Stephen Kings Cats Eye 4K UHD (1985)

[erixon20]

Originally Posted by lilboyblu

The US Warner Brothers editions are currently $4.95 for the Blu-ray and $5.95 for the DVD at HamiltonBook. Historically speaking, whenever stuff lands there, it's only a matter of time until a new version comes along. Wonder who will be releasing it on 4K in the US? Hope it won't be the yellow abomination that this one is.

I hope you are right-because I am in for an American release of this! And hopefully it isn't the yellow version.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Steel76

It's just hilarious when people defend these urine/teal transfers.

So all previous releases, TV, Video, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-Ray etc. are all wrong now?

Oh yeah, it's because it's UHD, and those are ALWAYS perfect, everything before was trash. Right?

It's probably just Hiventy trying to make them look more "modern", or they are colorblind, and see a blue sky as yellow in real life...

If I was rich, I would buy Hiventy, and shut them down.

Well, just because its vastly different doesn't mean its trash, either.

I have said this before, and will say it again - the biggest advantage of physical media is no one can take your copy away. If you like the Blu-ray, then keep the Blu-ray and use that as your reference. If someone else likes the UHD, they can play the UHD. Not every movie needs to be played back in UHD, as even the 1080p Blu-ray format on a modern top-tier OLED/Mini-LED is superior to even modern theatrical rendering in most cases.

Looking at the caps, which is a bad way to do it, but I don't have this release-

Personally, without listing my preference for every cap, i greatly prefer the UHD for the outdoor shots and greatly prefer the BD for the indoor shots. I think they went a bit overboard indoors. Probably wouldnt be enough for me to avoid the release if were available locally, though. In this case the difference is so large is because this is one of those magenta-push HD transfers vs. a very different take in 4K.

Also, it looks like indoors in many shots the reason it is green is because flourescent lighting is used. Flourescent lighting shows up green on film with no manipulation, so it appears they took a purist approach to how the light registered on the film. Previous version ,where the flourescent light appeared white, likely had some manipulation of the colors in post to eliminate that. This is interesting, because when WB restored Goodfellas for 4K, they completely removed all of that green effect that was on the very old Blu-ray; but from a pure "whats on the film" perspective, the green is probably right. An example shot is here:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...204366&i=9&l=0

You can see the reflection of the flourescent lights in the window. On the old Blu-ray, it appears they manipulated the color to cancel out the green cast it registers on film in an attempt to bring it closer to white; on the new 4K restoration, it appears they left the natural green cast that was originally registered on the film

[oddbox83]

Well, I can tell you it just looks wrong on 4K in motion. I wanted to like it but it's just too skewed.

This isn't one where it's a slight bias that people exaggerate - it's literally bathed in green and yellow. It simply does not look like an 80s film should anymore.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Well, I can tell you it just looks wrong on 4K in motion. I wanted to like it but it's just too skewed.

This isn't one where it's a slight bias that people exaggerate - it's literally bathed in green and yellow. It simply does not look like an 80s film should anymore.

Yeah it looks a bit weird to me as well, which is why I havent imported this one