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Well, I don't believe there's anything HDR about either The Abyss or True Lies. On Aliens I might be fooled into believing it has mild HDR (though a YouTube reviewer supposedly ran tests that prove otherwise), but these other two have no sign of it.

My belief remains that all of these James Cameron remasters were based on existing masters the studio already had on hand, run through the new A.I. processing to remove grain and enhance detail. None of the movies received new film scans and no completely new masters were struck. The source...

Off the top of my head, Kino's UHD releases for Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly) don't bother with HDR in any form. The discs are authored as 4K SDR. These James Cameron UHDs pretend to be HDR. If you put...

Whatever the metadata may say, there's visible clipping in highlights, and absolutely nothing about the disc looks remotely HDR or Wide Color Gamut.

The UHD doesn't really have HDR either. It's SDR mapped inside an HDR container.

I didn't go to the theatrical event in December, but I can't imagine that it was derived from anything other than this Park Road Post remaster. The whole point of Cameron finally allowing the film to be re-reissued is that he fell in love with this A.I. degraining and enhancement process.

After many delays from Amazon, my copy of the disc finally came in last week. Finding three hours to watch the whole Special Edition then took another few days, but I finally did, and have now reviewed it. I agree that this is the best-looking of the three Skynet-derived remasters. Even without...

What DCP is that? The one that played theatrically in December? Would not that have been from the new Cameron-approved Park Road master? When did The Abyss ever have a DCP that wasn't part of this Park Road remastering process? As far as I was aware, prior to this past December, the Special...

Yeah, but those complaints were mostly brushed off at the time and the movie was a huge box office hit. The more recent revival of them would have everyone believe the movie is the most horrifically racist and misogynistic piece of hate speech ever made - which, I'm sorry, is an outsized...

Even with this issue, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that The Abyss is the best seller of this Cameron wave. 1) It benefits from the publicity and hype of the recent theatrical re-release. 2) Aliens already had pretty good Blu-ray editions available for the past 14 years, so demand for an...

Jayembee already mentioned Barnes & Noble. I'll also toss in a mention for Newbury Comics, though selection is typically limited and prices high.

There have been a number of supply chain and distribution issues with all three of these Cameron titles. Many of us who preordered the Abyss ahead of release still haven't received it. My copies of True Lies and Aliens were a couple weeks late. Amazon gave me a vague date of sometime before May...

Regardless, even if you want to call Greystoke the first Super 35 feature, that was five years before The Abyss, and other major productions had used the format in the meantime, including Top Gun and Silverado. So, I don't really think it's quite accurate to say that The Abyss was an early Super...

If cleaning the disc doesn't help, my other thought is that the player(s) may be having trouble getting hung up at the seamless branching points between the theatrical and extended versions of the movie.

Hmm, well, that's certainly a wrinkle. However, RAH posted a response in that thread questioning whether the phrase "2k restoration" also refers to the base scan.

As I mentioned in another thread, I think those people are misinformed. As far as I've always been aware, Aliens was already scanned and mastered in 4K for the Blu-ray release in 2010. Lowry Digital's special de-graining process that James Cameron was so happy with relied on a 4K workflow. So...

RAH draws a distinction between real film grain and the digital noise added to simulate grain. These new James Cameron releases have had all the original film grain stripped out and a new (much finer) layer of artificial grain added for texture.