Comment on Home theater fans are being starved of the new 4K Blu-ray releases they want and it's not okay
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months agoI’ll have to dig into that dci standards site, but ultimately I figure as long as they are doing cinema releases someones making a 4K file. And since were talking about the 1% here… someone is making the gear the theaters use, so folks can just buy that and skip the “full time concierge” or whatever is putting these folks out of business one after the other.
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
If they are working in digital there will likely be a UHD quality master (depending on how it’s filmed) but the resolution of a scan isn’t everything that makes a 4k release - that includes special audio and premium HDR and, I believe, it’s the latter which can be especially time-consuming.
That was my thinking, if they’ve spent six figures on a home cinema system they could just get themselves signed up as a small, albeit private, cinema and get the film sent to them that way. It may be these fancy services also make this available on billionaires’ yachts and planes, I suppose, so perhaps they are paying the big bucks for convenience. If a member of staff has to tell a billionaire “sorry you can’t have that right now” they are either getting the sack or being asked if throwing a zero on the end will grease the wheels.
It may simply be that these companies that provide this service are being circumvented by the 1% knowing a guy who knows a guy at the studios and there are ways. Back in the day, they might just have paid for an extra print to be made of the film.
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve really been wanting to check out one of those boutique Bluerays, I just haven’t had a chance. I was always an impulse buyer and and ended up grabbing the shittiest DVDs somehow… best thing I got was that monster prosthetic test from Boogie Nights which was delightfully subversive in execution, but not the cinephile content I was promised :-S
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
There’s probably a releaser for every taste but folks like Arrow and Vinegar Syndrome focus on the quality of their products with a few extras to make them special but rarely fill them with tat.
It’s often the big studios (that JW4 set is direct from Lionsgate) or the very small companies that try and polish a turd (the condom is from Visual Vengeance who focus on shot-on-video films that are never going to have the beat quality picture) or the reboxers (like Nova Media) who can throw in all sorts of things you wouldn’t buy separately.
If you are just interested in sampling the image quality then they usually have a standard release. Keep an eye out for sales.
That’s definitely a thing that happened!
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I need to invest a bit of energy and cash in it… I was planning on being a slightly different kind of hipster, but a good record player is way to expensive these days :-)
Some early experience with Hollywood left me with an axe to grind. Long story short; Fox expertly torpedoed the first and last movie I worked on… but I need to be supporting these efforts that treat the work with the respect it deserves. I don’t think most folks could even imagine how hard it is to make a movie. Even a crappy movie :-)