Ticks 4K UHD Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Making full use of HDR, Ticks begins intensely bright. Sunlight dresses every scene, pushing the nits high. It's wonderful. As night falls, black levels pop, shadows dense and inky. This gives Ticks dimensionality, well above previous releases.

This continues into the color palette as the vivid primaries look spectacular. Red blood adds to the gore quotient, hyper saturated if attractive. Forest environments utilize potent greenery, and the rest of nature adds natural primaries. Ticks glows on UHD.

The master itself utilizes a sharp 4K source, revealing in detail, if held back by the source. Grain fluctuations suggest a cheaper stock, which the encode can't keep up with. Artifacting is all too common, lessening the resolution's impact. It's clean print though, free from damage or dirt.

Audio

Presented in DTS-HD stereo, the track unfortunately features heavily worn dialog, straining fidelity with every word. Hollow and thin at the best, being uncompressed doesn't salvage Ticks from the VHS era, but instead preserves it as such. Granted, everything is audible and understandable, just muffled.

The score performs better at least. There's even a solid low-end response.