Godzilla (1998) 4K UltraHD disc coming May 2019

[Joseph Goodman]

[jellydonut25]

Many moons ago, I grabbed the DVD of this out of a $5 bin.

As long as DVD is a playable format, I won't ever purchase this movie again.

[lhb412]

I'm currently happy with my Blu-ray of the film, but if Sony wants to do their 4K Magic on any of the other Godzilla films in their catalog, with improved subtitle translations, I might be interested!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Part of me wants to get the 4K release but then part of me wants to not get it. I mean the movie is "ok" if you don't look at it as a Godzilla film but on the other hand the BD is serving its purpose for me too. Like lhb412 said if Sony wants to do the Toho Godzilla films they have a license to in 4K I'll gladly upgrade to those in a heartbeat.

I will probably upgrade to Godzilla (14) when that gets its 4K release.

[KaiserGhidorah]

Blah....not interested. lol Sony needs to do some more upgrading/improving on their toho godzilla catalog and release those instead. Speaking of which, don't some of the rights to some Heisei films Sony has expire this year?

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Could Sony even do 4K releases for the Toho films they have? I would think that Toho themselves would want to do domestic releases first that way Japanese customers don't import.

[Heiseigodzilla425]

[KaiserGhidorah]

[O.Supreme]

I thought it was already on 4K? in fact , it was one of the earliest releases, so early, it doesn't even have the standard black 4K/BRD packaging.

[Heiseigodzilla425]

I believe that release is not a proper 4k UHD disc. Instead it's merely a regular Blu-ray with a 4k master and no special features to make room for the extra bitrate for the movie. I think there were a few movies released like this, and they were just a stopgap until the UHD spec was finalized.

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[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[emeGoji]

I, for one, am pumped for this. It'll look great next to my Blufans steelbook, and I'm sure the picture quality will be outstanding.