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What we've been told (whether true or not is unclear) is that True Lies is the first of these four James Cameron movies to undergo the Park Road Post A.I. processing. What we don't know is how many other movies or projects Park Road Post experimented on prior to True Lies. In that respect, True...

That's the story Digital Bits was told, I believe. I also expect that The Abyss got the most human oversight and scrutiny during the process because it was planned for a theatrical re-release. And True Lies got the least scrutiny because Cameron doesn't especially like that movie very much anymore.

I think the issue for Cameron is as much about control as it is about him being a perfectionist. Cameron insists on having oversight of home video masters for his movies because he doesn't trust anyone else to do it. Yet at the same time, in recent years he's lost interest in revisiting his...

Because that filmmaker is Jim Cameron, and retroactively changing something he did in the past is his M.O.

I'm not an addict. I can stop any time. I swear it. I swear it. And listen, I'm telling you, this stuff is actually good for me. No, listen, hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. It makes my brain, it makes my brain think way faster and clearer. It's true it's true it's true it's true. You...

There are treatment clinics you can go to for that addiction. The withdrawal symptoms may cause you some suffering in the short term, but the long term benefits to your health will be innumerable. :biggrin:

If an Apple computer product no longer meets your needs, you can buy a comparable product from a competitor that does. That analogy doesn't hold up to this situation. There is (and cannot be due to copyright) any competing 4K edition of Star Wars or True Lies to purchase an an alternative to...

"All is well"? What is that even supposed to mean? In what regard is anything well? With respect, this doesn't address the discussion being had at all. I beg the moderators a little leniency in allowing a small digression into Star Wars for a moment, as I promise I'll bring this back around to...

I trust that you'd be in a better position to know something like that than I would. But what I've heard is that, for any other faults he may have, George Lucas was a hoarder who insisted on saving any scrap of film he felt might ever be useful to him again in the future. It's largely because he...

Yes, we do. Lucasfilm representatives have confirmed it at various times.

We know that George Lucas hacked up the OCN to Star Wars when he made his Special Edition. However, we also know that enough other high quality sources still exist (IPs and INs and answer prints and whatnot) that a proper restoration of the theatrical cut is still entirely possible if only...

I'm sorry, but I find that to be a disingenuous argument. Even if the OCN still exists in its original form, it's been locked away in a salt mine vault and we as the public are unlikely to ever see it again. Last year's theatrical re-release of The Abyss was not struck from the OCN, but from the...

I'm not equipped to take 4K HDR screenshots, but I ripped the accompanying Blu-ray from the new master and was able to compare it against screenshots I'd previously taken from the HD copy that briefly streamed on Apple TV+ in early 2023 prior to the 4K remastering announcement. Differences...

I finally had a chance to watch True Lies tonight. Setting aside the A.I. processing issues, in no way do I believe this was a new 4K scan, nor even a new color or HDR grade. It looks very much like the HD master that's been circulating since the early 2000s, run through some new upconversion...

James Cameron has always had complicated and conflicting feelings about aspect ratio and has never liked letterboxing on home video. Back in the day, he often blamed TV size or the low resolution of NTSC. Later he'd make excuses that the 3D versions of his movies had to be open-matte because...

After Terminator 2, Cameron had enough clout to do basically whatever he wanted. Budget has never been an issue for him since then. As much as he hated grain, he preferred to shoot Super 35 over other formats for a couple reasons: 1) He had a bias against anamorphic lenses from his time doing...

Cameron liked the Super 35 format because it allowed him to reformat his movies for pan & scan on video (then still 4:3 at the time) by opening mattes off the top and bottom rather than just cropping off the sides. James Cameron has had a longstanding hatred of letterboxing on home video. He...

I said, "The copy that was available on streaming last year prior to the 4K announcement." I watched the movie on multiple streaming platforms for a comparison article in May of last year. None of them had been remastered at that time. All of those were withdrawn after the 4K announcement and...

The copy that was available on streaming last year prior to the 4K announcement did not come from the same source as this disc. It was sourced from an older HD master that originated with the D-VHS release in 2003. That version has now been removed from circulation. The new disc copy (and more...