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Comment on After waiting over twenty years, I finally have The Abyss in 4K

This copy has been imported from Europe as the official release date is this week I think. It has Danish, Finnish, Swedish and Dutch subtitles. I got an email saying it was being packed and dispatched on 24th, and it arrived today on the 29th. FedEx shipped it to the UK, where it was handed off to the Royal Mail.

I’ve been following the use of AI to de-grain the picture fairly closely ever since this, along with True Lies and Aliens, dropped on US streaming services last year.

From what I’ve been seeing, The Abyss came off the lightest, with True Lies looking the worst. I’ve seen comparison screenshots and can see the difference, but to be honest, once the film starts, I forget all that and get sucked into the experience.

The only other way to watch the film would to download a pirate rip of an old HD cable broadcast…apparently. 😉

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miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was wondering, many 4K releases are probably just an upscale of the existing release, no? Is there any way to know if the image is native 4K made from the original material when buying?

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- UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d like to think that the majority of releases are new 4K scans of the original camera negatives. The only way to know for sure is to read detailed reviews beforehand. For example, here’s the information about The Abyss from The Digital Bits.
  
  For its release on Ultra HD, Lightstorm, working with Park Road Post, has built a new 4K Digital Intermediate using recent 4K scans of the original camera negative (confirmed per Lightstorm). This footage was then “optimized” by Park Road’s proprietary deep-learning algorithms. Photochemical grain has been greatly reduced, though not eliminated entirely, while fine detail has been “enhanced” algorithmically. The image has also been graded for high dynamic range, with both Dolby Vision and HDR10 available.
  
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