Himechi | 66 points
The linked folder contains two files:
- a 10GB .mkv of The Abyss
- a 640MB .rar of The Deluxe Edition 2-CD sountrack by Alan Silvestri
This is WeLHD's rip of The Abyss, taken from one of the movie's HDTV broadcasts circa 2014. There is no watermark. The scan itself is from a wet gate pass and the results are
I have muxxed in the English subtitles from the DVD plus the commentary subtitles. There is no audio commentary for this film. The commentary subtitles appear to have been written by either James Cameron or Van Ling, I'm not sure who.
As a final bonus I've included a .flac rip of the special 2-CD limited-printing re-release of the soundtrack. In both this release and the original CD the end credits music is cut off. Also, the music for 'Bud on the Ledge' is an alternate take. So, as a final-final bonus I have included two extra tracks. One is a merging of the finale and end titles music that goes from the .flac rip to the Special Edition DVD credits just at the moment before the credits begin. The other is a straight recording of the audio from the 'Bud on the Ledge' scene. Happily, there is almost no intrusion of sound effects into the recording as most of the 'swooshing' happens in the center channel. The difference between the film version and the alternate take is that a choir briefly rises into the swelling music as Bud is carried above the rocks. The alternate take that appears on the soundtrack doesn't have the choir. Unless you're a huge soundtrack dork you probably don't care about this but it's always bugged me that they never released it so let's call this paragraph my therapy and never mention it again.
Enjoy!
https://mega.nz/#F!e55UXBDK
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my all time top 15 this one. i was also waiting ages for this quality.
thanks!
[-] radieschen79 | 3 points
Okay, I've figured it out about the base64 code, thank you so much for uploading! I've waited for a decent 1080p release of this movie for ages, it really is one of my all time favorites. Thank you!
[-] commit_bat | 3 points
The scan itself is from a wet gate pass
Heh heh appropriate.
The.Abyss.1989.m720p.HDTV.x264-FQX | Megalinks MegaDB The.Abyss.1989.m720p.HDTV.x264-FQX -1 CD- Download SubtitleThe Abyss 1989 XviD ENG | Megalinks MegaDB The Abyss 1989 XviD ENG -2 CD- Download SubtitleThe.Abyss.1989.720p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous | Megalinks MegaDB The.Abyss.1989.720p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous -1 CD- Download SubtitleThe.Abyss.1989.1080p.WEBRip.DD5.1.x264-QOQ | Megalinks MegaDB The.Abyss.1989.1080p.WEBRip.DD5.1.x264-QOQ -1 CD- Download SubtitleThe Abyss (1989) HDTV Rip 720p AC3 [TheOnlyest] Theatrical | Megalinks MegaDB The Abyss (1989) HDTV Rip 720p AC3 [TheOnlyest] Theatrical -1 CD- Download SubtitleThe.Abyss.1989.720p.BluRay.x264-[YTS.AG] | Megalinks MegaDB The.Abyss.1989.720p.BluRay.x264-[YTS.AG] -1 CD- Download Subtitle
^This ^list ^of ^subtitles ^are ^taken ^from ^opensubtitles.org ^| ^For ^feedback ^or ^suggestions ^contact ^/u/indigo6alpha
[-] randomredditconsumer | 2 points
Sorry, I don't understand something here - this rip is from a HD broadcast in 2014, yet the James Cameron quote about the wet gate pass is from 2016.
From my (limited) knowledge, the only HD broadcast was the Japanese broadast which was in HD but suffered from colour grading problems. Is that Japanese HD broadcast the source for this release? Or is this from sourced from elsewhere?
I take the Cameron quote as an explanation for where the HDTV source came from. The quote sounds like the scan had been done recently but it doesn't actually say that. Why wouldn't he be referring to work from 2-3 years earlier? If Cameron isn't referring to the source of the HDTV broadcast, then Fox did two different scans of the movie and is sitting on an even better looking digital version of the film, which I doubt.
This rip has no colour-grading problems that I have noticed. I doubt it is from the Japanese broadcast. Here are screengrabs posted by the ripper:
http://i.imgur.com/hJr7ygM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fqVZ2ho.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TrKFqn2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/P0EgVal.jpg
[-] randomredditconsumer | 1 points
I think this link shows the comparison between the HDTV and previous releases. There seems to be 2 different HDTV releases.
I see a comparison on that page between the HDTV broadcast and the DVD. Not a comparison of any of the rips of those broadcasts. Note that the broadcast was interlaced. The WeLHD rip is progressive and at a lower bitrate.
Are you saying that you think two different scans were used for the HDTV broadcasts?
Director(s) | Megalinks MegaDB Director(s): James CameronWriter(s) | Megalinks MegaDB Writer(s): James CameronCast | Megalinks MegaDB Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo BurmesterPlot | Megalinks MegaDB Plot: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
^This ^summary ^is ^taken ^from ^imdb.com ^| ^For ^feedback ^or ^suggestions ^contact ^/u/indigo6alpha
[-] Pauly_Glocke | 1 points
Decrypt code doesnt seem to work?
Go to base64decode.org, paste the code into the box and click the green button. That will create the decryption code for mega.
[-] Pauly_Glocke | 2 points
base64decode.org
Thanks so much dude!
[-] shorpipo | 6 points | Jul 15 2017 17:05:33
incredible thanks so much, shame i only have one upvote to give.. been after a 1080p version of this film for so many years and it looks so much better than dvd. full 1080p rip with x264 (v130) crf 18. this is the kind of content i love finding on megalinks. i know what i'm doing tonight :)
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[-] Himechi | 4 points | Jul 15 2017 17:23:13
And the dvd was lifted straight off the 1993 laserdisc. It is bizarre that this movie went roughly 20 years without a remastering. I can order RoboCop 3 on blu-ray right now, in a collector's edition, but The Abyss is the movie that gets left in limbo? I thought Sony was the studio that hated money.
I'm glad that I could get this to you.
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[-] shorpipo | 2 points | Jul 15 2017 21:31:22
i didn't know that about the dvd. certainly the r2 dvd was a mess with some scenes progressive, some interlaced and others (bizarrely) telecined - a hybrid nightmare. every year i read that the remastered bluray for this movie will be released next year, but it never comes. maybe soon, but for now i am sated with this version :)
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[-] Himechi | 2 points | Jul 15 2017 23:44:22
They have a few barriers to getting out a finished release of the blu-ray. The Special Edition was mastered for laserdisc. Either they upsample the restored scenes or, more likely, they rebuild the CG for 4k. That will cost money.
They also have to do something for the audio mix. For the Special Editon, rather than loop Alan Silvestri's score for the new scenes (like was carelessly done for Alien3's Assembly Cut) they used a synthesizer to try to fill the gaps. The synth does well enough for quiet scenes like Bud's dive down the wall but it completely fails to carry its weight in the last act. Are they going to replace that? Will they use modern synths to better simulate an orchestra or will they use an actual orchestra? Will Silvestri return for this? These things will also cost money.
Part of the reason for the delay may be that they have been coordinating all of this and then getting Cameron's approval on it. With any luck, we'll be getting a hell of a disc later this year.
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