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[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

Little Oral Annie sucking cock in 4K might sell some 4K UHD players though :)

[Flash Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Flash]

At the cost of mainstream 4K releases I doubt an adult one would sell 100 copies.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

mainstream 4K releases cost $25 what's so prohibitive about that? check amazon they are $25 to $30

[Ignatius Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ignatius]

It's not a matter of what the discs cost consumers, but how much it costs to produce them. Given how young the format is I imagine licensing and production costs are through the roof - Blu-Ray is still expensive enough that companies like VS and Distribpix have to carefully choose which titles are going to sell enough to be worthwhile, and some smaller companies like Second Run in the UK are only just putting out their first Blu-Ray releases now.

Besides, the uptake for 4K as a format right now must be miniscule, limited to early-adopters and enthusiasts only. I seriously doubt there'll be many people in that category who are also vintage porn fans. Even if Distribpix put out a 4K release, in the event it made any money it would probably still be selling significantly fewer units than Blu or DVD with similar or reduced profit margins. And that's if it does well. If it doesn't, it'd be a huge chunk of money down the drain.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

does anyone know if Distribpix will offer a 4K download for sale of Scoundrels? I ask this because they are restoring the film in 4K, but if it's only on blu ray and dvd it will not of course be in 4K, but damn I'd love to be able to buy a 4K download of Scoundrels. I loved their HD release of Inside Little Oral Annie from AEBN.net. I wish they'd release more of their films on AEBN.net in HD and 2K/4K versions. I actually would prefer that to DVD/blu ray releases, and it would make it easier for Distribpix to get their films to market, and for the fans the films would be in much higher quality video and audio versions.

[Lalala76 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lalala76]

Wonder how things are progressing with Scoundrels

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

4K, as far as home video goes, is sadly stillborn. The userbase won't be there for another physical format, at least not to a large enough market to make it a viable option for smaller labels. Sure, Sony will try to push their new films on the format, but hoping stuff like Golden Age porn or anything even remotely interesting that isn't a major Hollywood studio production, will reach the format is just wishful thinking. Even BD came too late in the game to get the mainstream audience, the only thing keeping it afloat now is us cinemaphiles. Your average people don't care about quality. To them Netflix is fine, look it even says it's in HD!

We will probably see applications for 4K TV technology in video games in the future, but I'll be very surprised if the disc format takes off. And 4K downloads, yeah maybe, but if I can take a guess It'll still be compressed as hell and comparable with BD upscaled to 4K. Kind of like how many hard compressed BD rips look like good DVD upscales. A 4K scan downscaled to BD 1080p looks amazing, but it you want true 4K video you're talking about file sizes in the hundreds of GB. It's not practical (yet). And for small labels it'll probably never be profitable.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

why would you need 4K downloads in the HUNDREDS of GB's? a 4K blu ray discs is 50 to 100 GB in size? why would you need a HUNDREDS of GB's size ddownload? And those discs that are 50 to 100 GB have lots of extras as well. I think 4K discs will catch on, maybe not this year, but Blu Ray didn't catch on for a long time too, look how long it was before classic porn was first released on blu ray, was 5 or 6 years. When more and more people start getting 4K TV's, they will start picking up 4K disc players too when their old DVD players break and they go down to the store and they see the new 4K Blu ray players in the stores. I think 4K is going to be about as high of resolution as TV's can go, because 4K is equal to 35mm film, any further resolution gains will be pointless, sure they will make some changes and improvements always, but the 4K resolution is about maxed out. And the reviews I'm reading is that basically there is no benefit in 4K resolution over HD resolution, it's more in the HDR color improvements in going from 8 Bit, to 10 bit color. And some other improvements. I have seen 4K in the stores, and they do look awesome. I am not getting one until the Christmas sales start, and that's only if they have a good price on one, if not I'll wait for the 2017 models next year to see if they make any better models at a better price. 4k is still new, and it's improving every year. I must say though that eventually everyone will have a 4K TV, I mean I guess you could reject technology and stick to your CRT TV or something, but movies are my hobby, so I like to see them in the best quality I can, but I am also reasonable about it and won't spend huge sums of money on my set up, I rather spend that on the movies. I tend to wait till the tech is perfected and I'm waiting to see how this HDR 10, vs. Dolby VIsion sorts out.

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

Well a 4K Ultra HD disc is not the raw 4K scan. A full 4K transfer of a 90 min film source is 6TB of data. So the hardware companies still have many more generations of new and fancy tech to sell us. Also, resolution wise, to capture all of the resolution of a 35 mm frame, you need to scan in 6K. What I'm trying to say is that seeing Ultra HD discs as the end station for quality, is simply wrong. Ultra HD discs are heavily compressed from the 4K source scan.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

they show movies in the theater in 4K, you need more resolution for your TV, than they use in a movie theater?

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

No, but you don't actually need 4K for your tv, unless it's over say 100". You have to sit with your nose to the screen in order to see pixels, and who does that? There are other advantages to 4k tech, but all I'm saying is tech companies will always try to sell in new and "better" stuff. If 4K tv is actually the last stop for consumer electronics, nobody would upgrade their tv every five years and Sony, Samsung and all the other tech giants would go out of business. There is no end point, it's the primal force of capitalism, the motor that keeps us consuming.

[Bogart Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bogart]

In my simple mind, since you can fit a 1080p film plus extras on a 50GB disc, then a 4k film would need at most 4 x 50GB =200GB disc? And I think they achieve that now by dual layering the discs. Or maybe I am wildly inaccurate. I don't read much on this topic.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

4K discs use HEVC encoding it's much better than the H.264 they use on Blu rays, that's why you can get a much better picture even if you use a 50GB discs that is used for a blu ray.

[John Bernhard Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close John Bernhard]

They have created new discs for 4K...66 GB or 100 GB and a new codek to encode them with.
Like Blu's, these 4K discs will hold a file a fraction of the original's size....it is pretty amazing technology.

Pretty much every theatrical release is mastered at 2K.....4K's real advantage is to preserve the material for current and future use.
As a home consumer product, I can't see it really taking off, as the majority of consumers are fine with DVD's.

[Bogart Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bogart]

They have created new discs for 4K...66 GB or 100 GB and a new codek to encode them with.
Like Blu's, these 4K discs will hold a file a fraction of the original's size....it is pretty amazing technology.

Pretty much every theatrical release is mastered at 2K.....4K's real advantage is to preserve the material for current and future use.
As a home consumer product, I can't see it really taking off, as the majority of consumers are fine with DVD's.

Thanks, yeah I was misunderstanding some of the earlier posts, I wasn't taking into account compression I guess I was unaware of it.

Not sure if it will take off either mind you I laughed when they brought out Blu rays but I gradually succumbed..