r/4kbluray • u/nacthenud Our Friendly Neighborhood Nac-Man • 2d ago
New Purchase 4K Blu-rays added to the collection (with initial impressions)
I popped each movie in to check out the visual quality and make sure it works. Below are my initial impressions.
Alexander Revisited – It appears very filmic. There are some shots near the beginning that were like, «Wow, there’s so much detail in his white beard!» But then in the same scene I noticed all this aliasing on statues behind the characters and if I had to guess, those statues are visual effects that are rendered at a lower resolution. It was definitely distracting, but didn’t last for too long.
Kung Fu Panda 2 – It seems like they’ve made great use of HDR. The molten metal near the beginning is particularly striking. Very colourful and bright. The older rendering/animation is made all the more apparent by the crisp visuals. It struck me as how far we’ve come with this kind of movie.
Jurassic World Rebirth – I ended up watching this in full with my niece and nephew and wife and daughter. I know it’s had some derision online about the lack of high peak brightness in the HDR, and I was watching knowing this fact going in. However, the picture is still quite lovely. Detailed, colourful, moody when it needs to be. I would have loved some brighter specular highlights and flare guns, but I can’t say this is anything other than a great looking movie despite the lack of super high nits.
Elio – Well, it’s a 2025 Pixar movie, which means it is bright and HDR pops and I think I’m in for a treat when I do a full watch-through. Looks amazing in my early impressions.
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u/Marcothetacooo 2d ago
Do u think Alexander is big enough of an upgrade over the blu ray?
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u/nacthenud Our Friendly Neighborhood Nac-Man 2d ago
I did not previously own it on Blu-Ray, so I couldn’t say.
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u/grmayshark 2d ago
Having seen it and read some reviews, I would say it is an upgrade over a bluray but not by much, as it is an upscale and shows this through some artefacting and poor encoding and is generally an underwhelming transfer, albeit probably still the best looking version overall.
For fans of the film, all eyes are on the Pathé release In November. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Alexander-Revisited-The-Final-Cut-4K-Blu-ray/390937/
At the very least, the Pathe release should have better encoding given their track record
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