Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Product detailed description

Package includes 2 discs

Ultra HD Blu-ray

• Feature film in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160)
• HDR (HDR-10)
• Aspect ratio 2.35:1
• Original audio in DTS:X
• Audio: Cantonese, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French (Canadian), French (European), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American)
• Subtitles: Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (SDH), Finnish, French (European), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swedish
• BD-66 (dual-layer UHDBD)

Blu-ray

• Feature film in Full HD
• Aspect ratio 2.40:1
• Original audio in Dolby TrueHD 5.1
• Audio: Czech, English, Hebrew, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
• Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Estonian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian

Special Features

• Maximum Movie Mode
• Additional scenes
• J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life – A Personal Look at the Creation of the Final Book
• Sneak Peek at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort
• What's on Your Mind? – Q&A with Cast and Crew, One-Minute Drills on Their Characters

Will I get native 4k Ultra HD?

The sixth installment in the Harry Potter series was shot on 35mm film, which was scanned for 2K digital post-production. For the Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation, the master was therefore upscaled from a lower resolution. Consequently, the transfer doesn't bring a dazzling amount of new image detail (though a subtle difference is noticeable), instead primarily offering tighter definition of film grain and textures. According to international reviews (1) (2), it benefits most from HDR, which focuses largely on the lower end of the tonal scale. The UHD presentation dials back overall brightness and delves into deeper shades of black. While the transfer is darker and in places even more desaturated, it reportedly separates objects in luminance much more effectively (handling contrast better). The cinematography of the later entries in the series emphasizes darkness—and it appears the HDR pass for the UHDBD honors that artistic intent down to the last bit. In addition, the film has been newly remixed into DTS:X.