As there is no release date yet for The Abyss blu-ray, would anybody like to make a preservation project? I love this movie, and I have it on PAL DVD and NTSC US laserdiscs - several versions, actually: theatrical cut, plus two copies of each extended edition AC3 and box set.

It could be interesting to use the TC version, as it is 1.95:1 - about 328 lines of vertical resolution, Vs 272 lines of extended edition laserdisc and non-anamorphic DVD (no anamorphic DVD release, AFAIK) and overlay it to the 2.35:1 version, to increase part of the original resolution.

Result could be like this (obviously over exagerated):