PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 4K UHD BLU-RAY REVIEW | THE WORST 4K DISC EVER?

Today we are reviewing the new 4K UHD Blu-ray release of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. And let me tell you, this was a disaster…

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#Bluray
#4K
#Disney

[JeffRauseo]

Buy not buying Disney discs, the goal is actually that we do want them to stop making them. Let’s have them stop, and let someone with half a clue (Kino, Shout, Arrow) license the movies out and release them on their own.

[VinnyMIlo]

Internet: “You are by far the worst company for physical 4k transfers I’ve ever heard of.”
Disney: “Ah, but you have heard of me.”

[heavyspoilers]

I kinda feel Disney just do stuff like this to push people to watch it on Disney plus

[brendanlittle]

I guess this will be $9.99 on Best Buy in no time but the feedback Disney will take from it is that “nobody wants physical media” when in fact nobody wants *bad* physical media

[behanthescene]

Am I the only one who believes if we stop buying Disney discs, instead of listening they'll just get rid of their physical media altogether? I just feel like that's something they'd do.

[jonathannoble]

Disney used to be LEGENDARY for physical media. All they way back to the VHS days. They used to take SO much love and care in their products. I don’t know who is in charge of home video at Disney but they absolutely need to go

[freqgaming]

The link to the Blu-ray release instead of the 4k is such a boss move. Really hoping for Disney to get their act right

[SB]

It's a shame Disney got rid of the Fox restoration team, 'Speed', 'Alien' and 'Home Alone' looked amazing in 4K.

[kevinrobertbrown]

Disney should be brought to account, with reference to their 4k bluray releases, its just not good enough bringing such an inferior product to the market..this movie should have looked stunning on 4k disc, with all the stunning visuals on offer. A massive dissapointment for us 4k UHD collectors..appreciate the review.

[Ashar]

The fact that it's two INCREDIBLE movies like Terminator 2 and now Pirates of the Caribbean CotBP that are the worst ever 4k movies released (so far) is really saddening since I would have bought both of these in a heartbeat because they are both movies that I love.

[dash]

I remember when I started buying blu rays Disney was the gold standard of what you could expect in a new release. They were the best quality and jam packed with features. Now I avoid them like the plague. You get shitty, bare bones releases and they try to charge you an arm and a leg for them. Its sad because I would love to see the Pirates trilogy get a proper modern release. But I don't see that happening with Disney.

[dharmajanitor]

The 4K version of this looks awful on Disney+ as well, unwatchable IMO. It’s especially shameful when you consider that the original Blu-ray releases of the initial trilogy are still among the very best on the market, especially the picture quality of Dead Man’s Chest and the bonuses on At World’s End. Stuff like this won’t help these movies’ dwindling popularity and reputation. They deserve much better.

[iNeverHadMercy]

Your commentary/review helps us “Physical Media Supporters” make better decisions when it’s time to drop $30 for a 4K and being totally let down ☹️

[moomcmoosson]

To think how far Disney has fallen from the Platinum Edition DVD days to this.

[GeekTruth]

6:33 “This is a total cash grab, it looks awful, and nobody should buy it.” -Jeff
I was hopefully for this release too. Its disappointing that Disney is putting all of their eggs in the streaming basket, but not surprising. It’s a very short-sighted business decision to neglect physical media at this point.

[Sunshone]

Digital Internegatives are always going to have this problem. It’s bad on two levels. First the film dailies are scanned at 2k 10bit. Second the film was shot super 35 which uses only half of the resolution of the film. The DI is finished in 2k and filmed out back onto film. These negatives are pretty useless for remaster. Typically a studio will want to use the DI files to do the remaster. The dirty little secret is that most of the studios did not archive or have bad archives of the DI. Judging by your screen grabs they chose to Uprez their current HD master, thus the reason you see so much artifacting. Remember, you can’t make something from nothing. They stretch the colors to fit into the rec2020 colorspace and have flatten them out to make them accurate. The resolution exposes the flaws, so they used noise reduction. All of this equals a bad 4k product. To do this properly would have been very expensive and lots of studios are having this problem with titles from this era.

[B-Edwards]

It's not just Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney released all five on 4K in Australia and all of them except for 5 have DNR issues on 4K, which is a real shame.

[codymick]

Finally got a 4k blu-ray player. Appreciate you making these videos so I know what NOT to buy. Was going to go on a 4K disc shopping spree this weekend and had Pirates on the list. Nope, not anymore.

[schubert]

“They’ve kind of just taken the computers and gone nuts on this thing” I’m dying here 😂😂😂

[jeffreysterling]

The irony of Disney releasing all these crap products is that while it’s insulting to us collectors, it also makes a great argument for owning physical media.

This lazy transfer will likely become the official version on all digital services, and if you didn’t have access to the previous Blu-ray you would be stuck with it henceforth.