Post by Bonzo on Sept 29, 2018 15:19:54 GMT -5
This thread is not to discuss the movie itself, so please leave that discussion elsewhere. Thank you for cooperation in advance.
We rented the regular Blu-ray of this movie from Red Box and watched it last night.
I was HUGELY distracted and disappointed with the video quality and surround sound of this disc. Instead of coming here to ask people, I went looking on the net and found this review (see below). The 4 star rating for both categories makes me scratch my head because if you read what they wrote, it details exactly why both totally sucked and deserve 2 stars at best. 4 stars denotes very good, and this disc release is FAR from good.
Video resolution quality is all over the place, and shifts quickly making it very noticable. One scene is crystal clear then the very next looks like VHS. Its very distracting.
Indoor scenes completely lack any contrast. I turned every room light completely off (which I don't normally do) and it was still hard to see what was going on. I had to squint at times. It was the most dull and lifeless Blu-ray I've ever scene. Shadow detail was non-existent. Yet when things went outside, things got so bright at times that my professionally calibrated 1080p Panny Plasma ZT almost looked like it had HDR characteristics. The shifts were very distracting.
As for the SQ, it was all over the place too. It took almost half the movie to get any real surround sound affects. Everything was way up front with no surround at all. Voices were hard to discern. I had to turn the overall volume to -15 to hear voices and get any sort of fun action movie boom. (An average movie on my system usually requires a volume of about -20). Only later in the movie did things improve, but they still weren't great.
At first I thought these issues had to due with production. As I read, the original director filmed like 80% of the movie when Disney canned him because it was so bad. They then brought in Ron Howard to fix it, and he supposedly had to reshoot the vast majority of the movie. I was thinking that maybe the back and forths with quality was just that, footage from 2 different directors. But according to the review below, for at least the audio part, the disc release was HEAVILY altered from the theater release. A big WTF?
This review says exactly what I saw and heard. And they were watching the UHD Blu-ray.
bluray.highdefdigest.com/60747/soloastarwarsstory.html
This is the first Star Wars movie I didn't see in the theater in my life. Now I'm very disappointed I didn't do that, just to see and hear something worthwhile. Very disappointed.
Although, this fits right in with my theories on Disney. They might have done this on purpose, so they can release a super duper disc 2 years from now. Only including a DTS Master 7.1 sound track sort of confirms my thoughts. There will probably be another release in the future with Atmos, probably with 4 overhead pinned channels. Unreal.
Bottom line, keep your money in your wallet unless you just have to get this copy. My recommendation is to rent it first and decide for yourself.
We rented the regular Blu-ray of this movie from Red Box and watched it last night.
I was HUGELY distracted and disappointed with the video quality and surround sound of this disc. Instead of coming here to ask people, I went looking on the net and found this review (see below). The 4 star rating for both categories makes me scratch my head because if you read what they wrote, it details exactly why both totally sucked and deserve 2 stars at best. 4 stars denotes very good, and this disc release is FAR from good.
Video resolution quality is all over the place, and shifts quickly making it very noticable. One scene is crystal clear then the very next looks like VHS. Its very distracting.
Indoor scenes completely lack any contrast. I turned every room light completely off (which I don't normally do) and it was still hard to see what was going on. I had to squint at times. It was the most dull and lifeless Blu-ray I've ever scene. Shadow detail was non-existent. Yet when things went outside, things got so bright at times that my professionally calibrated 1080p Panny Plasma ZT almost looked like it had HDR characteristics. The shifts were very distracting.
As for the SQ, it was all over the place too. It took almost half the movie to get any real surround sound affects. Everything was way up front with no surround at all. Voices were hard to discern. I had to turn the overall volume to -15 to hear voices and get any sort of fun action movie boom. (An average movie on my system usually requires a volume of about -20). Only later in the movie did things improve, but they still weren't great.
At first I thought these issues had to due with production. As I read, the original director filmed like 80% of the movie when Disney canned him because it was so bad. They then brought in Ron Howard to fix it, and he supposedly had to reshoot the vast majority of the movie. I was thinking that maybe the back and forths with quality was just that, footage from 2 different directors. But according to the review below, for at least the audio part, the disc release was HEAVILY altered from the theater release. A big WTF?
This review says exactly what I saw and heard. And they were watching the UHD Blu-ray.
bluray.highdefdigest.com/60747/soloastarwarsstory.html
This is the first Star Wars movie I didn't see in the theater in my life. Now I'm very disappointed I didn't do that, just to see and hear something worthwhile. Very disappointed.
Although, this fits right in with my theories on Disney. They might have done this on purpose, so they can release a super duper disc 2 years from now. Only including a DTS Master 7.1 sound track sort of confirms my thoughts. There will probably be another release in the future with Atmos, probably with 4 overhead pinned channels. Unreal.
Bottom line, keep your money in your wallet unless you just have to get this copy. My recommendation is to rent it first and decide for yourself.
