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  1. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I have never said it was normal viewing distance but it is my viewing distance and I am not watching stills. I also found it quite visible at 2 screen distances away on my OLED and I consider that a normal distance for enthusiasts. The overriding question is if a medium that is capable to look...
  2. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I sit at about 1.05 screen widths away from a scope screen and it works quite well for movies that have not been tempered with too much. I guess I could increase my seating distance up to a point where more movies are tolerable but why do it when many movies look great at that distance. As for...
  3. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    True Lies did look beautiful theatrically. Cameron can obviously do as he pleases and we have to accept that but even with Titanic I found the new look to be uneven and often distracting and from what I hear True Lies is the worst of the bunch with the new releases. Oh well, I will get the...
  4. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    I am sure they are but it is not as if we had a "normal" Blu-ray release of either The Abyss or True Lies so for most of us that modern variant is the only available high resolution option.
  5. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Definitely what they Could have something to do with preserving the look of film. While film preservation status per se as in the negative being in good shape and so on is nothing to be worried about for these movies it looks like it is getting more difficult to also see the movies in a way...
  6. OliverK

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Thanks for posting that. Everybody encounters some limitations in production but only some very rare directors go back and try to "fix" things after the fact and James Cameron now is right up there with George Lucas and Peter Jackson when it comes to making their older movies a moving target...
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