That grumpy old git hasn't been the same since he metamorphosized into a cartoonized stressful book reading characterization...

Sorry... I'm new here, but I read the old thread about the Moth3r laserdisc rips.

When that discussion was still really going I think I still was stuck with 56k or 384k DSL. 

Now with 25 Mbps fiber optic service and a newsgroup account, I'd like to catch up if someone could PM me the details : a.b.starwars or a.b.repost ?

search engines like binsearch.info will help you determine what group.

Thanks man.

Would appreciate any post of your PAL dvds.

I checked out your older "Starwars-4.5.6.AC3.5.1.WS.LaserDisc.Xvid" pack, but there's a A/V sync problem with those old 2003 .avi's.

They play back about 5ms off base, and my A/V receiver can only fine-tune in 10ms steps. 

Great AC3 soundtrack dump there, though.

Gotta respect the AC3 LaserDisc's and their soundtrack mixes.

Listening to the AC3 mix on those laserdisc SE rips was the first time I heard that well-imaged and "three dimensional" dialog on my home 5.1 system.

Maybe they created the effect with software sourcing only the original 2.0 mix?

ok.

I came here to get the Moth3r discs, so if you could post them that would be great.

The Cowclops pack had some NTSC encoder errors (green shadows), so if Moth3r doesn't,  it's worth the download to me.

It's hard to nitpick when you're using analog source video from 1993.

The fact that there's more than 1 release shows that someone thought that there was even more room for improvement in the process I guess.

Wow, just wow. Thanks for uploading the Moth3r ROTJ - the PQ on that is the best I've seen yet, from LD to DVD. This is now one of my favourite versions of ROTJ I can add to my collection - definitely a keeper.

Now anxious to see ANH and ESB. 8)

Thanks for ROtJ, but man, that audio hiss & pop is annoying.

Why wasn't the original 1993 laserdisc audio track kept?

Thank you, Darth Mallwalker!  I am downloading ROTJ now. :-)

foganime said:

Thanks for ROtJ, but man, that audio hiss & pop is annoying.

I assume the audio fix doesn't improve this.  Is there no other audio that can be synchronized to this?  If there isn't and the video looks as good as people say, I might try to synchronize the PAL GOUT audio to it.

Moth3r said:

Thanks for reposting these DM.

Some notes from what I can remember:

Audio for all three came from my 1995 VHS tapes. I did run the audio files through a click/pop removal filter, but I may have reduced the strength of the filtering for RoTJ thinking it wasn't necessary.

Surprised to see comments on the PQ for RoTJ - although this disc has the best colour, it's also the softest image and looks a little blurred.

Known flaws are listed here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Moth3r-PAL-DVD-Set-Info-and-Feedback-Thread/topic/4031/

I really should get on and do a V2.

I haven't seen the others, but your ROTJ is easily the best LDRip I have watched - in fact I feel inclined to say, there seems to be more detail in parts than the GOUT DVD.

So, if ROTJ is the softest/weakest of the 3 you have done, then I really, really look forward to seeing the other two. 8)