The Abyss - Page 5

I was about to share this on Facebook when I realized it is way too nerdy to explain why this is great news.

 

So I'll just say it here: This is great news!

The Abyss on blu will be a first day buy. It's Cameron's most under-rated movie; the SE is simply fantastic. I'm hoping for a new commentary - Cameron, Harris, Biehn, etc.

I hope that the new transfer of THE ABYSS will also be released in standard def, for those of us who don't have Blu Ray.  So far, we haven't even had an anamorphic transfer of the film.

Apparently The Abyss is not being worked on. There is a HD transfer from 2005 that is awaiting JC's approval, but otherwise, nada going on. Yet.

Hello,

 

There is a new edition available in China from Excel Media (region 6 DVD9) with the following details :

ntsc extended cut, DTS 6.1, DD EX 6.1, 16:9 anamorphic widescreen

Also available is True Lies (same company), same details.

I bought these 2 titles for around $10 each.  Nice picture and sound quality.

 

Ash

this is a great site~ I love it-

I really hope some news comes out about The Abyss- I also hope that someone called Van to be part of the Blu-ray production-

The Abyss is very high on my most-wanted list of Blu-ray upgrades but Cameron is so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow in putting it out, it's ridiculous. There's gotta be a good hi-def master lying around by now. I'll be retired by the time this comes out. I think he secretly owns Grindhouse Releasing, an outfit that releases one movie every five years.

Its like Van said elsewhere on this site, the Master VIn was waiting for approval on was done in 2005- Cameron has said he wanted to go back and use the same process to remaster the abyss that he used on aliens-

i would guess we still have some time to wait.

Sooo, quite a bit of time has passed since the last update - any news on the Abyss Blu-ray?
I had the desire of watching this great movie recently only to be reminded that the only way for me to do this right now would be to torture my eyes with the non-anamorphic (!) DVD. No way!
Only three requests for the BD: Great Sound&Picture - Special Edition! - Under Pressure doc. Please?

The last I heard about it was a week or so ago on The Digital Bits (here - scroll down, the pertinent info is a couple paragraphs above the cover art images).

 

Looks like signs point to sometime within the next year, but Cameron is busy visiting the bottom of the ocean, so...

 

Both titles can't get here some soon enough, if you ask me.

Here's the excerpt from the Digital Bits, great news if it proves to be true. For both films, at this point I'd prefer waiting a little longer if it means Cameron will be involved in the Blu-ray.

I revisited The Abyss over the weekend after getting a strange sudden urge to watch something epic and exciting. It seems to get better with each viewing - what a phenomenal film! The writing, characters, dialogue, all top notch. Did I mention how exciting the film is? The only problem was the transfer. This film is going to benefit big-time from a hi-def upgrade. The whole time watching the film all I could think of was, "wouldn't this look great on Blu-ray?". The DVD was fine for it's time but that old disc is a dinosaur by today's standards. My hope is that Cameron will decide that the film needs a NEW, fresh transfer, not use something from 2005. I can only imagine a film like this would require a ton of work, dealing with alternate cuts, the length of the film, etc., which is what I believe is the main reason holding up a re-release.