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to remaster

5 5.1
To make a recording, film, or game sound and look better using modern tools
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈmæstər/
translation icon : remasterizar
  • The studio plans to remaster the classic film to enhance its visual quality for modern audiences.
  • digitally remastered
  • remastered version
  • remastered album

Examples

  • Just releasing older classics, maybe remastered and cleaned up, is plenty.

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  • Great sound quality too, as these were remastered from the original tapes and fully licensed from MAG.

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  • And they only turned the Original Series over to Rossi to remaster.

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  • Can someone please remaster Lost Odyssey for crying out loud?

  • The copy I got was a 20-bit remastered edition.

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  • The episodes have been remastered and released on Blu-ray and DVD.

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  • Warner Home Video is releasing this DVD in a digitally remastered version.

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  • Greetings from Troma-ville, and welcome to the lovingly remastered digital DVD director's cut version of "Stuck On You."

  • Consider Steven Spielberg's adjustments in the 20th-anniversary remastered edition of his 1982 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

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  • Mike Ragogna contributes liner notes for both releases, and they've been remastered by Vic Anesini.

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Antonyms

49 5.1

To make something worse in quality or value

How Enhanced

to remaster
5 5.1
to re-release
  • UK
3.7
to reissue
12 4.4

Surface Forms

remaster infinitive
remastered past
remastered past participle
remastering present participle
remasters third person singular

Morphology

remaster = master (semi-transparent) = re + master

Re- contributes the idea of doing it again, but the technical media sense of 'master' is specialized and not fully obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Remaster comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and master meaning 'the main original copy'. To remaster something is to make the master again but better, improving its sound or picture using newer tools.