The Shawshank Redemption | DVD vs Blu-Ray vs 4K Ultra HD | Graphics Comparison | 2021 

DVD is made to view on CRT so its not really a big jump.

@@BKDDYit’s a huge jump. Are you out your noodle?

@@Drogas3653 Dude has a point, If you watch DVD on CRT it will be just as good as blueray on LED,LCD. It just different purpose

the "greenish" look is because the 4k looks more life like and thus with a warmer tone. the other versions look unnaturally blue.

but the differnce between hdr and non hdr is a fact! So here on youtube shadows can apear underexposed and the highlights overexposed.

Who cares about 4k bluray 1080p bluray has ps3

Here's the kicker though... the HDR isn't reflected in this video. This RU-vid video is purely SDR, so even on an HDR display you'll just get the SDR colour gamut translated to HDR. I usually use Firefox, which sadly isn't HDR capable, which means I have to fire up Edge from time to time just to get HDR support for a specific video. Also, "4K" isn't an aspect ratio. It's a resolution, and it's just as much 1.78:1 as 1080p (1920x1080) (footnote: these images aren't actually 1.78:1 - Shawshank Redemption is in 1.85:1, hence the very thin blank bars top and bottom). The various 480p resolutions of DVDs are a little more complicated but, by and large, a well-mastered DVD will compensate for the slightly-off aspect ratios through the transfer, usually with very mild cropping. It's only the DVD version here that distorts the aspect ratio, as is most apparent on Morgan Freeman's head there. Beyond that, it's not the HDR in the 4K version that provides the more "realistic" colours (a bizarre illusion in its own right - the use of "unrealistic" colour grading requires sheer incompetence or deliberate artistic intent). It's simply better workmanship in the authoring of the 4K disc, and I suspect that a new BD release has since been released with the improved colour grading based on the same master as the new 4K version. And there's a certain amount of preference involved in the colour grading between the BD and 4K versions. Edit: And I've just checked - here in Germany at least, there are three different prints of the movie on BD: one from 2009, which suffers from the same red tinge as the BD version here, one from 2019 which has the same colour grading as the 2009 version but vastly inferior audio (owing to the transfer of rights from a German distributor, which put only English and German on the disc, to Warner Bros., which filled the disc with a multitude of dubs), and one from 2021, which has the Roger Deakins-approved colour grading as demonstrated by the 4K disc here.

No I will not upgrade my TV to 4K I'm staying with 1080p

4k garbage dvd is better i dont care what anybody says 4k is trash dvd is better it part of the 1990s-2000s

4K trash. Blu ray still better

The 4K was supervised by the cinematographer of the film. That's how it's supposed to look and how it would have been seen in cinemas. There's also HDR which you won't be seeing in a youtube video but would see on a 4K tv.

@@2HackFrauds This is true. Roger Deakins specifically intended the film to have cooler colours. Also worth noting that there are multiple BD versions with different color grading - three here in Germany alone.

Blu-ray colors are wrong. That's not how it's supposed to look like. 4K color grading is correct. Approved by oscar winning cinematographer Roger Deakins.

@@2HackFrauds4k looks fake

@@stevemuzak85264k looks overly polish and movies looks artificial when they use dnr

I know it’s a late reply but You can’t truly see 4k movies on mobile or most portable devices as youtube doesn’t support HDR10 instead supports a weaker version of HDR. 4K is also more noticeable and better with the correct setup from your tv and input device. Watching 4k movies with a correct setup is special and makes it feel like a home theater. But the movies are pretty expensive

I couldn't agree more! as a graphic designer and a video editor for over 10 years I grew to love and appreciate the less filters/color grading and showing what's closer to real life back in the 90s we had a great movies that capture the natural range and shades of colors and it was iconic but starting with early 2000s almost all movies follow the same rules with putting the same color grading/filters which makes it boring and loses it's appeal really quick. When I go back to watch 80s and 90s movies I love how it capture the true colors and all the shades and range of colors as close to the real color as possible and it works as a window to see that era and the colors in it today like shop signs and furniture etc.

4k looks artificial

Thank you!)

Also worth mentioning that this YT video is SDR only, which negates and misrepresents the colour grading of the 4K version, not to mention that YT's compression crushes a lot of the colour nuances of both the BD and 4K versions. Beyond that, I'm seeing clear differences on my 32" 1440p monitor between the BD and 4K versions here, so I wouldn't say that resolution is being unfairly represented.

Because we ain't watching this on a 4k HDR screen.

