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ignoring the abortion that was stereoscopic 3D Blu-ray the

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entertainment industry pushes a revolutionary New Media format down our

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throats with promises that it will completely change the way we enjoy our

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movies about once every 10 years but

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while DVD promised very mainstream

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benefits over VHS in addition to better

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image quality more convenient storage increased longevity and no rewinding

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Blu-rays option has been challenged at every stage from HD DVD and the less

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obvious image quality benefits versus DVD on the average viewers TV in the

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early days to the cost and convenience

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advantages of online streaming today so

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does 4K Blu-ray offer up an obvious

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enough benefit to bring online streaming efficient Autos back to physical Media

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or failing that is it at least enough to prompt enthusiasts to upgrade let's talk

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about

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that mass drop is hosting a drop for the high5 man ich 350 headphones which you

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can get for $999.99 check it out at the link in the

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video description let's open up with the gear

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that you'll need to enjoy your shiny new 4k Blu-rays 4K Blu-rays use the bdxl

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format which can hold up to 128 gigs on a triple layer disc but it isn't

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backwards compatible so you'll need a new player we chose the Xbox One S since

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Atmos support isn't terribly important to anyone without a redonkulous speaker

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setup in a dedicated theater room and it

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costs the same as the Standalone players anyway while having much more

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functionality next you'll need a 4K TV

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HDR support strongly preferred as we'll get into in more depth later I'll be

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using LG's signature G6 65 in OLED since

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it's one of if not the best home HDR

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experiences at the moment and representative of what will be more

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widely available in the year or two to come after that you will need more

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expensive 4K Blu-ray discs we chose

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these movies because we wanted to experience many of the different types

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of original formats that could be converted to 4K Blu-ray and finally

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you'll need the as yet uncracked htcp

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2.2 support at every Link in your data

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chain which usually means a special port

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or two on the back of your receiver and TV plus some faffing about since from my

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experience it is buggy as heck at the moment I actually ended up taking my

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receiver out of the mix halfway through our session because it just stopped

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handshaking with the Xbox One S now

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let's talk about the test our resident Cinema dor Brandon and I shut the blinds

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and chained ourselves to my couch for the better part of a day doing

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everything from watching longer uninterrupted chunks of the films to

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pausing as close to the same frames as we could and pixel peeping at least

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that's what we did once we finished bickering over what settings to use on

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the TV for HDR it was simple since all

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the normal picture profile modes are replaced with three HDR ones we just

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turned off obvious nonsense like clear motion and Edge enhancement and set it

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to HDR for a dark room but for our standard Blu-ray comparison system a PC

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playing lossless MKV rips over the network in

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mpcc we eventually settled on the ISF

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expert dark mode with neutral color temperature all those enhancements off

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and either standard or wide color gamut

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depending on the film more on that later

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first up The Lego Movie the first Blu-ray HDR experience for either of us

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since this was our first crack at AB evaluation we ended up trying to tune

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the non HDR image in TV quite a bit to

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get the most fair comparison this was one movie where widecolor gamut got

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Blu-ray close to the vibrancy of HDR

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without looking like Best Buy TV syndrome but what our compensations

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lacked was subtlety in this scene the

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HDR version looks like a bluish Shadow

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on a gray Street the Blu-ray looks like

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a blue Street as for the 4K upsampling

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there is a difference in wide shots with distant text or objects but from a

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normal viewing distance I would describe it as not a huge deal next up sario we

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found our wide gamut setting was overpowering in this film and went back

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to normal in this night scene the higher bit rate and increased color depth give

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the sky a more natural less banded appearance and in this one the parking

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lot of the bar's darkness and the brightness of the lights make the bar

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seem like a beacon or an oasis more than

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just a building HDR had a true emotional

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impact moving indoors again the difference is there in the vibrancy of

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the sign on the character's right as she walks in and in the lighting on our

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character's face as she sits at the bar in the Blu-ray version it looks like

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there's a light shining on her face in HDR she is clearly lit in multiple

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colors from multiple different sources just like she would be if she was

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sitting in a bar the Revenant was a funny one for us as a movie that was

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mostly shot in natural light at Native 4K we were expecting to be blown away

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and we did get a difference I mean look at the difference in color in the burn

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church scene here between Blu-ray and 4K

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Blu-ray but we also observed that we

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could compensate for a lot of that Difference by Shifting The Tint of the

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TV to minus 23 and in the bare scene we saw the same

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thing again leading us to agree on a couple of things one that 4K resolution

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on the disc itself had a negligible impact to the viewing experience and

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that HDR didn't affect the appearance of the lighting nearly as much as we'd

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expected it wasn't until a firit scene

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that our tint hack Was Defeated and the HDR version flexed its range muscles but

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even then while the teal cast of the first two scenes may have been closer to

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the director's Vision the more Blu like

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appearance unlike in sakario didn't

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affect the emotional impact of the scene

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um though be clear this isn't so much a criticism of the HDR Master as much as

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it is praise for the Blu-ray Master the 4K version of The Amazing

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Spider-Man 2 is simply put a

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disappointment in side by-side comparisons sure the cop cars are a

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little wider and the Shadows are a little deeper but for a 35mm film to 4k

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digital scan I was expecting more than just more accurate representation of the

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filmic look we both were Amazing Spider-Man 2 was easily the low point of

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our HDR day which is okay because our

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last title life of piie made us immediately forget about it holy actual

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balls this movie looks like the difference between a competent if

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unexceptional color grading job and

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turning the TV into a window into a completely different reality in my

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living room the visual difference once

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again isn't in the increased resolution which makes sense since it's upsampled

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from a 2K Master but rather from the

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incredible difference in the way the scenes lighting looks cloth Shadows skin

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tones this is the first movie that's made me sit up and go wow now that I've

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seen the HDR version I have no desire whatsoever to settle for the Blu-ray

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words don't do it justice it's absolutely

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beautiful which leads us pretty well into the conclusion which is is a little

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complicated first the good while I'm

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still not sold on 4K from a normal viewing distance until home TVs are 100

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in or greater HDR is not a gimmick no

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amount of tooling around with your TV's menu can simulate its effects across an

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entire film and we did try my TV's Foo

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simulated HDR mode and done right it

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dramatically improves the movie viewing experience and I'll be surprised if

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streaming HDR can compete with 4K Blu-ray HDR since traditional Blu-ray

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already blows streaming out of the water in terms of color depth though I'd love

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to be proven wrong here second up some big problems so

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first The increased cost versus the

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benefit is the highest we've ever seen

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with only AV nerds and movie Buffs

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likely to be able to tell the difference without a side by-side comparison sorry

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to all of you guys but most of the world doesn't calibrate their TV and uses the

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built-in speakers and second if we're being

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honest it's not actually here yet there's always that transition period

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every time where we have a new standard where the hardware is like sort of there

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and the standards are like sort of there but the content needs time to catch up

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and in this case even the content that does exist well frankly most of it

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doesn't benefit from it in the way that content a year or two from now will so

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for now then I'd say the money is better spent on almost anything else

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calibrating your existing TV buying literally twice as many movies or even a

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comfier couch I do plan to invest in it

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eventually when more than you know one out of five discs that I buy feel like I

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really got my money's worth but I will also be waiting for htcp 2.2 to be

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cracked so that I'm not paying extra for the privilege of putting physical media

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