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

    My Oppo 205 has always been hypersensitive to any blemishes that it perceives, even on new discs straight out of the shrinkwrap that look perfectly clean. Much more so that my 105 or any previous generation players were. A disc cleaning usually takes care of it. That said, The Abyss played fine...
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    A few words about...™ - Quigley Down Under -- in 4k UHD

    Just finished it. Gorgeous disc, and a massive upgrade over either of the previously available Blu-rays. Day-and-night difference.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    The underwater scenes were shot with 2-perf cameras that were custom-built for the dives by Panavision. Techniscope wasn't really a thing by that point, although the basic concept has been periodically revived by others like Panavision.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    And that's fair enough. I would still say that reproducing the texture of grain on 35mm release prints isn't necessarily easy without manipulating the way that the grain looks on the scans from the negative, but that's honestly where a little bit of grain reduction is fair when it comes to 4K...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Did you actually go back and read the comments that I mentioned? Because it sure doesn't sound like you did. I said the video has issues, and it does. The voice is AI generated, and while I'm not saying that the whole video was AI generated, the content was still cobbled from elsewhere. The...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    Using words like "logical" is what you and others in this debate are doing to try to give yourselves an air of superiority to others. You all keep trying to state opinion as fact. There isn't any one rule for scores that every reviewer follows, there never has been one, and there never will be...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    You're even farther behind on your reading! Go back a few pages and you'll see some responses when someone else posted that video. It has issues.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    2005 called; it wants its jargon back.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    There's another nuance to "back in the day." In this case, the quote actually proves more than the poster wanted it to. It's further concrete evidence that Cameron has been on the warpath against grain for decades now, ever since Aliens was first released. Back in the day, he was happy with the...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    The grain is softened on release prints, not accentuated. The look of the grain on a negative scan isn't accurate to what was seen on release prints. If your yardstick is release prints, then negative scans are inaccurate to that look. If your standard is what's on the negative, then you're...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    If you really think that fourth-generation prints don't lose detail that was on the original negative, I've got some swampland in Tennessee to sell you. Cheap, too.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    So I take it that you're opposed to 4K releases in general? Because a 4K (or higher) scan of the camera negative isn't faithful to the original release. It's too sharp, too detailed, and has grain that's much clearer. If your yardstick is the original release, then you're asking for something to...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    This. We're all Arthur Dent lying in front of the bulldozer: "Mr. Dent. Do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I were to let it roll straight over you?" "No, how much?" "None at all."
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