They’ve sounded weirdly compressed and short of dynamic range. But this is presumably a deliberate mastering choice.ĭisney has been dropping the ball pretty spectacularly with the audio tracks of many of its recent 4K Blu-ray releases. If I was being picky I might also say that the film’s many dark interior scenes are a little conservative in their use of HDR - especially considering how aggressive the disc can go with HDR elsewhere. In the end, though, the slightly soft appearance of some parts of the film (such as, particularly, all the sequences on Titan) on 4K Blu-ray is all that matters, not the reasons behind it. I don’t have any information on whether the film’s effects were rendered in 2K or 4K, and even the situation regarding the film’s Digital Intermediate seems confusing until earlier this week IMDB was showing the DI as 2K, but recently changed this to say 4K DI. This issue is particularly noticeable during extremely special effects-heavy sequences - of which there are, of course, rather a lot. Only slightly sharper than the HD Blu-ray. For starters, while some shots look spectacularly detailed and sharp, others can look pretty soft by 4K standards. The main issue I have with the Infinity War 4K Blu-ray’s picture (aside from its lack of Dolby Vision and IMAX options) is its consistency. Tones often look spectacularly rich and bold, and the expansion of the color palette gives the picture a more solid, three dimensional look. The Infinity War 4K Blu-ray outperforms the HD, standard dynamic range HD Blu-ray with its colors too.
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And for the avoidance of doubt, this polished look is appropriate to the way the movie was shot, not the result of any sort of noise reduction processing.
Grain haters, meanwhile, will love the polished, clean look of Infinity War’s digital images. It’s good to see, too, that the strong, rich black levels haven’t been used as any sort of dumping ground for video compression artefacts. Photo: Avengers: Infinity War, Disney/Marvel Studios The 4K Blu-ray’s light range clearly extends substantially beyond the top and bottom ends of the HD Blu-ray’s image.ĭoing whatever a spider-man can. The HDR’s impact is strong when it comes to ramping up peak light highlights (the scene where we are introduced to the Guardians of the Galaxy is particularly impactful in this respect), and counterpointing those ultra bright peaks against some profoundly inky blacks.
Look, for instance, at the shot where T’Challa ‘departs’ while trying to help one of his warriors to her feet. In fact, by the time you’ve added in the joint effects of the 4K release’s reasonably aggressive HDR and use of expanded color, some of these relatively bright shots and locations really do approach reference levels. Some of the shots in this sequence reveal some outstanding detailing in the trees and grass around the action, too.
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The final showdown in Wakanda with Thanos provides a particularly consistent run of shots that illustrate this sharpness, with, strangely, Vision’s skin proving especially good at highlighting the 4K advantage. Especially in bright scenes and during the film’s rare relatively static shots. If you’re able to put what the Infinity War 4K Blu-ray does not offer behind you and focus on what it does, it’s actually still a pretty good looking effort overall.įor instance, many close up shots of the human characters and their real rather than digitally enhanced outfits look strikingly detailed and crisp - clearly beyond HD’s capabilities. A result, perhaps, of the way that for the first time with a Hollywood movie, almost the whole of Infinity War was shot for IMAX. While both sides have compelling arguments, however, the Infinity Wars 2.39:1 version does seem to include a few more slightly awkward crops than other films with IMAX sections. Regarding this latter point, the petition I mentioned has kicked off an interesting debate over whether the IMAX or 2.39:1 ratio is the ‘correct’ or best approach for home video. The 4K Blu-ray only carries the 2.39:1 ratio version used in non-IMAX movie theaters. The other issue for some AV/movie fans is that (despite the existence of a well-supported petition about it) Disney hasn’t offered the option to watch Infinity War in its IMAX aspect ratio (and large format picture quality).
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