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Video

Fine if rudimentary digital imagery fills this disc. Decent definition provides the requisite facial texture, but it's fairly unspectacular. Greater sharpness happens within the wide shots of towns, castles, or forests. Those perform well, utilizing the format's full resolution.

Graded similarly to the other Fantastic Beasts, bland orange/teal palette stiffens up, rarely deviating from this gloomy aesthetic. Flesh tones look mostly on point thanks to the warmth. Few primaries make it out from this firm style.

Color likewise impacts the dynamic range, keeping highlights cool, reduced from their potential peak. By design, black levels sag too, dropped to a low brown/gray that rarely leads to depth. Luckily though, Secrets of Dumbledore stays clean, free from most noise or other artifact.

Audio

An energetic Dolby Atmos mix does fantastic work when in the middle of action scenes. Surrounds and height channels engage frequently, panning effects excellent. Directionality keeps pace with the visuals, sweeping across the soundstage to create a wide, accurate sound bubble. Away from the spells and creatures, Secrets of Dumbledore doesn't do much, overly centered, avoiding ambient material. Scenes with crowds falter, clumsily filling the theater, but without any potency.

Bass isn't lacking thankfully producing bold response alongside spells and their resulting effects. Each rumble sustains a thick, heavy jolt, pleasingly tight too. Moments of dread in the score likewise push the subwoofer. An attack by a giant scorpion-like creature can knock things off the walls as the stingers slam into rock walls.