the worst offenders here are the first movies made with the first digital cameras (sony cinealta)...between 1999 and 2003 these movies were recorded onto HDCAM (a Sony tape based storage medium with a resolution of 1440x1080p and 3:1:1 color sampling)...then in 2003 HDCAM SR was launched and digital movies were recorded in 1920x1080 with 4:4:4 sampling... examples of early HDCAM movies were: "once upon a time in mexico" and "attack of the clones" for example.
4K doesn’t look nearly as bad as this video makes it seem. RU-vid doesn’t have HDR. Watching a 4K HDR without the HDR is always going to look weird. That said, they tried to make the color palette more in line with the green tone of the sequels, and it didn’t work. It’s just not as bad as this comparison.
I remember when Blu ray first came out and I thought I must be crazy because everything I watched looked like garbage and I preferred DVD. a host of issues contributed to Blu ray and 4k releases looking like crapola. 1) over sharpening and smoothing : this kind of lazy post processing was done to alot of older films. Good example of how bad it can be is the blu ray release of predator. 2) color grading/timing. I dont know why they f this up but generally blu rays are either too desaturated, too orange, too blue or too green. Pretty much every blu ray of an actual film (made on a film print not digital) has this issue. Good example of how bad it can be is the fellowship of the ring on blu ray but pretty much any film pre-2005 has this issue imo. Its also just an ugly reality that once digital color took over film makers started abusing LUTS (look up tables) to color films... basically digital technology to enforce a certain pallete across an entire film making it all look green or teal or whatever.... its shit I hate it and I hope eventually it will be seen as uncreative and garish as the early technicolor movies. Prior to digital they had to actually use lighting, cameras , gels, production design etc if they wanted films to have certain overall color palettes.. 3) grain/noise. Grain in film can look nice but often blu rays are just noisy flickering mess. Look at the blu ray release of the first season of the walking dead (disney must have used that for the digital copy on d+ cuz it looks the same) and compare to the DVD which has no flickering.... weird and looks like trash. I do think there are some scenarios where the blu ray editions of films look better: basically films shot on hi-def digital cameras... Any film after say 2006.. sometime after revenge of the sith everything went digital and by the late 2000s hardly anything was shot on film anymore. DVD was born in the analogue era and perhaps thats why the vast majority of movies and tv shot on analogue media actually look better on it.
The 3 formats look good, but I think the 4K ends up being a reinterpretation of what the director intended for this film. Artistically, it seems fine to me, but it distorts the original work of the producers.
Thanks for the Comparison. This is once again a great example of the Myth which is that 4K is four times better quality than Blu Ray.The DVD had an overall better look than 4 K.
Great video title. At first though I thought it was Resurrections and thought “Oh well it’s just a test”. Then I realized the title without even looking when I saw it was Matrix 1 footage.
the colour looks washed out on 4k and the detail cant be better just treated with new DNR and whatever else goes into it . ????? am i wrong ???? its like putting more make up on your wife
4k bluray needs to be tone-mapped from hdr to sdr to look properly in video. 4k bluray looks much better than bluray and dvd and this video loses all that
