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#1336502
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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Darth Dougal said:

I’d like to see that. I feel with a slight White balance adjustments and slight Contrast boost these will look great (Apart from the use of DNR).

With apologies (and thanks) to Broom Kid…

http://www.framecompare.com/screenshotcomparison/9JF2JNNU

That looks Fantastic. It took out that green hue in the highlights.

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#1336373
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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Darth Dougal said:

Broom Kid said:

Looking at the cap from above, thought I’d put together a comparison of “Here to Rescue Yous”

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/7DKY7NNX

I think I got those all labeled correctly.

Thanks for making this comparison. I think you did label them correctly.

I loaded the final capture from the 4k into Capture One editing software and a simple one click white balance adjustment gets rid of the very slight teal bias of the original image. Or at least, that’s how it appears to me on a calibrated monitor.

I’d like to see that. I feel with a slight White balance adjustments and slight Contrast boost these will look great (Apart from the use of DNR).

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#1333490
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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towne32 said:

Darth Robin said:

The 2020 blu-rays should look like the Disney+ SDR right? Here’s a few comparrissons I found featuring those. Though only in 720p.

https://slow.pics/c/Yxh8oi3h

https://slow.pics/c/Z1WkOdb9

https://slow.pics/c/UzUGdmBf

The blu-ray.com reviews is the only place I’ve seen screenshots from the blu-rays though. I think it defenetly looks like an improvment over 2011.

What Disney+ SDR? They stream the HDR, don’t they? Does it play a properly encoded SDR version on incompatible platforms? It certainly didn’t at launch. IIRC it just looked washed out for people.

It seems to play the HDR fine on my TV app now, though.

But yes, the new 1080p discs seem to have nice color, based on the blu-ray.com reviews that have gone up so far.

They’ve put the SDR on there not that long ago. I don’t have anything HDR. The D+ Stream had better colors when I re-watched some bits a few days ago. Before the colours used to be washed out.

P.S: I did not change any settings on my displays. Color, Brightness, ect.

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#1333460
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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Broom Kid said:

Looks like they’re definitely from the included blu-ray, and not the 4K UHD, according to this italicized note in the review proper.

The included screenshots are sourced from the included 1080p Blu-ray disc, which has itself received a fairly drastic makeover compared to the 2011 20th Century Fox release.

So if I’m reading that right, EVERY screencap on that site for that review of Star Wars: A New Hope is taken from the '19 transfer that’s on the blu-ray, and not the UHD.

Hopefully they do that for the rest of the OT and PT, too!

They did as well for the individual PT and R1. They are releasing daily reviews.

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#1333448
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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towne32 said:

Broom Kid said:

Your comparison says it’s of the '19 4k UHD disc and the '11 blu-ray, not the '19 blu-ray disc and the '11 blu-ray.

I went through a couple threads at blu-ray.com and there’s more than a few people asking for direct comparisons between the '19 blu-rays to the '11 blu-rays, but the actual comparisons don’t seem to have been posted anywhere as of yet. That’s what I’m looking for.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=17497680&postcount=7181

I’m interested in the same thing. I’ve seen a few of the HDR to SDR conversions posted, different but claimed to be correct (and thanks to those that have shared them). But I’d like to see the official 2020 SDR 1080p disc compared to the 2011.

People have spoken favorably of the 1080p compared to UHD. And whether that’s due to their hardware not displaying the HDR well enough or the mastering, it should be a more straight forward comparison to see the two SDR products.

Blu-ray.com has screen caps from the included 1080p SDR Blu-ray.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-A-New-Hope-4K-Blu-ray/257142/#Review

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#1332299
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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I seen that the new individual 4k cases have Ultimate Collectors Edition, on a red ribbon type banner at the bottom. Can’t see if the new Blu-ray only has it or not. The Old Blu-ray set was just a single disc, and the new has two disc )if I’m not mistaken). 4k obviously have 3 disc.

