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A camera negative was not meant to be a final product NOT because it was impossible for it to be so. No one projected negatives. Prints...

No need to further discuss In the Heat of the Night as a film. The interest here is Kino's new 4k of the film, derived from the same...

I watched it streamed last week - really enjoyed it. Lots of fun. I plan on buying this disc.

Easy. Wonderfully entertaining film. Shot in 4.5k, with a 2k finish, uprezzed to 4k, and looks beautiful. HDR works nicely. Ditto...

I'm not 100% sure, but from what I've noticed the foreign releases got BDs included in the set, while the US got the digital codes.

It's a little curious why Paramount didn't include the remastered BDs in either set (especially the more expensive Collector's Edition)...

Two different discs, and it’s far more than organic grain being affected. The process changes the overall imagery.

One must believe they’re aware. But I doubt that it matters.

Cundey approved about 12 different video masters for The Thing, and no two of them look anything alike! :D

Yes. The 2008 Blu-ray Coppola Restoration (from 2007) regular US Blu-ray boxset looks like this:

I hope this is brought to the studio project leads(s) awareness by someone.

My own preference is to have it as close as possible to the way it would have looked on opening night in a top cinema. I think both...

The problem is, UHD is almost certainly the final consumer video format we'll ever see. I'm not sure how much of a draw new restorations...

I don’t have all of the internal information, but the general consensus, as told to me back in 2019, was to match Mr. Willis’ colors...