Ah, pues si ya hay review de blu.com y todo. Pues a falta de los típicos desvaríos que se puedan dar por los foros acerca de la imagen del UHD, aqui una review profesional seria con algo de cordura para situarnos en contexto:
Saving Private Ryan is a very gritty movie.It's meant to appear raw, grainy, rough around the edges.And the UHD handles its complexities masterfully.The 2160p true 4K image boasts remarkable detailing.Textures on helmets are tangibly rough.Every bit of sand is accounted for on Normandy, and every bit of war-torn rubble in Ramelle reveals each rough edge and pebbly remnant with enough sharpness to cut the viewer, particularly as it gets tossed about by the fight but also even as it's merely lying on the ground in a state of war-torn ruin.Grain is certainly very pronounced and an integral part of the viewing experience.Smoke-filled scenes do see it rise in intensity to the point of appearing more noisy, but the film's bulk does see it present with excellent adherence to a natural, even, well distributed field.Detailing extends beyond environments, of course,.Characters are complex, particularly considering gritty, war-weathered faces, often under a fine layer of grime.Dust, water, and blood are often more prominent than pores, stubble, and wrinkles, though each is handled with a very nuanced and accurate level of revelatory complexity and inherent source sharpness.There's a significant boost in sharpness and clarity compared to the Blu-ray, again now about eight years on the market.It still looks fairly good, but the add in definition and stability prove critical and reveal a leap in the image's overall presentation.
The 12-bit Dolby Vision color presentation brightens the image without sacrificing its gritty, desaturated intent.Colors are a little less dour to be sure, but the increased push certainly proves a more significant transformation to the image than does even the often striking boost in resolution.Whites are much brighter for one.The film's opening titles and a few cards throughout the film look comparatively dreary on Blu-ray whereas there's an unmistakable pop and cleanliness on the UHD.It's a difficult sell on a movie like this;the denaturation, the emphasis on beiges, greens, and grays are critical to defining mood and atmosphere, but the Dolby Vision transformation -- it's more a transformation than it is a compliment -- brings a life to the movie that accentuates its style rather than marginalizes or minimizes it in any way.There's a new intensity to even the rather dour palette.Clothes and helmets, beige and green, largely, enjoy much more vitality within the film's color parameters.Take a look at a shot of Captain Miller's helmet at the 27:09 mark (which is a great shot to showcase the increase in raw clarity and detail, too, not only the helmet's bumpy texture but also the drastic increase in facial definition as the camera slowly zooms in on him. On the UHD, small hairs growing out of pores on his right cheek are plainly visible).It finds new boldness and intensity to its natural color.It's very drab on the Blu-ray, but not showy or shiny on the UHD.It's just more realistically saturated without altering the scene's emotional tone.There is a noticeable increase in brightness to fire -- several men are aflame in the movie's bookend action scenes, and the fire's vitality is strikingly more intense on UHD.The same goes for some natural greenery seen through the film's middle stretch as Miller and his men seek out Ryan in the French countryside.
In short, the movie leaps off the screen with its 4K/Dolby Vision presentation.It's not a fundamentally different experience, but it's a departure from the Blu-ray, texturally to be sure with a significant add in sharpness and clarity but also in terms of color.Dolby Vision has been carefully applied to give the image a brighter, more vibrant sheen without sacrificing the movie's core color integrity.It's very refined, more showy where it needs to be, still bleak when it must be.It looks amazing, holds up to scrutiny with only a few inherently softer focus shots in play and a couple of scenes showing some cracks when thick smoke and heavy grain create a mildly processed
look, but overall the movie looks strikingly good on UHD.
Saving Private Ryan 4K Blu-ray