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Millennium (1996 FOX TV) DVD Restoration/Upscale Project (RELEASED) — Page 5

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My “statement” about the project:

Project finished Sept. 6, 2024!

In 2022, I managed to acquire a 1080p MILLENNIUM upscale project from a user named “TVArchive” at originaltrilogy.com before he disappeared from the forum. After seeing the lack of quality in the Chinese collection from eBay, I finally decided to make a Blu-ray set.

  • It is a 12-disc BD-50 set. 4 discs per season.
  • There are no subtitles.
  • The audio is from the official DVD’s.
  • The aspect ratio is correctly maintained.
  • The X-Files S07E04 “Millennium” is included as a bonus.
  • All files have been tested and burned with ImgBurn.
  • The ISO’s are region-free and will play on any player/console that can play Blu-ray.
  • Total size: 453GB.

It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.

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I have shared it at MySpleen. That’s the best I could do.

It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.

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Someone just put the full Season 1 Upscales (145GB) on 1337, if anyone is looking for it. Hopefully the others appear also. It is insane how much Mr TV Archive got out of the DVDs.

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mkfantastico said:

Someone just put the full Season 1 Upscales (145GB) on 1337, if anyone is looking for it. Hopefully the others appear also. It is insane how much Mr TV Archive got out of the DVDs.

I can confirm all 3 seasons are now on 1337x with active seeders.

Gonna have to buy a new portable HD just to download, plug and play. This is a lot of data! It is the Blu-ray upscale.

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Wow, that must have been a lot of hard work! The series definitely deserves this better treatment…I watched it when it originally aired and LOVED it. I’ve always been a little baffled as to why it never gained greater traction, especially being, essentially, a sister series to The X-Files. IMO, Lance Henriksen & Terry O"Quinn, together, is TV gold…plus, it had CCH Pounder, who I very much enjoyed on NCIS_ New Orleans. I bought a DVD box set some years back, as part of an Xmas gift for my mom. it did come off E-Bay but there was nothing Chinese about it…purchased it from somewhere in the U.S…seemed to be pretty decent quality, at least, as far as my mom was concerned [she was in her mid 70s at the time, so not too picky about such things]. Too bad there are so many outstanding shows out there that warrant remastering but are held back by copyright laws…Cold Case & Midnight Caller come to mind. Anyway, I applaud you on your considerable efforts…hope the result was everything you wished for…I’m sure it will receive some marked demand from members on on this forum.

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Thanks for all the kind words about my old “Millennium” upscales. I’d still be here sharing and contributing, but someone decided to take those encodes - that were meant for fans of the show - and sell Blu-Rays on Ebay. While I enjoy upscaling things that will never get an HD release, and have upscaled dozens of series since, I hate that there are greedy people who take something meant to be shared and try to profit off it.

Cheers to the good people here. I know you outnumber the bad ones.

TVA

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:sad face:

That brings to the forefront my wariness when it comes to putting finished project stuff out there (enough such that I’ve just indeed kept my stuff unreleased).

LightWave = fun times with gfx for me 😃

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TVArchive said:

Thanks for all the kind words about my old “Millennium” upscales. I’d still be here sharing and contributing, but someone decided to take those encodes - that were meant for fans of the show - and sell Blu-Rays on Ebay. While I enjoy upscaling things that will never get an HD release, and have upscaled dozens of series since, I hate that there are greedy people who take something meant to be shared and try to profit off it.

Cheers to the good people here. I know you outnumber the bad ones.

TVA

That is really sad to read, mate. That people would look to profit from others’ work and also endanger those projects and the larger community. Yes, it has been happening for years… yet still always disappointing to find out it still goes on.

I’d suggest to only share links with long-standing and trusted members of the community - with a request not to share the links with anyone else - if only to try and diminish the chances of these assholes getting access and profiting from and endangering the work that takes place on here.

Yet the other option, as I see it, is to continue to offer links to your projects… and don’t let these idiot assholes on ebay ‘win’. They’d like nothing better for project creators to withdraw their projects - so they can increase their profits by being ‘the only player in the game’, as it were. (It is easy to say that, I know.)
 

