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Jaws 3 might be the worst 4K ever released as of this very moment. It's that bad and that horribly butchered with AI and awful DNR/Color Timing. The 2D version always looked a bit off due to the way that the film was shot specifically for 3D but with this abysmal 4K transfer it's limitations and issues are blown up and become glaringly obvious. Then on top of that you have AI interperetation the likes not even god has seen.

The film legitimately looks like it was created with Midjourney on more than one occasion. Or entire frames look like the washed out color tone SNL bumpers. Remember those from the 70's and 80's that used to show the host for the night? Entire sequences of the film look like that. No film should look like that in 4K. People look like paper cut outs in more than one frame. This is abhorrent.

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I said this in another comment thread but will post here too:

The bigger question is why is the upscale suddenly so much worse than it was before?

Plenty of films finished at 2K had 4K UHD discs put out that were nothing more than upscales with HDR grades applied, but they were never this bad. It's like AI upscales became a thing and the studios tossed out whatever previous methods they used, that seemingly worked JUST FINE, in favour of new technology that has GLARING flaws such as this.

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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yep! Sure is!

They remastered Star Trek as well as The Next Generation, but claimed that the physical sales did not cover the costs which were purportedly around 10 million for each series.

They opted to not to continue to remaster any of the shows that came afterward, namely Voyager and Deep Space Nine. That's where the fan community picked up the slack and made the AI upscales.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Oh I see what you mean! When you say older series, I just assumed you meant the original television show.