FilmQualityFanatic
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I just bought 4K Ghostbusters. The picture is awful. I rely a lot on the Digital Bits and here amd bluray.com on reviews but not seem to state tbis being as bad as it is.
I do have have a Panasonic 58" LED TV that whilst old and was a year before we knew anything of HDR or Dolby Vision but with a lot of time and effort, the picture is incredible with the right finished product that only up until recently have I seen a few tv's that may best it but not by much. My mate bought an expensive Sony OLED TV. Also, mine was a first edition but the premium model and it has done wonders with standard definition and especially on DVD. The crowd scene in Vantage Point almost looked like 4K but I held off buying anything digital TV until this TV and it really was the beat TV in the world for a good 4 plus years and atill bests virtually beyond juat a few specific models im the last couple of years. I knew what I was looking for and it took a very lomg timw to find the bext pictures but it really did it despite juat being LED. 58AX802B.
For reference where I've seen incredible and almost real so my eye sight and it just can't be the TV or player because of how extraordinarily good. I have virtually 20:20 vision. In no real particular order are the masters of the 4K standard:
So, to Ghostbusters. Awful. Very heavy grain and the picture alters almost judders a lot but very, very small judder. It's the worst of my 600 4K disc collection by a huge margin.
The Atmos sound does some great work. Hardly reference and nothing as beautiful as Top Gun opening scene. I have Bose 700 full surround. I know Bose but I know Shure for inner earphones and am aware of all the others but they finally figured it out without the need for a seperate Equalizer.
I'm keeping it. I'll check the 4k restoration nlu ray and actually have the previous blu ray from 4k remaster, which may be the same from what the thedigitalbits.com said but I've had 6 years to advance froma crap 40 odd inch LED TV that was cack that made me. Issed my Sony CRT because what that did not have in colour and detail, all the digital tech brought too much artefacts and poor digital grain and my CRT was phenomenal for its time. I have really felt that digital tech has only really just started to deliver and we've been short changed besides my current Panasonic TV and a couple minor exceptions out of the hundreds of digital TV's released. Just like we have 20 new 4K variants released every year, they boast HDR and OLED, Dolby Vision. They're mostly crap.
So, anyway. I know better tv's exist and well 4k blu ray. Very little released so pretty sure only a could have bested it plus I have hundreds of 4K films including lord of the rings on 4K. I'm 40 with excellent vision capable of seeing very high details. I appreciate that i think certain hardware may work better with certain films. I'm certain there's nothing linear. Certain things do work best when you get the optimum hardware and software configurations.
I'm loat at just how poor 4k Ghostbusters truly is. There's not an awful lot I can find oit there with discussions getting too personal and emotional but I've registered on here to ask. Am I alone broadly? Does any of this resonate after explaining my setup, how I describe and indictate specific scenes rather than disc overall because various processes and cameras are used with certain scenes? Thank you
I do have have a Panasonic 58" LED TV that whilst old and was a year before we knew anything of HDR or Dolby Vision but with a lot of time and effort, the picture is incredible with the right finished product that only up until recently have I seen a few tv's that may best it but not by much. My mate bought an expensive Sony OLED TV. Also, mine was a first edition but the premium model and it has done wonders with standard definition and especially on DVD. The crowd scene in Vantage Point almost looked like 4K but I held off buying anything digital TV until this TV and it really was the beat TV in the world for a good 4 plus years and atill bests virtually beyond juat a few specific models im the last couple of years. I knew what I was looking for and it took a very lomg timw to find the bext pictures but it really did it despite juat being LED. 58AX802B.
For reference where I've seen incredible and almost real so my eye sight and it just can't be the TV or player because of how extraordinarily good. I have virtually 20:20 vision. In no real particular order are the masters of the 4K standard:
Almost anything Attenborough.Gemini Man - absolutely flawless and unbelievable reference of what van be done with 4K at a higher frame rate along with the other Ang lee Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
Apollo 11 moon walk was like Neil Armstrong and the moon were in my living room.
Toy Story 4 opening scene in 4K
1917 long demolished street on fire scene.
Christine car
Anything Attenborough, mostly
Shaft 2
2001 space odyssey in parts
Wizard of oz is unbelievable whilst not necessarily 'real' it is one of the best in cleanliness and even detail. To think this was released juat 10 years before the fiest film with synchronised audio was released and even done in colour.
So, to Ghostbusters. Awful. Very heavy grain and the picture alters almost judders a lot but very, very small judder. It's the worst of my 600 4K disc collection by a huge margin.
The Atmos sound does some great work. Hardly reference and nothing as beautiful as Top Gun opening scene. I have Bose 700 full surround. I know Bose but I know Shure for inner earphones and am aware of all the others but they finally figured it out without the need for a seperate Equalizer.
I'm keeping it. I'll check the 4k restoration nlu ray and actually have the previous blu ray from 4k remaster, which may be the same from what the thedigitalbits.com said but I've had 6 years to advance froma crap 40 odd inch LED TV that was cack that made me. Issed my Sony CRT because what that did not have in colour and detail, all the digital tech brought too much artefacts and poor digital grain and my CRT was phenomenal for its time. I have really felt that digital tech has only really just started to deliver and we've been short changed besides my current Panasonic TV and a couple minor exceptions out of the hundreds of digital TV's released. Just like we have 20 new 4K variants released every year, they boast HDR and OLED, Dolby Vision. They're mostly crap.
So, anyway. I know better tv's exist and well 4k blu ray. Very little released so pretty sure only a could have bested it plus I have hundreds of 4K films including lord of the rings on 4K. I'm 40 with excellent vision capable of seeing very high details. I appreciate that i think certain hardware may work better with certain films. I'm certain there's nothing linear. Certain things do work best when you get the optimum hardware and software configurations.
I'm loat at just how poor 4k Ghostbusters truly is. There's not an awful lot I can find oit there with discussions getting too personal and emotional but I've registered on here to ask. Am I alone broadly? Does any of this resonate after explaining my setup, how I describe and indictate specific scenes rather than disc overall because various processes and cameras are used with certain scenes? Thank you