The Matrix Resolutions ( DVD vs BLU-RAY vs 4K ) Kung Fu Fight Scene Format Comparison

The Matrix DVD 480p, BLU-RAY Full HD 1080p and 4K ULTRA HD 2160p movie formats and resolution comparison of the kung fu fighting dojo scenes of Neo Vs Morpheus.

[@livingeveryday777]

The warm darkness of the DVD can’t be beat to be honest. The Matrix felt that same way in the theatres

[@wadimek116]

It is beaten hard by 4k the problem is that author is a moron who cut off hdr from hdr material, compressing all the colors and contrast by doing so.

[@MegaMat666]

And heat

[@wileymanful]

DVD looks a lot better than I remember.

[@RobertK1993]

Newer DVDs have green tint in Matrix scenes like new 1080p AVC Blu ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu ray disc

[@xondeez757]

because back then tv's werent that good. DVDs with modern tv's looks good actually.

[@Vintagesonic1]

For those wondering why the 4K version looks like dog shit, well as someone who watched this movie on 4K, I can confirm it looks nothing like this. If you want a more accurate comparison, look at other videos comparing the Blu ray and the 4K. Even then it's not entirely one to one, due to the fact you're looking at an HDR video converted to an SDR video, but it's still good to see the color differences, despite being an SDR video.

[@MsMarco6]

Heres a link to an actual HDR capture of the movie kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXa4iKagZrp9gKc Bear in mind you have to use a decent HDR display to watch it properly & enable HDR in windows if ur on PC. If your TV or monitor don't support HDR then use ur phone most mid-highend smartphones support it. IMO the Matrix is one of the best looking movies on UHD Blu-Ray, it's the first thing I watched on my new Samsung Oled and it's what I show customers at the store I work at to demonstrate the Benefits of HDR. It doesn't shy away from dazzling highlights like so many other releases nowadays amd looks absolutely stunning as a result.

[@kangjhha]

@@MsMarco6 I'm on an 5120 x 2160 LG ultrawide 40in hdr pc but it looks much better turned off😅

[@SPVFilmsLtd]

It's not even an accurate representation of the BLU-RAY. The damn video is over-exposed. The capture process has been screwed up twice; the actual comparison is pointless. Nice DVD rip though!

[@MsMarco6]

​@@kangjhha Yeah that's because HDR monitors are garbage at HDR even the expensive ones. They're often limited to 400nits or 600 at best. The Matrix is an incredibly bright & contrasty movie on my 1000nit Oled it's a revelation with the ultra bright highlights next to perfect blacks. But on an LCD monitor you're getting the worst of both worlds, the highlights are dim and the blacks aren't even close to perfect ruining the intended contrast, you're better off with the Blu-Ray on more limited displays though you'll get the inaccurate overly green colour pallate. My advice to people is to not bother with monitors anymore for the same price you could buy a 48" LG OLED TV with far superior picture quality and 800nit peaks. they'll be just as wide as an ultra-wide but you can use the extra vertical space if you want to (if not then you get perfectly black bars which aren't distracting). they're great for gaming with 120hz at 6ms which is more than enough for anyone who isn't a literal pro plus the instanteous pixel response of OLED means that 120hz will give similar clarity to a 200hz LCD, plus anything you could lose in refresh rate you more than make up for in picture quality which is night and day. But alas most continue to pick ripoff monitors convinced by marketing that they really need 240hz 2ms even though the significant sacrifice in image quality will have a far greater impact on gameplay than 4ms of frame-times ever could. If your worried about Burn-in then Samsung, Hisense, TCL & Sony have great Miniled models that offer great picture quality, even brighter highlights though suffer a bit of blooming in dark rooms. Sorry I know I'm a bit of a TV evangelist but I'm so fed up of people in the PC gaming market dismissing picture quality in favour of gimmicks. The amount of people I've met who play single player games but still are convinced that they need a 240hz monitor. Or people who tell me HDR is garbage even though there monitor can barely do SDR. Then those same people wonder why even PS2 games look more stunning on my TV than the latest & greatest does on there little monitor. Being an AV nerd and a Gamer gets frustrating.

[@Selrisitai]

@@MsMarco6 I don't get it. OLEDs are generally DIMMER screens than, for instance, LEDs, so why do people talk about OLED as if it's particularly good at HDR? It should be _worse_ at HDR than most decent LCDs.

[@thestreaker4635]

Dvd looks original and bluray looks awesome.

[@FullaEels]

after a little bit i stopped paying attention to the format changes and was just enjoying the scene lol

[@igloo8647]

underrated comment

[@chrisprattsabs1543]

People shit on DVDs but honestly it's no worse looking than Netflix resolution half the time

[@pongchannel.]

