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Post #144468

Author
Citizen
Parent topic
The Official Dark/Sega Special Collection OT LD Release Thread (Not an SE Transfer) (Released)
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Date created
2-Oct-2005, 5:06 PM
Inbetween capping TESB for my trilogy I've been taking a closer look at this Dark/Sega Special Collection version, removing the 3:2 pulldown, adjusting the white balance/hue/saturation so things look 'right' and it's leaving me with a single thought... I WANT THIS JAPANESE LASERDISC SET!

The test results I'm getting are showing that it could really give the PAL transfers a run for their money, firstly it doesn't suffer the interlace/jaggies problem of the definitive set but the main reason being they didn't use any temporal smoothing to reduce grain, no smearing during motion!

Check this short XviD clip out, first half is from my PAL LDs (I had to increase the brightness to match), the 2nd half from the Dark/Sega SC DVD, on the Dark/Sega part you can see the rockface in detail whereas on the PAL sourced version it's badly smeared (same on the Definitive & Faces discs), the blurred smearing is not a result of the cleanup filters I use - whoever authored the LDs did that.

StarWarsDarkSegaTestClip.avi - 916kb, 720x306, XviD


Knowing my luck it's probably as rare as chickens teeth and costs an arm and a leg