Great White Blu-ray Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Given a notably digital glaze, Great White offers clarity, if not the fidelity. There's detail, but it's lacking, hidden by sloppy, glossy haze. Decent in close, but the gorgeous location scenery rapidly fades, unattractive and smeary at the best. The encode looks fine, so this is all on the source. Same with occasional rounds of noise.

Color takes on an appropriate warmth, pushing flesh tones toward amber tints, but only marginally affecting the rest. Blue-ish green waters explode in various hues, and various tree life lining the beaches hit maximum boldness. Although clearly on the side of modern digital grading and unnatural, it's still gorgeous. Come nightfall, blues and teals take over, bringing with them some atrocious banding and weaker color definition. That sinks this transfer.

With sunlight soaking the scenery, there's no lack of contrast to go around. It's beefy. Black levels fail to keep the same consistency, but provide enough shadow density to get by. A few times, they'll draw in noise.

Audio

Healthy low-end support pushes fantastic depth, whether it's from musical stings or the action. While not subtle, range gives Great White proper power, and amplifies a few jump scares.

Less impressive is the positional work, barely utilizing the rears for anything. The plane passes the camera, but only through the fronts, failing to make any transition to the rears. Even with the opportunity to spread watery ambiance around, hardly anything noticeable splashes about. Bummer.