Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 03 July 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Professional HDR)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (Dolby Atmos | Dolby Surround), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The Awakening of the Rebellious Alliance
In this dangerous era, Cassian Andor takes a path that will make him a hero of rebellion.
In a galaxy divided between the camp of good and evil (even though the line between the two is more blurred than ever), this thriller of galactic espionage served by a worked staging explores, within a tense narrative that probes the soul of its (well-written bigrement) characters while drawing political stakes with unsuspected ramifications, the dark side of the saga.
As close as possible to a population enslaved and managed to free (finally) its eternal figures (a fan-service point here), Tony Gilroy (the creator of this series and screenwriter of Rogue One) gives back his letters of nobility to Star Wars and sign with Andor the best live action series from the official universe.
« How long we wait, how far we get, how many of us get out, all this now depends on us. »
IMAGE - The discharge of the Empire
Visually « bruised » With its loose photography and its moderate dynamic range, HDR10 encoding is mainly used to enhance the highest luminances (the lights on the monitors, the rain of glittering meteorites on Aldhani, the lightings of the prison on Narkina 5), enhance the readability of the details in the shadows (the night scenes on Ferrix) and free the richness of many shades (the vegetation on Kenari, the blue neons of the brothel on Morlana 1, the scarlet painting of B2EMO, the golden credits stolen from the Empire). Compared to SVOD, the colorimetric palette is becoming more opulent, the dark scenes are more detailed and the light sources benefit from better clasping.
And without putting it in full view, this image filled with textures (the textile fibres, the more or less aging bodies of the spaceships, the wooden foundations of the huts of the rebels) and deftly contrasted (the clean whiteness of the premises of the BSI on Coruscant and the perfectly controlled blacks of space) claims a coaly realism to the coldness all in all opportune, where details (a 6K capture in 16 bits) display with a completely different clarity thanks to a solid UHD transfer like a rock (a binary flow calmly set between 80 and 90 Mbit/s).
SON - It'll be a spark. 🎶
No need to push the volume as on SVOD (all the dynamics are present here) to take advantage of these pleasantly expanding sound tracks that use a surprisingly striking LFE channel (cf. the sounder who hammers his block of beskar).
Enveloping to wish (especially the VO Atmos where rain falls and flying gears run through the sky) and amply cadenced by the obsessive partition of Nicholas Britell, they never sacrifice the clarity of the dialogues even when the environment is charged with atmospheres (the guests of the Senator of Chandrila, the funeral procession on Ferrix) and/or pyrotechnic effects (exchanges of fire fed in the hangar on Aldhani).
CONCLUSION - Rebellion follows oppression
While no one was waiting for him, this spin-off of the dark and filthy Rogue One which explores the grey zone of a galaxy gangred by an unspeakable evil, marks the transition to adulthood for the license. And now freed from the yoke of the platform Disney+, the rise of the Rebellion was armed accordingly (the A/V performances fight mercilessly against the Galactic Empire). Yes, the Rebels counterattack!
[...] to develop at a good distance from his mythological figures (in the image of the Andor series). This second season thus gains in scope and depth until its tragic [...]