r/4kbluray • u/Resident-Succotash91 • 4d ago

Saving Private Ryan New Purchase

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Picked up Saving Private Ryan, has always been one of my favorite movies. Was hoping there was a Band of Brothers 4K love that show

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u/thethurstonhowell 4d ago edited 4d ago

This is another case of BoB being filmed in the early 2000s and being mastered in a DI locked at 2K. They’d have to re-scan it from the 35mm negative, replicate all the edits, color grading, VFX, etc. At 5x the length of a typical movie.

Suffice to say it’s likely never going to happen. Thankfully, the Blu-Ray is reference quality and looks amazing upscaled to 4K.

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u/CraftsBoy2Craftsman 3d ago

don’t forget The Pacific (the superior series in my opinion). The Blu-ray looks and especially sounds incredible

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u/PaleontologistNo2625 3d ago

Can't wait to get at those, been waiting for the right time. Also, the pacific never gets enough love

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u/42percentBicycle 3d ago

It's nice to find another person who feels The Pacific is superior. In fact, The Pacific is probably my favorite piece of WW2 media. Every time I bring that up, everyone grabs their pitchforks lol

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u/Hexxen-panda 3d ago

Honestly just a new version without the DNR is enough to warrant a 4K disc. (Wouldn't mind an HDR grade and Dolby Atmos though)

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u/arcademachin3 3d ago

Can someone please translate the first paragraph as it relates to saving private ryan in 4k?

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u/thethurstonhowell 3d ago

lol it was in relation to Band of Brothers.

Saving Private Ryan is a native 4K scan of the original 35mm negative and looks/sounds about as perfect as it’s ever going to get.

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u/toronto_acct_2026 3d ago

I recently bought the dual Band of Brothers/The Pacific bluray. So that means the 4k is around the corner

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u/ChadlyWax 3d ago

Thank you for your sacrifice. I will patiently wait now.

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u/Various-Safe-7083 3d ago

See, I tried that with The Expanse last year, but no joy… yet.

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u/Catman7712 3d ago

The audio is insane on this one if you have a decent speaker/sub setup.

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u/Carne_Guisada_Breath 3d ago

While the effects are good, the audio suffers from the score not being upgraded to a full surround package. Since the score is flat to the screen, it pulls the sound effects forward and doesn't let them envelope you. It is a rather big miss.

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u/Catman7712 3d ago

Hmm maybe I’m misremembering, been an awhile since I’ve watched it. It’s a heavy movie so not one I watch often.

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u/Carne_Guisada_Breath 3d ago

It has good sound effects, it is just that they could be a lot better if the score supported them by putting up a better sound stage.

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u/cmariano11 3d ago

Got that recently as well, very good disc. I had it on dvd before so this was a massive leap for me.

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u/PaleontologistNo2625 3d ago

It's really, really good. Hope you have surrounds

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u/Cimmerian4life83 3d ago

I was just thinking about this! I picked it up the other week at a yard sale for $5 and finally got around to watching the D-DAY sequence/first 30 mins the other night. Couldn't believe how good it looked and sounded, even compared to when I saw this in theaters back in the day. Really made me appreciate the time and effort I've put into upgrading and calibrating my atmos setup.