posted by drfsupercenter

Yeah, I'm not saying they always do. But in some of the cases (like Scream) where it's released as UHD-only, they *do* have a remastered regular Blu-ray, too which means I'd have to buy them separately which is a huge waste of money.

I don't mind, sometimes. Figure I use the money I gained from selling the digital code to PERHAPS getting the remastered BD, if there's one.

Originally Posted by gardengirl1331

Never saw the BD of this, thankfully I guess, we just have it on DVD, so most definitely will be a pre-order instead of waiting for the price drop!

I still kept the HD DVD! Don't even have anything to watch it since I was holding out on a remastered BD or importing a release which had AVC and DTS-MD MA 2.0/5.1/lossless audio or whichever the original cinema audio was. Though I still used to own that HD DVD add-on player for the XBOX 360 when I had one.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Thanks!
I simply meant that although it is a quality movie that I like and would like to see again on disc rather than on stream it's not something that I would buy because I wouldn't watch it repeatedly. When I say I can't afford it I mean I can't afford to do what I used to do with LaserDisc and DVD which is buy tons of movies because they're really cool to see up on my shelf! At this point I am only buying titles which I will watch on a regular basis for the rest of my life.
If I was rolling in cash I would buy a lot of titles for the kick I get from seeing them on my shelf and also to support physical media. What I do miss is having a mom-and-pop type video store like I had at the dawn of the age of DVD! I would love to be able to go into a store and look at the selection and pick out a handful of UHD 4K movies to rent. Seems like everybody I know is switching over to streaming. My kids my friends, Etc.
That's why I love this forum so much because people care about physical media and they care about the actual quality of the discs.

Ah, ok. I hear you on that one. It's not a money thing for me, but rather a space issue. I mean, I have the space, but I prefer to keep my movies all in one or two places. Not spread out all over the house. I recently did a purge for that reason, partly, and it helped. However, I do get what you're saying about the mom and pop store, as well as having movies you know you're going to watch over and over again. Versus movies you may only watch once. The problem with the latter, for me anyway, is that if I only have movies I am going to watch over and over again, I'm going to get bored very quick.

I like having a lot more choices than just the ones I know I'll watch. I NEED more choices. As it is now, I spend roughly 10 minutes or so trying to choose what I'm going to watch. And in the end, I am mostly on my phone. Now, these are not just some random boring movies and TV shows I have in my collection. These are some of my favorite, if not my favorite, movies and TV shows. I just can't get behind most of them these days. It's my depression. I have tried and tried unsuccessfully to combat it, but nothing's worked so far. That's why I'm trying to diversify my collection and all. A lot this also falls down to watching WAY MORE content now that my mom's passed. I can watch about 20 movies or more in a week. So, my choices dwindle quickly as you can see.

[Winslow Leach]

Finally! Day one!

[mikesncc1701]

Bloody can't wait for this!

When they send me the 4K, I send the DVD to the morgue.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by drfsupercenter

Yeah, I'm not saying they always do. But in some of the cases (like Scream) where it's released as UHD-only, they *do* have a remastered regular Blu-ray, too which means I'd have to buy them separately which is a huge waste of money.

UK release had both in one set unlike the US one, but I see your point. Still, there really are so few remastered BDs that have been left out due to Paramount's UHD-only stance for the US that it's not worth agonising over. And for several movies that did get a remastered BD Paramount released them months or even years after the UHD so you couldn't have got them at the time anyway, like with Forrest Gump, Mission Impossible 1 and Tomb Raider. It's just not something that they tend to do a lot of, releasing a remastered BD and UHD at the same time (whether in the same package or separately).

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by punisher

How great was Connery in this movie???.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLVfUidxKA

[StrayButler91]

Originally Posted by drfsupercenter

Yeah, I'm not saying they always do. But in some of the cases (like Scream) where it's released as UHD-only, they *do* have a remastered regular Blu-ray, too which means I'd have to buy them separately which is a huge waste of money.

Don't forget It's a Wonderful Life, Paramount emptied out their inventory of old BDs that were gathering dust rather than bundling in the remastered BD. I'm a sucka so I bought the 4K and the remastered Blu, grrr.

I was tempted to buy dis on iTunes to see the remaster buuuut I'll hold off for the disc. Looks like Paramount are dropping a bunch of random flicks in 4K on streaming that we'll likely see on disc at some point - The Italian Job (2003), The Score, Drillbit Taylor, Imagine That (I mean... really?), Primal Fear, Double Jeopardy, Rango, Truman Show, Witness...

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLVfUidxKA

Nice Cage in the background, lol

[gardengirl1331]

Originally Posted by AdmiralNoodles

I still kept the HD DVD!

Well technically we have it on DVD-R, so it's not even a good copy, it's compressed to boot. (we used to (stupidly- thinking we'd upgrade them quicker to BD and then 4k but it's slow going, we're slowly buying used DVDs to replace them but many things are now CRAZY expensive!) get the movie then copy it and donate the original DVD to either the retirement home or the library. But at least we can watch it! ha ha!!

[nick4Knight]

Nic Cage before he went full Nic Cage. But it's there. Lurking. His hair was the first tell...

[tama]

Don't let the knuckle heads who encoded Juice encode this.

[JohnCarpenterLives]

Originally Posted by johnnyringo7

Day one if it's true! (I suffered a great disappointment with what happened with Tombstone).

"I can retire my DVD fina- oh. No, I can't retire my DVD."

[lgans316]

Based on what I am seeing on iTunes 4K Dolby Vision, I am confident we are in for a treat with the physical release. Looks filmic thanks to a decent layer of film grain.