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They’re also available on Amazon Prime and Vudu. The old films don’t have HDR yet. That might not happen until a physical release happens as it did with the Craig films.
Overall, I think they are an improvement over the blu-rays.
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1971)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence to Kill
GoldenEye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
Thanks for this. Those screen grabs are really fascinating. The extra fidelity on the 4k vs blu-rays is definitely pretty clear. I still think I’ll hold off on watching 4k until the physical versions with HDR are available however.
The difference in colour grading / tinting (not sure the correct technical term here) is an eye opener. What is going on with the laserdisc’s? They have some surreal colour filters going on. Look how red faced Bernard Lee is in the Dr No laserdisc lol.
I recently purchased the whole digital 4K set from Apple TV and you can still rent NTTD from there in Canada.
Thankfully, there are fans out there doing excellent jobs putting out 4K copies of the theatrical cuts. That’s probably the best we’ll ever get.
There was a DVD box set that came out years ago with the theatrical releases on them, but they're very small on the screen (can't remember the proper term for it).
Nice to have that, at least.
Non-anamorphic, I believe.
I recall it’s a really long thin squished picture
Some of those like OHMSS are a little hot, some may need to be redone before going HDR/DV, we'll see how it happens when they plan 4K releases.
Strange, especially considering Amazon are getting their clutches into Bond.
Maybe Apple have some kind of exclusivity deal in the U.K. , or maybe it’s just a simple oversight by Amazon, or they can’t be bothered to put them up.
Or maybe they are deliberately keeping them off their streaming service until the new masters are done for the discs. That would be odd to be U.K. only though, and wouldn’t explain the absence of the Craig movies in 4k
Likely to let expire so that Amazon gets full rights in the near future.
I do have Apple TV on my PS5 but not sure how good the quality is for movies .I get the impression it’s not as good as my TV inbuilt apps for Prime and Netflix.. Dolby Vision on Netflix is insanely good.
The newer movies on Prime, especially 4k ones, are phenomenal, so I’m looking forward to catching NTTD again in a few days. The problem is some slightly older movies. They are advertised as HD but you put them on and there can be all sorts of picture cropping to make it fix the screen. Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report looked like old TV broadcasts
What I mean is that I don’t think I was getting the correct aspect ratio, and some of the picture seemed was cropped. Assuming they are widescreen movies: I had no black bars and the picture, which seemed more pulled than I remember, was filling the entire screen
I’ve just checked to make sure I wasn’t misremembering and nope, it’s definitely cropped.
I checked out MINORITY REPORT on Paramount+, it’s in its original 2.39 AR.
The bonus is that the image isn’t cropped but open. That’s why Stanley Kubrick opted for open matte for his films on home media so that there was no cropping business (as he learned from his experience with 2001 being cropped on televisions).
Still not sure if that’s what’s going on with MINORITY REPORT, but the film was shot via Super 35, so it’s possible there’s an open matte version.