really, I can’t find it online and the sites that I’ve been directed to are in Russian and I can’t navigate around, where did you find your copy, is it in English ?
I was going to suggest that, if someone could get the 20th anniversary version from that HDnet or any HD version for that matter broadcast, someone could rotoscope the digital E.T. model and place it into the 1982 blu ray master as for full scenes if its 720p I suggest an upscale or using a 720p rip of the 1982 version for consistent quality, audio is not English for the HDTV rip if I recall so we would need to rip the audio track from the 20th anniversary dvd and sync it up and BOOM E.T. The 20th anniversary Edition Preservation RE-specialized will be born, sadly I couldn’t do any of this other than supply links because my current setup is pretty low end
I did some research and according to IMDB
X-Men aspect ratio - 2.35 : 1
X2 X-Men United aspect ratio - 2.35 : 1 (Cinematographic Process Super 35)
X-Men The Last Stand aspect ratio - 2.35 : 1
Mars Attacks aspect ratio - 2.35 : 1
Austin Powers Goldmember aspect ratio - 2.35 : 1 (Cinematographic Process Super 35)
Hope it helps from this information I would assume that the only ones that could be open matte would be X-Men 1 and Austin Powers
yes indeed Spider-Man is apparently the true open matte version on the full screen dvd but I’ve heard that Spider-Man 2 is not exactly open matte the whole frame is not shown rather a mix of the top and bottom showing more of the image but the sides cropped a bit, it would be the closest to open matte however, speaking of marvel movies you may be interested in Hulk (2003) in full screen I’ve heard you can see boom mikes lol how could you tell if a dvd is open matte anyway, im a little fuzzy on that aspect ?
I’d assume all the X-Men movies are just pan and scan crops of the widescreen versions
that’s what I figured, I guess the only other option would be to upscale the scenes with the new effects added and splice them as well as the extra scenes into the blu ray version here’s a list of changes made to the 20th anniversary edition with pictures comparing both versions side by side if anyone wants to know or try a preservation
what about the altered effects are those scenes included on the blu ray ? I haven’t watched it in a while
hmm I’ve never owned the criterion release, but I do know that it was released on laserdisc in both pan and scan and letterbox, I don’t think the pan and scan version is truly the same as the open matte one but I think it should be closer to what your looking for
yikes forgot about that, I got rid of them
The Full Screen versions of the Jurassic Park trilogy look really good, framing wise, whereas the widescreen version feels cropped; tight. Of course the VFX scenes are pan & scan in the 4:3 version because they were hard matted in the source. However, the hard matted frame was still taller than 1.78:1, maybe 1.75:1, and the 4:3 P&S of those scenes do not utilise the full vertical height of the frame which they should have to compensate for the horizontal loss.
were they all available on full screen on DVD ? I don’t remember what cover art was used
The Naked Gun movies all were shot open matte. The widescreen framing on the DVD of the first film is slightly off, as you can see a sliver of the bra Priscilla Presley is wearing when she’s supposed to be naked.
Ironically, the filmmakers on the commentary track mention how visible the bra was in old fullframe transfers. I guess they couldn’t see this on the monitor they were using because of overscan?
No idea if this is fixed for the Blu Ray.
Would the VHS tapes be open matte because I’ve never heard of any full screen dvd release for any of the movies
Woops sorry guys I accidently posted DL Links, their gone now
hmm, I suppose upscaling would be in order then im sort of fuzzy on that whole aspect what programs are used to upscale a dvd and make it look decent alongside the blu ray
Has anyone ever found this version in HD, this cut is only on dvd and while im not saying it should replace the original version or the current blu ray id still like to have it in HD to go along with the official blu ray im sure its aired on tv in HD before at some point, has anyone ever thought of doing a restoration using the blu ray and upscaled/HD footage of the extra content it seems like it could be worth while for preservation sake, it probably wouldn’t take to long either as there aren’t many new alterations
where is the option to change it to a blu ray located in imgburn
I’ve been trying to do this for a while and im not sure why its not working, I burn plenty of regular dvds all the time but AVCHD files burning to a disc is an issue for me it stays blank, I get a HD video file put it into TSMuxer the BDMV and Certificate folders are created I try to burn them using imgburn but no luck I know its not a problem with tsmuxer because the file is playable from the folder in m2ts form its obviously a burning issue but if I get the raw m2ts video file and burn it to a disc it works but is identified as a data disc Id like to have AVCHD format for my projects any ideas what I could be doing wrong
How’s this coming along, I was sad to see some of the videos on youtube flagged
Heh, the 1997 versions not the ideal versions we’d like to see on the big screen again but still it would be cool to see them in theaters
That’s genius, jar jar in this case would come from a society that only speaks in their native language and has very little contact with humans (the Naboo in this case) this would strengthen Boss Nass’s line to Qui Gon “Weesa no liken the Naboo” they don’t like the because they don’t understand them they are different from their society Jar Jar is the Gungan who doesn’t quite share their beliefs and is sort of a unique Gungan in this case being the only one who attempts to reach out to humans (the two jedi, and later the queen herself) in the end by spending time with the humans he becomes a sort of ambassador of the Gungans and their relationship between the Naboo and in the process unites them as an army
Im even more excited now!!!
YES I’ve wanted this for years if Disney does do this they will be loved even more than they are now especially by SW fans, they must have the unaltered versions rumors even suggest that they were rescanned for HD
yes indeed I checked I think the releases during 1991-93 were the altered song versions
on a lot of the laserdisc releases it says “Home video version, some music rescored” I assume those are the ones with the song replaced, same goes for The Thing
yea, if their are noticeable differences in sound or content I always prefer the studios to include everything on one disc but I understand why they make new remasters and such obviously to take advantage of HD and Blu ray and to have the best quality in picture and sound I recently found out about all this stuff and still believe the movies look incredible on blu ray however it is interesting to me that they look a bit different depending on older releases its not a deal breaker for me rather something I want to have both options, I know terminator 1/2 and aliens as well as a few other Cameron films were filmed in a different aspect ratio would you happen to know what releases have terminator 1/2 and aliens in that format ?
thanks guys
Say the original mono track wouldn’t be on the special edition MGM dvd by any chance would it ?