Amazing how the 4K disc manages to have less fine detail than the Blu-ray—and this is considered one of the better Cameron 4K discs.
I appreciate fan projects that use AI (tastefully) to squeeze the most out of an SD or HD source while remaining faithful to the original film, especially with the excellent results your projects have demonstrated, but selling a decade-old, AI-upscaled 2K master as 4K is fraud.
All these Cameron films are big-budget blockbusters and certainly justify new 4K masters. I know he’d still tinker with them because he wants all his movies to look like Avatar, but at least he’d be starting with a high-quality source.
Agreed.
Be nice if there were a newer 4K 35mm film scan available. Too reluctant to get the 4K UHD because of the very lazy AI upscale, really wished it were a flat out 4K film scan and restoration. But, hey, it has the original mono as lossless!
Have been refusing to buy the 4K for T2: Judgment Day since it looks atrocious, hesitant on getting ALIENS, THE ABYSS, and TRUE LIES.