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Post #1366488

Author
ZigZig
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Star Wars I - The Phantom Menace - ZigZig's Laserdisc Preservation (Released)
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Date created
1-Aug-2020, 6:21 AM

Hi Vladimon,

There is obviously an issue with your monitor (or with its settings). The dark areas that you don’t see on your screen (as shown on you short video) ARE yet definitely present and visible on my preservation (even they are not visible on your screen).
So yes, it seems that your contrast and colors settings are doing this.

Althor made his preservation with a Diamond Theater750HD PCI-E capture card, which is known to apply automatic levels that denature the image.
So if your monitor is not correctly calibrated, maybe you won’t see the slight “shadows” on my preservation, but you’ll see them on Althor’s one, because his capture card overdid the contrasts and levels.

As a general rule, a properly calibrated monitor is needed to compare finely colors, saturation, hue, contrasts and levels.