UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[Finch]

The Evil Dead (Sony)

Confirmed to be a port of Sony's international 4K, encode different to Lionsgate's. Audio in the correct pitch and a cross-selection of archive extras where the Lionsgate had only one audio commentary. High Def reviewer thought the 2.0 was a mixdown of the 5.1 track.

[nitin]

Rocco and His Brothers (BFI) - my impressions and caps

Will wait to see how this look on my tv when I get home from overseas but the grading in those caps looks really disappointing! I think most of these after the fact HDR applications to native 4k SDR masters, especially for black and white films, are taking the wrong approach.

[nicolas]

I've felt the same for a while. Especially UK labels like BFI, Eureka and Arrow seem to add HDR whenever possible. I have to assume they do this for marketing reasons in the first place but even then they'd be able to place the SDR master in a HDR container as-is if they really wanted to make sure the presentation retains its original image characteristics.

[rrenault]

Well wasn’t BFI’s Seventh Seal UHD basically just SDR in a HDR container?

[nicolas]

Halloween 1-5 Collection (Imprint)

[Finch]

Elephant Man CC vs Studio Canal caps

Both discs look great in the caps and some people are going to prefer Criterion's SDR grade. I remember not missing the HDR/DV grade at all while watching their beautiful I Know Where I'm Going! 4K.

[ryannichols7]

I think we've trended towards Criterion for most B&W 4Ks that end up SDR for them but HDR from the UK label. definitely seems to be fairly consistent at this point. I know I've been happy with the Criterion Wages of Fear and Seven Samurai, but still often end up picking up the UK editions for unique extras...

[dwk]

It is worth noting that Criterion's Elephant Man UHD restores a fade that is missing from the StudioCanal release.