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nicolas wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 5:08 pm The Sirat 4K is great! It has Dolby Vision and Atmos and the extras that are on the Neon BD. But be warned in case you don’t know already, the film received a DNR pass which can be very noticeable from time to time. The 4K encode fortunately is very good and doesn’t exacerbate the digital sheen more than already present. Like The Smashing Machine, this is another recent film that was shot on 16mm and then de-grained by the filmmakers. It’s not as if someone’s forcing them to shoot on film, let alone a grainier format if they don’t want the textures that come with it. Anyway, the 4K is recommended over a BD release as the finer grain of the former camouflages the DNR a little better.

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 6:58 pm So would you recommend just getting the blu-ray, or is the 4K still better?

Q: There's a lot of talk of encoding issues on your 4Ks. I've noticed occasional macro blocking myself. Does this concern you guys for future releases? Any chance of working with a company like Fidelity and Motion?

Tarzi: Uh, no. Uh, first of all, I think a lot of it is because there's players, certain machines have problems with certain types of encoding. Um, we tested on three or four different machines, so we don't see any issues. I'm sorry that people are experiencing that. Um, we're not going to go to a company that's going to charge us uh three or four times more we'll be paying for um authoring and encoding. Uh it's um it's already a very you know acquiring a film and putting it out on 4K is just it's a very expensive procedure and for us to instead of continuing final ways of subtracting from our cost now go back and adding. No, that's something we will never do now.