Dangerous Short Films are currently being upscaled to 4K on YouTube!

MJJ.D777 said:

"In The Closet" just came out in 4K Upscale on Apple Music and TIDAL. It's not out on YouTube yet as I'm writing this.

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It pains me to see that another short film of his has been upscaled. Some scenes look absolutely horrible in the new version. It's not like this video even used any CGI, where they would probably have to upscale it. Just seems like the typical laziness the estate is known for. I wouldn't be expecting much from them anyway, considering the only true 4K videos we have ever gotten were Beat It and Thriller — both coming from the only album the estate seems to care about, which is Thriller.

dam2040 said:

We've already seen them discuss the film reels for the Bad short films so absolutely no excuses there.

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I can easily see them rationalize true scans in 4K of the Bad Music Videos with the next anniversary. Bad does have the "prestige", 5 number 1 Singles,a Legendary World Tour, and Quincy Jones association. It's reputation has basically been solidified.

Dangerous for the acclaim the fans give it, still barely registers with the general public for some reason. Not how it should be in my opinion but unfortunately the way it is regardless. At least in America.

There's just one thing in relation to this topic in general people seem to ignore: Branca is careless about us, but not about the material. It's absurd to believe whatever tapes and film reels they have as of now haven't been scanned upon being located. Just remember that not seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Branca refusing to release any piece of footage shows his lack of interest in all 5 of us who'd buy that.

MJbr2 said:

There's just one thing in relation to this topic in general people seem to ignore: Branca is careless about us, but not about the material. It's absurd to believe whatever tapes and film reels they have as of now haven't been scanned upon being located. Just remember that not seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Branca refusing to release any piece of footage shows his lack of interest in all 5 of us who'd buy that.

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It's basically a case of patience cause it will come out, just not during this current regime.

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Mister_Jay_Tee said:

I can easily see them rationalize true scans in 4K of the Bad Music Videos with the next anniversary.

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I doubt they would upscale the music videos from Bad since all the short films were edited on film except for the credits of Liberian Girl and some sequences in Dirty Diana, which were both done on tape (correct me if I'm wrong!).

MJbr2 said:

There's just one thing in relation to this topic in general people seem to ignore: Branca is careless about us, but not about the material. It's absurd to believe whatever tapes and film reels they have as of now haven't been scanned upon being located. Just remember that not seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Branca refusing to release any piece of footage shows his lack of interest in all 5 of us who'd buy that.

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quite a lot if not all of the archives actually have been digitized in some form or another, listening to the Behind The Mask demo and the Logic error sound at the beginning it either seems like a rushed older transfer or a rushed new transfer since they didn't even want to do the release in the first place.