We have a blu-ray/4K UHD release date!
March 12, 2024!!!
shareYes and True Lies & Aliens as well.
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MovieChat Forums > The Abyss (1989) Discussion > We have a blu-ray/4K UHD release date!
Better late than never.
sharelink?
sharehttps://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/111523-0659
sharethanks! I tried google but didnt find this
great
shareThank heavens! It should be very impressive. I would love it if the theater re-release would be great to see, but in my city, all of these re-releases are only shown in small auditoriums, and on older standard HD projectors. Just not worth the time and money when I can watch it at home on a big screen in actual 4K.
shareThe first review of the 4k disc is up at The Digital Bits. Im looking forward to watching it again.
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/abyss-the-2024-uhd
Got my 4K copy yesterday, watched the first 45 min last night. Gorgeous.
shareI'm going to order a Scandinavian release which has a release date 4/29. I'm not in a hurry. I have waited for this release probably 20 years, so one more month doesn't bother me.
shareI didn't wait for the discs, but was planning too. Got them all on streaming service to 4K instead, no physical discs. I've spent time comparing quality and if your internet and player is good enough, the quality difference is completely negated. YES, I could detect very slight differences when pixel peeping, neither better or worse than the other, but just watching it is fine.
shareILLEGAL DOWNLOADS IS NOT A STREAMING SERVICE.
shareDisney did not anticipate the demand for The Abyss, Aliens, and True Lies so these discs are nearly impossible to find.
sharePatience, they'll press more of them. The demand of these titles is a good news: physical media isn't quite dead yet.
shareI pre-ordered all three months ago, they arrived at my doorstep on Monday 3/18.
I have a 50mbp connection and 4K streaming looks very nice, but UHD is superior.
4k is uhd, or am I missing something?
Is the 4k stream a compromise compared to the disc?
A 4K stream is great when it's working perfectly. But there's no guarantee it will stream perfectly in 4K 100% of the time. Any little blip or glitch in the stream, it will dynamically reduce resolution until it's sufficiently buffered again. Sometimes it's a tiny barely noticeable drop, other times it'll cut to 480p for a few seconds. It's rare, but it's inevitably going to happen at times even with the most reliable service providers. 99% of the time I don't really give a shit. But if it's a movie I really like and it's available on UHD, which ~is~ guaranteed 4K from start to finish, I'm grabbing it.
shareinteresting! I plan to try it on a 4k tv soon, but I get what you are saying. if it buffers and drops from 4k, that is not the streaming service I am PAYING FOR, and I will hassle VUDU or whoever about changing their buffering system to keep up
shareso UHD has a different compression method ? is that it ?
both are streams though right?
This movie was always my GOTO test movie whenever I upgraded my Home Theatre for audio and video (5 times over now)
I guess I can finally retire my XBOX360 HD-DVD Disk now - LOL