UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[nicolas]

The Counsellor (StudioCanal)
Weapons of Death (StudioCanal)

[mfunk9786]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Wicked Vision)

Making it tough to wait for the Criterion upgrade.

[nicolas]

Same for me. I’ll just grab the Wicked 4K and hold on to my Criterion BD for the extras. Have you already got your order in? Cover A is already sold out and cover B seems to be a good seller too: https://www.wicked-shop.com/en/salo-or- ... ork-b.html

[nicolas]

Keoma (Plaion) - caps. The 4K disc isn’t as dark in motion as the caps suggest.

[nitin]

I tried to find an answer on blu ray dot com but as usual the thread is a mess, which disc of The Martian is the best?

[nicolas]

The second release with the two cuts has Atmos whereas the theatrical only 4K has 7.1. Both are BD-66s and don’t have the best compression, which is the same for many of Fox’s early 4K releases. The theatrical only 4K release has more visible noise than the extended one, which was clearly managed to conserve disc space. Despite the unattractive PQ I went with the extended 4K due to the excellent Atmos track.

[nicolas]

30 Days of Night (Icon) - caps. Filmout scan with grain management and overall less detail than the BD.

[nitin]

The second release with the two cuts has Atmos whereas the theatrical only 4K has 7.1. Both are BD-66s and don’t have the best compression, which is the same for many of Fox’s early 4K releases. The theatrical only 4K release has more visible noise than the extended one, which was clearly managed to conserve disc space. Despite the unattractive PQ I went with the extended 4K due to the excellent Atmos track.

cheers nicolas, I will go the same route as I find DNR implementation for noise more tolerable than DNR implementation for grain

[nicolas]

Salò (Wicked Vision) packaging pictures, review & credits, disc stats and screenshots.

[nicolas]

I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills (Criterion) - C'mon, C'mon comparison. The other two films are upscales from the 2K DIs. Will update if comparisons are made.
Dark Shadows (Shout) - comparison

[Finch]

Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair has the same flaws as the individual UHDs of Vols 1 & 2, i.e. smearing (especially what was Vol 1) and derived from an early 2000s Digital Interpositive. I haven't seen any comments about the encoding of TWBA. Maybe when Tarantino passes, someone will endeavor to do a fresh restoration from scratch.

[Finch]

No comments on the encode of Threads by Severin yet, just comments on lingering print damage that didn't or couldn't get cleaned up.

[Zot!]

Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair has the same flaws as the individual UHDs of Vols 1 & 2, i.e. smearing (especially what was Vol 1) and derived from an early 2000s Digital Interpositive. I haven't seen any comments about the encoding of TWBA. Maybe when Tarantino passes, someone will endeavor to do a fresh restoration from scratch.

It looked shit in the theater too. I’m resigned to love it as it is, and BD is just fine for that.

[nicolas]

No comments on the encode of Threads by Severin yet, just comments on lingering print damage that didn't or couldn't get cleaned up.

Threads Severin) - comparison. HDR is on the bright side, so I'd probably watch it downconverted to SDR but otherwise I really like what I see.
Death Warrant (MVD) - beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)
Double Impact (MVD) - dto. and MVD still haven't fixed this. Get the 88 or Capelight import instead.

I'm worried about New York, New York.

[Finch]

Pillow Talk (Universal)

caps

[nicolas]

Eyes Wide Shut (Warner) - caps. Would be a red category title if it didn’t have to measure against a FiM encode.

[malachi_lui]

I don't have a way to rip discs so I can only contribute to this thread anecdotally on stuff that hasn't already been brought up here but:

Fudoh: The New Generation (Radiance UHD) - Unadvertised HDR10 grade that looks better than the equivalent Blu-ray it's packaged with, grain rendered very clean even when it's heavy. FiM encode so surely it's better than the Media Blasters UHD, but there are still issues with frame stability, some shots have this jitter that kinda hurts to look at. Not a night and day upgrade over the Blu, but it's better and despite its issues, probably the best it'll ever be.

Can't remember if this thread settled on a colour tier for Audition (Arrow), yes the surround tracks are problematic but the original 2.0 is great. FiM did the encode and it looks stunning in Dolby Vision. For video quality, it belongs in the red reference category, but I'm not yet entirely sure how audio issues play into the tier lists here, other than the separate list for audio issues.

Cruel Story of Youth (Criterion) has some UHD encoding issues I mentioned in that release's respective thread. The equivalent Blu-ray is a lot cleaner, not absolutely flawless if you're really gonna be a pixel peeper, but more consistent. When the UHD looks good, it looks amazing, yet the compression blocking in the scene around 25 minutes in weighs down the overall quality. I'll let someone else here take a look and decide how to rank it, so far I haven't seen anyone else talk about the quality of this release other than the specs being posted on the other forum.