Proposal: The James Cameron Project

[weegee2392]

Interesting look at Aliens

https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/commen...ks_review/

and

https://youtu.be/ltbfjkb76WI?t=163

Exactly what I was trying to say on twitter and gave up

I trust a Frenchman with A. I. speech over shrilling.

[dvdmike]

Well he is right

[maksnew]

Now, I need to add the PCM from the LD and the DVD's tracks. So maybe:

1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the OAR SE LD)
2. Dolby Digital 2.0 (from the OAR DVD)
3. Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the OAR DVD)
4. DD+ 5.1 Atmos (from the Web-DL)
5. FLAC 5.1 (upmix the OAR SE LD with LFE)

There is also DTS ES from a Chinese DVD, it has very good sound quality, I haven’t compared it with Atmos with UHD, but it’s clearly no worse.

[Bilbofett]

well, this is dumb as hell. I no longer trust this guy https://www.joblo.com/james-cameron-4k-r...n-defense/
I really liked Harris when he first started making waves w/ his monologues and posts centered on the Yellow Vinegar Syndrome . Since them, I'm kinda weary of the guy. He's very political w/ what he says and he often lands on the side of goofy quality for big movies. I don't trust his ideas much more than say a Bill Hunt.
Two estranged brothers finally end their feud when one presents an apology letter for having burned down the other brother's stable. Mom is exhilarated with the gesture, but the other brother thinks the act of penance isn't nearly enough. Mom advises to take the win and cut the losses. I feel like many movie fans who should know better are taking the mom position over Cameron *finally giving us what we've waited for. We feel the act is a tad corrupted and therefore like a backhanded compliment

[Bilbofett]

https://youtu.be/1mS9j8aB2Fc

[zoidberg]

Harris has been this way for a long long time. Bram Stoker's Dracula was the real eye-opener for a lot of people.

[PDB]

Agreed, I use to really respect Harris but he has defended some objectively, bad work in the past and seems to be doing so again. I hope his defense is for political reasons and not that he is losing his competency.

The simple matter is these were almost all 1080p masters upscaled with DNR to 2160p in the worse way possible. We, in fact, have know TL was an upscale of the old 1080p for well over a year before its release based off the Hulu master.

I had a lot of downtime to peruse youtube lately and watched a lot of reviews. The defenses of these discs came off like a parody of the 7 Stages of Grief. I actually grew tired of the excuses placing the blame on S35, film stock, bad OCNs or bad lenses. You can only sell that to the uninformed. Or even worse, the excuse, "that's what Cameron wants". Also if your expertise is reviewing video media, then using the phrase "you need to lighten up about 4K releases" is antithetical to your existence as a reviewer.

Those of you that have been here long enough know I love Cameron's movies. Love them. What we got was a result of laziness. Pure and simple. Cameron was lazy, which is a thing I'd thought I'd never say. There is no technical reasons they couldn't of done a fresh 4K scan of all the OCNs or even the IPs. There is no way the TL OCN is that bad and if it is, a 4K scan of one of the IPs would be miles ahead of what we got.

It is a bad product. Pure and simple.

[dvdmike]

Said for decades, he knows photochemical not digital and less and less filmic looks

[dvdmike]

Agreed, I use to really respect Harris but he has defended some objectively, bad work in the past and seems to be doing so again. I hope his defense is for political reasons and not that he is losing his competency.

The simple matter is these were almost all 1080p masters upscaled with DNR to 2160p in the worse way possible. We, in fact, have know TL was an upscale of the old 1080p for well over a year before its release based off the Hulu master.

I had a lot of downtime to peruse youtube lately and watched a lot of reviews. The defenses of these discs came off like a parody of the 7 Stages of Grief. I actually grew tired of the excuses placing the blame on S35, film stock, bad OCNs or bad lenses. Or even worse, the excuse, "that's what Cameron wants". You can only sell that to the uninformed. Also if your expertise is reviewing video media, then using the phrase "you need to lighten up about 4K releases" is antithetical to your existence as a reviewer.


Those of you that have been here long enough know I loved Cameron's movies. Love them. What we got was a result of laziness. Pure and simple. Cameron was lazy, which is a thing I'd thought I'd never say. There is no technical reasons they couldn't of done a fresh 4K scan of all the OCNs or even the IPs. There is no way the TL OCN is that bad and if it is, a 4K scan of the IPs would be miles ahead of what we got.

It is a bad product. Pure and simple.

It's not lazy, this took work and shows intent

[Stamper]

You need to lighten up about 4K releases.