Originally posted by: DrGonzo369
Yea, I lucked up and got the us ld for less then 18 with shipping. Someone has a tv series LD set for around $300 on ebay, which is too much for my blood atm. I have yet to even see the tv series, but hopefully someone will get it and sub it.

now I have a reason to get an LD player....hehe

Originally posted by: DrGonzo369
ok, since my buddy's raidZero drives decided to die on us, we had to wait for him to do his emergency build on his pc. Now that that is up and running, we'll hopefully get started on this yet again (stupid damn raidzero....).

It will happen the way I want it, I promise. I'm leaning towards both DL and SL, but we'll see.

Originally posted by: SilverWook
Could you possibly post a screencap from the Japanese disc? I've been curious about Lensman's proper widescreen aspect ratio for years now...
I've made an LDrip though I had cut it to the exact ratio of the letterboxing as to remove the black otherwise, but here you go!

Here's shots from the Japanese LD...








I'm still puzzled why the English dub on the Lumivision disc is so low-fi and mono. The movie posters for Lensman's limited U.S. release clearly have a Dolby Stereo credit on them.

Originally posted by: SilverWook
Thank you so much for all of that! I may have to sync up that stereo track with my Laserdisc tonight.
There's a few points that might make it go out of sync, but it's mostly perfect (as I was originally going to sync it with the Japanese LD).


They are a lot better personally. I decided to clip the opening and ending from my Japanese LD to further show that!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8D334H37

It's interesting at noticing how the opening prologue, as well as captions for the different places are written in English in the film itself, which I guess was mainly due to this having been based on the work of an American SciFi novelist and they wanted to preserve that sort of origin of the language (much like the recent anime "Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo" uses French in a few places).

BTW, are you familiar with this fan site ?

Originally posted by: DrGonzo369
Toledo- I was thinking of preserving the Harmony Gold version as well (have an avi of it someplace which is clean), but I hated what they did to Worsel.
Heh, hadn't gotten through this yet personally. Feel like I have to be in that mood to watch a crummy anime dub of the 80's to fully appreciate it somewhat (Worsel had a far better voice in the Streamline version obviously).

[quoite]They also had alternate audio in there, so it still might be worth doing (the parts as they wait for Bill to come home has new audio of Kim and Kris NOT in the Streamline dub). I still an hunting down the tv series complitation movie in any format.
Not sure if having new audio would mean a thing if it was an excuse to pad out the time in that scene with exposition (what Harmony Gold was famous for with Robotech). Being reminded of a few other things HG had in their hands at the time like Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Minky Momo, as well as the films "Birth" and "Windaria", both of which got re-edited and re-written into completely different movies altogether.

I do have an AVI of that TV series compilation too, though in Spanish.


True, I also tackled making a subtitle script if you like to check out the 30-40 minutes I managed to get through so far (in .ass format)...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7GF5JFN8

The widescreen isn't too perfect, it's the typical "shoot-everything-in-full-frame-crop-the-top-&-bottom" method that we've seen or talked about in the past, but at least it makes it easier to get a anamorphic transfer if one ever happens.

I think you've beat me to the punch. Good job, sir.