What really sets thisĭisc apart is the HDR treatment along with the expanded color palette, especially yellows and blues. Upconverted to 4K from the 2K DI, resolution improvement is minimal.
This required a considerable reduction of the Brightness control to eliminate overly gray black bars and a slightly flat, washed-out picture.)-TJN (On the Samsung display, this disc also had an elevated black level at settings that looked fine on the other UHD discs. And like many of the films here, this one screams out for a screen bigger than 65 inches. The battle simulations, in particular, were as impressive a demonstration of HDR as you might hope for. But the images improved considerably as the action moved to outer space. Early in the film, I found fleshtones a bit distracting, and overall nothing really stood out for me. May have been by design-is slightly sepia-toned color in the opening scenes on Earth. The main shortcoming in this release-and it
Lionsgate (2015) DI: 2K, Dolby Atmos/TrueHD The Atmos soundtrack has some great demo-worthy moments featuring helicopter flyovers, gunshots, and explosions.-David Vaughn Text on Chappie’s armor is much more legible versus the Blu-ray, highlighting the added resolution. There are a number of very dark scenes with bright highlights, such as the gang’s poorly lit lair broken by sunshine bursting through various openings. The color is also excellent, though sparingly used in the film’s many seedy and grimy settings.Ī native 4K DI from Sony, this one falls just short of perfection in both audio and video. This odd film doesn’t really work dramatically, but it’s one of the best UHD HDR discs in the group, with both bright and sometimes very dark sequences that are a treat in HDR. Sony Pictures (2015) DI: 4K, Dolby Atmos/TrueHD Tom commented that the difference in detail between 2K and 4K DIs was barely observable on his 65-inch display, while David was more able to see those differences on his larger screen.- Rob Sabin
4K DOLBY ATMOS MOVIES 1080P
As we’ve been reporting since our coverage of the very first Sony 4K consumer projector in February of 2012, scanning or shooting any content in 4K or higher resolution results in the capture of additional detail that will be visible even when downconverting to 1080p Blu-ray for play on a 1080p display. Only a few of the titles mentioned here started with 4K digital cinema masters the others were upconverted from 2K DIs. Notably, apparent resolution/picture detail from these discs seems as or more dependent on the quality of the digital intermediate (DI) used to master the disc than on the display they’re viewed on. However, as David points out, “when comparing apples to apples (1080P Blu-ray to 4K UHD Blu-ray using e-shift on both signals), the UHD Blu-rays do have more detail-depending on the resolution quality of the UHD Blu-ray.” He noted further that projectors by nature produce lower peak light output for HDR than a flat panel, though his relatively small screen, an 88-inch Stewart Firehawk with 1.3 gain, will more effectively show HDR than a 120-inch screen with a 1.0 unity gain. This projector is also wide gamut- and HDR10-compliant, though it’s a native 1080p projector that accepts UHD signals and displays them using the projector’s e-shift pixel-shifting technology. David did his viewing on his JVC DLA-X750R projector. Tom’s observations are based on the player attached to Samsung’s 65-inch JS9500 LED-driven Ultra HD LCD display, with both wide color gamut and HDR capabilities, the latter boosted by full-array local dimming. Tom restricts his comments to picture quality, while David also shared his soundtrack impressions as heard on his 7.2.4-channel Atmos theater system. Below are excerpts from their reports (with the author identified for each blurb).
4K DOLBY ATMOS MOVIES MOVIE
We asked our movie reviewers Tom Norton and David Vaughn for their top-line observations on 14 titles in the first batch to help you separate the demo-worthy from the duds. No format launch would be complete without movies to play, and UHD Blu-ray Disc boosters got more than they could have hoped for, with more than two-dozen titles from Sony, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate available concurrent with the debut of the Samsung UBD-K8500 player and all mastered with HDR10 high dynamic range.
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