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NEWS: Bond Movies Added

I should follow-up and say my above information applies to video. Audio doesn't factor really. Disc carries lossless audio and Kaleidescape carries lossless audio using the same DTS and Dolby formats. There's no difference or extra magic there.

For the video too, it's not really a matter of bit depth. We are talking 10-bit HDR (or sometimes 12-bit Dolby Vision on disc). That's the same. It's all encoded bit rate that makes the difference.
 
TrackZ said:
The size of a movie's file/download is directly related to the bit rate used and encoding details of the file. The larger the file, the higher the bit rate and effective quality.

Most movies on disc are put on BD66 discs, which are 66GB capacity. That disc has to hold the movie plus all the extra stuff, menus, and so on carried on it. BD discs go up to 100GB, but those are rarely used. If you look up disc releases on blu-ray.com, it generally shows the disc size used for the release. So when a movie is on a BD66, something under 66GB is as large as the movie can possibly be. More often than not, that movie will be <50GB based on my prior ripping experience.

So when a Kaliedescape download is 75GB+ and going on 90GB+ vs. a BD66 carried movie, you are inherently getting higher fidelity. That entire download is the movie as well. Avengers: Endgame was a BD66 release, but like a 103GB download on Kaleidescape. That difference is significant in measurement, and we are getting something extra for our dollars spent. This delta is something I pay attention to, and it's becoming more and more frequent.

I'll leave it up to your eyes to determine the difference or some really techical pixel peeper reviewers to do some A/B comparisons.
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Beautiful- I just wanted another authority to back my argument to a friend of mine- I am getting him in to K! :)
 
Vodder said:
You know when you've been trapped indoors for too long when you start thinking of Bond HDR titles and think it's hilarious to choose the best one...

Dr HDR
From HDR with love
HDR and die
The man with the HDR gun
GoldHDR
ThunHDR
You only HDR Twice
On HDR's secret service
Casino HDR
Quantum of HDR
Golden HDR
The HDR Highlights ;)
HDR is forever
HDR loved me
HDRraker
For your HDR only
HDRpussy
A view to HDR
License to HDR
HDR never dies
UHD is not enough
HDR another day
SkyHDR
Never say SD again
SpechDR

:ROFLMAO::LOL:o_O:rolleyes::ROFLMAO::unsure::coffee::alien:
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With regard to advanced audio codecs... How old does the film have to be before it is acceptable that advanced codecs are not included?? I remember when Bond was first released on DVD.... A friend was showing off his DVDs and complained that Dr. No was MONO (the horror!) and not Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS or whatever was the best at that time. Years later I realized, that's just how it was made in 1962! And the DVD was no doubt faithfully reproducing the original soundtrack which was mono. Like the Beatles first album, they probably didn't keep all of the sound source materials so a remix from original elements is impossible. So yeah you could give it the ATMOS treatment today, but wouldn't you be adding sound elements that were not there as part of the theatrical release? My vote is that anything older than 1985 should be fine with whatever the number of channels that the audio mix came with originally. And re-encoding at higher bitrates (higher than what was done for the DVD or BR) from pristine source material is nice but not strictly required for most older films.
 
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Good point. I was reading something about the Bruce Lee movies, and unless you have the Hong Kong Legends releases (I think that’s the right version), they have “updated” sound tracks with additional “fighting noises” over laid. I can see the benefit in cleaning up audio, up mixing or something but adding/changing the sound track moves it away from what the director originally intended
 
It would be nice if people who watched the K Bond 4K Movies left options on quality of each of the movies - I plan to buy them based on which ones are good
 
Those posters are used on iTunes and such as well. They shouldn't be temporary.

I do like how they tried to make them uniform in style. I like series posters where there is consistency.
 
You can add your own cover art in the edit movie details section of the web interface. I don't recall if the is a size limit to the file or not. I have done this for imported titles that are not recognized in the Movie Guide, but it can be done for any title.

Wayne
 
Hmm, I hadn't really looked at that before. The editing is cool. There may be some movies I might adjust the names on in order to facilitate better sorting in the UI. Neat!
 
If you click on a movie in the Browser, you should have “Edit Movie Details“ right under the cover art. I don’t any problem opening this up.

John
 
Looks like it may be an issue with "pop-up" blocker on Chrome.

EDIT - yes allowing it as a safe site solved the issue.
 
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I hope that Dr No is not an example of the quality to be expected from these releases (more modern ones aside). To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Right from the opening scene of the "3 blind mice" being surrounded by some artifact force field, to Moneypenny and Bond's first meeting they all exhibit the same "haloing/shimmering" effect particularly around the characters, to the moving mass that is the sky in most scenes. It took me right of the movie, as soon as I noticed it. 😞

Anyone else see the same. A poster over at AVS Forum described it as looking "like they are attached together with some kind of web."

For reference I'm running from Terra/Strato via a Lumagen Pro to a JVC NX7 PJ.
 
steelman1991 said:
I hope that Dr No is not an example of the quality to be expected from these releases (more modern ones aside). To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Right from the opening scene of the "3 blind mice" being surrounded by some artifact force field, to Moneypenny and Bond's first meeting they all exhibit the same "haloing/shimmering" effect particularly around the characters, to the moving mass that is the sky in most scenes. It took me right of the movie, as soon as I noticed it. 😞

Anyone else see the same. A poster over at AVS Forum described it as looking "like they are attached together with some kind of web."

For reference I'm running from Terra/Strato via a Lumagen Pro to a JVC NX7 PJ.
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I watched Goldfinger (my full review here: https://www.cineluxe.com/kaleidescape-goldfinger/) and thought it looked mostly great, especially in tight focus. Some of the far field shots (like Bond on the laser cutting table or long shots in Switzerland) definitely don't have the same sharpness and detail.
 
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