Haha I seen a website with slider bars where the bars move from Blu-ray to 4K UHD did you notice how the desert looks like Mars from Total Recall 1990 on the 4K UHD and on the Blu-ray the desert in the opening looks more life like the dust, the soil, and sand

They should spend that energy in restoring the film to its original look instead

@@TheStOne1 Yes, I agree rnate, they should have released 2 discs one disc restored with the original colour grading original camera negative scanned in 4K then disc 2 should have been the 2010 colour grading in 4K but what they have done here is go over the 2010's colour grading again thus making it look waxy causing bleeding affects in the exorcism scene if you look at father Karras's jumper on the edges there's radioactive bloom coming off his jumper lol bleeding. How they ever approved this transfer for release is beyond me, just keep the old VC-1 Blu-ray and up scale that to 4K

Sorry. I will do better next time.

Yeah it's vomit emoji 🤢

Yup, it’s one of the worst I’ve ever seen.

I hate that rating logo tho

@@XenomorphLV426 legal requirement from the nanny gov't

Good points. You’re correct, they are present on the blu-ray and I think they look unnatural there. The haloing effect is caused by the lens but it has been manipulated heavily for home video and for what reason? If you go back to the DVD or even the VHS, you’ll see that the blue ring around each light is barely there. Have a quick look at this from VHS kzfaq.info/get/bejne/apeJhap5vtTOm4E.htmlsi=V_DdBntNlVyQzByx

@@ElliotCoenI’ve gotta agree. The VHS looks very good. Maybe the best. Love the desaturated look. And the grade blend the halo with the florescent. Looks like it’s going to be an expensive year purchasing the redux of the 4K when Warners gets around to it!

C'mon, guys, what the hell? We're in 2023, how can you compare a VHS tape with a 4k transfer? VHS was the worst possible medium for video. Desaturated colors? Of course, that's technology limitation. Just look at the color of the Coca-Cola ad, in the subway scene; does that look like the actual red color we all know? Not even remotely. The Exorcist has a native 4k resolution, which means that only now we can experience its original image quality. VHS has the lowest resolution possible, it looks terrible by default and I can't believe we are still talking about those transfers made way back in the day.

I saw a 35mm film print of this recently and the “feeling” or “mood” of shadow and desaturation and grain were closer to the way the VHS looks. Similarly, with the good the bad and the ugly, the 35 mm film print had less information then the Blu-ray or the 4K. These days with the technology of Dolby Vision and HDR you have them bringing out details that were purposely lost in projection prints from the original screenings. Sometimes the VHS and its low Fidelity way captures the mood and the feeling of those original 35 mm film prints better than going in and extracting details out of the negative That were never printed in the original versions. With that said, I love the new interpretation on 4K in many ways and I’m not necessarily gonna say that I like the VHS better in its mood. I’m just saying that I do like that mood it’s more of a film noir feeling less information in the shadows. The VHS has that feeling of less information in the shadows into darkness. The 4K is letting us see into the darkness and some scenes and I don’t mind that it’s just a different interpretation.

@@InnerCityProjections , you know what's the big problem with 35 mm prints, right? We're talking about analog here. You lose detail and image quality with every copy of a 35 mm print. This doesn't happen with a DI nowadays. Again, we are comparing completely different technologies. The biggest issue with home video was that it always lagged behind the "real cinema experience". Only today, home video really closes the gap and we can experience these movies at their best, in terms of quality. Of course, there may be problems here and there with some transfers, but in terms of overall quality I still think there is no comparison with what we had 40 yrs ago.

Thanks for watching Peter!

I’m happy for you if you’re able to enjoy it! Sadly, the issues were glaring to me and completely pulled me out of the experience

​@@ElliotCoeni wonder if it would feel more enjoyable if you desaturated the color on your tv entirely whenever watching this disc

Nothing baffling about the facts this release is broken. Glad you love it mate, but it's not right to release inconsistent films with quality drops down to DVD quality moments even if they are brief like the viewer said it takes you away from the experience especially as it's a 4K EXPERIENCE lol the bleeding of colours in the exorcism scene is terrible really bad 👎🏻

​@@paul4films193Also, in some shots, not all, Regan's demon face is more flesh tone than white. That should be corrected.