​@@birdsteak9267 hi, i have a 4k HDR10+ TV, and 4K ULTRA HD discs do just have bad colour grading lol

Thanks, I said 4k looks artificial

I can understand you if you said Blu-Rays but DVDs 🤔🤔 I don't think that DVDs deserve to buy, especially with the cheap price of the Blu Ray Discs, and the spread of modern screens and smart TVs that Dvds looks so bad on it, DVD discs may appear acceptable only on old TVs with small sizes, Not large TVs are like now.

So best color: DVD is just wrong. 4K is closer to how it was intended by the makers.

On a 4k display with the movie on 4k disc it is a nice improvement

@@yarferreira6722 I've seen 1080P and 4K with the same videos on my friend's 4K TV and it seems to have some sort of AI upscaler, so even 480P videos look decent. So 4K isn't worth it even on 4K TVs.

That the issue I have with 4k, they start tweaking it with digital software and it makes it looks fake

It’s because this video doesn’t show the difference HDR makes. If you put this film on a 4K HDR capable display, it will look so much better than the blu ray.

This video can’t show the actual difference with 4K because of the lack of HDR. On an HDR capable display, the difference is night and day and the 4K easily wins out.

So true, went to a local Walmart this week and they only carried DVD, even for new releases. I understand the general population probably could care less, just interesting.

dude there people who stell use crtv and dvd portable player

There are people who can't afford the HD stuff so they settle for DVD. Sometimes it's just life.

They're cheap, cheerful, and for TV sizes of 42" and under, there are few real benefits from DVD to BD at standard home cinema viewing distance, let alone from BD to 4K. That's why they're still selling so well. There's also no perceptible difference in audio quality for people listening through the integrated speakers of a TV. That said, the price differential between DVD and BD nowadays is so negligible that it's really time to start phasing out DVD.

@@Mariofans-gn1lu I use a CRT for all my old video game consoles but for movies and TV it's 4K all the way

Because they don’t calibrate it and the hdr darkens it

@@DannyCosmos4k looks looks like someone put sunglasses on the screen

Guaranteed if you put the 4k version on your OLED display with HDR (or Dolby Vision) it will look a million times better than the screenshots in this video.

dvd is the best! trust me!

@@Mariofans-gn1lu VHS forever!

@@jamyskis (dvd) I have nothing against VHS. I like VHS too. I just think other formats are better. I own multiple VHS copies of VHS Horror stories. I love horror movies and VHS horror movies have their own aesthetic. I think you're simply a VHS purist.

But 4k is more clear but yes Blu-ray more better quality and motion picture better

4k Blu-Ray? Yeah 4k Blu-ray is better than DVD. You know what, screw everything. Laserdisc is better than everything. Laserdisc wins.

HDR doesn't even have a standard, making investing in Ultra 4K pointless.

Waste of time upgrading to 4k bluray because 4k bluray films is dead they don't make movies for 4k bluray anymore. All the 4k content is on online streaming like Netflix and Amazon prime.

@@thestreaker4635 do you know what is DVD portable is

@@samuelarriaza1283 what u mean

@@thestreaker4635 you don't even know what DVD portable is

@@samuelarriaza1283 yes

Whoever did 5his didn’t calibrate it . If you calibrate it right and left hdr and no hdr it looks nothing like this … if you have a goood expensive hdr tv it does look good

Mostly because 4K is lacking the hdr which RU-vid disables

dvd is better then hd bluray and 4k bluray

why is dvd stell around if 1080p bluray and 4k bluray is much superior

@@Mariofans-gn1lu probably because it's a lot less expensive to produce and obtain. You have a point because there are those who also use blu ray discs as data storage.

@@BleedForTheWorld dvds are only good for crtv or dvd portable player

why is dvd stell around if 1080p bluray and 4k bluray is much superior

It's actually the best of the 3. We aren't able to see its differences clearly because YT doesn't support HDR which 4K has but it's superior in quality. I plan on just getting blu rays though

@@casie6609 RU-vid supports HDR, this video doesn't have it but still we can see the difference, and the problems of the 4K restoration.

@@TheStOne1 Oh ok but what problem does 4k have?

@@casie6609 i really think that dvds are made for a dvd portable player

@@Mariofans-gn1lu I'm not sure what that is but Blu Ray and DVD players can play DVDs. Probably even other things :-)

You are probably the guy who watches RU-vid videos in 144p, huh?

Utter crap you've just wrote. Most people don't even have a set up good enough to get 4K let alone good 4k.. more percentage of the population are still on 1080p displays/players than 4k. At least try and do some research before crying online about a topic you clearly aren't educated in. Streaming is nowhere near the quality of a 4kUHD Disk.