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Paramount sets Airplane! & Top Secret! for 4K, plus Orca, Robot Dreams, Kinds of Kindness, Fear the Walking Dead & Young Sheldon: Complete Series on Blu-ray & more!

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/090924-1000

More discs are on the way this week as well, so be sure to watch for them.

It’s a slow morning for release news, but we do have a couple things for you.

First, Paramount has set ZAZ: The Collection! for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/19. That’s Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker to you! The collection will include Airplane! (1980), Top Secret! (1984), and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). The first two are new to the format.

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Here’s something exciting: Decal and Neon are going to be releasing Pablo Berger’s animated Robot Dreams (2023) on Blu-ray on 10/8! I haven’t seen this yet, but a few friends have and they have great things to say about it.

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And in other news, Synapse Films will release Mike Mendez’s The Convent (2000) in 4K on 10/8.

A24 and Lionsgate will release Ty West’s MaXXXine on Blu-ray and 4K UHD on 10/8.

And Well Go USA will release Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (2024) on 4K and Blu-ray on 10/8 as well.

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sramder

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Gotta’ machine gun them out before people realize they can make their own 4K version at home now ;-)

Blue_Morpho

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You can do hd with obs studio but 4k?

Not to mention that streamed 4k is garbage.

sramder

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I just meant someone could uprez an old 1080p transfer themselves ;-) Hopefully there’s a bit more going on with these releases, extra pixels aren’t everything… but I’m one of the folks that believes it should be a new scan, not just some fancy uprezing algorithm.

My parents always warned me that sitting to close to the TV would rot my brain :-)

Blue_Morpho

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4k releases aren't up-resolutioned 1080p. They are new transfers from the film print. That's the entire point of 4k Blu-ray releases!

sramder

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Yeah… not always. Especially older stuff that would need to be rescanned from film.

Blue_Morpho

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You are right. There's even a website that lists them:

https://www.digiraw.com/DVD-4K-Bluray-ripping-service/4K-UHD-ripping-service/the-real-or-fake-4K-list/

sramder

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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I went looking for… well there was another site that listed them but it seems to be shut down now, so thanks for posting that.

I also ran across and article that mentioned IMDB having a page for every movie that had details on its original shooting format e.g. 2K digital/35mm/sony handycam (looking at you Blare Witch Project)… but I think that’s gone subscription only? Not sure, maybe just gone.