The box art for the Avatar: The Way Of Water 4K Blu-ray. So much good stuff is instantly obvious that it’s hard to focus on the specifics. Even though the final transfer occasionally made me wish from time to time that the film had been split over two 100GB discs…įirst impressions as Pandora and the Na’vi fill your TV screen for the first time since the original Avatar all those years ago are impressive. But I do know that it seems to have made a big difference to the picture quality we get on the finished 4K Blu-ray. I don’t know whether Disney made this call on its own as part of a hopefully new philosophy of treating titles on a more title by title basis or whether it’s the power of James Cameron at work. This is a massively important decision, as it greatly reduces the extent to which the film’s ground-breaking imagery needs to be compressed to fit the film onto a single disc. Key kit used for this test: Samsung QE75N95B, Oppo 205 4K Blu-ray player, Focal Chora Dolby Atmos speaker system, Marantz SR6015 AVRĬontrary to the expectations I raised in an article I posted on my Forbes channel last month, Disney has broken the 4K Blu-ray habit of a lifetime and allowed Avatar: The Way Of Water to be mastered onto a 100GB capacity disc, rather than the 66GB discs it’s used for every previous 4K Blu-ray release. HDR10 Metadata: Max Light Level/MaxFALL: Not provided by the disc (appear as 0 nits for both on a Panasonic UB820 4K BD player). What you get: Region-free 4K Blu-ray a region A/B/C HD Blu-ray a region locked download code.Įxtra Features: Rather than hold the review up by covering the epic quantity of extra features here, I refer you to this earlier article where I list them in full. However, while I didn’t reach the end reeling from the experience as much after watching the 4K Blu-ray as I did upon leaving the cinema, The Way Of Water still ultimately packs a punch that goes beyond the fancy visuals and raises hopes high for what Cameron might do next time round when he doesn’t have so much world building/reminding to do. It remains the case on home video, though, that the second half of the film not only turns into a classic James Cameron action fest, but strangely manages to make much of the ’family’ stuff that felt a bit ‘blunt tool’ in the film’s first half pay off as you find yourself suddenly surprisingly invested in characters you hadn’t realised you’d actually come to care about.Īvatar: The Way Of Water's visual are tailor made for a 4K Blu-ray HDR experience. And so I felt more aware of some of the clunkier parts of the dialogue and lore. Which is why the transfer’s ability to create immersion is so important - and why despite the fact that the imagery still often looks objectively sensational on 4K BD, the lack of 3D, HFR and sheer image scale (even though the 1.80:1 ratio image fills most of my 75-inch screen) versus a huge cinema screen does mean I wasn’t sucked in to the film as effectively as I was at the cinema. Or perhaps more accurately, it’s an invitation to live on Pandora with the Na’vi. Hd All Movie Hub.I guess my impression watching Avatar: The Way Of Water for a second time at home on 4K Blu-ray is that the first half of the film is really just world building.
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