The Shining [Extended Cut] [4K Ultra-HD] [1980] [Blu-ray] [2019]

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Plot: What’s it about? Video: How’s it look? Audio: How’s it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? The audio is also not without is own bit of controversy, as the film's original mono mix -- again, like several earlier home video editions, including the direct comparison, which gives the entire 5.1 mix a slightly "patchwork" quality. As a whole, though, this is still a wonderfully effective mix at times Enter our competition to win a copy of WARNER BROS. 100th ANNIVERSARY 30-FILM STUDIO COLLECTION on 4K UHD The Dolby Vision transfer has the edge, consistently delivering a marginally more refined but simultaneously more dynamic look. But my main take away from the disc’s HDR efforts is that it’s just great to see both formats appearing on a single release.

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Hotel's cavernous but cozy interiors. Natural light filtering through its windows offers yet another improvement, aided greatly by the new remaster's excessive noise reduction or the chunky appearance of the Blu-ray's grain, which gave that older disc a distinct "video, not film" appearance. Top-end grain replication handles even the difficult finale where snowy haze fills the frame. No banding or compression cause concern. The encode’s consistency is a marvel. I was only able to do sequential (rather than side by side) comparisons of the dynamic HDR formats against the baseline HDR10 picture feed. However, despite the transfer understandably not being as dynamic as a more modern release might be, both formats appeared to make a positive difference to the picture performance, delivering slightly more subtlety and dynamism in very bright areas, and refining colors - especially oranges and reds.English, English SDH, French, German SDH, Italian SDH, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Swedish( less) lost. Take all this with a grain of salt, obviously: many home video releases presented The Shining in unmatted 1.33:1, which often ruined clinking glasses are audible, as well as the gentle music. Most of the film's music, however, features

The Shining [Extended Cut] [4K Ultra-HD] [1980] [Blu-ray

presentations I've seen for a catalog title to date, and obviously represents a giant leap beyond their own 2007 Blu-ray. The restoration wasBlu-ray -- is again missing in action. This stings a little bit more, of course: it's one thing to *ahem* overlook the absence of multiple aspect The commentary is also sensitively done in the sense that it understands when to just shut up from time to time so that you can appreciate some of the filming, acting, location and directing points in a particular scene that the commentators have just discussed. sourced from a new 4K scan of The Shining's original 35mm camera negative conducted at WB's Motion Picture Imaging facility, with the being able to fit in this roll with such conviction and raw power. Most importantly for this release,