dormouse7 wrote:For Blu-ray, why not just view the Warner Brothers digital copy - it seems to be 2.2:1.
AhmadAli95 wrote:^BD quality (+4K HDR/SDR) digital copies exist and they are 2.20:1.
- Digital copies still run through compression algorithms that are much heavier than Blu-ray.
- Low Internet speeds offered at my house would mean an extremely low bitrate.
- No lossless audio codecs, not to mention how compressed
that would be through streaming.
- Don't know if playback through my television would be at 23.976 FPS (this is the biggest one for me, because I simply cannot
stand judder).
- I don't have a 4K TV to take advantage of HDR (by choice, mind you), and rumor has it that downconversion to SDR is not always proper.
- Somebody said that the digital copy was 2.35:1, but they may have a different version or they may be mistaken. I already went on record saying I wouldn't like that much cropped with my version of Dunkirk when i can make a 2.20:1 version myself.
- What's done is done. Didn't know about the digital copy front before (plus everything I just said above would be detractory anyway), and I have already created and pressed my version to disc. I'm set, homey!
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Now, keeping all that in mind... I certainly would be okay with the new TDK digital copy since apparently it has the proper theatrical presentation (no edge-enhancement, DNR, contrast boost, or wrong color timing), even if it meant a way for me to try and figure out how to properly time a new Blu-ray I'll be making with custom-cropped 2.40:1 AR. I am not going to spend $30 for that, though.