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What an awful transfer. It's been DNR'ed to hell. James Cameron, if he approved this, should be ashamed. Get a good copy of the 1080p Blu-ray, it's way better. |
Cameron definitely approved this; he hates grain. It's still miles better than the Terminator 2 transfer he approved. |
Thanks for the upload. Is this sourced from itunes? Would appreciate the Special Edition for Aliens. |
Aliens was shot on 35 mm photochemical film (specifically Eastman 400T 5294 and 5295) by cinematographer Adrian Biddle (The Princess Bride, 1492, V for Vendetta) using Arriflex 35-III and Moviecam SuperAmerica cameras with Canon K35 spherical lenses, and it was finished on film at the 1.85 flat aspect ratio for theaters. For its release on Ultra HD, Lightstorm, working with Park Road Post, appears to have utilized the best-available scan of the original camera negative (possibly new and 4K, but it’s also possible that the previous 2K Blu-ray scan was used; I haven’t been able to confirm that with Lightstorm yet in this particular case)—“optimized” by Park Road’s proprietary deep-learning algorithms—to create a new 4K Digital Intermediate. Photochemical grain has been greatly reduced, though not eliminated entirely, and it should be noted that this isn’t the usual Digital Noise Reduction with which people have long been familiar (a dreaded and blunt instrument). Unlike an image scrubbed with DNR, this process hasn’t removed all of the fine image detail. Not only does that detail remain, it too has been “enhanced” algorithmically. The image has then been graded for high dynamic range, with both Dolby Vision and HDR10 available. |
Bill Hunt from Digital Bits is wrong. It is highly likely that this new transfer is an upscale from the old 2K transfer with extra AI processing and sharpening applied. HDR highlights do not reveal any further detail than the original SDR transfer. |