Movie and AV fans have been clamoring for it for years, and Disney has finally answered the call: Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World is being released on 4K Blu-ray disc at last. Disney has revealed today that Peter Weir’s classic film about a stricken British Royal Navy vessel battling across two oceans with a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars will be coming out on today’s best physical media format on August 5 in the U.S.
, and September 8 in the U.K., boasting what promises to be state of the art picture and sound.
"Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World" will be available on 4K Blu-ray in the U.S. and .
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K. in a Steelbook edition. On the picture quality front, the new 4K master of the film (which has been restored from original film elements) will be available in not just high dynamic range video for the first time, but Dolby Vision HDR, which adds extra scene by scene picture information to the video stream to help compatible TVs and projectors deliver more accurate and, usually, dynamic looking images.
I’m also very happy to report that Disney is going against its usual policy and choosing to place the Master And Commander 4K HDR master on a 100GB 4K Blu-ray disc rather than a 66GB one. This matters because it gives the film’s mastering team much more space to work with when trying to optimize how much – or how little – compression they need to apply to the 138-minute film in order to fit it onto its new shiny disc home. .