“Wrath of Khan” To Get 4K Release (Star Trek II)

Star Trek News | TrekNews.net ^ | March 13, 2016 | TrekNews.net Staff

[matt1234]

Can’t have too much Shatner.

[RansomOttawa]

Wrath of Khan theme was a classic novel, think Moby Dick and warships battling it out in the oceans, but rather in outer space

Closer than you might think. Have you ever read Beat to Quarters by C. S. Forester? Horatio Hornblower is hunting down a Spanish megalomaniac who has taken a ship, and the final battle takes place in a fog bank.

[yarddog]

It was the best “Star Trek” movie but it was just fairly good.

The others, especially the first movie were pretty bad.

[moviefan8]

With the Obama recovery, I am dropping cable once the contract is up at the end of June. I am trying to cut costs and keep costs low.

Everything is too expensive for one person.

[Bull Snipe]

Khan’s last words in Trek II are almost identical to Ahab’s last words in Moby Dick.

[SJSAMPLE]

Worth it.
That cow is the best of them.

[Larry Lucido]

Khan! you tell me when it will be released?

[The Klingon]

STAR TREK First Contact was pretty good as well

[Company Man]

Does Blu-Ray support 4K or are the movies sold on a thumb drive or download or what?

[jmcenanly]

You are going to need quite a setup to give the 4K resolution full justice.

[PAR35]

I’m going to wait and see what Frontier does when they take over. Complete silence from both Verizon and Frontier about the transition. Only communication was from Verizon - I had to sign up for AOL mail a couple of weeks ago or my email would be cut off immediately. (No transition window at all).

Of course, it shows the lack of competence at TimeWarner that they can’t figure out how to use this in their marketing.

[freepertoo]

?

[catbertz]

Regular Blu-ray doesn’t support 4k. There is a new Blu-ray format that holds more data to accommodate 4k. You’ll need a new player and 4k tv to use/view the new 4K Ultra HD discs.

[Company Man]

Thanks~!

[Yossarian]

Does the original 1982(?) film negative even have 2160 lines of resolution in it?!? High-grain stock can be helped by the kind of bandwidth that Blu-Ray can provide, but unless it was shot in 70mm or similar stock, I don't think there's a huge technical demand for this. I know that in addition to resolution that updating to a newer format also opens up the color space and dynamic range possible, but again, I suspect this isn't needed for dated 35mm source material.

(But making even more money off of fanboys will never go out of fashion…)

[PLMerite]

There is actually some 4K content on Youtube. I tried watching it on my computer and got the blue screen of death.

It rebooted okay, but I’m not going to try that gain.

[catbertz]

You question tickled my curiosity, so I searched and found this answer:

“Kodak states that 35mm film has the equivalent of 6K resolution. Archivists generally agree that 4k scanning of 35mm is more than adequate for archival purposes. A 15 perforation 70mm IMAX film negative captures at an estimated 18K, which is the equivalent of 18,000 pixels.”

[al_c]

Well played, sir. Well played.

[Texan4Life]

Yes, and that’s why I upgraded to the ROKU Ultra, a 4K player, so that I can watch YouTube 4K videos, and 4K movies through VUDU.

It’s with a 4K video like this that I appreciate fully a 4K TV...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzigaJKTPLU

BTY, for my 720P Computer monitor, I just set the YouTube function to “Auto”, and most videos will play at the highest rate up to 720P, even if the video has 1080P or 4K or higher available.

[Texan4Life]

A 4K UHD version of the movie has not yet been released. The, the 2016 Director’s Cut Blu-ray was remastered in 4K, but was released in 1080p HD.