skyjedi2005 said:

I just find it weird they do it at all.  It would be like if Disney decided to put  star wars from 1977 on blu ray but then color timed it to match the original theatrical colors of empire strikes back.

Who said they won't?

djchaseb said:

Another version of Terminator 2 on Blu Ray? This will be the 3rd US release right?

Yes, and it's sorely needed - so far the best HD version of Terminator 2 is HDDVD - the first BD version is the same master as the HD DVD but suffers from some sort of artifacts that the HDDVD doesn't and the 2nd BD release (the one I was unfortunate enough to buy as it is the only one that came out in my country) has really horrible DVNR. And I mean like old school DVNR, motion smearing and everything - I downloaded a 12GB HDDVD rip of the movie and it beats the hell out of the BD I own :-/

Yeah, the Skynet version is the one I have and it sucks balls.

Harmy said:

djchaseb said:

Another version of Terminator 2 on Blu Ray? This will be the 3rd US release right?

Yes, and it's sorely needed - so far the best HD version of Terminator 2 is HDDVD - the first BD version is the same master as the HD DVD but suffers from some sort of artifacts that the HDDVD doesn't and the 2nd BD release (the one I was unfortunate enough to buy as it is the only one that came out in my country) has really horrible DVNR. And I mean like old school DVNR, motion smearing and everything - I downloaded a 12GB HDDVD rip of the movie and it beats the hell out of the BD I own :-/

The first blu gets a bad rep, its an early mpeg 2 bd25 its as good as a launch disc gets.

There is a UK Blu I own that is the HD DVD ported over, but is not the TC.

At the end of the day it is moot as the master is the same and has poor detail resolution and print damage, shame the new master will be the typical Lowry degrain/regrain with a real push, and no doubt some digital alterations

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

It is. You_Too demonstrated that in the Terminator thread, IIRC.

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

It resolves the grain slightly better than the UK disc, but there is not much in it. Not for the price and 100%not with that master. But compared to the skynet I would take my Japanese laserdisc.

dvdmike said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

It resolves the grain slightly better than the UK disc, but there is not much in it. Not for the price and 100%not with that master. But compared to the skynet I would take my Japanese laserdisc.

Is it the Anamorphic Squeeze Disc , i always wondered what that looked like the japan LD. 

skyjedi2005 said:

dvdmike said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

It resolves the grain slightly better than the UK disc, but there is not much in it. Not for the price and 100%not with that master. But compared to the skynet I would take my Japanese laserdisc.

Is it the Anamorphic Squeeze Disc , i always wondered what that looked like the japan LD. 

My buddy from LDDB (disclord) just got a copy. He said it looks amazing.

skyjedi2005 said:

dvdmike said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

It resolves the grain slightly better than the UK disc, but there is not much in it. Not for the price and 100%not with that master. But compared to the skynet I would take my Japanese laserdisc.

Is it the Anamorphic Squeeze Disc , i always wondered what that looked like the japan LD. 

No,I did have that but the costs involved meant I flipped it for a big profit. (regret that)

It looked as good as the DVD but the colour was not as vibrant.

What I really want is the hi vision disc

I bet $6.66 USD that You_Too is right.

The new master was done well over a year ago, its not if but when.

And I think the colour will be more more aggressive

djchaseb said:

That is correct, I saw T2 8 times at theaters in 1991 and the teal shift was originally there

sorry, bluray.com joke

hahahahahahahaha!

You had me going there for a second.

I find it funny Cameron is behind revisionist colorings of his films and silently removing stuff via computers in earlier  films, but was harsh on Lucas for star wars changes.

Quoting the quote from Zombie's sig.

"When George went back and put new creatures into the original Star Wars, I find that disturbing. It’s a revision of history. That bothers me."

--James Cameron, Entertainment Weekly, April 2010

You_Too said:

skyjedi2005 said:

"When George went back and put new creatures into the original Star Wars, I find that disturbing. It’s a revision of history. That bothers me."

--James Cameron, Entertainment Weekly, April 2010

And that comes from the man who did this, just two years later: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=935850

Chewtobacca said:

Harmy's right that the (theatrical) HD DVD looks the best, but there's not much in it really.  Basically, all of the old BDs and HD DVDs look very similar.  Anything's better than the Skynet release.

From what I've seen in screenshot comparisons here and there, the Japanese BD is the same as the HD DVD, but also has cleaner upper and lower edges of the picture. The HD DVD is bright and blurry at those edges.

The JP disc is indeed the best of a bad bunch.

Cameron also "fixed" Aliens