Aliens 4K UHD (1986)

[chip75]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Of course many PC monitors feature fake HDR. Mine for example. It claims it is an HDR monitor and it does display HDR content, but the brightness only hits about 400 nits, and it doesn't even feature the enhanced color palette of HDR, so you get no benefits in color, just a bump in brightness and possibly shadow/highlight detail. It's certainly no match for my UHD TV.

Thankfully we've had 42" OLEDs which a lot of gamers jumped on, and PC monitors have raised their games.

[Retro81]

Game over man....game over

[Rick Grimes]

Originally Posted by Piriven

Any ideas on where to register our dissatisfaction? How did we get Gladiator fixed a few years ago?

I accidentally bought the original Gladiator release. I’ve kept it as reference quality for shithouse transfers, and to show my mates how “Grain is, for want of a better word, is good.”

In the case of Gladiator though, I think the dizzy realised what a shitshow it was and re-released the title, most likely firing whoever prepped it.

I don’t think there is much we can do to change JC’s mind when he preps a film for 4K. With T2 in 4K, no matter how much derision there was on the internet, there is/was still no fix.

Many artists. that would have worked with film, like the digitally manipulated look. My wife did a fine art degree in the 00’s. Sadly, the DNR’d, over sharpened and processed look was what she was taught to do back then.
Someone in Australia stuffed the local release of Chopper, with too much digital tampering and grain filtering. Probably a classmate of my wife’s. Had to purchase UK’s Second Sight release to get a filmic looking transfer of Chopper.

I believe Cameron is essentially a “grain hater”, again, for want of a better word. He specifically mentioned when he DNR’d Aliens for the Blu-Ray release that he was not happy with the film stock of the ‘mid-80’s, as he didn’t like how grainy it looked.
JC mentions in an interview how he was very happy to be able to clean up Aliens, for the most part; as there are a couple of shots on the Aliens 1080pBD that still look filmic, with most of the grain intact.

Aliens 4K is in trouble, with Cameron prepping the transfer, as he has/will choose to remove film grain, no matter how much fine detail is lost in the process. It’s a gods-damn shame.

[Telemachus]

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

[Telemachus]

I guess your P is working now

[frogmort]

[Telemachus]

You can't spell Ellen Ripley without pee

[Atomic Salad]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

You can't spell Ellen Ripley without pee

You can't spell Carter J Burke without "Jerk Rat"

You can't spell Dwayne Hicks without "Acid Hewn"

[KubrickKurasawa]

This was a decent watch on vhs. That is all.

[mtsanis]

Watched the iTunes version of this on my 55" Samsung QLED and I think it looks awesome. I saw this in the theater as a kid, and i have no recollection of what it looked like, but this looks like a great upgrade to me.

[BluFan24]

I went on bit of a retro Alien kick during the pandemic. You can't beat the audio on those LD's and the video isn't to bad when ran through my receiver out to a 42" plasma. Projected isn't to bad either.

[Show spoiler]

[Kyle15]

The Laserdisc packaging always kicked butt.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

The Laserdisc packaging always kicked butt.

Laserdic art in general was amazing because like vinyl, you get a huge crisp image of the art. I even saved a few laserdiscs because of the art.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by BluFan24

I went on bit of a retro Alien kick during the pandemic. You can't beat the audio on those LD's and the video isn't to bad when ran through my receiver out to a 42" plasma. Projected isn't to bad either.

[Show spoiler]

[Show spoiler]

Might want to remove that shrinkwrap.

Thing about shrinkwrap is that, over time, it keeps shrinking. It will warp the packaging and the discs in the long run. I bought a ton of clear vinyl sleeves for my LDs back in the '90s.

Originally Posted by Kyle15

The Laserdisc packaging always kicked butt.

It looked nice, but weighed a TON. I've actually had shelves sag from them. The containers I have for my remaining LDs are in storage and are painfully heavy.

[Dr. T]

Originally Posted by BluFan24

I went on bit of a retro Alien kick during the pandemic. You can't beat the audio on those LD's and the video isn't to bad when ran through my receiver out to a 42" plasma. Projected isn't to bad either.

[Show spoiler]

That Alien LD had an LFE track that could be measured on the Richter scale.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Might want to remove that shrinkwrap.

Thing about shrinkwrap is that, over time, it keeps shrinking. It will warp the packaging and the discs in the long run. I bought a ton of clear vinyl sleeves for my LDs back in the '90s.


It looked nice, but weighed a TON. I've actually had shelves sag from them. The containers I have for my remaining LDs are in storage and are painfully heavy.

Shelves are built cheaply these days. Many of my shelves sag from blu-rays and books. I try to flip them upside-down every so often to balance them back out but it's a hassle. The center permanent shelf can't be flipped of course so any sagging is permanent.

[Geoff D]

That remastered Aliens THX LD absolutely slaps. Better PQ than the DVD.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Laserdic art in general was amazing because like vinyl, you get a huge crisp image of the art. I even saved a few laserdiscs because of the art.

The effort that went into making them was very impressive and classy; often the original poster art, really nice layout, design, photos, etc. were all too cool. Especially when compared to the usual cheap and easy, ugly photshop stuff we get too often with discs.

[DaylightsEnd]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

The effort that went into making them was very impressive and classy; often the original poster art, really nice layout, design, photos, etc. were all too cool. Especially when compared to the usual cheap and easy, ugly photshop stuff we get too often with discs.

But...nothing really says Devotion and Invested Commitment or captures the pure essence of cinema like a modern-day floating-head cartoon montage....

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Shelves are built cheaply these days.

This was in the 1990s - and they were fairly heavy duty shelves from the '80s and '90s. That's why I mentioned it.