Yeah and Netflix is streaming tbf I personally still think blu-ray is the perfect one because it's not too expensive you can find most movies and on bigger screens it is noticeable but upscaled DVD ain't bad

[@greenlifekawaii2461]

What are you talking about Netflix resolution is amazing if you bought the premium ultra hd

[@chrisprattsabs1543]

@@greenlifekawaii2461 ok you're right. I don't care enough to debate and talk about this cause I said this 5 months ago and don't care anymore. Have a nice day and nice life, I'm wrong you're right

[@greenlifekawaii2461]

@@chrisprattsabs1543 OK you too sir have a nice day

[@odoridori]

@@chrisprattsabs1543 another 5 months has passed, how much do you care right now?

[@NeoAndersonChannel1]

The color palette or "warmth" of DVD but resolution of 4K is the format we need

[@davidariyan7915]

Resolution isn't everything

[@DSX001USER]

I like most the dvd version and that warm look imo, the bluray version has a little too much contrast for me, and the 4k version looks subexposed

[@msh9790]

Exactly to me

[@pongchannel.]

The 4k version was improperly exported I people are saying

[@casie6609]

It's different when you watch it on a TV. Watching a blu ray on a TV vs a DVD is much higher quality, especially if the TV is big. The color difference is supposed to be that way, brighter and more defined. Not soft and indistinguishable like a DVD because it has such low resolution. DVD looks blurry on a big TV.

[@BOZ_11]

it just looked like messed up colour profiles. DVD looked most natural, since the world is warmer in colour than those HD renditions

[@Mariofans-gn1lu]

@@casie6609 why is dvd stell around if 1080p bluray and 4k bluray is much superior

[@Ryrynz2000]

Waste of time showing the color difference between these and 4K when the colors for the 4K version aren't correctly exported..

[@ryans413]

Yep 4K is going to have HDR metadata that will look way different on an HDR tv that uses the metadata.

[@GabePickles3837]

I prefer the contrast of the DVD.

[@craigt5906]

blu ray looks the BEST

[@richardloganpowelliii4850]

The DVD looks closest to the theatrical experience that I remember.

[@FeelMetalMan]

I still think my Fellowship of the ring DVD looked dope

[@zay0_n4ra11]

Yup I have a Dvd/Blu-Ray player and my HUGE dvd collection looks LAUGHABLE compared to my 1 Blu-ray disc 😂

[@rozhrahman8663]

My question is what is the video bit rate of this DVD movie? And what is the 1080p Bluray bit rate? And why the Netflix or streaming services extremely low video bit rate look better than DVD? Since I heard that DVDs have high bit rate video?

[@ponraul1221]

DVD is about 8 MB/s I think. Even though it’s 480p, it still looks better than Netflix sometimes at 720p because Netflix uses less bandwidth.

[@Loboo869]

The blue ray looks the most clean the 4K is to expensive and to be honestly besides the sharpness it’s very discolored

[@adityaberchha]

yea because he has not uploaded video in HDR, and to watch HDR content you need HDR monitor, or external video player that converts HDR into SDR, If you will watch HDR video without enabling HDR mode you're going to see washed out colours

[@Tuxxxido]

@@adityaberchha some people don’t have hdr so …

[@Scifi4life]

Brightness can be increased

[@nathancruz9172]

I have the DVD version.

[@MsMarco6]

@@Tuxxxido If you don't have HDR KZbin will automatically convert it back to SDR, you can even add your own custom SDR colour grade. Honestly there's no reason not to upload in HDR if you have the means. Or atleast there wouldn't be if YT didn't make uploading HDR video so unnecessarily difficult, it wouldn't shock me at all if this vid was uploaded in HDR and YT just decided not to include it, happens all the time.

[@brianstorm5488]

Great video title. At first though I thought it was Resurrections and thought “Oh well it’s just a test”. Then I realized the title without even looking when I saw it was Matrix 1 footage.

[@BassHead1980]

Dvds 👍🏻

[@MaximusJohal]

Came to see the comparison, stayed for the whole fight.

[@PSS521]

dvd looks the best honestly, and even better on a 27" CRT which it was meant to be watched.

[@Mariofans-gn1lu]

i agree with you dvd looks the best for a crt and a dvd portable player to look

[@thestreaker4635]

The DVD in a crt makes the image looks crisp

[@KarmeshMadhavi]

I don't think you can find actual different here in KZbin.

