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A progress report was never given, and that was intentional on their part. I don't think anyone besides Zion and Laserman know how much of the project was completed. 

We all feel for Laserman, but let's face it, Zion spent the lunch money on hand buzzers and nobody's ever gonna see this project in material form. I'm just being gay, but It's so true. This project sucks on Jar Jar while the Queen mother watches.  I wan't my money back. I could really use a wax box of Laffs Full House/Family Matters/Perfect Strangers trading cards.

I don't think anyone besides Zion and Laserman know how much of the project was completed.

Well, Laserman was the certainly the most technically advanced of all of us, but his contributions were largely intellectual after he handed out the AVIs to us. His contacts in our private boards have been sporadic, but the last I've heard from him was April 18. He was going to have some testing done.

Zion was in the process of building up a new computer for higher-level programming, but neither I nor anyone else who regularly contacts him has been able to make any contact with him for months now. I've tried a Whois on his website to look for address/phone information, and some searches on PeopleFinder based on his last known address. Unfortunately, he was between moves at the time, and I'm not sure how valid the information I have on him is anymore. (In addition to his personal health and welfare, I'm also a bit concerned about the LD I sent him from my Definitive Collection set. :( )

So, at this point, I may have to archive the technical aspects of what had been discussed (before Z's webite goes down), and see if I can replicate them on my own without L's assistance. I have some of the software, and could give it an attempt, but I still need to finish the speck-removal I was working on. That's been on hiatus for a while, but I could get back to it this month.

That's about the best info I can give you guys right now. Sorry it's not great. The project's certainly not dead, but with 2 of its members gone, it's a bit of a zombie.

[EDIT] By the way...anyone know of a quick way to archive a whole website?

wget -m?

Powerful tool if you can figure it out.

@MeBeJedi - It sounds like you should add a new member or two to the team to help you out.

Doctor M said:

@MeBeJedi - It sounds like you should add a new member or two to the team to help you out.

I dunno....it's beginning to feel like a curse now.... :(

Huh... does Zion still have the raw capture? Just out of curiosity, of course. I'm, of course, referring to this one: It was of the DC, yes?

Also: It seems there was a screener released.
What happened to this?

edit:  Wasn't it said that you had Zion's snail mail somewhere?

Yes, it was said.....by me, no less.

And I have my own set of copies of the capture as well. That's what I was doing the speck-removal on.

That screen grab from the leaked Timecode X-0 screener actually looks worse than the Gout.

What did you expect from a JPG?

MeBeJedi,

Do you think its plausable that you could finish the speck and defect removal fromthe OT trilogy, maybe do the color correction that restores the star fields that you showed on the X0 website and then release the release these that way? Even without laserman's black magic process I bet these would be superior to the gout with your work done to them....

Certainly...I've just got to share time with other video projects as well as my family. I've been buying a 1Tb drive every month to offload and group various projects from the smattering of 150, 250 and 500Gb drives I've got lying around, and I need to get my X0 files off that measly 250GB drive on to something larger.

All three films were transferred.

MeBeJedi said:

Certainly...I've just got to share time with other video projects as well as my family. I've been buying a 1Tb drive every month to offload and group various projects from the smattering of 150, 250 and 500Gb drives I've got lying around, and I need to get my X0 files off that measly 250GB drive on to something larger.

That is wonderful news. I think most people would be more than thrilled and thankful for an OUT trilogy like that.

And if you ever hear from Laserman, let him know that we miss his input on this board and has been in our thoughts and prayers....

I agree with vbangle, both on the fact that we'd be grateful and the fact that we're thinking of Laserman and we miss him.

Seconded.

Thirded.  I wonder when MeBe'll pop in here...