[REL] Le grand chemin (1987)

[Night457]

then I couldn’t find it anymore in this long chaotically thread

It's a disaster ... If it makes ghost forget what version he used for his final dual-language version, you KNOW it is bad.

Weirdly I almost find the 1080p tvrip better looking than the BluRay encodes..

Awwww! Once I had the 8Gb version and ghost's remux, I abandoned the TVrip because I figured I now had better.

I think the TVrip may be sharpened and brightened, but again there have been so many versions that I can not keep them straight.

[goku33]

then I couldn’t find it anymore in this long chaotically thread

It's a disaster ... If it makes ghost forget what version he used for his final dual-language version, you KNOW it is bad.

So true! Or is the Alzheimer finally also getting to him? (just kidding)

I think the TVrip may be sharpened and brightened, but again there have been so many versions that I can not keep them straight.

You might be very right here, looks almost too sharp In a sense. (I frequent a forum where people regularly release 4k upscale of 1080p films and they often look „too sharp“. There also exist the so-called UHD2BD.1080p releases that are full-hd encodes done from the 4k uhd disk of a Film. These will look better than if the film is regularly sourced from a 1080p BluRay disk since the source material is better.

[Night457]

I dunno if a 4k upscale of a 1080p source is worth the effort; at that point I think it best to either leave it to the professionals or force yourself to tolerate that dreadful low-resolution 1080p garbage. (I suppose that forum does NOT have the ability to encode the results in Dolby Vision, which is one of the real potentials of the UHD format.) However, I CAN see the benefit of a 1080p downscale from a 4k UHD source ... for the many people who can not justify a 89Gb download! Many times with physical disk releases, the 4k version will be from a new master but the blu-ray paired with it will be a 15-year-old recycle. When they do a new master for the blu-ray too, it can look terrific.

[goku33]

I dunno if a 4k upscale of a 1080p source is worth the effort; at that point I think it best to either leave it to the professionals or force yourself to tolerate that dreadful low-resolution 1080p garbage. (I suppose that forum does NOT have the ability to encode the results in Dolby Vision, which is one of the real potentials of the UHD format.) However, I CAN see the benefit of a 1080p downscale from a 4k UHD source ... for the many people who can not justify a 89Gb download! Many times with physical disk releases, the 4k version will be from a new master but the blu-ray paired with it will be a 15-year-old recycle. When they do a new master for the blu-ray too, it can look terrific.

Yes. And sometimes they even do it as a so-called Regrade: basically what ghost has done many times in the past: correcting colors, contrast, grain, light.

Here a regular UHD2BD at 23GB of „The Fisher king“ with R.Williams and Beau Bridges:

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[Night457]

Correcting colors etc. when previous releases have problems is good, because sometimes (ahem) the "professionals" get it wrong. (I readily admit that!)

I have TFK on BD but I would actually need to see side-by-side screencaps to see any difference. (Not asking you to do that, because then we would really be getting off-topic.)

[goku33]

(Not asking you to do that, because then we would really be getting off-topic.)

My last name is offtopic !

[goku33]

because sometimes (ahem) the "professionals" get it wrong.

Preach. While distributors release old DVD‘s, this is what „hobbyists“ and „fans“ accomplish with regular software (to be fair anime/cartoons are the easiest to remaster):

Spoiler: Comparison : DVD vs AIUpscale.Regraded.1080p: [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image]

[DaveTheBoss]

A classic and a masterpiece (in a remastered version, thank god), it's one of those movies where you always feel like you're on vacation.

HDLight link (English Sub & French original version) :

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HD link (French Sub & French original version) :

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[pillowbaker]

Remastered? Does anyone recall when this one was remastered? I already have 6 or 7 encodes of this movie and now there's a remaster? I wonder if I already have the remaster now.

I have been meaning to scrutinize my small collection of files of this film to get rid of all but two. Maybe a remaster will make it easier.

[Night457]

A 4k restoration was shown in French theatres in April 2023.
https://missiondistributioncinema.com/2 ... nd-chemin/

A 4k restoration was used to create the November 2022 BluRay, the only BluRay I know about.
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https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Le-Grand ... ay/324644/
https://www.amazon.fr/Le-Grand-Chemin-B ... 1&psc=1&m=
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If you have a BluRay rip, then you have the 4k restoration. But maybe ... will they release a 4k UHD later?

DaveTheBoss's versions have this splash screen at the very beginning. I do not remember if the versions I downloaded last year had them.
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