If you see a redditor or youtuber etc linking or talking about your project being for sale - you let them know they were made to be freely available (and still are) - and that person selling them has stolen your project and profiting from them.

eBay too - they will take them down if reported, they may soon spring up again, but they will act (albeit a thankless, tiresome and repetitive task - a few of us here did just that… and we saw a 6 month period where there were no ebay or etsy ales of Despecialized, 4K77, or adywan’s projects, etc - including takedowns of every online site advertising selling copies - bar one site).

Also, if you have any suspicions on who may be the person selling your work online - let the moderators on here know.
 

All the best with whatever you decide, TVArchive. 👍
 

As you say… and hopefully take some solace and joy from… the number of people on here you’ve made happy from your projects - which vastly outweighs these asshole thieves & sellers.
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com - includes info on how to ask for a fan project and how to search for projects and threads on OT•com.

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

Take your time to look around this site before posting… Do NOT just lazily make yet another ‘link request’ post - or a new thread asking for projects.

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I got a handful from you early on, but the filesize was larger than I was comfortable with.
In the end, I focused on Lucy Butler, Jose Chung, and a few key episodes.

The “sharing” without credit likely goes back to cave days.
There are subtitling sites I belong to, and questionable souls grab subs, only to re-release them as their own.
No money involved. Only - what - perks, likes? How desperate for attention.
Should you decide to continue reworking film or TV, you might want to consider a watermark (small, in a corner) midway in the film, with your tag on it.
Personally, I feel that no one should be allowed to request for edits until they have at least ten posts. And not just “ditto” or “me too” or “crushing it” or similar. Members ought to enter topics, engage, so we get an idea whether they are bots, cops, beggars, or someone who might add sparkle to the room.

Apologies for going on a bit. I rarely enter discussions.
OT is another reflection of the world we live in, which is seldom the best of worlds.
As Prince would say, “in this life, you’re on your own.”

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TVArchive said:

Thanks for all the kind words about my old “Millennium” upscales. I’d still be here sharing and contributing, but someone decided to take those encodes - that were meant for fans of the show - and sell Blu-Rays on Ebay. While I enjoy upscaling things that will never get an HD release, and have upscaled dozens of series since, I hate that there are greedy people who take something meant to be shared and try to profit off it.

Cheers to the good people here. I know you outnumber the bad ones.

TVA

If it is true that some Simps are using your hard work to sell your upscale, just advise ebay that those are fraudulent considering that there never was a digitalised version of Millinium. Even with the Blu-ray version which is the only one I found from your hard work, I have no way of burning this considering a Blu-ray burner is as pricy as a 5 terabytes WD external hd not to mention the price of the writable Blu-ray disk. Will have to convert it to h264 or h265 for my personal use and archive it to probably a double layered DVD so I can pop it in my own DVD and play it as media files.

Many thanks for the upscale, it is a beauty to re-watch this in such a rich video definition!

Can I ask if it was you who upscaled Babylon 5 before amazon decided to dish out to upscale it in 1080p?

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I will never share my converted from Blu-ray to h264/265 considering it wasn’t your original work (meaning the Blu-ray format) and for the user who uploaded it to myspleen, getting an invite is impossible so you actually have buy an invite to this torrent site. Just hope that you are comfortable that people can get your work via torrent even tho it was converted to a Blu-ray format.

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After much thought, I’ve decided to toss a bit of a middle finger to the thieves. I’ve re-upscaled and re-encoded the entire series using a workflow that gives much better visual results.

Thanks for all the kind words and messages. At least now I know that the people selling my previous work are now selling an inferior product.

I will not respond or accept PMs from newbies or people who have page after page of “I’d like a link”. You don’t have to have made your own fanedited stuff, but you do have to be socially contributing here and not just a leech.

The full series is now 177gb.

Sample:
https://streamable.com/gxmt7h

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That is great news. I still wouldn’t blame you for not sharing again.

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I can only echo what Greg Z said above - and welcome back, mate. 👍
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com - includes info on how to ask for a fan project and how to search for projects and threads on OT•com.

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

Take your time to look around this site before posting… Do NOT just lazily make yet another ‘link request’ post - or a new thread asking for projects.