Select Digital 4K UHD Movies: Dunkirk, Inception, Ready Player One, Shazam Expired

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Anyone who purchased - what audio formats are supported? Is Dolby Atmos available for these movies? Thanks in advance.

Dolby 5.1 with Dolby Vision for each of the ones I bought.

Buy the first one then hit yourself in the head repeatedly with a hammer until you pass out, which is approximately the enjoyment value you'd get from watching the sequels.

Inception is free (with ads) on the Roku Channel, just watched it yesterday lol. But good ideal if you want to 'own' it.

Not sure if you're serious or trolling, but I've been living in the "future" since far before most people. I cut the cord on cable in 2008, was such an early adopter of Netflix that I needed a special disc for it to run on my PS3, and now, I run my own server via Plex and also stream on any number of platforms.

Digital has the capability to look and sound just as good as Blu-ray, but it won't for a while. Reason? Bandwidth. A competent UHD 4k blu-ray rip, encoded with a modern codec, averages 50-60 gigs, streaming something like that is currently prohibitively expensive for the provider on the large scale, and considering Comcast, the only ISP in town for most people, has a 1.2tb monthly limit, the vast majority of people aren't going to be able to view streaming digital purchases on the same level as physical media for a while.

For comparison, UHD blu-ray streams an average of 80Mbps to 144Mbps. Vudu's 4k tops out at 11Mbps, Netflix at 15Mbps, Fandango at 10-20Mbps, Google Play at 12-15Mbps, and Apple TV at 25Mbps.

New codecs make it easier to compress without issues, but as the signal becomes more complex, it's harder and harder to encode equivalent to UHD. Grainy movies shot on film or older movies are harder to encode than new animation. Dark scenes will almost ALWAYS betray bitrates on streaming services.

"Looks good enough to me" isn't valid data. Nor does it address the fact that if your digital platform of choice ever goes out of business, or if they decide to change their contract with the user, you're SOL and your collection disappears.



Nobody's fault but my own. Just very quickly skimming titles and I see a movie poster and "4K and UHD" in all caps.

Anyone know if the digital UHD versions of the Nolan movies switch aspect ratio for the IMAX scenes (like the discs do)?

EDIT: Ok, after some digging it looks like none of the digital versions have the switching aspect ratio.

Not sure if you're serious or trolling, but I've been living in the "future" since far before most people. I cut the cord on cable in 2008, was such an early adopter of Netflix that I needed a special disc for it to run on my PS3, and now, I run my own server via Plex and also stream on any number of platforms.

Digital has the capability to look and sound just as good as Blu-ray, but it won't for a while. Reason? Bandwidth. A competent UHD 4k blu-ray rip, encoded with a modern codec, averages 50-60 gigs, streaming something like that is currently prohibitively expensive for the provider on the large scale, and considering Comcast, the only ISP in town for most people, has a 1.2tb monthly limit, the vast majority of people aren't going to be able to view streaming digital purchases on the same level as physical media for a while.

For comparison, UHD blu-ray streams an average of 80Mbps to 144Mbps. Vudu's 4k tops out at 11Mbps, Netflix at 15Mbps, Fandango at 10-20Mbps, Google Play at 12-15Mbps, and Apple TV at 25Mbps.

New codecs make it easier to compress without issues, but as the signal becomes more complex, it's harder and harder to encode equivalent to UHD. Grainy movies shot on film or older movies are harder to encode than new animation. Dark scenes will almost ALWAYS betray bitrates on streaming services.

"Looks good enough to me" isn't valid data. Nor does it address the fact that if your digital platform of choice ever goes out of business, or if they decide to change their contract with the user, you're SOL and your collection disappears.



Nobody's fault but my own. Just very quickly skimming titles and I see a movie poster and "4K and UHD" in all caps.

Digital will get closer and closer to UHD blu-ray. Sony just recently announced their Bravia Core service at CES:
"With BRAVIA CORE, you are subscribed to an amazing selection of movies to stream anytime and as many times as you like, in up to 4K HDR quality."
"BRAVIA CORE features Pure Stream™, streaming at up to 80 Mbps, delivering lossless 4K UHD picture quality on a wide range of content."

Source: https://www.sony.com/electronics/bravia-core