Source France | Publisher : Studiocanal | Release date : 05 December 2017
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.40
HDR10 / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 6 | Audio : 8.5
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Professional HDR)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - A nanny of hell
The war of last judgment killed 3 billion people. But soon another war followed him. The few human survivors now face machines. Skynet, the computer that controls these robots, sent a T-1000 back in time. His mission: to eliminate the future leader of the Human Resistance, the teenager John Connor. It's counting without the T-800 sent by the Resistance to protect him...
After the classic cinema action and anticipation of the 1980s which the Terminator (a mythical figure of the 7th art) in the collective imagination, here is the monument of science fiction that revolutionized the technique of SFX (the digital age) by pushing the limits of the possible. At the edge of the temporal paradox, this true « monster » From cinema to very great show is still an absolute model of the genre. Now I know why you're crying...
« The future always so clear for us had become like a dark highway at night. We entered unknown territories making history to each of our steps. »
IMAGE - Metal Gear Liquid
This new 4K restoration carried out by the teams of James Cameron (and approved by the master) in 2016 for the reappearance of the film in 3D, changes quite radically (too) the aspect of the work. The image has been massively descaled, the calibration of the colors has been modernised (a more neutral and bluish photograph) and visual changes have been made (e.g. erasure of the filming material, change of the faces of the stunters by the actors, etc.). So farewell the silver aspect of the work and hello the ultra-clean and over-read image.
While the result may seem flattering at first glance (the film seems to have been shot yesterday in digital format), many plans nevertheless suffer from a rather embarrassing fake rendering, the fault of an excess of DNR (wax faces) coupled with an artificial accentuation of the contours often well visible. But finally, at least in Ultra HD Blu-ray (because the Blu-ray present in the package is generally bad), it is the best way to enjoy this cult movie today.
Indeed, the compression is solid (an average bitrate of 60.17 Mb/s) while it is all rotten on the Blu-ray, the sharpness never seen, most of the more numerous details (at least comparing this version with the Collector's Edition released in 2009), the rejuvenated colors (not always connections from one plane to another on the newly restored comic) and the optimal contrasts. The same would of course have been desirable without excessive degreasing and abuse of edge enhancement (a lot more visible on the last Blu-ray).
As for WCG/HDR technologies, they are visible in the field even though they are quite soft and undemonstrative. The colorimetric palette is in fact more subtle (on the Blu-ray supplied, the colors are too saturated and lose number of shades as during explosions) and delivers more realistic hues (the subjective red view of the T-101, the blue sky, the lava in orange fusion), the images are more alive thanks to a large overall brightness and more accomplished blacks, the light sources gain in lumens (public lighting, halogen tubes in underground parking, projectors, gyrophars) and the chromes of weapons/vehicles, such as the shine of the floors (especially in the psychiatric hospital), are more radiant.
- Hasta la vista, baby!
From large caliber to controlled dynamics that overflow with precise effects and severe seismics. The VO is to be preferred for excess activity on the rear channels and a more homogeneous set (VF more rough and for free too powerful with bass that can saturate).
In both cases, and this is rather a good thing, the original mixing is respected and preserves the sound library of the era which is necessarily a little dated today (like shots and collisions). Vis-à-vis the Blu-ray Collector's Edition released in 2009, the VF is gaining in depth and the VO in multichannel finesse (still proposed in DTS-HD MA 6.1).
CONCLUSION - Fight the Future
Crescendo special effects, waterfalls and emotions, this ideal suite that marked with its (metal) footprint commercial cinema and « popular » is certainly not a shit bag on 4K Ultra HD support (all A/V services), but stays too much « artificial » visually speaking (where did his wrinkles go?) for a 33-year-old cyborg!
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