12/23/2023 0 Comments Star wars makemkv which angle![]() ![]() And it’s not always the case that I’ve been able to say that about the soundtrack of a Disney 4K Blu-ray release.Īny scene with a lightsaber in it provides a great showcase of the joys of HDR. There are lots of good things about the Dolby Atmos Rise Of Skywalker soundtrack. Which again makes me wonder what things might have looked like if a 100GB disc had been used. Again, though, I didn’t think the image looked as consistently crisp and textured as some other native 4K transfers I’ve seen. Very good, actually - and comfortably superior to those available on the HD Blu-ray. Sharpness and detail levels, finally, are mostly good. As a result, with one or two brief exceptions (most notably the ‘quick sand in the desert’ sequence) you don’t feel as aware of distracting differences between the resolution of the film’s CGI and the resolution of the live action footage as you do when watching the far cleaner, more polished finish of the 4K Blu-rays of, say, Jumanji: The Next Level, or X-Men: Apocalypse. Second, the grain works to ‘unify’ the live video and CGI elements of the film. First because it usually feels like the 4K transfer just bringing out the grain inherent to the 35mm film used for capturing most of Rise Of Skywalker’s visuals. This is actually for the most part a strength here, though. The picture looks quite grainy compared with many of the 4K Blu-ray releases I’ve seen recently, too. Especially those that carry transfers of native 4K DIs. But it’s still well short overall of the bit-rates seen with some 4K Blu-ray releases. This does nip up in short bursts to more than 70Mbps, at least, showing more flexibility in its response to changing image content than some other Disney titles. Photo: Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Walt Disney Studios ![]() Rey gets in her daily self-isolation bit of exercise. ![]() It’s not surprising from this to find the film running with a typical data rate of between 45 and 55Mbps. Even though it has an unusually long running time of 142 minutes. As usual with Disney 4K Blu-ray releases, the film is presented on a 66GB disc, rather than a 100Gb one. The slightly plasticky, forced look to skin tones in some dark scenes could be down, too, to a degree of compression in the image. In typical Disney style, though, we only get the basic HDR10 format, which lacks the extra scene by scene image data the other two formats provide. These issues made me wonder how things might have looked if Disney had used either the Dolby Vision or HDR10+ premium HDR systems on the 4K Blu-ray transfer. Some of the daylight desert shots look a touch bleached, while just occasionally skin tones in dark scenes look a touch forced and lacking in shading subtlety. There are moments where the color work looks just a touch off, though. For the most part this is great news, giving the film a much more vibrant and three-dimensional look that brings those fantastical Star Wars worlds much more emphatically into your living room. We’re definitely not talking about Mandalorian-style HDR here.Ĭolor saturations are markedly heavier and richer than they are with the HD Blu-ray. It’s no surprise from this to find the disc’s HDR10 metadata giving us a maximum light level of 724 nits, and a high maximum Frame Average Light Level of 647 nits. But while these sequences are certainly HDR/wide color highlights, pretty much every frame benefits in some way from HDR’s expanded light range. The climactic battle between the hotch-potch Rebel army and the Empire’s new fleet is also packed with gorgeous HDR and explosions of spectacular color. You can also see some subtle differences in the way different lightsabers radiate their light that I haven’t really felt aware of before outside of a Dolby Cinema. Right from the opening shot the film posts some strikingly aggressive HDR use, as blindingly bright, richly coloured lightsabers puncture the darkness around them with fearsome intensity. Though at the same time, I’m not quite as blown away by it as some other 4K Blu-ray reviewers (whose opinions I respect very much, I should add!) have been.ĭespite the presence here of a native 4K DI, it wasn’t the detail of the Rise Of Skywalker 4K disc that first impressed me, but rather its HDR. This results in the all-round best Star Wars 4K Blu-ray picture to date. It's a shame Rise doesn't focus more on this little lot rather than getting bogged down in a wider. ![]()
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