The Abyss 4K UHD (1989)

[sojrner]

Originally Posted by sperezmore

Nice review.

Enjoy!

https://whysoblu.com/the-abyss-ultim...lu-ray-review/

Regards,

Look, on principle alone, anyone who forces double-spacing after a period throughout (most of) their writeup automatically loses credibility. I did catch this line before I bailed:

Every inch of the film looks as if it was meticulously cleaned with no disrespectful DNR or cleanup. Grain is present but less apparent thanks to AI. Purists may complain

I was audibly chuckling. It was cleaned with no cleanup, and grain is present, but not apparent, thanks to AI. Yup, purists may complain...

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by doover

Who is the person on the left side of the cover art?

You mean Ed Harris?

[danny24]

One thing I have learned over the years of collecting movies is reviewers reviews are a good indicator of a quality transfer but how the people react to the transfer is more telling.

[punisher]

Originally Posted by sojrner

Look, on principle alone, anyone who forces double-spacing after a period throughout (most of) their writeup automatically loses credibility. I did catch this line before I bailed:

I was audibly chuckling. It was cleaned with no cleanup, and grain is present, but not apparent, thanks to AI. Yup, purists may complain...

haters just gotta hate..

[sojrner]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

You mean Ed Harris?

Is he real?

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by sojrner

Is he real?

Ed Harris is my dad.

[sojrner]

Originally Posted by punisher

haters just gotta hate..

Well, I mean, I didn't read the entire article, but I didn't catch any notes of hatred in it. I think the author was being rather civil, even as they presented it as if from a monospaced typewriter... The lack of period-accurate font with it though means they probably don't like old-timey things like film grains and paper, so mayhap it was some other pedantry at play. (ahem) Regardless, there wasn't any hate that I picked up.

[sojrner]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Ed Harris is my dad.

Oh! Well, yes, but is he real?

[ronboster]

Originally Posted by sojrner

Oh! Well, yes, but is he real?

You can't grow a real mullet like that if you are fictional



Side note, can't wait for "Love Lies Bleeding"

[J.M.P.]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

No, it's because DVD still makes over 50% of all disc sales. Most people don't care about blu-ray or 4K UHD. Stop with the greed nonsense and faux outrage.

And "More Blu-Ray's produced should bring the production fees down" shows you don't know a thing about which you speak. There is ONE replication factory left for all of North America, and unless they re-open one of the 10 or 11 that shuttered when physical media sales plunged, this is not going to change.

Hello Bates_Motel, I apreciate your input. I started collecting movies with VHS, then transitioned to DVD and then to Blu-Ray. When the DVD started to apear the VHS was phased out. I know most of the people don't care about HD. For the last 26 years we have HD TV's. In my opinion DVD should be phased out long time ago. I know the prices to produce physical media. It goes down with volume. When I wrote about greed is related to the fees. Do you remember the Sony Betamax licensing fees ? The industry found another way with VHS. Betamax disappeared also for other reasons. But this is another story.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Also sounds like audiophiles are in for a treat.

Oh boy!!!

"The crane! We lost the crane! It's on it's way down to you!"

From memory, the crane going down the drain was epic in the woofers and tweeters.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Originally Posted by ronboster

You can't grow a real mullet like that if you are fictional



Side note, can't wait for "Love Lies Bleeding"

Same. You just made me remind myself that Saint Maud is on Prime... and it's now added to watchlist. So I just added it and will watch that one soon cuz Love Lies Bleeding looks awesome.

[SpacemanDoug]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

That's why the original posters are so cool and the new cover is so meh!

I actually like the cover for The Abyss, it's Aliens that I think is the ugliest of the bunch

[aiman04]

Other than Bill’s affiliate marketing bait review when can we expect the reviews for Camo’s triplets?

Anyone can recommend honest reviewers? Even our own can be biased sometimes.

I’m still not sure I will be getting these, been waiting for them since the advent of blu-ray disc, the streaming versions don’t look good but the pull is too strong.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by SpacemanDoug

I actually like the cover for The Abyss, it's Aliens that I think is the ugliest of the bunch

Total opposite for me, at least Aliens' new art isn't dreadful floaty head photoshop shite like The Abuse

[neo5468]

Originally Posted by aiman04

Other than Bill’s affiliate marketing bait review when can we expect the reviews for Camo’s triplets?

Anyone can recommend honest reviewers? Even our own can be biased sometimes.

I’m still not sure I will be getting these, been waiting for them since the advent of blu-ray disc, the streaming versions don’t look good but the pull is too strong.

I don't think you have much of a choice, since the only alternative is DVD from 500 years ago. With 4k disc, you will also get lossless audio for the first time in movie existence and audio is always a big improvement over streaming version.

It is not like Aliens, where you can fallback on previous 1080p blu, if you don't like 4k master. This is all we are gonna get for the foreseeable future, therefore, making a choice is easy.

Well I guess an alternative is that you never watch a movie again, or watch streaming version with compromised audio and even worse picture quality.

[Member-222782]

Has anyone declared that they’d rather stick with the DVD yet?

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Has anyone declared that they’d rather stick with the DVD yet?

I do want to get one of those 16:9 2 Disc DVD editions just to have.

I never owned the LaserDisc edition.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Has anyone declared that they’d rather stick with the DVD yet?

I’m just keeping a note of all the strongest protestors, just incase I catch them promoting HFR in the future.

[ImBlu_DaBaDee]

Just got notice that my copy from Wal-Mart is being shipped and arriving Monday, still making it a day early