eldiablosuizo said:
Elegant Tobacco said:
You could probably piece together a good portion of the IMAX scenes in 1.78 from the clips that are shown in the special features(which are surprisingly long). They have a nice bitrate, too. It would require some editing though, since the center of the frame is sometimes obscured by text. Overlaying the 2.35 Blu-ray image over it should be enough to cover it up. Anything not shown in there could be patched up with the iTunes and HDTV sources. Just an idea.
I've already done that. I've pilfered through all the special features to get everything I can. We just need a good capture of the EPIX broadcast and we'll have a quality version.
Unfortunately, the capture I did was the VOD of Verizon's FIOS. FIOS uses IP to transmit VOD content. The VOD has terrible compression in an effort to minimize bandwidth, which gives us the marco-blocking (plus frame problems that eldiablosuizo ran into) . The macro-blocking is baked in, it is not my capture. The good news is this is the "early preview" so STID hasn't actually appeared on EPIX yet (should be in a few days). Hopefully, when it premieres the regular broadcast should be much better (and hopefully 16:9). The broadcast version should be better on FIOS since the regular channels use QAM that they don't recompress the original signal (opposed to the IP for the VOD).
Hopefully someone with better equipment can capture it. I used my Hauppauge hd pvr since my HDMI capture is on the fritz. I can try to capture the broadcast version when it is on.