Comparisons between ‘The House of the Dragon’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ are inevitable, since the former is still a prequel to the latter. In addition, the first episode of ‘The house of the dragon’ contains several nods to its predecessor, but there is something in which it has started with clear advantage over ‘Game of Thrones’ to leave the best possible first impression.
Picture and sound matter
That yes, that “secret” weapon of ‘The house of the dragon’ does not catch us by surprise either, because HBO Max already uploaded the improved version of ‘Game of Thrones’ a few weeks ago with 4K image quality a bit in advance. Let’s not forget the problems that occurred with several episodes of the last season of ‘Game of Thrones’ due to the questionable image bitrate used by the platform at the time.
With ‘The house of the dragon’ they wanted to avoid possible controversy and the series is available in 4K from the moment of its premiere, thus becoming the first from HBO Max to debut in 4K HDR, with HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound.
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Obviously, the quality will not be the same as when it comes out in UHD in a while -there the Mbps rate will easily be double or even more-, but the jump in the definition of the image is tremendous. And that always helps the viewer to focus more on enjoying what is happening on the screen than on the fact that its quality is far from being ideal.
Another important advantage is, as I pointed out before, that the series has also reached HBO Max with Dolby Atmos sound, even though it is a compressed version. Those who have the proper sound equipment to use it will get much closer to the feeling of watching each episode of ‘The house of the dragon’ in a cinema.
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Now all that remains is for HBO Max to extend this practice to many more series and movies., because its current catalog available in 4K is quite small – giving rise to incomprehensible situations such as the fact that the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy can be seen in 4K on Amazon Prime Video but not here. In Warner’s catalog there are many titles available with that quality and more than one series that can only be seen in HD on HBO Max were originally shot with that quality.
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by Mikel Zorrilla.