Rollerball 4K UHD Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Black is black via this Dolby Vision master. Shadows appear reference grade thanks to this, keeping Rollerball inky and loaded with depth. Dimension stays high throughout, every dark corner accounted for, and the brightness when seeing scoreboard lights or helmets reflecting overhead splendid.

Team uniforms show outstanding color reproduction, and that saturation continues through everything else, like flesh tones. Nothing in Rollerball looks artificially enhanced or altered, keeping the film stock's natural qualities.

A fresh 4K master preserves grain, easily resolved. Rollerball isn't short on definition, lines resolved cleanly and the resolution a showcase. Fidelity holds to its truest levels throughout. Facial texture is everywhere, medium and wide angles just as impressive. Even when the cinematography uses a hazier aesthetic, detail sticks around.

Audio

Both options come in DTS-HD, 5.1 and stereo tracks. Rollerball's sports scenes bring significant stereo action to this soundscape on both tracks. The ball rolls out, sweeping across the soundstage, enveloping the room in the 5.1 mix. The crowd jumps from each speaker.

Clarity belies Rollerball's age. Dialog sounds new. The score reaches a surprisingly bold crescendo, the only missing element being bass. There's no range, the only indication this came from 1975.