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The Abyss looks awesome.

Ok. I like the transfers. I am one of those people that like grain, specifically because if you lose the grain, you can lose details. Do these look like they were shot in 35MM? No. But it is not that DNR smearing mess we had to deal with during the early days of blu ray. Cameron always hated the...

For someone like me who didn’t have a Laserdisc Player, The Fox Widescreen Series on VHS was my first with The Abyss extended and Aliens extended. They were all THX mastered on VHS. Meaning the approved master was the THX certified laserdisc master on VHS.

I always felt it was a bit too much grain in Aliens. Like you said it doesn’t use the grain as part of the aura or intent. A great example of the later is the opening of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Agree with you and he always is right. He was laughed at with Titanic during production, this was going to be his Heaven’s Gate, and look what happened. I didn’t think we needed another Avatar, and damn was I wrong. Cameron wants his films like this and they look incredible this way, I will not...

Well since we are going this route, Mr Harris, hire me as your 51 year old assistant. I will get you coffee, I will search vaults for you, I will look for studio notes. Anything you want. Book your plane tickets.

I have watched the movies, although my Abyss has a tech issue that causes it to freeze on both of my players during the special edition, but I love what I am seeing. Cameron doesn’t like the grain, and uses a system that removes the grain but no loss of detail, I am there. These look incredible...

Not at all so I have been playing that disc in my backup Sony

I loved the disc. I don’t think it lost anything with the processing for me. It still gave me everything I needed. The only issue for me is I miss the THX trailers that played before every other edition. Maybe play the Atmos/Vision trailers. Lol.

I think there has to be an issue with the source. I know the 4K of Platoon is based on the 4K transfer Shout released in 2018 that Stone supervised. Blu Ray.com gave that one a good review. Back in the 90’s there was the Pioneer Collectors Edition set that was THX certified that had Robert...

Agreed. I don’t know why he created a Director’s Cut when the theatrical was also a director’s cut. I like it and the DC would work well with an intermission. But the theatrical is a tight 189 minutes.

Do you use distilled water on the discs when you clean them?

This is the one I have been using.

The cleaner I do have has brushes. So just spray the air blower obviously inside, what is a vortex style cleaner?

I am shocked and stunned, as The Rutles so emotionally said. I don’t know if Lucas was responsible, or Universal, but the movie is so good that I was still able to get into it and enjoyed it. I wasn’t there when it was shown on the big screen, I was a baby, born Feb 11th, 1973, but I know...

I got the player in 2021 and honestly it is one of the best players ever, but recently all of a sudden, on certain discs, I have been having issues with tiling, where the picture becomes a series of windows, and a garbled mess. The discs have been cleaned, the player has been cleaned, also...

Reminds me of when I first saw Fiddler On The Roof on Cinemax, with the original Transamerica logo, and at the end, Topol all of a sudden looks like he loses weight when he invites the fiddler along with his family.

Woodstock was the one for me. I first saw it on PBS and all of the multi image sequences were letterboxed. I finally got it on VHS in Christmas of 1987 and it was pan and scan, although I didn’t know that term, but all of the multi image sequences were panned back and forth, and if two panels...

They also used the Born On The Fourth Of July Music for the trailer to Carlito’s Way.

Thanks. Ordered an HDMI cable that said compatible with Roku TV’s and Dolby Vision

Thanks, I have turned off the local and dynamic contrast and it still does the dimming issue. I need to download the manual.

I have a Panasonic DP-UB820 4K UHD Blu Ray player and I have a TCL R625 Television. I previously had a Vizio and did not have the same issue. Any time I play a disc that is Dolby Vision, the television seems to do some sort of auto dimming and brightening, some times shot by shot. It doesn't do...

I love this movie. I saw it in the theaters when it came out. When I finally became a film fanatic, imagine my shock when I found out John Houston directed this. This is the next one in the box set I am going to have a go at watching. I can’t wait.

OK. You are asking for one title you want on 4K disc, but you chose two because it’s your thread. Well I am going to choose three because I like your thread. Oliver Stone’s Born On The Fourth Of July, Patton (Disney???), Fiddler On The Roof with the original United Artists Transamerica logo and...

I was always “film film film” and I believed what Nolan and QT would say. And then I saw The Revenant, and most of it was shot with a new camera to me, the Arri Alexa 65. It was cinematic, probably how Lean and Freddie Young would have shot Lawrence if they were here today. I learned that it was...

Agreed, watched it last night and that was very powerful. The effects in the film are a big result of ILM being too busy, the stop motion looks exactly like stop motion. But I still like the sequence when they cross over.

Exactly. Very larger than life and large scale filmmaking. As opposed to a standard bio-pic, it's an epic IMO. People have issues with Stone's The Doors, but he also was trying to create something big in scope that was not just a standard bio-pic.

And Romeo + Juliet.

Saw this at a Dolby Cinema with my Mom and Brother this past Summer. I really enjoyed it. Played loose with some of the facts, but not as much as Bohemian Rhapsody. It's Baz, the Ken Russell of our time, and I mean that as a compliment. Ken with huge budgets and all of the great technology at...

True, from what I heard the ending was supposed to have this big epic battle, and it was cancelled once the budget was slashed.