But all I can say is that the results are almost impossibly spectacular.
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I guess some movie purists might bristle at the idea of regrading Kubrick's stunning visuals for an HDR world. It has been derived from an 8K scan of the original camera negative, digitally restored and regraded in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision HDR formats. The restoration has been undertaken in collaboration with actor and long-term personal assistant to Stanley Kubrick, Leon Vitali. Photo: 2001: A Spacy Odyssey, Warner Bros/MGM Kubrick delighted in creating mind-bending (and incredibly convincing) special effects for 2001.
Remastering the film for modern audiences (at the cinema as well as at home) has been a labor of love for a number of key names from all sides of the cinema and home entertainment industries. The 4K Blu-ray release of 2001: A Space Odyssey isn’t just a labor of love. Key kit used for this test: Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, LG OLED77C8 TV, Samsung QN65Q9FN TV, Panasonic UB900 4K Blu-ray player
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Some of those points being the heavily automated cockpits in the ships, flat screen displays and TVs in the seat backs on the Pan-Am Shuttle.What you get: The all-region 4K Blu-ray, the region-free HD Blu-ray, a region free extra features HD Blu-ray, a region-locked digital download code, a glossy booklet of stills and behind the scenes photos a selection of postcardsĮxtra features: Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood Channel 4 documentary The Making Of A Myth four featurettes on the film’s impact on the film making world, the film’s predictions of the future, the science and theories behind the film’s vision of the future, and the possibility of alien life a look at concept art and early FX for one of the film’s key sequences a short collection of Kubrick’s 1940s photography for Look magazine a 1966 audio-only interview with Kubrick a theatrical trailerīest Soundtrack Option: Remixed and remastered DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix I find it weird how this film still works and managed to get some points right while, at the same time, being incredibly anachronistic. Still everything up to and including about 1/2 the Stargate scene is just a great piece of work. That "Star Baby" shit has to be one of the weakest endings that I have seen in a movie. Frankly, every time I watch that scene, I get the feeling that Kubrick had no idea where he was going with the story, so he just hit the bong and "ad-libbed" a ton of random scenes with the proviso to "figure out what it all means yourself".
Generally, I like this film a lot, even though I think Kubrick lost the program when the Stargate scene started. Generally, I think I prefer the original 1968 version although, I found it odd that the 1968 version sounded better during the Space Station docking scene, while the "restored" version seemed to sound better during the Earth to Moon Transporter scene. I swapped between the 1968 soundtrack and the "restored" version. It felt like a person was watching that scene all over again for the first time.
The colours in that scene really popped on the OLED and it looked a bit more detailed.
The PQ definitely looks better than my old Blu-ray copy, but the real difference is mostly seen in the Stargate sequence. I popped it into the player with the intention of just checking it out and ended up watching the entire film.