Thanks for your help. I actually understood the difference before I came to the boards. The confusion stems from someone saying that the widescreen 4:3 versions would actually look better on standard tv's compared to the anamorphic, due to the down downconversion required on these older sets. This seemed to be confirmed IMO by the screenshots i.e. the first tr47 version looked slightly better to me than the screenshot from the anamorphic tr47.
So that's why I was confused and the anamorphic screenshots never seemed to look as good...at least from the pics I'd seen.
Originally posted by: zion
Welcome to the boards! Thanks for taking the time to do some research and make use of the sticky threads before posting. I wish we had more newbies like you.
zion...man thanks so much for your kind welcome and comments.
It's great to be accepted by such a fine and generous community. I tried to read up before posting...there's a hell of a lot to digest.
OK...that explains a lot. I guess I could assume that the transfers are all capturing the "entire" image then.
Lastly:
If you don't have a widescreen television, you should consider a letterbox transfer such as either TR47/Cowclops v1.0 which has digital PCM sound, or the EditDroid transfer which in my opinion has a slightly better picture but no PCM sound. Both are excellent transfers though.
Newer transfers such as Citizen's releases are done on dual-layer media with a substantial increase in quality. Citizen's PAL DL transfer of ANH is my current favorite.
Welcome to the boards! Thanks for taking the time to do some research and make use of the sticky threads before posting. I wish we had more newbies like you.
zion...man thanks so much for your kind welcome and comments.
It's great to be accepted by such a fine and generous community. I tried to read up before posting...there's a hell of a lot to digest.
First:
The "viewable area" you refer to relies solely on the capture device used. Some capture cards clip more off the sides than others. I know that with my Winfast TV2000 XP card I am able to hack the settings and set my own clipping range, but most (none that I know) other capture devices don't have this ability.
The "viewable area" you refer to relies solely on the capture device used. Some capture cards clip more off the sides than others. I know that with my Winfast TV2000 XP card I am able to hack the settings and set my own clipping range, but most (none that I know) other capture devices don't have this ability.
OK...that explains a lot. I guess I could assume that the transfers are all capturing the "entire" image then.
Lastly:
If you don't have a widescreen television, you should consider a letterbox transfer such as either TR47/Cowclops v1.0 which has digital PCM sound, or the EditDroid transfer which in my opinion has a slightly better picture but no PCM sound. Both are excellent transfers though.
Newer transfers such as Citizen's releases are done on dual-layer media with a substantial increase in quality. Citizen's PAL DL transfer of ANH is my current favorite.
I do indeed have an ancient tv (for now...I think it's dying). But...with the number of transfers containing PCM sound being limited, my choices are going to be a lot easier anyway since I do want that feature. Of course after posting I read further and discovered the original stereo mixes have been captured from earlier laserdiscs, so now that (happy) wrench has been thrown in the works.
I really hope someone with optical ins/outs is able to combine the original stereo soundtrack PCM from earlier DVD with a widescreen image from another release.
thanks,
your ally in spirit (if not technology)