UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[MovieBuff647]

Any SECRET AGENT 4K Criterion vs MUBI comparisons out there? Based on NexSpec's recent 180 and MUBI now cheapening out with physical media, I assume Criterion have won here but I'm nonetheless curious.

[Finch]

Masters of the Universe (1987) (Toy Robot)

Early word on Mrs Doubtfire is not good.

[Finch]

I watched the film on Saturday and I think we should downgrade Out of the Past to a solid upgrade. Sony's/Criterion's HDR/DV grade is nicer on The Big Heat and David's encoding aside, the film looks a bit processed at times. It's still appreciably better than Warner's fine Blu-ray but compared to The Big Heat, never mind beautiful SDR only discs like I Know Where I'm Going!, I found the Out of the Past 4K just a teensy weensy bit disappointing.

[James Stock]

Shouldn't Out of the Past be in disappointing? It's not terrible and it does look better than the old Blu-ray, but it still could've looked way better than it does.

[Stefan Andersson]

Discussion of Out of the Past 4K:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 060&page=6

Post 102: " the 2014 Blu-ray looks stretched vertically/compressed horizontally".

[Stefan Andersson]

Criticism of the UHD Maltese Falcon:

"Truly bad HDR which wrecks many of the compositions, the UHD only has HDR10 where streaming got DV, not great disc encoding. The audio was processed mono of the already processed 2006 mono mastering which itself was coming from the 2000 snapper case DVD mono mastering which has the best quality to this day. To make matters worse, the streaming version seems to use the superior 2000 audio mastering.
https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search...D%20%281941%29
I've compared nearly every version of the film's audio and sent all my captures into Blahray. The new Warner scan of the film is wonderful and I truly hope someone else steps in to properly handle it someday. The studio UHD pains me to this day. I wish so badly that the Archive gets to redo it and at least fix the audio and awful HDR."
Post 117:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 060&page=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pq4pwyMs3o

[nicolas]

I watched the film on Saturday and I think we should downgrade Out of the Past to a solid upgrade. Sony's/Criterion's HDR/DV grade is nicer on The Big Heat and David's encoding aside, the film looks a bit processed at times. It's still appreciably better than Warner's fine Blu-ray but compared to The Big Heat, never mind beautiful SDR only discs like I Know Where I'm Going!, I found the Out of the Past 4K just a teensy weensy bit disappointing.

I second the blue category. Have to say I had quite the expectations after Randy Miller’s glowing review but I haven’t paid attention to the screenshots that did hint at the shortcomings in the master.

[Finch]

OotP moved to the blue tier.