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Post #1085364

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Fang Zei
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
22-Jun-2017, 4:52 PM

Mocata said:

MisterRey said:

The Thing is getting a 4k restoration.

Well it’s a masterpiece so why not.

It’s notable because this will literally be the third time - by as many different companies - that The Thing has been released on blu-ray.

It was one of the earlier movies Universal released on the format. They reused the existing hd transfer that had been used for the hddvd, which looked fine, but for the blu-ray specifically they applied some dnr (this exact same thing happened with several other Universal titles).

Shout Factory just did a new 2k master of it last year, but there is debate about the color timing.

So both bd releases so far have been a mixed bag.

I was also wondering why a title as big as The Thing was only getting remastered in 2k,
and why this new 4k master is happening so soon after and from yet another company.

I guess Univeral is more than willing to license out the rights to this particular film?