Recent content by Brian Husar

The Abyss looks awesome.

Ok. I like the transfers. I am one of those people that like grain, specifically because if you lose the grain, you can lose details. Do these look like they were shot in 35MM? No. But it is not that DNR smearing mess we had to deal with during the early days of blu ray. Cameron always hated the...

For someone like me who didn’t have a Laserdisc Player, The Fox Widescreen Series on VHS was my first with The Abyss extended and Aliens extended. They were all THX mastered on VHS. Meaning the approved master was the THX certified laserdisc master on VHS.

I always felt it was a bit too much grain in Aliens. Like you said it doesn’t use the grain as part of the aura or intent. A great example of the later is the opening of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Agree with you and he always is right. He was laughed at with Titanic during production, this was going to be his Heaven’s Gate, and look what happened. I didn’t think we needed another Avatar, and damn was I wrong. Cameron wants his films like this and they look incredible this way, I will not...

Well since we are going this route, Mr Harris, hire me as your 51 year old assistant. I will get you coffee, I will search vaults for you, I will look for studio notes. Anything you want. Book your plane tickets.

I have watched the movies, although my Abyss has a tech issue that causes it to freeze on both of my players during the special edition, but I love what I am seeing. Cameron doesn’t like the grain, and uses a system that removes the grain but no loss of detail, I am there. These look incredible...

Not at all so I have been playing that disc in my backup Sony

I loved the disc. I don’t think it lost anything with the processing for me. It still gave me everything I needed. The only issue for me is I miss the THX trailers that played before every other edition. Maybe play the Atmos/Vision trailers. Lol.

I think there has to be an issue with the source. I know the 4K of Platoon is based on the 4K transfer Shout released in 2018 that Stone supervised. Blu Ray.com gave that one a good review. Back in the 90’s there was the Pioneer Collectors Edition set that was THX certified that had Robert...

Agreed. I don’t know why he created a Director’s Cut when the theatrical was also a director’s cut. I like it and the DC would work well with an intermission. But the theatrical is a tight 189 minutes.

Do you use distilled water on the discs when you clean them?

This is the one I have been using.

The cleaner I do have has brushes. So just spray the air blower obviously inside, what is a vortex style cleaner?

I am shocked and stunned, as The Rutles so emotionally said. I don’t know if Lucas was responsible, or Universal, but the movie is so good that I was still able to get into it and enjoyed it. I wasn’t there when it was shown on the big screen, I was a baby, born Feb 11th, 1973, but I know...