Remember, Blade Runner 2049 off the UHD Blu-Ray that I'm showing here in the 1:1 crops is almost 50Mbps average video bitrate. From what I have seen, iTunes recommends a 25Mbps internet link so with VBR we're probably looking at realistic video bitrates between 10-20Mbps compressed H.265. While I think it's great that we're starting to see Dolby Vision metadata on UHD Blu-Ray now, I don't think we can say something is clearly "better" or not just because of Dolby Vision! Based on my experience with 4K streaming, the bitrates are significantly lower than the UHD Blu-Ray. There's a recent article that claims Hollywood doesn't want us to buy UHD Blu-Ray based on the idea that Blade Runner 2049 (among others) is somehow a "lesser version" on disk because of HDR10 compared to Dolby Vision streamed off iTunes. Out of 5 stars, I'd give the video here a solid 4.5/5 simply because there's still a bit more to hope for :-).īy the way, although the soundtrack is rather loud and compressed, the Dolby TrueHD-Atmos encoding sounds good (even without an Atmos set-up). I think it's fair to say the improvement in resolution here is at least on par with the IMAX 70mm Dunkirk, making this movie "reference" quality video worth showing off for friends realizing that there is even more resolution potential to 4K. Plus of course there's a little bit more also from the HDR effect to differentiate the look of the film when watching it on an actual HDR capable screen. I think it's fair to say that even though this is "nearly 4K", a movie captured digitally in 3.4K with similar 3.4K special effects rendering converted to the 4K DI looks very good! Clearly there is a jump in resolution going from 1080P to 4K with a movie like this. Remember, even UHD Blu-Ray is 4:2:0 chroma subsampled. We also see a better rendition of Officer K's silhouette. There's also more definition in the hair coloration. Here's one where we can really see that the chroma channel "resolves" the scanlines composing electro-Joi quite noticeably. In keeping this series of posts relatively consistent, we can at least compare not just between Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray, but also get a sense of the difference between movies themselves: The procedure is the same as my previous posts using madVR to do high quality upscaling. The movie is presented in 2.39:1 aspect ratio. This UHD Blu-Ray video was encoded in HEVC 10-bit HDR10 with ~49.5Mbps bitrate compared to the standard Blu-Ray video encoded at AVC ~20Mbps. Blade Runner 2049 was filmed digitally using ARRI Alexa cameras using the ARRIRAW 3.4K format (3414 x 2198) then converted to a 4K Digital Intermediate and special effects were said to be rendered in 3.4K as well. Of the movies I've looked at, Dunkirk and the 70mm IMAX filmmaking process clearly provided a resolution enhancement.įor this post, I want to show you what a " nearly 4K" movie presented on UHD Blu-Ray looks like resolution-wise. As expected, 2K Digital Intermediate movies like Pacific Rim can benefit from HDR color/contrast regrading, but there would be no resolution enhancement. This goes for Interstellar's 35mm portions, the original Blade Runner, and last week with The Prestige. If you've been following along, so far we're actually not seeing much if any significant improvement in spatial resolution comparing typical "analogue" film-to-4K movie conversions. I want to continue in this series of comparisons showing resolution of 1080P Blu-Ray versus the 4K UHD Blu-Ray version of the same film. Another excellent movie! It might be heresy to those who adored the first Blade Runner, but I thought this was an even better flick than the first kudos to Denis Villeneuve.
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