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Some news on "The Abyss" Blu-ray from James Cameron

posted 9 years ago by ck100
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He was asked about it at Comic-Con:

“We’ve done a wet-gate 4K scan of the original negative, and it’s going to look insanely good,” Cameron said. “We’re going to do an authoring pass in the DI for Blu-ray and HDR at the same time.”

He said to expect that some time early next year.

One question though: Who was responsible for the Remastered HDTV version that's been playing on HBO and Cinemax if not James Cameron?

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[–] jawsfan007 9 years ago

beat me to it.

[–] avenatticlint 9 years ago

There's an interview with James Cameron from 2010 about the blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology where he talked about color correcting that film with his Avatar guy and using a bit of DNR to clean up the grain.

During that same interview, he said his company was also working on the blu ray releases for both The Abyss and True Lies. But nothing happened. Perhaps that's where the HBO HD version came from or maybe the restoration was done 6 years ago and is only getting released now or maybe the restoration was delayed until recently.

Seems like a Restoration of Blade Runner tried to come together for the 20th anniversary but fell apart -- only to come together later for a 25th anniversary.

[–] mnice-1 9 years ago

I'm not holding my breath this time - but fingers crossed it finally comes out.

I haven't watched my non-anamorphic DVD for years since I got a larger TV.

[–] Ridley_Scott 9 years ago

I'll only buy the blu-ray if it includes both versions of the film, so let's hope they don't leave anything out.

[–] misterlint 8 years ago

Ditto, cannot wait. I want both versions in hi-def.

Check out my profile, proceed at own risk.

[–] paulgilmore34 8 years ago

HBO just converted it HD its happens all the time.. Its not true HD, it reallt just crops it to 16:9

[–] [deleted] 8 years ago

I don't get why people keep saying the DVD is non anamorphic, my DVD copy is actually anamorphic on my t.v. and doesn't sound too bad either!

[–] legnadibrom (6520) 5 years ago

we need it 4k ASAP