[@mantiwa]

Blu-Ray is how i see real life DVD is when i dream

[@45oldies10]

It's the other way round, your married to a dvd but dreaming about Blue-ray.

[@KimDavid0222]

Why is the color on 4k so bad ?

[@RipleyVSXeno715]

The actual 4k disc does not look like this. It looks so dull here because the footage was exported without HDR (High Dynamic Range), which is what brings out the color, brightness, and contrast of 4k images. When the disc is played on a 4k Blu-ray player, it presents it with HDR and looks much more vibrant than what you see here. The Matrix is considered to be of the best releases on 4k. Another channel has actually posted this same scene with the HDR intact: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnXMeaJ8qNh9pNE. Big difference.

[@KimDavid0222]

@@RipleyVSXeno715 good explanation

[@pietroscarpa2384]

@@KimDavid0222 the 4k version looks really good, much better than DVD and BLU-RAY, but you have to see it in hdr, that's why it looks so flat in this KZbin comparison.

[@pongchannel.]

@@pietroscarpa2384 for most people it's not worth getting a expensive tv a new console/new equipment paying more for discs etc... Over is it? Blu-ray I fell like is still the best middle spot

[@TheHealthLife]

@@RipleyVSXeno715 Thankyou for posting that..appreciated

[@pietroscarpa2384]

If you don't show it in hdr then there is no purpose to show the 4k version, that's why it looks flat in this KZbin comparison.

[@pongchannel.]

Does 4k look good normally

[@demetter7936]

@@pongchannel. Yes, the guy who made this didn't convert the hdr to sdr so it looks washed out to us, but the source will look colorful.

[@adokapo]

DVD looks like i remember it. 4k looks alright, but wth is wrong with 2k?

[@dmpelektro]

4k is the best, its hdr color, we need high spech equipment for good picture in 4k

[@renanpereirasimoes]

I like the DVD colors, Bluray is too bright and 4K is washed out

[@gamesmovienation3516]

Finally someone with my exact thoughts people on here are commenting that these aren’t exact representations of how it really looks wich to some extent are correct but regardless 4k wich I’ve seen at home looks really washed out I dislike it and blu ray is bright and colorful wich I love but that’s just me and dvd has that warm color feel to it wich dvd is still thriving In stores today otherwise it would be let go like vhs was

[@ryans413]

I like the Blu Ray

[@trm4life]

I'm still using a 720p 32 inch tv from like 2010...I have to admit I never bought anything after dvds, because all the new stuff is digital...

[@yellowlinks]

dvds are also digital? or what do you mean

[@trm4life]

@@yellowlinks You no longer need to physically own them. Everything can now be downloaded.

[@mt8956]

I had a Sanyo 50 inch tv and I upgraded this past year to LG 2020 tv 4k. I wish I had Kept my old Tv instead of giving it away, my DVDs would have looked awesome with my Blu-Ray player that Upscales. They look good on 4k tv being it’s a DVD but on a 1080p it’ll probably look awesome. So am currently looking at a Samsung 1080p LED so I can compare

[@brianstorm5488]

@@trm4life As in pirate style? Or are digital purchased uncompressed from HD Blu & 4K level.

[@trm4life]

@brianstorm5488 nah. Now I can just buy a movie on KZbin without a paid subscription, or watch the free movies avaliable. No worse than cable and it's free!

[@alejandrolanderos6574]

I thought that a 4k was the best but I am disappointed. I still think a blu ray is better even a dvd.

[@omsaxena116]

Watch it with proper HDR. This video is not accurate.

[@dumbcow1]

Because it's colors are encoded in HDR. The creator of this video didn't convert it to SDR, and uploaded it to KZbin in non HDR. So we get washed out SDR on this video. The source video in HDR looks superior to the Bluray in terms of vivid colors and contrast. This video failed to show that comparison. What it does show is resolution, there are sharper finite details in the picture...just...ignore the color example here. Lol

[@h2ohamer271]

Thanks for the Comparison. This is once again a great example of the Myth which is that 4K is four times better quality than Blu Ray.The DVD had an overall better look than 4 K.

[@MikeMikeYT]

I wish the color grades weren't so wildly different. The 4k quality is gorgeous but that dark muddy green inside the dojo is not my preference.

[@tomaszhowaniec5409]

If DVD's was better optimized they could be still useful and cheaper than blu rays

[@Leonheart18]

I have the 4k version, the colors you see there are not accurate, especially HDR makes all the color pop

[@ronijr4918]

In all honesty dvd are cheaper and as long as your Tv isn't crap you'll have a decent viewing experience. I don't mind blue ray but Dvd is good enough. If it ain't broken don't fix it.

