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I just watched the Hot Spot trailer and it looks AMAZING. Exactly my kind of weird sci-fi.
K doesn't get Warner animated titles anymore. If you search the store you'll see they started with 4K HDR, dropped to 4K SDR, dropped to HD, and now just dropped. They apparently don't sell well.
I concur, but I'll bow to the data on this one. Sort 4K titles by popularity and you'll find Warner 4K animation at the bottom of the list. They didn't sell. Oddly, I don't have a problem with K not getting the titles now. What I had a problem with was the subpar releases between initial poor sales and eventually dropping titles. The whole "Maybe we'll just limit costs, lower the quality, and see how they do" thought process should be purged. The moment you've decided it's not worth having at full quality is the moment you've decided it shouldn't be in the store.
Completely agree. As a thought process it is just bonkers.
Every 4K release should also have 4KC.
Philosophically, I agree. But, K’s still at a place where we don’t get all 4K releases from major studios. Adding the greater burden of 4KC on every title at this point will have one single effect: Even fewer 4K releases.
Philosophically, I agree. But, K’s still at a place where we don’t get all 4K releases from major studios. Adding the greater burden of 4KC on every title at this point will have one single effect: Even fewer 4K releases.
This is where idealism meets the real world. K is missing SD to HD upgrades, HD to 4K upgrades, SDR to HDR upgrades, HDR to Dolby Vision upgrades, and now 4K to 4KC upgrades. The affected titles are in the thousands, and annually we’re lucky to see a very small handful of backlog titles. Further, none of this addresses missing titles which are obviously in the tens of thousands.
Updating the current catalog will take time. Perfectly understandable. Just like the DV conversions did. However, it doesn’t take much time to say all future 4K releases will also have 4KC. It just takes commitment. A commitment to offering their customers the best available video experience. That makes current customers happy and attracts new ones.
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Sure, but you know they stopped, right? They have roughly a third of available DV titles from major studios, including many titles still stuck at SDR. K never made a commitment to provide all future movies in DV nor did they commit to adding DV to all available titles on the store. In fact, they used language nearly identical to their comments on 4KC.
Sure, and that commitment comes at the cost of titles. It simply does. For many years we've been told we can't get titles because of limited resources and bandwidth. Want a 4K catalog upgrade for a title in HD? It's already in HD and isn't popular enough, so for K it's the same resources to upgrade that title (with only upgrade pricing) or bringing in a brand new 4K title that might sell better. Due to 4KC the encoding effort is now double and we'll see a negative impact even without a blanket 4KC commitment.
Again, I completely agree with this. And, I kind of hate typing these responses. But, it's best to rip the band-aid and accept. I also want to clarify how I can reconcile my seemingly conflicting statements about quality:
I have outright stopped going to Lie-MAX theaters. I saw the Odyssey in Lie-Max and that was the last straw, for the reasons you stated. The next week I saw it in 70mm and it was a vastly better experience. I’ll only go to a proper 1.43:1 IMAX from now on.
Is this a list of all releases including discs or just digital releases on Kaleidescape?
It will never use less bandwidth, fewer resources, or be more efficient, for Kaleidescape to simply generate every format for every new release film while the mezzanine file is pulled up on the encoding desktop in the pipeline.
All digital releases from studios K has contracts with. Disc dates are listed when a simultaneous digital release is expected.
The Descent Part 2 was released by Lionsgate digitally in 4K Dolby Vision on the disc release date and can be found at other digital stores in this quality. It doesn't appear on K because: 4K Catalog Upgrade, Horror, K didn't get Part 1 (either version) last year.
Oh okay, that makes sense now. I got excited for a moment there that I could move two more Plex movies over to K, but nope.All digital releases from studios K has contracts with. Disc dates are listed when a simultaneous digital release is expected.
The Descent Part 2 was released by Lionsgate digitally in 4K Dolby Vision on the disc release date and can be found at other digital stores in this quality. It doesn't appear on K because: 4K Catalog Upgrade, Horror, K didn't get Part 1 (either version) last year.
