Question for the long-time owners: Does K often add HDR versions to previously released UHD only movies?
I looked through two years of the Movie Updates thread and haven't seen any. Are those kinds of updates not tracked there?
(Lots of adding UHD to HDR releases, but not the reverse.)
It appears to be an increasing trend for K to release movies in UHD when available in HDR elsewhere. This includes new releases (Saltburn, American Fiction, etc.) as well a catalog re-releases (Ferris Bueller, Color Purple, Exorcist, Face/Off, Footloose, etc.). In the New 4K Arrivals section alone you’ll find 17 recent examples.
I had assumed K goes back and adds the HDR as resources allowed. However, with some high-profile titles from prior years still sitting in UHD only (Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver, Mad Max, etc.), I'm wondering if that assumption is faulty.
A fresh concerning use case is Labyrinth. It was UHD, never got updated to HDR, and now it’s gone due to contracts. Hopefully it’ll return at some point with a fresh HDR encode, but it had a splashy re-release at the beginning of Feb on other digital stores and we're still waiting. If it never returns, or returns only in HD (common with Shout), K owners lost their chance for the best quality release.
I looked through two years of the Movie Updates thread and haven't seen any. Are those kinds of updates not tracked there?
(Lots of adding UHD to HDR releases, but not the reverse.)
It appears to be an increasing trend for K to release movies in UHD when available in HDR elsewhere. This includes new releases (Saltburn, American Fiction, etc.) as well a catalog re-releases (Ferris Bueller, Color Purple, Exorcist, Face/Off, Footloose, etc.). In the New 4K Arrivals section alone you’ll find 17 recent examples.
I had assumed K goes back and adds the HDR as resources allowed. However, with some high-profile titles from prior years still sitting in UHD only (Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver, Mad Max, etc.), I'm wondering if that assumption is faulty.
A fresh concerning use case is Labyrinth. It was UHD, never got updated to HDR, and now it’s gone due to contracts. Hopefully it’ll return at some point with a fresh HDR encode, but it had a splashy re-release at the beginning of Feb on other digital stores and we're still waiting. If it never returns, or returns only in HD (common with Shout), K owners lost their chance for the best quality release.