The Abyss (1989, 1993 Extended Special Edition, UHDRip, HEVC, 108...

The Abyss (Extended Special Edition), Redwave Release version 1.0




A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/







Resolution: 1920x800
Container: MKV
Length: 2h51m01s (171m01s)
Video Track: HEVC 1267kb/s (500-3600kb/s VBR)
Audio Tracks:
- Eng theatrical (7.1->stereo custom downmix AAC 160kb/s)
- Eng described (stereo AAC 96kb/s)
- Fre theatrical (5.1->stereo custom downmix AAC 96kb/s)
Subtitles:
- English (Hearing impaired),
- French, Spanish (full script)


Intro:
This is the 2024 UHD Blu-ray release of The Abyss, based on the 2023 4k re-master.

https://thedigitalbits.com/item/abyss-the-2024-uhd
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/abyss-2023-digital-uhd

It has been optimized for the best 1080p viewing quality while still offering a reasonable file size for devices and long-term storage. It was encoded at slighly higer bitrate than my typical device-watching releases given that the movie is a classic.

Downsampling from UHD and then re-encoding produces a far cleaner output than re-encoding straight from HD, and benefits from the better 4k remaster.

Cropping:
The UHD release is, as expected, poorly letterboxed by people who clearly do not understand HEVC and Coding Tree Units. They slavishly followed the theatrical aspect ratio and added letterboxes that are not a multiple of an HEVC CTU. Meaning, in this case, 278 pixels of letterbox at the top and bottom, a particularly awful number as no matter what CTU size is used, it places two pixels row of movie together with 62 pixels of letterbox. This causes those two pixel rows of movie to be hopelessly poisoned by the letterbox and wastes large amounts of codec bandwidth as the codec struggles to encode those sharply contrasting two rows. If you're interested, look at the included UHD frame grab of a bright scene from the movie and zoom in until you can see the top pixel rows below the letterbox. You can see they are hopelessly compromised.

This 1080p release crops the poisoned pixels off with the rest of the letterbox to round out at 3840 x 1600 and is then resampled down to 1920 x 800.

Audio:
7.1 and 5.1 tracks were removed for space. The 7.1 Dolby TrueHD channel was downmixed to stereo using my own downmix formula that produces richer audio than the studio's included stereo track. This was then ncoded at 160kbps AAC.

Also included is the English described audio track, encoded at 96kbps AAC, and the French theatrical track downmixed from 5.1 to stereo also using my own downmix formula, and encoded at 96kbps AAC.

Subtitles:
The PGS raster subtitles in this Blu-ray are obnoxious and hugely wasteful of space. All subtitles are therefore converted with "MKV Subtitle Convertor" from the original PGS .sup to simple Subrip text.

The Tesseract OCR used by this is superior to most commercial offerings and virtually all online ones.

Still, it isn't perfect. Only the English theatrical subtitles were spell checked and preened. All other subtitles are as OCRed.

If you have the language skills and inclination to clean up subtitles, leave a messsage on the 1337x release page for this torrent.

SRT files for all subtitles are included. In order that they appear in the video stream, they are:

01_en.srt English (hearing-impaired)
02_fr.srt French
03_sp.srt Spanish

Enjoy!

~~~Redwave~~~


Version History:
v1.0 - Initial release