Game of Thrones - The Complete Second Season

Product detailed description

Package includes 4 discs

4x Ultra HD Blu-ray

• Series (Season 2) in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160)
• HDR (HDR-10 + Dolby Vision)
• Aspect ratio 1.78:1
• Original audio in Dolby Atmos
• Audio: Czech, English, French (European), German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin American)
• Subtitles: Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (SDH), Finnish, French (European), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish
• 3x BD-100 (triple-layer UHDBD), 1x BD-66

Special Features

• Histories and lore
• Deleted Scenes
• Creating the Battle of Blackwater Bay
• Game of Thrones: Inner Circles
• The Religions of Westeros
• Audio Commentaries
• Character Profiles

Will I get native 4k Ultra HD?

Season 1 Note: Game of Thrones was shot on 35mm motion picture film, though that applies only to the unaired pilot, which was largely reshot anyway (leaving just a handful of scenes). The reshoots, as well as subsequent episodes, were captured on Arri Alexa digital cameras recorded to HDCAM SR tape, the same format used throughout post-production. HDCAM SR is a tape-based format that records Full HD video with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling and MPEG-4 compression at a bitrate of 440 Mbps (and up to 880 Mbps). Season 1 of Game of Thrones is therefore upsampled from 1080p on Ultra HD Blu-ray, meaning the gain in fine detail rendering over the standard Blu-ray comes from both the superior HEVC compression and expanded disc capacity, as well as professional upscaling. This translates not only to an absence of compression artifacts, but also smoother color and luminance gradations via WCG, slightly crisper detail reproduction, cleaner noise handling, and far more effective rendering of specular highlights, shadow detail, and overall contrast courtesy of HDR. Because HDCAM SR captures virtually the entire dynamic range output by the camera sensor, Ultra HD Blu-ray elevates the first season of Game of Thrones above all in luminance, contrast, and color. Having viewed it firsthand, we can confirm that even though the difference in native resolution is negligible, the UHDBD edition looks substantially better than the Blu-ray, conveying the atmosphere of Westeros far more effectively.

Seasons 2–3 Note: The next two seasons were shot identically, with the key difference that footage was recorded as digital data rather than onto tape. Among other things, this allowed color grading to be performed flexibly during post-production. Otherwise, the same holds true as for Season 1—image rendering improves dramatically in luminance and color reproduction, since the 10-bit capture no longer had to be converted down to 8-bit SDR. Once again, it all translates into a richer, more immersive atmosphere. Both picture and sound quality across every episode are unquestionably superior to any previous presentation.