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Lil Brutto
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Info: The Look of Terminator 2
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30-May-2015, 2:25 PM

TServo2049 said:

I find it interesting how we're seeing theatrical color timings for films...turn out to be more teal than we've gotten used to with the earlier video masters, yet clear daytime skies are never that sickly greenish teal we sometimes see on Blu-Ray regrades.

Is it that the modern grades are skewing toward the wrong shade of teal, or is it just that digital grading pushes the skies in ways that photochemical grading didn't do?

Well said! You just articulated EXACTLY the issue we're contending with on the GBU project.

We've gotten so used to the color timing of decades of home releases that strayed from the original "look". However, modern regrades somehow manage to miss the mark. Although certain aspects of the GBU 4K BD image are certainly more true to the theatrical prints, it's understandable why we'd dismiss the whole thing when when obvious things like the skies and even teeth take on that nasty teal.

I too wonder if this may be a limitation of digital grading.