Addams Family Values 4K UHD (1993)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by nicwood

It does look like a Blu-ray but I think the encode is the culprit and less the element they used. The way these 4K caps look reminded me of how the recent international re-encodes of The Firm, Truman Show etc. where the US versions look devoid of detail and suggest a poorer soruce element but in the end it was just crappy encoding. Here's an example: https://slow.pics/c/mrCH5wwv.

This one from Addams shows that the new transfer has a tiny bit more detail than the old BD: https://slow.pics/c/2iPMRiTv and presumably more had they not taken off the top layer.

Erm...not sure what that Firm comparison is supposed to prove, it already looks much sharper than any of those AFV shots even in the worst encoded iteration, and in said iteration it's reducing stuff to blocky awfulness instead of taking a global bite out of the resolution of the whole image. They well have done something to AFV's encode but that source does not look anywhere near OG neg to me.