Harr Potter 8 Movie Collection Uhd Digitial Review

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (4K UHD Review)

• Review Date: Nov 21, 2017
• Format: Blu-ray Disc
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Release Engagement(s)

2001 (Nov seven, 2017)

Studio(s)

Heyday Films/1492 Films/Warner Bros. Pictures (Warner Bros.)

• Film/Program Form: B
• Video Grade: B+
• Audio Class: A
• Extras Class: B-

Review

Harry Potter is not your ordinary English language boy. Left orphaned as a baby, he'due south been raised past his aunt and uncle, but lives under their stairs, barely tolerated by his would-exist guardians. But things alter on his eleventh altogether, when a stranger named Hagrid arrives to reveal Harry'due south true identity: He'southward a sorcerer, the son of late magical parents, and his birthright entitles him to attend the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. No sooner does Harry arrive at Hogwarts than he meets two boyfriend students who volition become his stalwart friends in life, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. He finds a kindly mentor as well in the schools' headmaster, Professor Dumbledore. But there are dangers in Harry's new earth as well, including the very evil that killed his parents… an evil that may ane day return to threaten them all.

Chris Columbus' film adaptation of the wildly popular fantasy novel by J.K. Rowling seems almost quaint in retrospect, so it'southward easy to forget the enormous challenge the managing director faced in bringing the most important details of the book's magical earth to the big screen. But succeed he did, with the help of cinematographer John Seale (The English Patient, Mad Max: Fury Road) and the legendary composer John Williams. Perhaps the greatest achievement of this first installment is to find such a talented young cast, including newcomers Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson as the three leads. They're surround past a tremendous supporting cast including John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Ian Hart, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, and Julie Walters. Information technology's as well bittersweet to see the late Richard Harris, John Hurt, and Alan Rickman give such fine and iconic performances here.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer'southward Rock was shot on Super 35 film, with VFX rendered digitally in 2K resolution and printed back out to concrete film. For this Ultra HD release, it appears that a new native 4K scan of the original camera negative was completed forth with a subsequent HDR10 colour grade. This is the Theatrical Version of the pic (running time 152:21), presented in the proper 2.39:1 theatrical aspect ratio. There's a steady wash of light to moderate moving-picture show grain evident in the image, with an increment in fine detail and texturing over the regular Blu-ray that is modest at times (peculiarly in VFX shots) but meaning at others; information technology tends to vary from shot to shot. The HDR enhances both the brights and shadows well, though blacks are occasionally a bit gray and lacking in detail, both in VFX shots and live-action moments that utilise on-fix atmospherics (smoke, fog, etc). The film has a warm push to its coloring once the characters arrive at Hogwarts, merely the hues are rich and vibrant – noticeably more so than is apparent in regular Hard disk drive. Metallic gold and silver items and set accents, in particular, gleam and shimmer in HDR. This is non as much of an improvement as the later films in this series are in 4K (which benefitted from a full decade of advancement in mail-production engineering science over the early films), but information technology'south an improvement nonetheless.

Primary sound on the 4K disc is offered in a new English DTS:10 object-based mix of excellent clarity and dynamic range. It's very like in tone of the regular Blu-ray'due south DTS-Hd lossless mix, just sounds merely a footling bit more open and natural, with smoother panning and a tad more precision in the surround staging. The tiptop channels are employed mostly overhead atmospherics but are quite active during the picture show's Quidditch match in particular. Boosted audio options include English 5.one Descriptive Audio, Cantonese 2.0 Dolby Digital, and Standard mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Latin Castilian v.i Dolby Digital, with optional subtitles in English language SDH, Simplified Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.

Warner's 4K Ultra HD release is a iii-disc set. It contains the film by itself in 4K on the UHD, plus a movie Blu-ray with both the Theatrical and Extended Versions of the film in 1080p HD. This is the same disc that was released previously in the Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray set for this moving picture, and it includes the following extra in HD:

• In-Motion-picture show Experience (Theatrical Version but)

There'south too a 2nd Blu-ray, all of extras and again the same bonus disc that was included in the previous Ultimate Collector'southward Edition Blu-ray set, called Creating the World of Harry Potter Part 1 – The Magic Begins. It offers the post-obit features (some in HD and some in the original SD):

• Introduction by Daniel Radcliffe (i:54)
• Creating the Earth of Harry Potter Role one – The Magic Begins (62:47)
• A Glimpse into the Globe of Harry Potter Television Special (ix:15)
• Deleted Scenes (seven scenes – 9:36 in all)
• Teaser Trailer (1:55)
• Theatrical Trailer #2 (two:27)
• Theatrical Trailer #3 (2:21)
• Idiot box Spots (fifteen spots – 7:46 in all)

That's everything created for the UCE edition box prepare, though obviously you lot don't get the hardcover volume or swag. Missing from the original Blu-ray release are the Capturing the Stone interview, Ghost of Hogwarts, Year Book Character Clips, Quidditch Lesson, Dragon Egg Lesson, and all the Effectually the World Multilanguage Clips. And of course the original DVD release featured some extremely elaborate interactive games, hidden features, and ROM content that's not hither. You do at to the lowest degree become a Digital HD lawmaking on a paper insert in the packaging.

Harry Potter and the Magician's Stone isn't the all-time moving-picture show in this series, but information technology's certainly charming and it accomplished exactly what it needed to, which was to successfully launch this franchise onto the big screen. Warner'southward 4K Ultra HD release offers modest improvements in image and sound quality over the previous Blu-ray, though its HDR is sure to print. Information technology'southward definitely the best style to experience this film at home, so buy it on sale and yous should be plenty happy with it. Note that this championship is also included in the Harry Potter 8-Motion-picture show Collection 4K Ultra Hard disk drive box fix (bachelor here on Amazon), but be aware that the Collection does NOT include the Creating the Globe of Harry Potter bonus Blu-rays – only the films on BD and 4K.

- Beak Hunt

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