hey everybody it's Lon Seidman and I wasn't planning on shooting a video
today hence the casual attire but this box came in of some stuff to go with the
new 4k OLED TV I bought that's upstairs right now and I figured I would just
unbox it in front of all of you because this is kind of like a fun thing that a
lot of people do this haul video thing so I thought I'd give it a shot and you
can tell me what you think of this and what happened was when I bought that
television Amazon was giving you back 10% in points on your Amazon credit card
and those points showed up very quickly and I was a home alone on Christmas Eve
when my wife was that with the in-laws and I figured hey I'll do a little bit
of shopping with those points and I picked up some stuff so what we're gonna
look at first is the player that I chose to play back these 4k blu-rays then I'll
show you some of the movies here so let me get this out first and what happened
was I really wanted to get a PlayStation 4 because I don't own one but what
happened was the PlayStation 4 Pro which does support 4k televisions doesn't
support 4k blu-rays for some reason it has the same old blu-ray player that the
original one had so I bought another Xbox one I already have one I barely use
it but this one is the Xbox One S that does support 4k blu-ray playback and HDR I
don't believe it supports all the HDR modes like Dolby Vision so I'm hoping
maybe they can update that in a firmware update or something but it does
give me a little more than just what a blu-ray player might give me namely the
ability to run some apps like YouTube but also my HD homerun app that I use to
watch and record live TV so that can all run through this box here and it was on
sale which is what prompted me to get it 200 bucks which isn't much more than a
regular blu-ray player but I get a bunch of additional functionality and hey
maybe I might play a game or two on it this one came with two games for its
$200 price tag Forza three and Forza Hot Wheels or something so I'll maybe
check those out when I have a little bit of time so that's the player I'm gonna
be hooking this up in a different video and talking about it after I get it all
working one of my challenges is that my receiver upstairs which you'll see on my
wrap-up video where I did a home theater tour doesn't support the 4k copyright
standard hdcp 2.2 so I'm looking to do something
called HDMI ARC to have the audio run back from the television to the receiver
I'll let you know how all that works out I think I'm probably going to have to
get a new receiver to get all this stuff working this copy-protection stuff
drives me crazy because I think it does hinder people because hey you can get
the blu-ray player relatively inexpensively but guess what all of your
equipments not going to work with it so you've got to upgrade all of that too
and that was kind of an aggravation point for me there so in any event enough
griping let's take a look at the movies that I picked up and I'm gonna start
with a few of the more recent ones here and then we'll work back to some of the
classics that I buy every time there's a new video format out so we're gonna
start here with arrival and I haven't yet seen this movie but I am really
eager to see it and my wife wanted to see it too so I figured hey this one's
out on 4k they had a sale at Amazon so I tacked it on to my shopping cart and I
really liked the premise of this kind of you know what I think would actually
happen if we ever met an extraterrestrial race they're not going
to communicate the same way we do they're not going to look the same way
we do and their technology will be far beyond our own this one has all those
elements in it at least from what I've seen in the trailer so I'm eager to see
it and I heard a lot of good things about it
now what's cool about a lot of these movies is that they come also with the
regular blu-ray discs so if you aren't yet ready to go to 4k you can buy the 4k
one now and have that disc when you're ready to go there this one also supports
I think the oh this one supports ultra violet which I think just does iTunes
and the ultra violet thing but you will get a digital version with a coupon on
here I'm gonna see if this works with movies anywhere because I think the
studio on this one I'm not sure which studio published this movie but some of
the studios now support this movies anywhere thing which I'm a huge fan of
where you get the physical movie that you purchased then you get the digital
version on most of the online services out there I talked about that in the
past I think it's a great thing for consumers so we'll take a look and see
where it goes by the way these movies are at a really high bitrate
comparatively or compared to blu-rays so this one I don't much sure exactly
which one this falls into but the blu-ray 4k movies will be coming to you
on a 50 gigabyte disk a 66 gigabyte disk or a whopping 100
gigabyte disk the 100 gigabyte disks will run it 128 megabits per second
the 66 gigabyte disks at 108 megabits per second and the 50s come in at 82
megabits per second all of those bit rates higher than what you would get
normally on a 1080p blu-ray they need to be because there's a lot more visual
information but the movies are also encoded with HEVC which is more
efficient which means you get better quality images at the same bitrate you
would have had with the blu-ray so you actually get more here even though you
are going at a higher resolution so I'm really eager to see how these movies
look and I will tell you what I thought of them when we get to it another modern
flick I got here was the Martian which I've already seen but I really liked it
I don't think my wife has seen it yet so I want to check it out in 4k and I think
this is one of the flagship movies that was released on the format when it came
out about a year ago so I'm really eager to watch this one again and it looks
like it does have a digital code here also this one's ultraviolet as well so
we'll be playing around with that I I think ultraviolet merged with this
