I read an article by a film restoration person who said that AI is used in pretty much all film restoration for noise reduction and sharpening and the backlash for these films is just because it?s James Cameron.
Also saw something with a guy who worked on True Lies and they said the film elements were in such bad shape it was either use smoothing and DNR or not have an HD digital master at all it was pretty much the last chance to save the image. Any prior ?HD? bootlegs or HDTV versions are just the DVD master upscaled. It?s by far the worst out of the three and looks a little weird but for The Abyss and Aliens I think people are over reacting.
I think Aliens looks brilliant myself and I?ve only seen the stream of The Abyss and I thought it looked great, better than ever, my non-anamorphic dvd pales in comparison.
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