Info: a Smear-free '93 ? — Page 3

msycamore said:

I could upload those scenes from the "V8"- disc for you.

You found one? Way to go msycamore !
After your glowing review, I predict eBay price will soon skyrocket :)
Not to worry -- if aleksbmw can't find one, I'd gladly lend him mine...

Harmy, if you think it would help your projects I could do 640x480 capture of the Mos Eisely drive-by from my own JSC disc or from this one, which now should probably be called "smear-free '92"

Well, I would certainly like a capture from the smear-free '92 one, that would be great :-)

For the JSC I would prefer DJ's cleaned up version.

Harmy said:

For the JSC I would prefer DJ's cleaned up version.

Why not ask, DJ for it?

Just so you know, V8 is also cleaned up. I can fix that scene for you from that one if you want, do you need the avi to be in RGB format?

I thought V8 was DJ's? If not, that's what I meant, the V8. I guess RGB would be preferable but not necessary. Thanks :-)

No "V8" is arni.d's preservation of the JSC LD, the one I posted screen-caps of on the last page. I'll fix it for you.

Darth Mallwalker said:

You found one? Way to go msycamore !
After your glowing review, I predict eBay price will soon skyrocket :)

Sorry. ;) 

Not to worry -- if aleksbmw can't find one, I'd gladly lend him mine...

Who is this aleksbmw?

dark_jedi said:

msycamore, are you going to capture this LD? it appears that dm is not, I asked before if he was, but it seems like only screenshots and info are his specialty.

I would love to capture it, unfortunately I don't think I have the right equipment for it, more importantly perhaps, never done it before. But I definitely plan to do it.

Mos Eisley V8: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=419YAB1M

Several have asked me that question. Probably they don't realize my primary workstation is a Pentium-III with 80GB disk.

About a month ago I did try capturing my LD using a stand-alone DVD recorder, but it turns out to be a steaming pile of Funai.
Refuses to record any of the four blank media flavors I've tried. Well it's probably a blessing in disguise.
Even in 1-hour mode, an MPEG2 recording with hard pulldown wouldn't be ideal.

More recently I've got an old file server to play with. It has MegaRAID card with three SCSI channels, and 18GB disk per channel.
In RAID-0 configuration the disk subsystem should be fast enough, albeit not very large capacity.
Motherboard has dual Pentium-III's installed (but the BIOS is so old it thinks they're Pentium-II ) running at 500MHz.
I wonder if that would be enough horsepower for FFVH codec (that's FFmpeg's HuffYUV implementation).
Maybe, just maybe it becomes a project and not merely an object.

One step at a time...

I hope I haven't building up this LD to something it is not with my "glowing review" as Mallwalker said. It's still just a LD, many people would just shake their head and don't get what I'm so thrilled about when seeing this transfer, but I simply prefer a dirty and noisy picture over a badly cleaned destroyed picture. I'll definitely look into what I'll need to get a descent capture out of it. Right now, I'm just a little occupied with THX.

Look, sir. Droids. V8: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ix8ts2

pittrek said:

My jaw just dropped.

The video looks absolutely amazing ! It looks just like I remember Star Wars including the brightness, dirt and grain.I absolutely LOVE it

Who should I kill to get a copy ? :-)

I think it's still up there on usenet. Arnie.d did a fantastic job with it.

Sorry, Mallwalker for taking up your thread with this. I should maybe have posted those clips elsewhere.

No worries.

I know what you mean about not building people's hopes too high.
After all, the Technidisc factory got some not-so-glowing reviews:

Blam Entertainment Group said:

Technidisc continued to suffer from generally poor replication. Most discs contain an excessive amount of single-line dropouts and all CLV/CAA sides suffer from excessive crosstalk on all laserdisc players.

It's 620 days old. EasyNews does claim 900 days retention for NNTP clients (but less for their web interface, as you've pointed out.)
I'd post it again. Sure, why not?

TServo2049 said:

Are Arnie.d's any better than the Dark/Sega ones? Maybe a repost would be in order for those of us who don't have access to 600+ day old posts...

 I was going to upload a torrent, but I started running out of HD space and ended up deleting it.

I still have a DVDshrink version of it I haven't burned yet if anyone's interested in that.

Darth Mallwalker said:

After all, the Technidisc factory got some not-so-glowing reviews:

Blam Entertainment Group said:

Technidisc continued to suffer from generally poor replication. Most discs contain an excessive amount of single-line dropouts and all CLV/CAA sides suffer from excessive crosstalk on all laserdisc players.

Full article here

I don't even know what crosstalk looks like, but it doesn't sound good.

 

 Hmm, interesting. Will check it out.

Darth Mallwalker said:

And don't forget this comment from mitch@lddb.com:
"The Technidisc pressing from 1993 is not very good"
Maybe he meant crosstalk?

While some of us find the content of this LD quite interesting, possibly the disc itself could be (relatively) poorly mastered.

Yeah, I saw that comment, now I need to find out what "crosstalk" actually means in this case.

http://www.blamld.com/laserdisc/faq/FAQ_Hardware.htm#ComplaintsDefectsCrosstalk

That is not good... I think I saw that pattern when watching this LD, but I was unsure if it was player related or not. :(

Oh, sorry, I posted in the wrong thread. I get a little bit mixed up between these two.

Torrent is up.

Mallwalker, unfortunately I can confirm that the Technidisc - pressing of SW is full of "crosstalk" if you haven't seen it for yourself by now. Maybe the amount of "crosstalk" differ from disc to disc but it's pretty extensive on mine.