{"id":185720,"date":"2019-12-17T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1813944\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:27:45","slug":"feast-your-eyes-on-4k-remaster-of-a-wham-christmas-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/17\/feast-your-eyes-on-4k-remaster-of-a-wham-christmas-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast Your Eyes on 4K Remaster of a Wham! Christmas Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/wham-1-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">Merry Christmas: Sony remastered Wham!&#8217;s iconic holiday music video in 4K (via Sony Music Entertainment\/Vevo\/YouTube)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Christmas, you were still watching the music video for Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; in its original formatting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, to save you from tears, Sony Music Entertainment remastered the footage in 4K.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the &#8217;80s (and George Michael) have never looked so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released 35 years ago this month, the festive synth-pop track has become something of a holiday anthem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/music\/what-to-listen-to\/fairytale-of-new-york-is-the-true-sound-of-christmas0\"  rel=\"noopener\">leapfrogged in 2015 by &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;<\/a>), &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; even helped birth the annual tradition of Whamageddon, in which folks aim to make it from Dec. 1 to 24 without hearing the original tune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s worth losing the game, though, just to watch this stunning update.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwNV7TAWN3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four-and-a-half-minute movie looks like a bunch of people cosplaying as a Wham! music video\u2014complete with big shoulder pads, even bigger hair, colorful shell suits, and crossfades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can assure you, though, that these are not actors playing actors playing scorned lovers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the first close-up of a car tire to the final opening of the ski-lift doors, the remaster accentuates every snowflake, pine needle, and pore. It even removes that blurry effect (you know, the one from the first season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colors are brighter, pixels are sharper, people&#8217;s faces are actually visible.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can, of course, continue to slum it with the 480p version of the video. But the official 4K rendering is a real feast for the eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since its premiere on Dec. 13, the clip\u2014now trending on YouTube\u2014has been seen more than 2,465,000 times (a mere 0.5 percent of the original, published online in October 2009).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More on Geek.com:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/watch-electric-eel-lights-up-christmas-tree-in-aquarium-1812843\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch: Electric Eel Lights Up Christmas Tree in Aquarium<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/recycle-your-christmas-tree-into-paint-food-sweeteners-1767652\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recycle Your Christmas Tree Into Paint, Food Sweeteners<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/is-it-a-christmas-movie-home-alone-1813330\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IS IT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE?: &#8216;Home Alone&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/wham-1-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>Merry Christmas: Sony remastered Wham!&#8217;s iconic holiday music video in 4K (via Sony Music Entertainment\/Vevo\/YouTube)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Last Christmas, you were still watching the music video for Wham!&rsquo;s &ldquo;Last Christmas&rdquo; in its original formatting. 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