i understand many folk are sitting and watching with a TV and no hope resolving ben 2k in many cases let alone fully resolving 4k... this is definitely far easier a task with projectors though with larger screens easily possible to appreciate resolutions beyond 2k and not needing nose to the screen D:
but there are elements of 4k uhd eg WCG and HDR do give benefit no matter what distance you sit from the screen and these do provide benefit with projectors too to take beyond blu-ray let alone lasers disc
... that I can appreciate some are happy with as the
Pièce de résistance
Agree there is certainly directors intent and also what new formats bring in capability ... we are long ways still of a delivery means to full appreciate what human eye or nature is capable off ...but if him makers and a format provides capability beyond what those prior ...then why not make best of it...
and directors and film makers are taking advantage of what 4k uhd had to offer, eg see below re the revenant on 4k uhd ... released 5 years ago ! so hardly some new trend or something
In the winter of 1823, a band of frontiersmen is preparing their large haul of animal pelts for return to a remote fort/trading post in the unincorporated U.S. territories (eventually, the Dakotas and Montana), when they’re attacked by a tribe of Arikara Indiana (also known as “Ree”). Led by...
thedigitalbits.com
"The Revenant was captured digitally by director Alejandro Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (a.k.a. Chivo) in ARRI Raw (6K) and Redcode RAW (6K) formats using ARRI Alexa 65 (with Hasselblad Prime lenses) and Red Epic Dragon cameras. The film was finished to a 4K Digital Intermediate in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio, and that DI was used to produce Fox’s 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation. It’s worth noting that the color grading for Ultra HD was done separately from the regular Blu-ray. Though both were supervised and approved by Chivo and Iñárritu, different choices were made – particularly once they saw what HDR was capable of. So while the Blu-ray color timing has a somewhat cool and stylized look, the Ultra HD offers a much more naturalistic presentation. Having grown up on this part of the country, I can attest that the Ultra HD image does indeed accurately capture the dramatic look and feel of this landscape. The sheer impact of the imagery in
The Revenant is extraordinary – it really has to be experienced in order to fully appreciate what that means. The landscape itself is a character in this film, alive with portent and potential in virtually every scene. The Ultra HD presentation captures the theatrical experience perfectly. There’s a little bit of color banding visible, resulting from the conversion of 16-bit color (the native color space of Redcode RAW) to 10-bit for this disc, but it’s never distracting. This image is so good, there are times while watching it that you just have to stop and marvel at what you’re seeing – the refined detail, the vast and intricate color palette, the deep dark forest shadows, the glassy-glare of sunlight reflecting off a flowing stream or ice. And the atmospherics! Fog, mist, cloud, smoke, sunlight illuminating these things and filtering through them. There’s a brief scene, at about 56:25, in which a wave of dark clouds spills down over the top of a mountain toward the camera, backlit by the cold winter sun, and it’s as if the hand of God is reaching down.
The Revenant is, without doubt, one of the most beautiful looking films I have ever seen, and I’ve
never seen such imagery more stunningly rendered in my home theater before."
hi Luminated, really not seeing this as an issue. as a note OLED and LCD themselves have quite a difference in capability for HDR, ie old is quite peak luminance limited in nits vs LCD, however benefits 4k uhd an be enjoyed by both... due to dynamic tone mapping. the same goes with projectors its dynamic tone mapping that makes possible to enjoy and have been for some time now and before that even with static tone mapping. as long as can see what nits are mastered at ... you can tone map to suit. and with the jvc its been set forget for a while now. so i have not had to make one adjustment disc to disc or scene to scene since nov 2019 when the first DTM update came the way of JVC.
and if folks create howls of protest of how tone mapping is the
devils work or something
we have to keep in mind without tone mapping we would not have be able enjoy anything on a screen so far in our lives...
as per the article below
Prototype TVs with HDR can get 15 times brighter than yours. Will you need sunglasses?
www.cnet.com
"Nature has a lot of nits. The noonday sun measures around 1,600,000,000 nits and the night sky around 0.001 nits"
think about just how huge that dynamic range is we have no displays and likely never will that will convey that sort of dynamic range...yet we can enjoy movies made any time of the day... how ? its tone mapping... we have had tone mapping as far as things go and continue to do and there is no reason to appreciate the greater peak luminance capability of new formats of delivery let alone greater capability with displays eg the HDR capability over SDR we have even with projectors... why should we not take advantage of this
but it also isnt just nits... i believe the power of 4k uhd is 3 fold. it is yes a genuine higher resolution source ... yes we can now shoot now with movies like the revenant in 6k and deliver it in 4k via 4k uhd... but we also have HDR and greater peak luminance and combine that with wider colour gamut and we have definite and real gains to take advantage off !