So I just stumbled upon info on this regrade of The Terminator that seems to be 200% spots on.
This is an Alternative Regrade from a U Matic copy.
Here's information about this U Matic trend that is exclusively german as far as I know:
U-Matic came onto the market around 1972 and was used professionally by TV stations (e.g. also replaced the 16mm film, reporting, documentaries). In contrast to the later VHS / Betamax, U-Matic offered the better picture, but could not establish itself in the home video sector. U-Matic was still in daily use somewhere up until 2002.
When VHS / Betamax found its way onto the German market at the end of the 1970s, pirate copiers became active, every current cinema film (often a week before the cinema release), and tons of older film titles were copied using U-Matic machines. As a rule, the films were split into 2x60 min. U-Matic tapes.
This resulted in VHS mother tapes, that were a 1: 1 copy without any significant loss of quality. Copies of these original tapes were brought into households nationwide. Avarice Mentality already existed back then, so the first copies of the VHS mother tape were almost exclusively bought by pure film collectors (at 30-70 DM).
The bulk of other copies came from these copies on VHS / Betamax / Video 2000, i.e. with further decreasing picture quality, film titles flooded German households. Copies were sold / lent out and copied again at home for friends / relatives.
Anyone who still has the original 1: 1 copies knows that their quality, especially the original cinema format to be admired here (sometimes slightly zoomed in), was always better in terms of the picture than that of later original rental and purchase tapes from video stores .
It seems that in many cases, U Matic tapes are the only pristine preservations left of the original colors of films that are completely modified on home-video, like The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Alien or The Terminator.
There are dozens of Regrades for Terminator (1984) and the author of this U Matic regrade Der Rabe shows two other alternatives here as a comparison.
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
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der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
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3Li - Hybrid Color Restoration:
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DonaldFaQ - Regrade:
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Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
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der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
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DonaldFaQ - Regrade:
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Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
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der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Media - Info:
This is an Alternative Regrade from a U Matic copy.
Here's information about this U Matic trend that is exclusively german as far as I know:
U-Matic came onto the market around 1972 and was used professionally by TV stations (e.g. also replaced the 16mm film, reporting, documentaries). In contrast to the later VHS / Betamax, U-Matic offered the better picture, but could not establish itself in the home video sector. U-Matic was still in daily use somewhere up until 2002.
When VHS / Betamax found its way onto the German market at the end of the 1970s, pirate copiers became active, every current cinema film (often a week before the cinema release), and tons of older film titles were copied using U-Matic machines. As a rule, the films were split into 2x60 min. U-Matic tapes.
This resulted in VHS mother tapes, that were a 1: 1 copy without any significant loss of quality. Copies of these original tapes were brought into households nationwide. Avarice Mentality already existed back then, so the first copies of the VHS mother tape were almost exclusively bought by pure film collectors (at 30-70 DM).
The bulk of other copies came from these copies on VHS / Betamax / Video 2000, i.e. with further decreasing picture quality, film titles flooded German households. Copies were sold / lent out and copied again at home for friends / relatives.
Anyone who still has the original 1: 1 copies knows that their quality, especially the original cinema format to be admired here (sometimes slightly zoomed in), was always better in terms of the picture than that of later original rental and purchase tapes from video stores .
It seems that in many cases, U Matic tapes are the only pristine preservations left of the original colors of films that are completely modified on home-video, like The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Alien or The Terminator.
There are dozens of Regrades for Terminator (1984) and the author of this U Matic regrade Der Rabe shows two other alternatives here as a comparison.
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
3Li - Hybrid Color Restoration:
🔍
DonaldFaQ - Regrade:
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
DonaldFaQ - Regrade:
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:
🔍
der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":
🔍
Media - Info: