Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
War, Action, Thriller • 2h 3m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong, Rhys Yates, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee Miller, Alexander Ludwig, Reza Diako, James Nelson-Joyce, Gary Anthony Stennette, Saboor Sahak, Antony Starr, Abbas Fasaei, Hadi Khanjanpour, Ash Goldeh, Walid Shahalami, Babrak Akbari, Fariba Sheikhan, Savannah Fort, Kieran Fort, Javid Hakim, Shoaib Lodin, Marcus Glimne, Javier Ramos, Altamasch Noor, Marcel Zadé, Paeman Arianfar, Ali Nazarian, Damon Zolfaghari, Mo Ahmadi, Swen Temmel, Cyrus Khodaveisi, Sina Parvaneh, Abdullah Noori-Nooristani Sunara, Ahmad Zaki Watandost, Kawa Mawlayee, Matthew Hawksley, Jonathan Hunt, Sergio Martí, Paula Leiva, Timothy Siddall
4K Streaming
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Overview
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
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Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Director: Simon West
Video format: 4K Streaming
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Marc Forster
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Video format: 4K Streaming
Streaming has the original theatrical Dolby Atmos mix
Disney/Fox Blu-ray only has a 5.1 downmix
Kaleidescape is lossless (TrueHD 7.1), others are all lossy (E-AC-3 5.1 JOC) at varying bitrates.
Streaming: Kaleidescape
Streaming: Kaleidescape > Movies Anywhere > Disney+
Director: Martin Campbell
Video format: 4K Streaming
Video format: 4K Streaming
4K Streaming
Sources: 007homemedia.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Director: Guy Ritchie
More War on Blu-ray
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: John Ford
Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)
Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Anthony Mann
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Olive Blu-ray
Barebones Olive BD of a Paramount HD master. Visually it's solid overall with some moments of great clarity, primarily in the big outdoor and aviation sequences. Otherwise it shows its age.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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