The Abyss 4K UHD (1989)

[Eric_Hendershot]

Originally Posted by heineken

Pre-ordered mine via Diabolik. Was going to wait for Amazon, but couldn't wait any longer! Plus there's always the chance of it getting it a little sooner with Diabolik.

DNR or no DNR, this is a day one for me.

I did the same, along with Aliens & True Lies. Like you said, we may get it sooner and they'll be packed better.

[stvn1974]

DiabolikDVD has all three up for $25 each.

[bud_brigman]

Originally Posted by heineken

Pre-ordered mine via Diabolik. Was going to wait for Amazon, but couldn't wait any longer! Plus there's always the chance of it getting it a little sooner with Diabolik.

DNR or no DNR, this is a day one for me.

“You know, I’m somewhat of a fan of The Abyss myself.” (Avi pic)

Ever since I bought a TV and a DVD player that could produce anamorphic images, I’ve been waiting for this.

[James Luckard]

Bizarre that Amazon still doesn't have Abyss, True Lies and Aliens up for preorder.

I wonder if it's one of their many battles with Disney.

[Prof_Ratigan]

Did not occur to me to use Disney Movie Club. I've been declining those offers for years and it's finally paid off. Thanks team!

[Kinsella5]

No surprise but Target is currently showing The Abyss 4K pre-orders as sold out.

[gazza1975]

pre-ordered the abyss from wowhd as they deliver quick to the UK - i dont support amazon anymore so i ordered TL and Aliens 4k from HMV - i have no idea if the transfers will improve but i want them on a disc and for the atmos mix - i will keep my original aliens blu-ray just in case - wish we had these in open matte though like avatar and AWOW

[daalcorn23]

Originally Posted by Prof_Ratigan

Did not occur to me to use Disney Movie Club. I've been declining those offers for years and it's finally paid off. Thanks team!

Yup, I waited patiently for these pre-orders to show up on DMC, then loaded up with 60% off on all of these

-True Lies 4K
-The Abyss 4K
-Aliens 4K
-Alien 4K
-Indiana Jones DOD 4k
-Prey 4k
-The Creator 4k
-Avatar: CE 4K
-Avatar: WOW CE 4K
-Nightmare before Xmas 4K

[Comicfan]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

No surprise but Target is currently showing The Abyss 4K pre-orders as sold out.

Hmm,I guess I missed my shot.I was waiting until tomorrow to pre-order three things(Fear The Walking Dead Season 8 is the third) because I could only afford to pre-order before that for the two. Wanted to try for that $10 Circle reward deal. Didn't think either would sell out before Friday since they are catalog titles. Oh well, I guess I go to plan B and pre-order from Amazon when their pre-order page goes live. I already have plenty in my gift card account to order when it goes live.So I just pre-ordfered True Lies and Fear Season 8 from Target. I'll still get an extra gift card for Target tomorrow just to have as a backup in case The Abyss goes back up for pre-orders there (I've seen that happen a few times before) before the Amazon pre-order goes live. Again, I was prepared with a Plan A and Plan B. So i just go with Plan B now.

[mastafishere]

Just a heads up diabolikdvd has a 10% off coupon code when you sign up (Though their shipping is $5 flat fee so that almost negated the 7.50 I got off) Still, this seems to the cheapest option outside of DMC.

[bleaki]

It says its "backordered" on diabolik. Is that legitimate?

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by bleaki

It says its "backordered" on diabolik. Is that legitimate?

All preorders say that, if it is out of stock it will say so in yellow on the product page over the thumbnail of the packaging.

[Marcuslaw]

Anyone selling a steelbook or a CE edition?

[Comicfan]

Originally Posted by Marcuslaw

Anyone selling a steelbook or a CE edition?

I haven't seen anything about a steelbook or special release.

[LSK]

The audio errors will be fixed for the UHD release. I didn't know the film had any audio errors, but nice to see them corrected.

