Netflix Germany currently show True Lies & The Abyss

[dvdmike]

Channel 4 was the same master I recorded and then deleted it asap

[maksnew]

The latest WEB DL Amazon 2: 35.1 in quality is better than all previous broadcasts True Lies

Open Matte VS D-Theater VS WEB DL

General
Unique ID : 282330383044010914736532837186254977378 (0xD466DA98A1C3E2FC98E745490A98B962)
Complete name : True.Lies.1994.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-None.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 13.4 GiB
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Overall bit rate : 13.6 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2019-05-13 13:15:07
Writing application : mkvmerge v32.0.0 ('Astral Progressions') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.7 + libmatroska v1.5.0

Video
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Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 13.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.346
Stream size : 12.8 GiB (95%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : A_EAC3
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 645 MiB (5%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 51 b/s
Count of elements : 2080
Stream size : 53.3 KiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

[Stamper]

Look the same to me it's still the old master from 20 years ago with clipped whites everywhere.

There's a slight increase, but this is still the same master.

Hoping they remaster it one day before we are all dead LOL

[maksnew]

I also managed to get the Abyss of 1989 in better quality than they were before.

General
Unique ID : 72593546564446889142371503607335283058 (0x369D022DB24FEA5C35593CCD1516E972)
Complete name : The.Abyss.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-None.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 13.1 GiB
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 13.4 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2019-05-13 14:26:19
Writing application : mkvmerge v32.0.0 ('Astral Progressions') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.7 + libmatroska v1.5.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 12.8 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 15.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.340
Stream size : 12.5 GiB (95%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : A_EAC3
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 643 MiB (5%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 47 b/s
Count of elements : 1844
Stream size : 48.8 KiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

[dwalkerdon]

Look the same to me it's still the old master from 20 years ago with clipped whites everywhere.

There's a slight increase, but this is still the same master.

Hoping they remaster it one day before we are all dead LOL

The Starz Open Matte Webrip of True Lies is indeed a remastered transfer (Reliance MediaWorks did a 4k Scan of the OCN) The thing that sucks about it is that the Starz logo pops up from time to time in the image.

[X5gb]

The STARZ open matte does not look like a 4k remaster of the OCN. It looks just the same as the usual ancient master but with the mattes opened up. Where did you get that info.

[Stamper]

Yes it's the same stuff. You can matte it to erase the logo, you'll get something like the 70mm copies.

[maksnew]

On HDBits, the very first movie distribution of the true lie was in 2006, it was HDTV 1080i Open Matte without logos, the quality is a little worse. STARZ

[dwalkerdon]

The STARZ open matte does not look like a 4k remaster of the OCN. It looks just the same as the usual ancient master but with the mattes opened up. Where did you get that info.

my bad! I thought that the Open STARZ Open Matte was a new transfer simply because the bitrate was a lot better than the 1080i Capture that was circulating around the internet since 2006. 

But Reliance MediaWorks really did a 4K scan of the OCN (I've seen clips of it in their Demo Reel that was posted back in 2014 to vimeo) 

Here is the link to their demo reel (skip to 1:37 seconds to see the remaster shots) https://vimeo.com/95919913

[Stamper]

The Reliance MediaWorks clip is not color timed, it's low contrast. I'm wondering if all they did was a scan, and no color timing as been done since they did it.