Yeh you read that right, I bought the LOTR UHD collection that just came out (via the WB store as 10% off for new customers, they were short on stock but shipped with next day courier vs 2-3working days like they said they would).
They scanned the 35mm film and raw CGI at 4k Vs 2k when the film's first released. They colour graded to make the film's more consistent (fellowship has a crazy blue green tint now removed) and pulled out more detail though not TOO much as per Jackson's direction. There's a YT video interviewing PJ and other comparison clips available, I'm going to make a video too I think.
I got the UB820 yesterday from Curry's and set it to the SDR/BT2020 setting but didn't change anything else. When I play the UHD disc to my non HDR, 1080p projector (HW40ES Sony) it strips the HDR data and gives me an SDR image.
Well we were both gawping throughout, it's a revelation. The player is downsampling four pixels to one so fine details like hairs are confidently there on screen. You see minutiae on minutiae and it's just beautiful for want of a better one size fits all descriptor.
Contrast is much improved as well with scenes popping and looking HDR in some cases even on a low luminence device such as a Projector, an SDR one at that! You now see capillaries in the subsurface of skin on actors and fine details in clothes previously not visible.
The Atmos soundtrack is amazing with deep thundering bass, can't wait for battles in the later films! The score sounds great with that blackfloor separation/space effect I find you have with individual instruments eminating from your speakers Vs a levelled mix being played through them in non object based audio.
Conclusion: very glad I got the UB820 and the LOTR UHD set for my 1080p projector. Yeh I'd take a faux k or 4k projector but really wonder then if I'd even know what was happening in the film without critiquing every scene lol.
Highly recommended for anyone on the fence. No weird colours or crushed or blown highlights with the Panasonic player, with it outputting a reference SDR image.
They scanned the 35mm film and raw CGI at 4k Vs 2k when the film's first released. They colour graded to make the film's more consistent (fellowship has a crazy blue green tint now removed) and pulled out more detail though not TOO much as per Jackson's direction. There's a YT video interviewing PJ and other comparison clips available, I'm going to make a video too I think.
I got the UB820 yesterday from Curry's and set it to the SDR/BT2020 setting but didn't change anything else. When I play the UHD disc to my non HDR, 1080p projector (HW40ES Sony) it strips the HDR data and gives me an SDR image.
Well we were both gawping throughout, it's a revelation. The player is downsampling four pixels to one so fine details like hairs are confidently there on screen. You see minutiae on minutiae and it's just beautiful for want of a better one size fits all descriptor.
Contrast is much improved as well with scenes popping and looking HDR in some cases even on a low luminence device such as a Projector, an SDR one at that! You now see capillaries in the subsurface of skin on actors and fine details in clothes previously not visible.
The Atmos soundtrack is amazing with deep thundering bass, can't wait for battles in the later films! The score sounds great with that blackfloor separation/space effect I find you have with individual instruments eminating from your speakers Vs a levelled mix being played through them in non object based audio.
Conclusion: very glad I got the UB820 and the LOTR UHD set for my 1080p projector. Yeh I'd take a faux k or 4k projector but really wonder then if I'd even know what was happening in the film without critiquing every scene lol.
Highly recommended for anyone on the fence. No weird colours or crushed or blown highlights with the Panasonic player, with it outputting a reference SDR image.