SvennoJ said:
I'm not all that into replacing blu-rays with 4K blu-ray. For movies prior to 2010 it makes little difference. Only if they were shot on 70mm it will have benefits on 4K blu-ray. Movies shot on 35mm and the early digital movies with 2K digital masters have no benefit of 4K upscaling an adding HDR after the fact either looks weir or unnoticeable. Even for new series. I got Westworld S3 on 4K HDR blu-ray and it looks exactly the same as the 1080p blu-ray version.
I would love a 4K HDR version of Lord of the Rings, yet the source material simply isn't there. The first movie already looks dated on blu-ray due to it being shot with early digital cameras and mastered in 2K. It would have looked better with 35mm material. The later movies look better but it's a shame they didn't pull out the 70mm cameras for this epic movie series. Yet that bit of low res fuzziness does help with the immersion. I found the Hobbit looking worse despite using much better cameras. Probably because using much better cameras and also due to different lighting techniques as it was shot in HFR. (48 fps)
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Blu-ray also already reveals the strings in the dark crystal, Willow and Big trouble in little China also don't benefit all that much from blu-ray. It looks better, but it also looks less coherent.
Shooting on 65 mm and 70 mm still looks the best to me. Digital camera look too 'clinical', looks more like a game than a movie. All that modern cgi doesn't help of course. I just ordered murder on the orient express and death on the nile on 4K blu-ray. Modern movies shot on 65/70 mm, hopefully they didn't mess with HDR too much. |
I've jumped to 4K ever since I got my OLED in preparation for the PS5 (which I now have), and I've double dipped on many movies I own on DVD. However, I won't 4K double dip if I already own them on blu-ray. It's not THAT big of a difference to justify rebuying them. DVD to 4K, though? It's a night and day difference.