[@tomaszhowaniec5409]

DVD is so retro. DVD like SVHS

[@eliasroque2397]

the blu-ray its oversaturated and the dvd has fps problems, comparison results with a PC-driver will never be reliable for a number of reasons, the best way to compare the 3 formats is in a good blu-ray player with the 3 original discs.

[@TheBlues088]

i watch movies from 1930-1970 and dont mind dvd quality. if a movie is crap, good picture doesnt matter. though i wouldnt choose anything lower than dvd. blu ray only for bluckbuster spectacles - star wars, lotr, indiana jones, james bond etc.

[@bangunny]

4k rules

[@mcbc-Laudya]

Me watching @144p Hmm...🤔🤨Great Quality👌👍🤨☝️👉💯❗

[@paulk9534]

Nah… that 4k cant be dull and green looking, surely not 🤔

[@valuablememories5603]

Why would I watch this in 4K grey??

[@einzigwahrerroefler]

It looks like this because of the hdr to sdr conversion, or the lack of (good) tonemapping. It will look much better on the right tv, on which this conversion is not necessary. But yeah, if you did not spend thousands for a tv, the 4k blu ray does not have that much more value in comparison to the standard blu ray release

[@denshou]

The 3 formats look good, but I think the 4K ends up being a reinterpretation of what the director intended for this film. Artistically, it seems fine to me, but it distorts the original work of the producers.

[@aw7245]

The colors are messed up since the hdr on disc wasn't properly converted back to sdr on disc would look more like Blu-ray

[@MaximusJohal]

Blu-ray movies always have a strange colour overlaid or removed altogether

[@fisher3317]

I think all three versions have an equal amount of *SHADOW*

[@mrhobs]

EEWWW!!! What happened to the 4K!? I just bought that, and I heard it was an improved color grade over the Blu-ray… looks way worse here! (I only have an HD TV atm, but maybe I’ll test this… or maybe I’ll sell it before I open the shrink wrap…) Hopefully like someone has said, it looks A LOT better when playing on an HDR capable screen.

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

Maybe 4K has a different brightness setting like eco mode? I can imagine a real 4K image would take a lot of power consumption.

[@mrhobs]

@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 I'm guessing it wasn't captured in the most "helpful for a comparison" way. Not positive, but I'm guessing the 4K is not only fine, but the best available version to buy.

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

@@mrhobs The 4K is essentially the same transfer as the Blu-ray one in this video. There are two different versions of the Blu-ray. This KZbinr only showed us clips from the 2004 DVD release, 2018 remastered Blu-ray, 2018 remastered 4K. What I think what happened is that they tried to imitate the same color correction as the original 1999/2001 release DVD which was the original laserdisc scan.

[@tyjuarez]

you didn't convert the colorspace of the 4K Blu-Ray from Rec.2020 (HDR) to Rec.709 (SDR) 100% bright in SDR is like... 50% bright in HDR, and they both follow different curves for what number translates to what level of brightness. IRL, the 4K is brighter than the Blu-Ray, and the bright highlights that are overexposed in the Blu-Ray will be less so watching the 4K on an HDR TV.

[@UnchainedEruption]

DVD = perfect. Blu-Ray = good but looks like 2010-ish. 4K = shitty Instagram filter applied on Blu-Ray.

[@RobertK1993]

DVD perfect 576i /480i low bit rates yeah better than 1080p HBO Max just about 😂

[@noejimenez7936]

Esta película se ve de maravilla en 4k eso si hay que verla en dolby visión

[@nomeacaso5790]

Blu ray

[@vicente_sz]

Dvd best color

[@Dunkaroos420]

I prefer the VHS version tbh…

[@MrAero_1]

Blu-ray looks the closest to natural for me

[@XeniusChannel]

4k is the worst, it lower down all the colors and makes it darker somehow. Imagine when scenes takes place in night time. YIKES...!!!!

[@michaelhawkins7389]

Why does the 4k looks so dark ? lol

[@agxtreme_official]

DvD for me

[@shijoejoseph2011]

DVD is golden oldie, always gold and how we have enjoyed these masterpieces. Everything else got directors spoiled that they could tinker with their beloved children and form them into the notorious monsters they have become now. As long as we retain the original DVD discs (even DVD boxes are way superior to simple BR/4K boxes), life is good.

[@pongchannel.]

What are you on about

[@reverietapes]

Yes. I love the dvd cases over blue ray cases

[@kosog6584]

What the hell did I just read?

[@pongchannel.]