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/m...r5lYsbdAoqzQk4

"If you’re a longtime fan of The Abyss, and you’re familiar with the Special Edition version of the film on LaserDisc and DVD, you’ll know that the DVD release included audio errors in its dialogue and music (in the SE’s Dolby Digital 5.1 mix only—the 2.0 track was okay) that were introduced by seamless branching.

At about 16:38 into the Theatrical Cut, Bud asks Lindsey, “So what are you doing down here, Hotrod?”

But in the Special Edition, this dialogue is slightly different. At 20:36, Bud says, “You know, I can’t believe you were dumb enough to come down here and now you’re stuck here for the storm. That was dumb, Hotrod. Real dumb.” To which Lindsey replies, “I didn’t come down here to fight with you.” And that causes Bud to say, “Yeah, well… then why did you come down?”

Except that in the DVD version of the Special Edition via seamless branching, that last line “Yeah, well… then why did you come down?” was actually replaced by his line from the Theatrical Cut: “So what are you doing down here, Hotrod?” It was an awkward conversational turn, made all the more weird because you could see that Bud was still mouthing his SE line.

And near the end of the Special Edition, at about 2:39:22 in the 5.1 mix, there was an odd shift in the tone of the score caused by the branching as well.

Again, these were errors introduced in the DVD authoring process, and they’re something that the folks at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment always meant to correct when they released the film on Blu-ray. Except that never happened… and then Fox got purchased by Disney, all the Fox Home Entertainment people got laid off, and nobody at Disney had any awareness of the audio errors.

So when the production team at the mastering and authoring vendor working on the new 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release of the film finished the new Special Edition presentation last year, they used the DVD branching as a guide... and these same audio errors crept into the new Atmos mix on the 4K SE master.

But here’s where the story turns positive...

A sharp-eared Digital Bits reader who goes by the name of SuperDan on Twitter went to the 4K remastered Special Edition theatrical screening of the film back on December 6th. He noticed that the audio errors were still there, and messaged me privately on Twitter to alert me of it when he walked out of the theater.

And the good news is, I have contacts directly involved in the 4K remastering and disc authoring work on all of these new James Cameron titles. So I was able to alert the team right away, and they flagged the errors for QC to check out. Turns out, QC did confirm the errors. And luckily, they hadn’t sent the discs off to replication yet, so they were able to pull the audio stems and correct the mix in the Special Edition master.

I mention this now because, just yesterday, I received confirmation privately that the audio errors have indeed been fixed for the new physical 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release. They should be corrected soon in the 4K Digital masters as well (the HD Digital masters were corrected long ago).

Suffice it to say, The Digital Bits may have just saved Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment the headache and embarrassment of the errors not having been caught, not to mention the significant cost of a disc recall and replacement program."

[KarmaNL]

Originally Posted by LSK

Suffice it to say, The Digital Bits may have just saved Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment the headache and embarrassment of the errors not having been caught, not to mention the significant cost of a disc recall and replacement program."[/I]

omg

I'll take an audio error over a botched transfer anyday

[KcMsterpce]

There's a lot of self-congradulatory adulation in that article (I'm sure they dislocated their shoulder patting themself in the back), but it's nice there's the audio 'fix'.
Let's all be honest, though... Disney would NOT recall the disc for that issue. No chance.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

No surprise but Target is currently showing The Abyss 4K pre-orders as sold out.

Truly odd, these can't possible be limited editions, there was nothing in all the publicity to suggest that.

[KcMsterpce]

I figure that there is an unexpected demand for these releases compared to "historical norms", especially for older catalogue title releases.
Thus, the pre-order supply is being maxed out, until there is confirmation of more copies available at some point in the future to free up more pre-order slots.

I am also quite sure that anyone who didn't already pre-order their copy on these sites will recieve a new batch of releases, and they won't have slipcovers. Thank God, right? Save some trees!

[LordoftheRings]

Hallelujah