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Hey Robert! Good chatting with you, my friend. I agree, I think the master is impressive and does justice to the film. I just wish...

Been waiting for this one. Hoping that I get it for father's day (I have dropped hints)

You bought two too many.

I just checked in to see how one of my favorite HTF threads is doing (the other one being The Abyss). After reading a thoughtful...

Totally agree with your point that the majority of viewers have no basis for understanding how these films initially looked. And...

The studios (mostly, w/ very few exceptions) aren't by this point. They're just doing their thing(s), whatever seems fine for their...

This is analogous to the Loudness Wars a while back. Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick once made the point that the 2009...

I'm really confident that now that we saw the Cameron fiasco regarding the home cinema versions of his films, someone or some persons...

I'm not equipped to take 4K HDR screenshots, but I ripped the accompanying Blu-ray from the new master and was able to compare it...

I like having the debate and the data. I prefer movies shot on film to look like film and if I pay money for a de-grained release like...

OK OK but after completely missing out on the discussion yesterday when this thread veered so wildly off topic, I wanted to add one...

Hello, long time lurker, first time poster, but this Aliens disc is the straw that made me finally crack and register an account. My irl...

Personally, my ideal for a film on disc is for it to look as close as possible to how the best quality film print at the time would’ve...

You don't get it. Back then the studios cared about what reviewers and sites like ours were saying about their product. Not so much...

I wanted to see what one of Ripley's pores would look like if we had a 100000K Blu-ray. I was not disappointed by the stunning clarity...