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  1. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    What I find ironic is that, at this stage in his career, James Cameron has effectively turned over care of his movies to Skynet.
  2. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I don't see a conflict between the two halves of your sentence. We can disagree with Cameron's reimagining decision and he could have done wrong by his movies.
  3. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    A.I. is a tool. It can be used well or it can be used poorly, depending on the dictates of what the humans overseeing the project assign that tool to do.
  4. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Abyss -- in 4k UHD

    Hmm, well, that's certainly a wrinkle. However, RAH posted a response in that thread questioning whether the phrase "2k restoration" also refers to the base scan.
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  6. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I was about to ask that question as well. His use of the phrase "2K restoration" does not necessarily mean that the film scan was done at 2K. It might still have been a 4K scan with a 2K workflow for the digital processing. As I said above, Lowry Digital was doing 4K scans at least as early as...
  7. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Abyss -- in 4k UHD

    As I mentioned in another thread, I think those people are misinformed. As far as I've always been aware, Aliens was already scanned and mastered in 4K for the Blu-ray release in 2010. Lowry Digital's special de-graining process that James Cameron was so happy with relied on a 4K workflow. So...
  8. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Again with this claim that the 2010 master was 2K. Where are you finding documentation of that? Lowry Digital created that master for the Aliens Blu-ray, and they were doing 4K scans and mastering at least as early as 2006.
  9. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Abyss -- in 4k UHD

    RAH draws a distinction between real film grain and the digital noise added to simulate grain. These new James Cameron releases have had all the original film grain stripped out and a new (much finer) layer of artificial grain added for texture.
  10. JoshZ

    UHD Review The Abyss UHD Review

    Dolby Vision is one of the three HDR formats (the other two being HDR10 and HDR10+). Technically speaking, it could be possible to have HDR without 4K, but in practical terms, HDR is always tied to 4K.
  11. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Breaking News! Distribution issues regarding physical media copies of Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies now have a concrete explanation. James Cameron has finally gotten around to watching Barbie, and has had a revelation that all of his movies must be color graded pink from start to finish, in...
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  13. JoshZ

    Press Release BVHE Press Release: The Abyss, True Lies, Aliens, Titanic, Avatar and Avatar: The Way of the Water (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    May 16th? Ouch. Amazon informs me that my copy of True Lies is now expected March 28 - 31 and Aliens from April 1 - 7. No update on The Abyss for me yet, which means that it will probably be even later than yours.
  14. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I agree that this is probably his rationale. The problem, of course, is that it's a slippery slope. The "advances" never stop. I'm sure James Cameron is already awaiting the A.I. upsampled 164K, 24D, holographic, neural-link bio-port version of Avatar: The Way of Water that finally allows him to...
  15. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    If he supposedly said this, I would love to know where, because it sounds totally out of character for him. James Cameron is a notorious micro-manager known for keeping an iron-fisted grip on every aspect of his work, both past and present. He does not let things go. That's not going to be...
  16. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Alien and Aliens were definitetely the only movies in the Alien Anthology Blu-ray box set to get remastered at that time. Alien 3 and Resurrection were both clearly sourced from older existing high-def masters, and both were a noticeable step down in video quality.
  17. JoshZ

    UHD Review Aliens UHD Review

    I'm sure it's built off a similar process to what was done with the film for the Blu-ray master in 2010. Lowry Digital had special software that was able to remove grain without affecting picture detail. I believe it would sample portions of adjacent frames to estimate what the picture...
  18. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Do you have a source that says the scan from 2010 was done at 2K? It was my understanding it was done at 4K at that time. Lowry Digital (as the company was known then) had previously scanned and mastered all of the Sean Connery James Bond films at 4K in 2008, and I can't imagine why they would...
  19. JoshZ

    UHD Review Aliens UHD Review

    I'm still waiting for Amazon for so much as to notify me of an expected shipping date. Neil, a question from your review. You said: "The colors appear right, with Cameron’s favored electric blue right from the opening moments appearing as I remember them. Flesh tones are natural." Does this...
  20. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    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...
  21. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    You're not the only one here capable of sarcasm. ;)
  22. JoshZ

    Blu-ray Review Brainstorm Blu-ray Review

    I only got to the Charles theater in its later years, when it was no longer the best in the area anymore, but I still had a few good experiences there. As I recall, I saw all four hours of Gettysburg there one afternoon. I believe it was even a 70mm blow-up print. I still remember the booming...
  23. JoshZ

    Press Release BVHE Press Release: The Abyss, True Lies, Aliens, Titanic, Avatar and Avatar: The Way of the Water (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    Yeah, looks like I definitely made a mistake preordering from Amazon. I regret that now. Should have known they'd still have problems gettting Disney product on street date.
  24. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Sorry, this tangent spun off from RAH's contention that because Aliens wasn't a Best Picture winner, it isn't worthy of being preserved or presented in anything resembling its original state.
  25. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    As an exercise, try surveying 12 random friends you know who are not members of this forum or other movie groups, just co-workers or people you know from other walks of life, and ask if they can name three Best Picture winners from the past decade. That's any three movies that have won Best...
  26. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    How are Crash, Birdman, or Green Book holding up for you?
  27. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    A couple things here. Personally, I'm not down with the argument that because this was a director decision that we all need to get on board with it. Filmmakers are human beings, and just as prone to making bad decisions as anyone else. There are plenty of examples of filmmakers who have...
  28. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    RAH, I know that you like to draw a hard-line distinction between movies that win Best Picture as somehow being untouchable, versus all the other crap released in a year, for which anything goes, but the rest of us do not. The Oscars are an arbitrary and increasingly irrelevant standard of...
  29. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    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...
  30. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    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...
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