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Originally Posted by Dotpattern
The new release is being advertised as having been "remastered." Applying DNR and scrubbing the image of detail is not a remaster...
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Really? I think you should ask some of the people that do this kind of work for a living. You will find that noise reduction, de-graining, dustbusting, scratch removal, gamma correction, color correction, and any number of other processes are all part of the digital toolbox used on a daily basis by every post house doing work for any of the major studios. The simple fact is that film in its raw form is almost never suitable for high definition video mastering without some form of digital manipulation. The problem, when there is one, is not the use of these tools but the misuse. BTW, the people twiddling the knobs are rarely the people making the decisions about how something will look. They can offer suggestions, but it is ultimately the client that makes these decisions.
If the new issue of
Predator looks a certain way, it is virtually a certainty that someone in the technical division of Fox Home Video, or even quite possibly the filmmaker or someone associated with the production of the film, has made the decisions that have led to this transfer looking the way it does.