Yeah, such a shame well, at least you get the old VC-1 Blu-ray with this 4K UHD the disc is newly pressed in 2023 and has a blue tint to it 😂 just upscale the 1080p to 4K it's better then what they have with the 4K UHD adding blue onto blue in the exorcism scene making the picture quality look washed over 😢 4K UHD's are such hit or miss these days better keep your receipts folks these days when buying 4K UHD I nearly took my 4K UHD back to HMV but decided to keep it because I like the look of the blue Blu-ray disc probably sell the 4K on Ebay now 75% of this film looked good to me, but the rest killed it with it's inconsistency in image stability

I’m also going to my local Cineworld for it (why not with the unlimited card!). I imagine it will look similar to this disc. I hope you enjoy it!

Hello and thank you Martin!

Aha, thank you Wes!

I agree mate, all that POWER they have to it right..... The exorcism scene where the quality drops to DVD like how the hell do they ok that! At least the old VC-1 Blu-ray is consistent with it's picture quality

And where are the "checks and balances" in relation to quality control for these releases? Are they in a room full of colour-blind Yes-men or something?

Nicely put mate, I 100% agree with you. Yeah the old VC-1 Blu-ray it is for me, too just upscale that to 4K in our players at least it won't be blooming to death with colours and bleeding plus waxed over in yet another shade of blue. So disappointed all these years waiting for this to release on 4K UHD sometimes the grass is not always greener on the other side it's poor quality releases like this that will kill off physical media for sure I wish I had my receipt still because I get my £19.99 back

Just avoid the directors cut to avoid those tacky digi faces popping up throughout. Theatrical cut Blu-ray is the winner

I agree mate, the VC-11080p Blu-ray is a winner over this 4K UHD can't believe I would say that but it's true a better scan smooth all the way though and consistent the film grain all all there also especially in the exorcism scene just upscale the 1080p to 4K lol you'll be ok 😂

Also mate, I don't think this is a NEW 4K restoration I think it's still the 2010 remaster that has been scanned over in 4K with all the added blues DNR and poor quality DVD scenes with bit rate drops

Old movies will always look better than new movies in 4k format. 35mm film resolves at 6K- which means that old films are higher resolution than new films (new films are almost always finished at 2k- even if they are shot at 4k).

I agree. I think overall it's a pretty stunning transfer. The movie always looked pretty low quality visually on the dark scenes especially.

The beauty of having a saturation slider on your tv settings

yes, there are actually quite a few, but it’s missing Portuguese though. The main ones: English, French, Spanish, German and Italian are all available on the 4K discs.

Indeed but rather than improve it, it’s made worse on the 4K!

@@ElliotCoen i guess thats true but, at the same time the original film has a very shotty scan too. I think at some point they might be limited on how much they can work it. If the movie looked terrible consistently then it would make sense that its a poor transfer, but its only on some scenes. That screams to me that they worked with what they had

​@@MalitiaHDOfficialexactly. So much of this 4k just looks like the original print.

@@MalitiaHDOfficiala few scenes being bad rather than the whole film doesn’t let them off the hook. A bunch of 4K presentations have been ruined by selective tinkering of specific scenes or even individual shots within scenes. Often, directors who have revisionist ideas will focus on changing certain scenes and not the whole film. The negatives of this film exist - a consistent image for this film is absolutely possible, it has just been decided to look the way it does today

It may well be true that this is the best the film ever looks - we may never see any alterations going forward, particularly following Friedkin’s recent passing. That said, just because this is the best we have now doesn’t mean that it can’t look better.

Hi. The blu-ray has a lot of the same issues but less exaggerated. I wouldn’t call the older blu-ray better than the 4K but in some regards it is.

@@ElliotCoen I never had an issue with the older Blu-ray release so I'm hoping this latest Blu-ray is as good. I'm not 4k capable in my home cinema yet so not too fussed about the 4k disc right now

yes, they are

In this case, not really. The issues aren’t at disc level, they are in the 4K restoration itself. It would be work for them to go back and change things now, and they very likely wouldn’t want to admit any issues are present in this release. This might be it for The Exorcist on physical media.

It is a real shame but these things do happen. There’s plenty of other 4K discs to look forward to now.

