4K?

If the film wasnt filmed in Ultra HD is there any point putting it on an Ultra HD disc?

Just rewatched this last night for the first time in 25 years ,
I dont re watch movies often , or unless theres been decades long gap.

But if they make a 4k of this , and reviews say its impressive .... I'm buying it!
...then im buying something that can show a 4k film

According to Cameron himself in an interview with space.com the 4K transfer is READY: https://www.space.com/james-cameron-tech-noir-book-exclusive

Space.com: "The Abyss" is often a neglected Cameron classic that was a pioneering film in so many ways. What can you tell us about concept art created for it and will there be a high-definition 4K transfer at some point?

Cameron: Yeah, we finished the transfer and I wanted to do it myself because Mikael [Salomon] did such a beautiful job with the cinematography on that film. It is truly, truly gorgeous cinematography. That was before I started to assert myself in terms of lighting and asking the cinematographer to do certain things. I'd compose with the camera and choose the lenses, but I left the lighting to him. He did a remarkable job on that movie that I appreciate better now than I did even as we were making it.

So I just recently finished the high-def transfer a couple of months ago so presumably there’ll be Blu-rays and it will stream with a proper transfer from now on. I appreciate what you said about the film. It didn't make much money in its day, but it does seem to be well-liked over time. The designers were basically Ron Cobb on the one hand, and Steve Burg on the other, who was lead designer of the NTIs, the non-terrestrial intelligence, the look of their city and bodies and faces. Steve was a guy that I worked with on "Terminator 2" after that. He was quite young at the time and fairly new to design.

Confirmed to be getting a 4K release by March 2023.
https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/121022-1900

You do realize that lines of resolution have ZERO effect on picture quality, right?

Of course you don’t. That’s why you are fecklessly posting here, pounding with your right hand.

Cameron is now a woke bitch who hates his former, better self, and disapproves of his classic movies:

“I always think of [testosterone] as a toxin that you have to slowly work out of your system," he said.

“A lot of things I did earlier, I wouldn’t do — career-wise and just risks that you take as a wild, testosterone-poisoned young man,”

Once again, we can thank the fans for fixing these directors' faults - the 30gb 1080p Special Edition hybrid edit is the best thing we have currently.

If it isn't Lucas trying to bury the original Star Wars, or Peter Jackson slathering LOTR in DNR (Digital Noise Reduction), it's Cameron slathering T2 in DNR, or simply not releasing his films on modern formats at all. Or releasing Way of Water with 200 nit highlights, an absolute joke of an HDR presentation.

Do these directors need to take their brain meds?

James Cameron appeared Wednesday (27th September 2023) at Los Angeles genre festival Beyond Fest for a q&a about “The Abyss” after a screening of the film’s seldom-seen two hour and 51 minute Special Edition.

During his conversation with moderator Jim Hemphill, Cameron confirmed completion of the 4K restoration he announced last year, physical and streaming versions of which he said were “out of his hands” but all work has long been concluded. “All of the mastering is done and I think it drops pretty soon — a couple of months or something like that,” Cameron said in response to an audience question. “There’s a lot of added material that they’re sticking in there, and it will be available on streaming simultaneously. But I didn’t just want to look at the old HD transfer. I wanted to do it right.”