Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 25 September 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 6.5 | Audio : 8
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Dolby Dark Vision)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (Dolby Surround | DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The one that makes us laugh and cry
The adventures of six young New Yorkers bound by deep friendship. Between love, work, family, they share their happiness and worries at Central Perk, their favorite coffee...
This ode to true friendship having been able to mix crazy laughs and emotions ten seasons, is an unforgettable generational sitcom where the particularly welded Chandler, Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Ross and Rachel, never short of all more fun and inspiring lines than the other, managed to make millions (and millions) of viewers around the world vibrate as if it were their own group of friends. The one with whom we feel so well remains the popular series par excellence.
« - Okay, they know you know and they don't know Rachel knows? - But they don't know we know they know! - They know you know! - They don't know we know they know we know! »
IMAGE - The one who abuses digital surgery
Apart from season 1, the quality of other seasons varies more and more (within the same episode sometimes) although the freshly vibrant and catchy (but not always natural) images of these UHD Dolby Vision transfers (from the original negatives) breathe a new life into the series (captured in Super 35) at the same time as a renewed stability.
Yes, these are the ones that are going to be difficult to dissect by an unprecedented blinking and the use of an AI that is certainly driven (so it will not compete with each other). the Artificial Truce of IRON JIM) but indeed visible (the scattered fluctuations of blur and/or abuse of sharpness in the background do not deceive when it is present). No doubt, fans will be divided*...
But before we get to the heart of the subject, it should be noted that all the titles have been rebuilt, that the black melts (brighter than in the past) have been redone electronically to keep an aspect of the first generation, that the framing has been slightly modified (of shifts on one side or on the other according to the planes), and that the optics like the shot-stocks (softened for the occasion) are now getting better married to the rest.
* Even though Kevin Bright, the executive producer of the series and director of about fifty episodes, had taken part in the re-activating of the 12 episodes released in the theaters in 2019 (for the 25 years of sitcom) by taking care of the color correction. Recently, in the columns of Firsthe had mentioned the 4K upgrade of the remaining 224 promising that « the grain of the image would be perfect », allowing even fans to « see new small details ». The question then arises: Did he take part in any way in the last work done or did the team in charge of dealing with it just draw on his work five years ago?
We can find ourselves with a combo DNR + EE visible intermittently (and more frank from season 8 on the side of the reduction of digital noise for a « courtesy smoothing » on the face of the actors). However, it seems obvious that the details are quite good in the vast majority of cases (the sweetness of the first few seasons being inherent in the source) and that the silver texture is more palpable than in previous physical iterations.
Despite the tricks causing a certain heterogeneity (and rather rare inconsistencies as mentioned earlier), 4K resolution is therefore felt throughout, while very medium encoding (too much content on each disc), causing compressive problems such as macrobloc (happily stealthy), tends to lower the definition of granulosity.
On the WCG and HDR side, the colorimetric palette is now much warmer (cf. the carnation) with other brighter hues (primary ones are acidulated), and the light sources have been mesmerized (to make the skin of the characters shine from time to time as if oiled).
In fact, closer to the general aesthetics of modern sitcoms (where everything is violently illuminated) and very far away from the austeres Blu-ray (or dull TV broadcasts) that we used to watch, the result may surprise. However, even if too colorful in places, it manifests greater chromatic neutrality by removing the blue dominant night as well as pre-existing drifts (greenish or reddish) until then.
And the same is true with the contrasts which, despite a somewhat too aggressive dynamic (whites are too attractive), corrects the washed or blocked blacks ( Monica's hair benefits from it) as well as the dark light. The darkest corners of the frame can thus be revealed and the lights gain in intensity.
SOUND - The one who talks to everyone
Composed of spontaneous laughter (the series having been recorded in public), small atmospheres of everyday life (domestic noises, street passers-by, customers of Central Perk) and especially dialogues (at the origin of comic springs), this soundtrack proposed in VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 (and no longer in Dolby Digital 5.1) and VF Dolby Digital 2.0 (there nothing changed) is broadcast with great clarity. The first is nevertheless to be preferred over the second for its authenticity, its scope and its purity of listening.
Because where the VF is fluttered and equipped with aggressive mischievous, the English track wraps (a multichannel separation developed in studio, stereo capture obliges) and sounds right. The laughter bursts of the spectators take on surrounds (logical since coming from the rear), the voices are always audible, the musical cuts ring perfectly and the bass simmer occasionally. So we're invited on stage and not left away from the show.
If French dubbing remains a sacred « Proust madeleine » (except when Rachel, Joey and Chandler's voices change in the last two seasons), he is still too often poorly synchronized (a constancy since his broadcast).
CONCLUSION - The one who was 30
At the time of life where your friends are your family (as their creators pitched it), the one that will forever remain a cult sitcom with the frantic popularity is imposing more than ever like the doudo of several generations on support 4K Ultra HD. In this regard, it must be said that the impression of having a coffee next to this happy bunch of friends (unfortunately having recently lost one of his own) is more significant. Unagi!
🎶 So no one gold you life was gonna be this way 👏👏👏👏
Your job's a joke, you're broke
Your love life's DOA
It's like you're always stick in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month
Or even your year, but
I'll be there for you
(When therain starts to for)
I'll be there for you
(Like I've been there before)
I'll be there for you
('Cause you're there for me too') 🎵
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