Background environments are rich with fine detail, with every setting stunningly realised here, from the clinical police station location to the muddy protein farm, to the golden Egyptian pyramid-like Wallace headquarters, to the unhealthily orange desert, with that last environment bearing the closest similarity to some of the textured locales in the original.
Interestingly the disc itself is encoded with Minimum Luminance of 0.005 nits and a Maximum Luminance of 10,000 nits, making the disc one of the first to use the full dynamic range available to HDR.ĤK Ultra HD Blu-ray has seldom looked more impressiveĭetail is pin-sharp, revelling in the visually opulent universe that's been created here, soaking up the increasing levels of battle damage that Gosling's K takes across the runtime, and taking in the lines on Ford's veteran's visage, whilst playing with the holo-glitching perfection of Joi.
It will, undoubtedly grow to be every bit the classic that the original was, in no small part thanks to the wondrous visuals, which here make for some of the best Ultra HD Blu-ray footage you will ever see, courtesy of 3.4K digital photography, full fat 3.4K visual effects and a Deakins-supervised 4K digital Intermediate. Whilst Scott's original is a visually iconic 80s sci-fi masterpiece, Villeneuve's Roger Deakins-shot sequel boasts its own distinctive visual majesty, with some of the most jaw-dropping shots in any film of recent times. The UHD Blu-ray was reviewed on a Samsung UE55KS8000 Ultra HD TV and a Samsung UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player. Blade Runner 2049 can be hunted down on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presented in 3840 x 2160p with a widescreen 2.40:1 aspect ratio, using 10-bit video depth, a Wider Colour Gamut (WCG) and High Dynamic Range(HDR), encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec.