Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)
On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.
So, do you feel nostalgic for a format? Are you looking forward to a release? Heard any exciting news? Want to show us your shelves? Then post away.
Elsewhere on the Fediverse:
- !bluray@compuverse.uk
- !boutiquebluray@lemmy.world
- !criterion@lemmy.world
- !laserdisc@lemmy.sdf.org
- !cultfilms@lemux.minnix.dev
- !categoryiii@lemmy.world
- !cinemajoy@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !movies@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemmy.ml
- !movies@kbin.social
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blahaj angy grrrrr
Wait why are they upscaling? It's from the 1980s so they should have film prints? Are they working from like a 2k DI made for the bluray releases?
Probably, honestly. Might be the original elements require actual work to rescan and repair, or even that they're lost. 0 effort shit.
Scanning (and fixing) prints is gonna be relatively costly, so I totally get if they want to use the upscale pipeline for random slop. But doing it for Jaws seems kinda crazy. Like Hollywood does not give a fuck anymore.
Jaws, the proper original got a real 4K UHD release similar to its Bluray a few years back, I think "dogshit Jaws sequels" are random slop tbh.
But also they absolutely do not, who the fuck let Cameron do that to Aliens???
Had a total braindead moment, I even watched that Jaws release lol.
Bad upscales of bad movies, lmao gottem.
AI upscaling is probably just much cheaper and easier to do. I mean I do AI upscaling myself. The older Star Trek series that will never get a full Blu-Ray remaster/re-release has copies that have been upscaled from SD to HD and they are pretty flawless, especially considering it's a fan project.
That being said I've also seen the other side of the spectrum, where they AI upscaled King of the Hill and there was a lot of really weird artifacting and stuff going on.
Really sad to see studios just cheap out on high resolution releases. It just makes them look bad in the long run and makes me less likely to buy physical media.
I'm confused. Isn't this the original Star Trek remastered in HD with new CGI effects?
Yep! Sure is!
They remastered Star Trek as well as The Next Generation, but claimed that the physical sales did not cover the costs which were purportedly around 10 million for each series.
They opted to not to continue to remaster any of the shows that came afterward, namely Voyager and Deep Space Nine. That's where the fan community picked up the slack and made the AI upscales.
Oh I see what you mean! When you say older series, I just assumed you meant the original television show.
Yeah AI upscaling has been around for years, there's phenomenal implementations of it where you legitimately can't tell, and there's godsawful implementations that are thrown together in a matter of 15 minutes, given one pass, and submitted.
Every piece of media I've upscaled (mostly animation) has been great. So far, every upscaled release I've seen posted has been terrible. And yes, it may only have been 2 or 3, but that makes it that much sadder because only 3 movies have been released with upscales and they wouldn't even take the time to do it well.
It's a shame.