InterStellar 4K UltraHD [Blu-ray]

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The only tech "upgrades" I got recently were a couple of nVidia graphics cards for machines in the home. It was time to switch out a couple of old AMD Radeon R9 270X's in my computers. In the living room, since my kids still play a few games with visiting friends, I switched the R9 out for an ASUS GTX1060 card and for my daily workstation, the inexpensive EVGA GTX1050 has been serving me well. All these changes (price, power draw, size, lower noise, reliability) are the benefits of product maturity. And for us digital / computer audiophiles, it is wonderful to partake in these benefits as computing becomes faster, storage becomes more voluminous, and better accessibility with inexorably lower cost.

has personally overseen every aspect of these releases, from element selection to film transfer to color correction toAfter this cruel loss, they travel to an icy planet. At least no risk of drowning. There they find a new friend who was having a nap. They wake him. But this new friend seems to suffer of intense brain freeze, which have altered his psyche. best way for his films to be seen outside of theatrical venues. In support of that conviction, Nolan Across All Dimensions and Time– A pretty comprehensive look at the design and thought that went into the Tesseract that played a major part in the third act of the film.

of Interstellar is being distributed by Warner, and, in a special licensing arrangement, it is also Over the past decade and a half Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the premier Directors. That’s a bold statement as the film industry has a lot of talent out there. Maybe a better phrasing would be “…has established himself as one of the most consistent Directors.” Beginning with Memento in 2000 where we met a man who suffered from short-term memory loss, he helmed the reboot of the Batman franchise. A few billion dollars later he blew our collective minds with the aptly-named Inception. So when it was announced that he’d direct the long-awaited Interstellar, which once had Steven Spielberg’s name attached to it, people took notice. It didn’t hurt the film with a freshly-crowned Oscar winner by the name of Matthew McConaughey in the lead role, either. With Nolan’s attention to detail, his own brother (Jonathan) as co-writer and a top notch cast – the die was set. Description: In 1960, a young woman named Christine enters St. Francis Boarding School for Girls and lays waste to the resident nuns. Four decades later, a group of college students head to the long-abandoned building late one night to tag it with their fraternity letters, little knowing that rumors of the place being haunted are terrifyingly true. Stir in a couple of disapproving cops and a band of unlikely Satanists, and the table is set for a feast of demonic infestation and bloodshed that only the grown-up Christine (Adrienne Barbeau, THE FOG, SWAMP THING) can possibly stop. Next up is the 14-part Inside Interstellar documentary, which offers 122 minutes worth of behind-the-scenes material on the film’s production. There’s no “play all” option – you simply select each individual featurette from the disc’s menus. Segments include: Plotting an Interstellar Journey (7:49), Life on Cooper’s Farm (9:43), The Dust (2:38), Tars and Case (9:27), The Cosmic Sounds of Interstellar (13:40), The Space Suits(4:31), The Endurance (9:24), Shooting in Iceland: Miller’s Planet/Mann’s Planet (12:42), The Ranger and the Lander (12:20), Miniatures in Space (5:29), The Simulation of Zero-G (5:31), Celestial Landmarks(13:22), Across All Dimensions and Time (9:02), and Final Thoughts (6:02). Among the highlights are abundant material on the filmmakers’ approach to the production, good looks at the conceptual design and construction of the film’s various spacecraft and equipment, discussion of the film’s groundbreaking depictions of astrophysical phenomena, and lots of on-set interviews and footage with the cast and crew shot during filming. You even get to spend time with Zimmer as he carefully crafts his score, then records it in the midst of an English cathedral.TARS and CASE: Designing and building these unique characters and how they were brought to life on set and in the film. When Cooper learns that NASA has remained active, in secret, he's called upon by old friend Professor Brand (Michael Caine) to save humanity. No matter how much corn they try to grow, humankind will eventually succumb to the Earth's dusty future. Extinction of the human race is inevitable if they can't find a new place to live. Awormholenext to Saturn is discovered. Viable worlds lay in wait on the other side. Cooper, along with Brand's daughter (Anne Hathaway), and a small team set out to find out what's on the other side of thewormhole.

Thanks for the link. Wow - that's some image processing! The reason I use madVR is somewhat selfish but practical, and somewhat "hypothetical"... On the selfish but practical side, it's because I have an nVidia GTX 1080 GPU I would use for HTPC viewing to my 4K screen. With this set-up, madVR visibly gives me the best upscaling image quality bar none currently. Since many enthusiasts use madVR routinely, I might as well demonstrate what the image from a 1080P Blu-Ray could look like with a high quality algorithm than something known to be of lower potential. From what I've seen with madVR, it's very good but I'm not seeing the kind of qualitative enhancement in that linked article! The Science of Interstellar– This 50 minute documentary is narrated by McConaughey (much more understandable here than in a majority of the film, I might add) and takes us through a lot of the literal science that’s included in the film. Together with Physicist Kip Thorne who also served as the film’s Executive Producer, we learn some of the logistics in the film, the creative licenses (not) taken and get a crash course in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

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I hope you won't have to wait for 8K too long:) But, the point of my message was that you don't need to wait: you can do all the simulations on your 4K screen, just using the central part of the original image (1/4) and blowing it up 4x and 2x to fill up the 4K screen. There are no special features on the UHD disc, but Paramount has included the 2-disc Blu-ray release in this set. based on incorrect information supplied by Warner Brothers. It has now been confirmed from multiple sources that the 4K/HDR master was derived The Space Suits– Nothing too mind-blowing here, just a look at the space suits, how they really don’t differ too much from those used today as well as the practical fit for the actors.

from an interpositive, at Christopher Nolan's express instruction and contrary to Warner's standard policy, which provides that 4K scans should utilize nterstellar also is modestly snagged, beyond some too ‘on the nose’ scripting, by a plot development before the final act of the film which feels far less fresh and considered than the rest of the film. The story of Interstellar is clearly examining the manner in which mankind would operate, with unadulterated heroism and unconscionable selfishness vying for survival, as the situation becomes ever more dire, yet late in the film the somewhat bumpy deviation, which serves as a catalyst for the finale, feels contrived, robbing some of the grandeur and, frankly, intimacy of the story at that point. The ending of the film takes additional liberties with the scientific grounding – in ways that I, again, won’t spoil here, but I will say that I was ultimately satisfied with the turn of events as the film closes. The Dust– The dust, which played a big part in the Earth sequences, was done on film as opposed to during post-production, for a more realistic effect.

TARS and CASE– A closer look at the two robots in the film, their “inspiration”, the voices used and the mechanics of both.