​@@ElliotCoenbut it should not happen because this is robbing people of money with floored product's I mean who approved this disc for MASS production to hit the streets honestly people these days I feel we are hitting the end of the road now with physical media think about it these days it's great news to hear that a 4K UHD is coming out but these days I'm s***ing myself thinking is it going to be a broken release with encoding issues. My only solution is keep your receipt and return or exchange the films if they are not spot on with what they are saying like with this release a 4K restoration of The Exorcist that comes with moments of DVD quality scenes and bleeding effects too much bloom. At least put a sticker on the box saying WARNING

Yep, ratings logos are ugly and spoil the artwork on many blu-ray releases! I wish it could go but it’s unfortunately a legal requirement here. Many blu-ray labels now get around this by printing the logos on a piece of paper that can be removed, which I appreciate!

I own a couple of German BluRays. They have two different covers printed on both sides, like Arrow does. One side has the mandatory logos and the other side has the same art without any logos. Very handy.

@@Emma-RYep I love that about the German discs! I’ve imported a lot over the years

Lol you should see Australian R4 blu rays. Huge fat age sticker at the front with reasons too. Couldn't have put it in the back instead.

I checked the R1 DVD & we were right, the visuals are completely different. The short Georgetown scene sticks out like a sore thumb on the 4K, much less so on the DVD. Unfortunately the DVD is riddled with aliasing artifacts, unusual for Warner, but they didn't have the tools back then to eliminate aliasing. A SuperBit DVD with double the bit rate might have looked better?

Get ready..... Like the reviewer said in this video his a 100% right I've now found myself just upscaling the old Blu-ray as my favourite way to watch this film 😂

I do mention it briefly, yes it’s a great track! I just couldn’t appreciate it given the inconsistent visuals. If the video quality matched the audio, I’d be happy!

Yeah real shame all they had to do was scan the original camera negative in 4K

Really...I just start with 4k I would buy some of my favorites,likd Evil dead,Goonies,Pet sematary,Return of living dead...and maybe T2..I seen Weird science 4k is also shitty.

The bigger studios seem to have a track record of neglecting the quality of these 4K titles. Seems like it's down to the boutique labels to carry the torch, in terms of preserving films in their original look.

I’ve yet to see the Enter the Dragon 4K but I’ve heard as much. What a shame. I was shocked when US discs started dropping features. I hope that trend doesn’t continue! Cheers Davy

4K sucks. It looks dark. Freezes up. And has weird looking colours.

@@simonfilmfan4899 You see that's why 4K is hit or miss these day's I blame all this HDR s@%t 4K UHD Blu-ray's have to come embedded with I think ALL 4K UHD'S should COME with the normal 4K UHD disc then a normal 4K UHD disc without HDR embedded I've owned so many 4K UHD's nothing but issues. Glad I'm ordering the Blu-ray collection of Psycho and not the 4K. The Blu-ray's are already 4K scans upscaled in a 4K player BANG your done! 👍🏻 I've tried to love UHD but I don't know anymore after The Exorcist UHD 🤔 I think they rushed the UHD of The Exorcist in order for it to be available before the release of The Exorcist Believer here in the UK on the 6th of October

Hey, it’s fine to disagree! If you don’t see the problems that I see in the image of the 4K disc, that’s great. And congratulations on being older than me!

​@ElliotCoen I saw My Fair Lady on the Turner Classic Films Channel Last night and the picture quality was like a Blu Ray.

I agree with you. I enjoyed the vision on my LG C2. Not the best looking 4K I own, but it's no way as bad as they claim.

@@ElliotCoen Experience matters!!!

Yeah, normally his also on point with noticing these encode issues maybe he jumped though the film 😅 seeing the better parts of this UHD. Such a shame about this release 😢

Yeah now I am wondering that too. I was going to buy it no matter what, but that positive review sold it more. Now I have it and curious of what's going on. I do hear a lot of these issues sometimes are not very apparent on OLED tv's (like Jeff has), so I will see.

I find his reviews are more accurate when caps-o-holic has already posted screenshots of that specific release -- screenshots which he frequently features in his videos without giving them credit, BTW.

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Yeah, I’m also not a fan!