The Matrix

Product detailed description

Package includes 3 discs

Ultra HD Blu-ray

• Feature film in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160)
• HDR (HDR-10 + Dolby Vision)
• Aspect ratio 2.40:1
• Original audio in Dolby Atmos
• Audio: Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
• Subtitles: Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English (SDH), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian), Swedish, Thai, Turkish
• BD-100 (triple-layer UHDBD)

Special Features

• Wachowski Brothers Intro (10 sec.)
• Philosophers’ audio commentary
• Critics’ audio commentary
• Audio commentary by actors
• Composer’s audio commentary

Blu-ray

• Feature film in Full HD (new remaster)
• Aspect ratio 2.40:1
• Original audio in Dolby Atmos
• Audio: Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Thai, Turkish
• Subtitles: Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, English (SDH), Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Special Features

• In Movie Expreience (Picture-in-Picture commentary)
• Wachowski Brothers Intro (10 sec.)
• Philosophers’ audio commentary
• Critics’ audio commentary
• Audio commentary by actors
• Composer’s audio commentary

Bonus Blu-ray

• Matrix Revisited: Behind the Scenes (122:50 min)
• Behind the Matrix: Making The Matrix (25:52 min)
• Behind the Matrix: The Dance of the Master Yuen Wo Ping (5:48 min)
• Behind the Matrix: Making the Bathroom Fight (3:16 min)
• Behind the Matrix: Agent Down (1:32 min)
• Behind the Matrix: Old Exit Wound (2:37 min)
• Behind the Matrix: ... Wait, There’s More (3:09 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: Trinity Escapes (01:02 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: The Pod (2:21 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: Kung Fu (3:53 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: The Wall (2 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: The Bathroom Fight (2:01 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: Government Lobby (4:04 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: Government Roof (2:30 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: The Helicopter (01 min)
• Follow the White Rabbit: The Subway (03:32 min)
• Take the Red Pill: What Is Bullet Time? (6:16 min)
• Take the Red Pill: What Is the Concept? (11:27 min)
• TV Spots, trailers, and music video

(approx. 210 min)

Will I get native 4k Ultra HD?

Yes. Matrix, shot on Super 35, was finished photochemically, and even the VFX shots were recorded back to film. Post-production was never based on a digital intermediate. The original master is therefore fully analog. Warner Bros. had it newly scanned in 4K for the purposes of the almost-anniversary Ultra HD Blu-ray edition. Bill Pope, the film’s cinematographer, supervised the complete restoration and remastering, ensuring absolute adherence to the original artistic intent..

The UHDBD therefore comes from a native 4K master and, as we know from other releases of older, analog-finished films, this means substantially better fine detail, as well as a higher-quality definition of film grain. And importantly, thanks to HDR and WCG, UHDBD can render nuances in blacks and shadows that could get lost on the now relatively outdated Blu-ray. Likewise, the expanded color gamut of the new format can encompass a much wider palette of color shades, which benefits skin tones that were significantly suppressed during the remastering for the now aging Blu-ray, as well as other elements of scenes that 8-bit SDR simply could not cover. UHDBD is capable of reproducing almost the full color and brightness range of the analog film strip. Combined with 4K, this is an absolutely ultimate reproduction of a film that will likely never look better in digital distribution.