![]() 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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