New 4k:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083XQ6SW2/ref=tmm_fbs_frk_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1585689340&sr=8-3#immersive-view_1585689383288

Old 2019 Blu-ray single disc case (Multiscreen Edition):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07TNVWQCZ/ref=tmm_fbs_blu_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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#1332014
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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According to the digital bits, Rouge One is the only movie reviewed, so far, that peaks at 4000 nits in HDR 10. The Others (1-8) only peak at 1000 nits. And episode 8 no longer has Dolby Vision in its 4k physical disc, but all digital files of the Saga and spin offs have Dolby Vision.
Weird.
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-uhd

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#1325352
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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pat man said:

The Bull’s Eyed Womprat said:

pat man said:

TNT will be having a Marathon of Star Wars. I’m curious if these are the “crappy” 04 Blu-ray master or the new 4k masters. I believe they got the rights to air the 16x9 cropped Blu-ray/digital (2015 no fox logo) version a few years back. I don’t have cable anymore so I can’t see for myself.
This could be a good time for Lucasfilm and Disney to drop a teaser for the upcoming new physical 4k disc boxset. Plus, maybe, and look at bonus content.
Unfortunately we can only hope and possibly be disappointed that it’ll just be the “Muclunkey” 19SE in the set.
Someone please see when you get the chance too.

I’ll take a look. When is the marathon airing?

Sw is at 9am EST and Empire is at 11:45am EST tommorow.

Then it airs again on Sunday 2/23.

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#1325351
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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The Bull’s Eyed Womprat said:

pat man said:

TNT will be having a Marathon of Star Wars. I’m curious if these are the “crappy” 04 Blu-ray master or the new 4k masters. I believe they got the rights to air the 16x9 cropped Blu-ray/digital (2015 no fox logo) version a few years back. I don’t have cable anymore so I can’t see for myself.
This could be a good time for Lucasfilm and Disney to drop a teaser for the upcoming new physical 4k disc boxset. Plus, maybe, and look at bonus content.
Unfortunately we can only hope and possibly be disappointed that it’ll just be the “Muclunkey” 19SE in the set.
Someone please see when you get the chance too.

I’ll take a look. When is the marathon airing?

Sw is at 9am EST and Empire is at 11:45am EST tommorow.

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#1325308
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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TNT will be having a Marathon of Star Wars. I’m curious if these are the “crappy” 04 Blu-ray master or the new 4k masters. I believe they got the rights to air the 16x9 cropped Blu-ray/digital (2015 no fox logo) version a few years back. I don’t have cable anymore so I can’t see for myself.
This could be a good time for Lucasfilm and Disney to drop a teaser for the upcoming new physical 4k disc boxset. Plus, maybe, and look at bonus content.
Unfortunately we can only hope and possibly be disappointed that it’ll just be the “Muclunkey” 19SE in the set.
Someone please see when you get the chance too.

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#1311124
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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doubleofive said:

Then we have to GET people to care. I’m never giving up.

Me being in my 20’s, I’ve encouraged my friends who like SW to check out the Original cuts. They are aware of there being different versions, but don’t necessarily care what version they are watching. I’ve show some of them comparisons and they are like “oh, ok, cool” and good on about their day. This is a world we are in today where the Original cuts don’t matter to most anymore. However, they did say they will check it out if it came to a new formate, either Bul-ray or streaming.

But with each passing year it gets wiped from anyone really caring.

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#1309647
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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doubleofive said:

Interesting observation. If I’m reading this right, this makes a lot of sense. There are two wipes to 97SE changes that were redone for HD Branch, this and Jabba. Those wipes were done in 97 optically, wiping from the original-negative live-action shots to the 2K film outs and then cut into the negative. So when redoing those shots, they’d have to make a CG wipe that closely follows the optical wipe that transitions to the new version of the shot. And to do it for the 4K, they’d have to do it again. The Jabba wipe we’ve been looking at, it’s improved somewhat in the 4K (97 Jabba’s tail is less visible). This would seem to be something similar, where the original wipe is quickly followed by an additional wipe to the new shot.

You’re also correct in saying the landspeeder was shifted (to the right, I corrected TDB), but the weird thing is that the left edge of the speeder is in the same position. It’s been stretched a little? Also don’t forget the timing on all of the creatures were redone too, and half of them were erased from the 97SE. My feeling is that they rebuilt the shot for HD with a lot of sharpening, then rebuilt it again in 4K from the “original” negative, but cut out elements from the HD they didn’t want to rebuild (the speeder).

Idk if it’s that they stretched the speed, but the fact that they re- composited the old 2004 speeder on the slightly cropped 4k D+ version. But yes it is the 1997 background.

