How a film looks on disc has nothing to do with 2k, 4k, 8k or whatever k, also not with DVD or Blu Ray, but with how the mastering is done (and of course also how the used film material looks).
But it indeed happens that a film is filtered when mastered for a disc so much, that it looks very soft, and then people may say such a disc looks “digital” or has a “soap opera” look.
Not the kind of scanning makes a film look good or bad, but how the scanning is done.
And if it is done properly an old 35 mm film may look in a 4k scan better as it does in a cinema projection, cause the 35 mm copies used for normal film distribution were already so often copied that they suffered a enorm loss of resolution.
The first Blu of GBU was such a case of bad film mastering, it was filtered so much that the grain got lost (which was the aim of the filtering), but that resulted in a very soft look, quite unnatural for 35 mm film. The later Blus of GBU look much better in that regard.
On some other forum they showed screenshots how Eureka had overfiltered or overcorrected the colors on the BluRay so that even muzzle flashes went missing. So having seen that I am staying away from the release, despite the sub-optimal Fox/MGM material from god knows when…
I haven’t got it either. Not sure I will because I already have another Blu of it. Normally because it’s Eureka I would (I bought their Blu if The Great Silence even though I had the previous one), but if it’s less than stellar I can’t see me bothering.
that’s the successor format to BluRay and offers near-4K resolution and high resolution audio. Again, first of all this is just a storage format. You can put good or bad movies on it, and you can put good movies in bad quality on it, or bad movies in good quality
Yeah that was what I was meaning, the successor to blu ray, though I don’t know a lot about them as I’ve never owned one, and I think you also need a new player for them too, if I’m right. But yeah I thought that was what we were talking about, must have gotten the wrong end of the stick somewhere along the line.
Yes you’ll need a 4K UHD BluRay player. They are downward compatible but not the other way around. No need for one of these though unless you have adequate screen/projector and sound system, too, otherwise you’re not gonna see or hear much of all that is on there of course. Same for the jump from DVD to BluRay.
I watched this last weekend I think it was - a favourite of mine I watched a lot some years back. Looking at it now it is greater than the sum of its parts. Some good action sequences and characters. Soundtrack is absolutely brilliant and carries the movie in parts. John is a great character. The flashbacks are great too - despite some slow parts and Steiger overdoing it it’s 5 star all the same.
That is one theory … I had to look it up, as it’s just one of those things we say everyday without knowing it’s origin.
There is mention of an English town /village called ‘Quidhampton’ which was the site of a paper mill that produced for the Royal mint … though quid pro quo sounds more likely.
I think the slang term ‘quid’ derives from the former Royal Mint paper mill in Quidhampton, Wiltshire. The Latin ‘quid pro quo’ seems too highbrow somehow. The mill itself predates the earliest known use of the phrase in the mid-1700s.
