James M. WoodwardFinally watching through #TheAbyss's Bluray release ('special edition', not ttheatrical) and it is SUCH a good movie.
It's not like I haven't seen it before; You just forget all the details. It's an amazing environment and I'd love to get my hands on a copy of "Under Pressure: Making 'the Abyss'" I've heard amazing things about it as a docu.
Troldann Arothin@jmw you haven’t seen it? Astonishingly good. I am pretty sure I can rip it from my DVD if you’d like.
@troldann I have not seen the docu, lots of folks talk about it as one of the best made. But I was under the impression it was relatively hard to find.
Now you're going to make me get out of my chair to go check.
@jmw I know it was on the laser discs, that’s how I saw it (we’d rent a player and some movies every few months when I was a kid). I think it’s on my DVD edition that I’ve got, but I won’t be able to check until I get home from work.
@jmw I have this edition and according to this site it includes Under Pressure.
The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss is a Special Edition contains both the theatrical (145 minutes) and Special Edition (171 minutes) versions of the film, with the two-discs released on DVD in November 7, 2000. "Heart stopping...while knuckle...deep sea thrills."-David Ansen, Newsweek In this thrilling, underwater action adventure from writer-director James Cameron (Titanic; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Aliens), a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine...
@troldann yeah I wasn't sure if under pressure had been upscaled for the new 4K release, the remastering. But I know that Cameron had delayed for so long on releasing the remastered edition, that it only came out like a year or two ago.
I still have a pretty extensive physical media library, I might even have a DVD copy of Abyss as well.
@jmw aaaaah, that stupid horrible release of such a great film. For a “good” time, count how many lines of actual picture are encoded in those 480 lines of DVD resolution.
But now you know you can watch the documentary any time you want!
@troldann
I haven't done anything with it; But I let my computer run through a de-interlace pass, then an AI upscaling pass;
It's not perfect, but it isn't bad either. You want?
@jmw Sure, I'm not usually one for AI upscaling, but I love a clean deinterlace that I don't need to do myself.
@troldann I did them as separate steps, so if you want the deinterlaced 480p, I have it too.
@jmw sure, I’ll take that. Was it 60i video?
@troldann Lemme know when you're home and I'll kick you a link.
@jmw Home until Monday!