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#1309347
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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John Doom said:

:\ I thought the OT couldn’t look uglier than on dvd/blu-ray, but Disney somehow succeded in making it look even worse!

Raw special effect, not properly lit:

Paint it green! 😛

Here brightness is so high you can see this special effect’s corners:

Contrast is so bland you can see Luke’s hair and face don’t cast natural shadows under strong and direct sunlight:

Green-headed Leia! 😄

P.S.: I think I’ll stick with Harmy’s versions 😛

Yea They tried to match the color timing of all the saga films by what I’ve heard. If I remember the the original release of the 97SE (what these are sourced from) had contrast issues as well.
This is the first tine since the 97 release that an official release of the OT has had an “almost” correct color timing. Not great but better then the old 2004 master.

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#1309345
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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mykyta-R4 said:

pat man said:

ESB comparison Blu-ray vs. Dolby Vision 4k: https://youtu.be/29AMVNwnNr0

ROTJ Blu-ray vs Dolby 4k:
https://youtu.be/mevQD9YAHRk

This channel has pretty good. Comparisons for 4k releases compared to their old Blu-ray masters.

pat man said:

ANH Blu-ray vs Dolby Vision 4k:
https://youtu.be/czWNBOm4Z4I

Edit: look at previous post for Empire and Jedi.

So:

Comparison of Star Wars: A New Hope 4K Disney+ vs Blu-Ray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWNBOm4Z4I

Comparison of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 4K Disney+ vs Blu-Ray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29AMVNwnNr0

Comparison of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4K Disney+ vs Blu-Ray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mevQD9YAHRk
 

^ From superb ‘My moonization’ youtube channel with many other films.
 

Thankyou for posting these links pat man! 😃

 

With doubleofive great post at The Digital Bits website on new Disney+ changes, here:

https://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019

 

and doubleofive new website here:

https://starwarsviscomp.wordpress.com/

 

and 13las new youtube video here on Disney+ changes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESuLxJJFZtE

 

we now have good and trusting informative articles on the new Disney+ 4K stream releases 😃

A lot of hard work must have been done for these so fast - thankyou all!

You’re welcome. Yea I linked them out of order because moonization uploaded them in reverse order throughout the day.

I enjoyed the article about doubleofive’s comparision. Also the Video from 13las.

Thank you everyone for your findings and work.

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#1306925
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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DrDre said:

pat man said:

DrDre can you look at AOTC again since you made adjustments to your display. Although nowhere near as atrocious as the Blu-rays teal shift, I’m still seeing a light teal shift. It now looks like a cross between the DVD and Blu-ray.
I’m still watching the 1080p Hd D+ as I don’t have any 4k tech yet.
Thanks.

Having looked at the PT in general, my conclusion is, that TPM looks the worst, and ROTS looks the best. TPM has more DNR applied to it, and its colors are more contrasty, and saturated than any of the other films. I was surprised how orange the faces are in the scene, where Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon discuss Anakin being a vergence. Overall I think this transfer is somewhat subpar, compared to other films based on a 2K DI. I was suprised how good AOTC looks, given it was filmed with 1st generation digital cameras. If a teal effect was applied to the HDR color grading, it was done very conservatively, and with good taste imo. Skies generally look pretty natural. ROTS is pretty much comparable to a modern day transfer, based on a 2K DI. The colors on AOTC and ROTS are a bit more saturated than the OT, but I think it fits the material. The HDR color grading in my view improves the blend of practical and digital effects, particulary for AOTC.

Thank you, I do agree with you on that.

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#1306849
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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DrDre said:

4throck said:

“In this case I optimized the display for HDR content in general, which always appeared somewhat dark, flat, and desaturated on my TV screen, compared to SDR content even if the dynamic range was obviously increased.”

The problem is that most people have their TVs set with very high SDR brightness levels.
At least for me the recommended SDR brightness of 100 to 200 nits (according to sources, most mention 100) is just too dark…

So yes, HDR will look dark in comparison, but that’s how it was mastered…

I don’t have my SDR set to very high brightness levels. I don’t like high contrast, brightness and saturation on my TV. I set the colors to a natural profile for SDR content, which generally means I have ro adjust, since most TVs by default go for high contrast, and punchy colors.

I’m the same way as DrDre. Natural color palette and nice contrast (Good detail in highlights and detail in dark scenes), but nothing to fancy.
Edit: With a slight pop effect.