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Update Request: Alien (1979) - poor encoding

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Would anyone care to update us on when Alien will see an update? I’m holding out on buying this as this is reported to have been poorly encoded. Please see the details as reported by RMarci. Maybe @J.Green can look into this?

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

-JD-
 
I downloaded and watched this (and all of the Alien, Predator and AvP films) back in July. I thought it looked great, but I wasn't comparing it to anything. I actually recall thinking how good it looked for being such an old film.
 
RAGJr said:
I downloaded and watched this (and all of the Alien, Predator and AvP films) back in July. I thought it looked great, but I wasn't comparing it to anything. I actually recall thinking how good it looked for being such an old film.
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I had the same reaction to T2, I hadn't seen it in years, so it was fun to watch it and the sound was great for the most part. Something felt off though, then I found a thread where they talked about the poor quality of the mezzanine file and when the people spoke about the things that were wrong, it coincided with my "feelings". I'm the type of person who can't "unsee" something. So when I watch it again or demo it, it will be hard for me to not point it out.
 
It is certainly a mezzanine issue. It looks very different from the Blu-ray, and even the framing is not the same.
I hope Kscape get access to the same source file that was used for the disc.
 
Rmarci said:
It is certainly a mezzanine issue. It looks very different from the Blu-ray, and even the framing is not the same.
I hope Kscape get access to the same source file that was used for the disc.
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Are we talking Alien or T2? Someone posted that the T2 source file was the same file that they used for the 3D BD and it was wiped and grain was removed, etc.
 
Rmarci said:
I'm talking about the movie of this thread: Alien

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Gotcha. Just wanted clarification because, as I mentioned before, someone was talking about the file being the issue with T2, I would hope K got the correct file. I'll post if I get a response. Thank you for your response.
 
I also watched Alien last week with my wife and on more than one occassion during I movie I told her how good it looked :cool:

So honestly I am eager to hear what would not be good about it?
Must say last time I watched it was on BD many years ago so did not do a 1:1 comparison to the UHD disc.

Terminator 2 though is a different story... for that I always fall back to the (German?) Skynet Edition Blu-ray or even the German Steelbook on HD-DVD :D
 
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