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Thriller 40th Anniversary

Thriller 4k is gone from tidal! What are the estate doing? Jesus, this whole thing is a shitshow
 
DanGerouS- said:
the Billie Jean restored video wasn't ready for this event?

haha, imagine that.
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Dont blame them. Halloween came surprisingly early this year. Also, nobody could have seen the 40th anniversary of Thriller coming. Thats why they didnt have enough time...

For real: The 4k remaster obviously is amazing and seems to be done with skill and care. But come on: Was it really this hard to get everything done for halloween? They had years upon years to plan it. Also, at least doing a proper social media campaign would only marginally be more expensive than what theyre doing now.
A handful of fans could have written better info texts and even done interviews and stuff for free.
 
mjchris said:
No. I dont think so. The itunes one looks a bit sharper. And the youtube upload only have the size of 345MB (itunes 743MB).
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I saw some people say the YouTube file wasn't as large but when comparing the two the one on YouTube just looked better than the one on Apple Music for some reason (possibly less compression). For example at 3:42 the red logo on the cardboard boxes looks a bit more defined/clearer on the YouTube version and at 3:47 the black text on the boxes in the bottom right looks much sharper on the YouTube version.

I'm just pixel peeping tho and there isn't much of a difference on small screens.
 
luis98 said:
Thriller 4k is gone from tidal! What are the estate doing? Jesus, this whole thing is a shitshow
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4k on Tidal? There was only 1080p on tidal, and 4K on itunes. Or am i missing something?
 
Annita said:
Really, I am getting angry that there is no professionell social media..management for Michaels account`s.
It is just not believable that there are just no announcement`s or interviews about the release from the 4K-short-films and no promotion and mention of the album few days before release.

And about Sony. Does anyone know how long the contract last. I wonder why the biopic will be distributey by Lionsgate and not Sony.
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I'm extremely pissed. I was in the bathroom thinking this same thing...I care entirely too much. It's a reason why mj wanted branca far away from him in 2009 & fired him back then
 
Is it normal for 4k videos to take this long to be processed? The 1080p version was up for like a day.
 
The estate could have saved themselves a lot of trouble skipping announcing songs we've already heard, actually. Imagine only talking about songs we haven't had released, instead of making us a week for Carousel again. But that would make the pictograph kinda impossible.

A shame.
 
Annita said:
And about Sony. Does anyone know how long the contract last. I wonder why the biopic will be distributey by Lionsgate and not Sony.
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It'll last as long as these old dudes want it. It'll change when someone young and smart takes over.

And by smart, I mean, in vogue. Branca is barely malicious; he is simply a stodgy, out of touch old man. And has been forever. Ever since he said MJ should've followed up Thriller with an album of cover songs, I knew as much. Guy looks like he has a group chat for Sudoku. MJs estate needed a creative & a business man, not just business men.
 
Richard Lecocq: "Regarding Billie Jean: I had confirmation that the restoration is more complex to achieve because it is in 16mm. Not sure we have it in this vintage at the end of 2022.
Beat It and Thriller are 35mm, so it’s easier to get a good result.

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1nn5 said:
Richard Lecocq: "Regarding Billie Jean: I had confirmation that the restoration is more complex to achieve because it is in 16mm. Not sure we have it in this vintage at the end of 2022.
Beat It and Thriller are 35mm, so it’s easier to get a good result.

to follow....
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This pretty much confirmed that they probably saw the 1st April post here. Thought about T40, made both covers in 10 minutes, got some songs from the nearest hdd, filled the gaps with released songs and probably fetched the imax remaster for thriller and the moonwalker remaster for beat it and upscaled them to 4k. Since it seems Billie Jean is still in the works. It looks like they started remastering after they saw the backlash for that crap font
 
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