Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date : 16 October 2018
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.78
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A80J (Dolby Vision Luminous)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (Dolby Atmos | Dolby Surround), SVS SB-4000
WORK - War and War
As the Allied forces disembark at Omaha Beach, Miller had to drive his squad behind the enemy lines for a particularly dangerous mission: to find and bring back safe, except the simple soldier James Ryan, whose three brothers died in battle within three days. As the squad progresses into enemy territory, Miller's men ask questions. Should we risk the lives of eight men to save one?
Awarded rightly by 5 Oscars (best directors, photography, sound, image and sound effects) and determined to denounce the stupidity of armed conflicts, We have to save Private Ryan. of the Steven Spielberg is the fundamental film about World War II. Man-made staging is exceptional, the scenario inspired by a true story does not point out the great values of honour and solidarity, the fighting with raw realism is always unrivalled violence (the landing is traumatic) and the actors who are of incredible accuracy excellent in all emotions. An authentic masterpiece!
IMAGE - The longest day
Robust as a Browning M1919A4 machine gun, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer to the new format until today (the original 1.85 ratio leaving its place to an open-matte version 1.78 for a small gain of information on the entire frame) is just sublime.
The master is irreproachable, the definition makes a good forward (a new 4K master from a 6K scan of the original negatives), the details are more numerous than on the already excellent Blu-ray (cf. the surgical precision of the lines drawn, the crushed skins, damaged trellis and damaged buildings), the colorimetric palette with deliberately unsaturated colors (at 60%) is still as beautiful (especially as it recovers, without distorting the particularly harsh rendering of the images, a touch of heat well visible on the faces of the actors), the contrasts are even stronger and the light sources, in addition to gaining in burst (flames, explosions, wet soils, daylight), are no longer burned (the skys and other counter-days).
As for the imposing granularity that results from an artistic bias with meaning (it gives a dirty and rough appearance to the photography of Janusz Kaminski), it is perfectly restored here with a finesse absent from HD transfer. It is very simple, thanks to the benefits of the HEVC compression (invincible square), never such a density of grains will have been so controlled on screen. A big slap!
SON - There's nothing to do here but die
A demented VO (the hell of the battlefield at home!) that gives in the pure technical demonstration with a dynamic of mad madness, a muscular spatialization that best conveys the violence of the armed conflict (the deluge of bullets, movements like the screams of soldiers), a highly sought after rear scene and titanium bass (the rumbling of tanks).
Of course, mixing Atmos forces, the feeling of being enveloped by the horrors of war (the firing of mortars, the blast of explosions, the fallout of debris, the aerial passages of the P-51 Mustang, etc.) is terribly stressful.
At its level, the small VF lossy does not demerit but seems much more extinguished with its lesser immersion and limited power.
CONCLUSION - Once upon a time Normandy
If finding Private Ryan in Norman hell is the impossible mission, the squad commanded by Captain Miller will be able to rely on a well-prepared barda (a 4K Ultra HD record with state-of-the-art A/V performances, at least in VO) to bring him back to the country!
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