movies anywhere thing but I'll double check on that I'm sure a lot of you will
let me know down below in the comment stream and then I picked up this one
just to kind of have something to show off my new television with this is
Planet Earth 2 and this is a nature documentary and
I've heard some outstanding things about it especially given that we can watch it
in 4k blu-ray glory here and it comes on three discs so there's a lot of content
here and I'm sure I'll be spending an afternoon or two when the kids are out
of the house watching some nature on my big set there so that's gonna be kind of
fun and now I've got two classic movies to show you the first one here is ET the
extra-terrestrial which I haven't owned in a physical form probably since the
VHS days so it was probably time to pick this one up again what's funny about
this movie in particular was that it came out at this I think the same year
maybe a year before the return of the Jedi came out we had so many great
movies coming out in the early 80s one after the other most of them not sequels
most of them new IP Back to the Future is a great example of another
great film from that era so spectacular movie my kids obviously haven't seen it
yet so I'm eager to share this experience with them it's funny when I
was a kid my there who's a couple of years younger
than me was terrified of ET for some reason and we went on a family trip to
Universal Studios in Florida and at the end of the ET ride there ET would come
out and say your name and it scared the living daylights ahead of him when
that happened that was pretty funny so that is ET and the last movie that I've
got here in the box is one of my all-time favorites ever is Terminator 2
Judgment Day what a fantastic film this is just for a sequel like how could the
sequel ever be better than the original this one is certainly one that was as
good if not better than the original film I really like this movie quite a
bit not only for the special effects but just the overall film itself the story
the cinematography everything I love James Cameron movies and this one is
certainly one of his best and I've owned this on laserdisc I've owned this on
VHS in fact I've owned this probably two or three times on laserdisc and definitely
twice on blu-ray because my original blu-ray did not have the DTS HD audio
and there was a sale and I picked up the DTS HD version now I got it again along
with another blu-ray disc here so I am eager to check this one out and watch it
all over again and speaking of laserdisc I figured I would show you what
laserdisc looked like with another film series it hasn't yet made its way to
blu-ray 4k yet and when it does I will probably purchase them again so this is
my Star Wars trilogy box set this was the special edition movies I probably
bought this now yeah this was from 20 years ago in fact around this time 20
years ago when I was a senior in college I picked this up and i had already owned
two other versions on laserdisc but what was happening during that period of time
is that things kept changing and improving in home theater and they moved
over to a digital audio standard called Dolby I think they called it Dolby AC 3
back then but now it's called Dolby Digital the 5.1 channel sound that's on
every DVD and blu-ray out there laserdisc started all of that and this
is what these movies look like on laserdisc these huge platter size films
with analog video on there along with digital audio and it was a huge jump in
sound definition and a lot of us were getting home theater systems at that
point I put my first one in in 1994 at my house when I was still in high school
and this really was a great way to watch the
Star Wars films even though it is the special edition and they made some
changes the sounds was just awesome on these films and I really enjoyed
watching them the problem with laserdisc though is that depending on the type of
disc you had you had to flip the disc over at least once an hour and then some
movies like the original Star Wars films that came out in a prior box set were in
a format called CAV and those required the disc to be flipped every 30
minutes and the disc makers or this player of makers had the ability to flip
the disks over automatically they had the head kind of go flip around the disc
while it was inserted into the machine so you didn't have to get up as much but
with these movies you'd get about two hours then he had to take one disc out
and put in another one usually most of these Star Wars films came on two discs
for the CLV version here which plays an hour per side so there was still some
getting up and flipping discs around you had a built-in intermission but the
other set I had every 30 minutes was kind of a pain in the you-know-what but
we've come a long way but these are movies that like the Terminator here
that I have owned many many times over the years and I've certainly made my
contributions to Hollywood here but I'm happy to do it because these are great
films and some of these films I'm looking forward to sharing with my kids
and hope hopefully they enjoy them as much as I did so that's my initial haul
here I did pick up one other movie Wonder Woman which apparently is in my
mailbox right now it came in a separate shipment but it's freezing outside so I'm
maybe gonna get it in the morning perhaps but in the event that is what I
picked up here this is my first haul video let me know how I did I'm also
eager to hear from you about which 4k blu-ray movies I should pick up next I'm
definitely looking to build out my library now so let me know down in the
comments below I'm really eager to get movies that are really well transferred
and made for this format up sometimes they up convert stuff from lower
resolutions and it doesn't look so great in the new resolution I would love to
get kind of the movies that are really geared for this format so let me know
down in the comments below what I should pick up and thank you all for watching
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