I've spent the past 20 years writing about the world of home entertainment technology--first at Home Cinema Choice magazine, where I became Deputy Editor, and for the past 20 years on a freelance basis. In that time I'm fairly confident that I've reviewed more TVs and projectors than any other individual on the planet, as well as experiencing first-hand the rise and fall of all manner of great and not so great home entertainment technologies. I am currently a regular contributor to Trustedreviews.com, Techradar.com, Home Cinema Choice magazine, Wired, Pocket-Lint.com and, of course, Forbes. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. To say Zack Snyder’s latest superhero opus for Warner Bros divided critics and DC Comics fans alike would be an understatement. Arguments between Batman V Superman’s lovers and haters tend to become pretty ugly, very fast.

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Overall, though, the nays comfortably outnumber the yays – a fact you’d think wouldn’t bode well for the sales of the film’s Ultra HD Blu-ray release. However, thanks to the addition of over half an hour more footage to the UHD Blu-ray release (taking its running time to around three hours) as well as the film’s potential for delivering ‘demo-grade’ video and audio quality, even as no great fan of the film’s original theatrical release I’m approaching its UHD BD with a genuinely open mind. Batman V Superman UHD BD Cover Art. (Pic: Warner Bros) The Film Batman V Superman’s detractors will probably find the notion of watching an even longer version of the film the cinematic equivalent of ripping out their finger nails. The simple truth, though, is that while the extended cut carried exclusively (as in, you can’t opt to watch the theatrical cut) on the UHD Blu-ray doesn’t miraculously transform Snyder’s film into a cult classic, it does make it better by giving it more space to address the theatrical cut’s three biggest weaknesses. First, it lets the film deliver a more gradual and convincing sense of conflict escalation vs the uncomfortably uneven pacing of the original theatrical release. Second, it adds a few small but useful plot points that make the film feel substantially more coherent.

Finally, it introduces a number of extra character-based beats that make the main protagonists’ motivations clearer and thus their actions in the film – including the ever so slightly important fall out between Batman and Superman – at least a bit easier to swallow. Personally I still find even the extended cut fundamentally unable to support the extreme level of seriousness it strives for. But at least I can now understand a bit better what its fans see in it. UHD BD Release Details Studio: Warner Bros What you get: The Ultra HD Blu-ray disc (containing just the extended cut of the film), the Blu-ray disc (containing the theatrical cut and around 2 hours of extras), and a code for a Digital HD ‘Ultraviolet’ download version. Is it Ultra HD Premium?

(If you’re not sure what this means, check out this ). Running Time: 182mins for the Extended Cut, 151 minutes for the theatrical cut. Extra Features: Aside from the extra half hour of movie, you get no extra features on the Ultra HD Blu-ray disc.

On the BD you get around two hours of extras in total, comprising a series of featurettes focusing on various aspects of the production design, characterization and story. Best Audio Mix: Dolby Atmos Picture Quality When I realized just how long the extended cut of Batman V Superman was going to be, I couldn’t help but wonder if having to squeeze so much movie onto an Ultra HD Blu-ray might compromise picture quality. The Justice League is born. (Pic: Warner Bros) There are also some questions over the film’s native resolution; namely that while the film was rendered in a 4K digital intermediate presumably used for the UHD BD master, it appears the film was largely upscaled to that from a lower filming resolution. Plus while some IMAX effects were apparently rendered in 4K, most digital effects shots – of which, of course, there are many!

– were almost certainly initially rendered in 2K. I also couldn’t help but recall the visual inconsistency of Warner’s Mad Max: Fury Road Ultra HD Blu-ray (). With all this in mind, I wasn’t that surprised to find the Batman V Superman UHD visuals rather hit and miss – enough to class as a slight disappointment overall. The biggest frustration, as it was with Mad Max: Fury Road, is some pretty stark and distracting inconsistency in the quality of the image from scene to scene.