@@kosog6584 a boomer who thinks that movie formats are the reason the world has gone to shit

[@brianstorm5488]

I’ve replaced my favorites with Blu Ray and love the difference on a 65” screen, although for ones I didn’t / couldn’t get in Blu, I start to forget it’s SD on many scenes. Sometimes there’s a grainy appearance that even looks more like film in a way. So I’ve stopped sweating no Blu Ray availability for most of those. (I don’t even mess with 4K unless I can get one as cheaply. Maybe my upscaler is good, or my TV isn’t good enough to show it, by I notice virtually no difference, and am glad to save the dough for more upgrade. Besides I’ve heard bad news about some 4K like Carneron’s 4Krazy love of anti-grain. I think he’s a little nuts. But then we knew that when he announced he’ll be making Avatar sequels for the rest of his life…

[@kingkong905]

DVD quality looks the best. Blu ray might look sharper but the picture quality is too bright. 4K is too dark and not much different than DVD.

[@HeinleinShinobu]

bluray so bright, 4k so dim, dvd just right

[@JD-wm4uv]

There are two remasters of the blu ray 2008 and 2009 trust me stick with the 2008 untimate edition the cokor grading is basically similar to the dvd other tham the black levels are darker . 2009 theybwent crazy heavy on green folter in the Matrix reality

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

I think the 2018 transfer is the one to avoid not the 2009. Whoever made this video put the 2018 remastered Blu-ray which is basically just a downscaled 4K. Notice when the Blu-ray switches to 4K, the transition is smooth, example 0:42. The cropping is different from the 2008 version. So anything from 2008 to 2015 Should be good.

[@RobertK1993]

Mew 1080p Blu ray have bee AVC codec transfer and Dolby Atmos released in 2019 along with 4K Ultra HD Blu ray

[@sherbournesubwaymess]

DVD!

[@austinduran3557]

blue ray looks better than 4k

[@bobsibert1968]

Blu ray much warmer!

[@CATDX59]

Bruray quality is nice, but i prefer dvd.

[@djsoulfilter]

This is definitely not how the 4K looks!

[@BLOODYTHECLOWN666]

I only get blu ray

[@davidariyan7915]

Why all 4k uhd movies i had seen had this uncanny color grading and looks weird than the blu-ray or dvd releasea. This one i agreed dvd looks better.

[@user-fx1nt9jw8x]

4k …..nahhh. Bluray was far more better

[@movietv20249]

Blu-Ray is good despite the brightness. DVD is the best. And the 4K looks totally off.

[@Nickwilde2295]

Dvd is the way to go

[@casie6609]

DVD is much lower quality lol

[@Nickwilde2295]

@@casie6609 who cares it better than streaming dvd low quality

[@nmdpeaceout]

Dvd looks the best overal especially for natural colour. The blu ray is more detailed, but contrast is way too high. 4k looks crap. Dvd for the win.

[@Jordan-fn5rj]

Blu-ray and 4K no doubt I don't even mess with DVDs anymore after switching to 4k and blu-ray I could never go back

[@TheRobotT1000]

Hmm I think the blu ray is better quality

[@davidariyan7915]

Blu-ray and 4K looked too washed out here. 4K colors are horrendous in this movie. Dvd got the right contrast

[@WaSeEm2022]

I didn’t like 4k colors

[@WaSeEm2022]

DVD was the best for me in this video..

[@liamadamsedits]

@@WaSeEm2022 I think Blu ray was far superior than DVD in this video. Much clearer. But the coloring on 4k was weird

[@joacaaquino]

@@liamadamsedits but it's the original version. Remeber how the posters were blue? It's because a lot of the scenes had the blue tint... I watched on the cinema and it was great...

[@joacaaquino]

By the way, the person who rendered this video, didn't put the original 4K color scheme, that's why the color is weird...

[@WaSeEm2022]

@@joacaaquino i see that’s why

[@WizardBalls29]

the colour looks washed out on 4k and the detail cant be better just treated with new DNR and whatever else goes into it . ????? am i wrong ???? its like putting more make up on your wife

[@johnmurphy7674]

The 4k is once again inferior to the Blu-ray

[@Jordan-fn5rj]

How is 4K inferior to blu ray?

[@johnmurphy7674]

@@Jordan-fn5rj It has ugly filters and makes the grain of the image disappear. It's too smooth and often too dark.

[@DJDonnelly]

4k looks washed out

[@l7ssha567]

4k bluray needs to be tone-mapped from hdr to sdr to look properly in video. 4k bluray looks much better than bluray and dvd and this video loses all that

[@chunzprocessor]

4k is joke

[@helozetkumpul]

DVD = 20 FPS Blu-ray = 60 FPS And Bright 4K = Dark