DISH Releases 21 James Bond Flicks in 4K for Holiday Binge-Watching

They are all on Amazon Prime in 4K also, no HDR at all and did not look much better then 1080P.
 
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I have the two GOOD Craig films on EHD, Casino and Skyfall. The other two were a "Bloody Mess!"

I would imagine that the newer prints were shot for 4K or up-scaled better. The older ones is anybodies guess. But they were usually CinemaScope 70mm. It can be done depending on how much time, money and resources they put into it. I would think that the Bond franchise would be a prime property to 4K. But then . . .

My all time favorite is the original "Casino Royale" with Sellers, Niven, Allen and "Introducing: Jackie Bisset". The back story is incredible.
 
I turn off HDR a lot. It seems to artificially augment things. I'll have to check that out. I hadn't noticed. Thanks!!
I don't turn it off, but I do dial it down.

I thought the general consensus was that HDR was even more noticeable/important than the resolution! Can you two give me some further insights? I do not have a 4K/HDR set yet, but I was considering it.
 
I thought the general consensus was that HDR was even more noticeable/important than the resolution! Can you two give me some further insights? I do not have a 4K/HDR set yet, but I was considering it.
Some HDR is greatly color exaggerated. For example, there is no tomato on this planet that is as red as one you might see with HDR. Then there are some HDR films that are already dialed down. Contrast ratios are good, but color is subdued. So, it's really hit or miss.
 
I was pretty pumped about this, as I'm a huge Bond fan and just picked up my first 4K TV on a Black Friday deal. But I keep getting the message saying that my receiver has insufficient bandwidth. I have 75mb AT&T fiber and my Hopper is hard-wired to my router, so no wifi issues. Anybody else experiencing this?
 
I was pretty pumped about this, as I'm a huge Bond fan and just picked up my first 4K TV on a Black Friday deal. But I keep getting the message saying that my receiver has insufficient bandwidth. I have 75mb AT&T fiber and my Hopper is hard-wired to my router, so no wifi issues. Anybody else experiencing this?

Time to reboot. :)
 
I thought the general consensus was that HDR was even more noticeable/important than the resolution! Can you two give me some further insights? I do not have a 4K/HDR set yet, but I was considering it.

Some HDR is greatly color exaggerated. For example, there is no tomato on this planet that is as red as one you might see with HDR. Then there are some HDR films that are already dialed down. Contrast ratios are good, but color is subdued. So, it's really hit or miss.

"YES!" to all of the above and there are a great many variables that are involved in getting a good picture with HDR (Free Open Source), HLG, DolbyVision (Pay for licensing), HDR10, HDR10+ and on and on and on . . . . It's becoming the Betamax/VHS of PQ. It's an augmentation of the picture that is supposed to be driven by metadata that is embedded in the movie per frame to tell the process what to do. That's not what's happening since the metadata is not being included as it should, due to it's infancy, Directors learning how to use it, costs and it's interpretation when it is, is up to the manufacturers take on it. I have found that with my Samsung Quantum Dot SUHD that HDR (HDR1000) works differently with every thing it's fed. Sometimes it has to be on to "lift" the PQ, others it's better off because the picture is blown out. I've also seen it totally kill the picture when on and turning it off took night to day.

The big thing I noticed it that color and contrast gets hit the most and it's all over. And as I have said I have had to turn it off and the PQ is what I would expect. I spent the week playing with an LG that has the ability to adjust the HDR and I like that. P.S. "NO MORE SAMSUNG FOR ME!!" Where was I . . . HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, mine says it has HDR1000 and whatnot all are in an evolutionary process right now. Personally, I don't want all the artificial augmentation. I want what the picture should look like in "reality"!!

On a kinda related note I stumbled on this video last night while clicking on "suggested" links. It was posted a year ago, Sep 3, 2017, but references the forthcoming of 4K. BUT it has some incredible facts and insights including talking about HDR. All I could think of afterwards was how to share this with you guys. This could also help you in making a selection in a more "educated comprehensive" manner. At one time I taught TV production, College Level, and the when you get into the logistics peoples eyes glaze over so you have to interject tid bits of info to keep it interesting and these days for me to think of this stuff just plain hurts. This guy does a great job at explaining it all and a bit more sums up what the new TV's are. Along with what I have to say about 8K.

Also here's a link to a search for HDR. I hope this helps . . . What is HDR - YouTube

 
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I was pretty pumped about this, as I'm a huge Bond fan and just picked up my first 4K TV on a Black Friday deal. But I keep getting the message saying that my receiver has insufficient bandwidth. I have 75mb AT&T fiber and my Hopper is hard-wired to my router, so no wifi issues. Anybody else experiencing this?

So you are trying to watch on ? with a Hopper3? Please clarify. I may know what your problem is . . .
 
Why not just make an EPIX 4K channel so you don't have to dig around and download.. would be much easier.

There's a lot that one would think would be simpler. But . . . They had 2 4K, 540, channels, then it went to 3, 2 HDR, then back to 1 4K, 1 4KHDR. Doesn't look like minds can be made up . .
 

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