Originally posted by: Oso Blanco
@Jaiman Tuckuh:
As I understand, you have a HD version of The Undiscovered Country which seems to be the theatrical cut. Are you going to upload that one as well? Would be nice to have, just for the sake of completion.
I wouldn't be welcome to repost them into the groups they were originally in - alt.binaries.hdtv and alt.binaries.hdtv.repost. Once something is reposted, there, that's usually it.
I might be able to repost hdtv files to alt.binaries.startrek, some day. But I don't know how likely that is. I have at least 2 months of fan-edit/preservation stuff to post already, and there's more that I haven't got yet. Plus new stuff keeps coming out. Also, it would take me 4 or 5 days to post a set. I would like to, because they should be posted to that group. Of course no one does post hdtv files, there, so I would have to do an "intent to post" to see if anyone objected.
You might be able to get them by torrent (see the babbling at the bottom).
Of course, if the movies become available on retail HDTV discs, (or retail HDTV download, like the XBox service), then I won't be able to post them at all. OTOH, if the retail versions are altered from the HDTV captures, then it wouldn't be against the forum rules to distribute the old captures (if I understand correctly).
That being said, the first set of ST VI captures, that I have, aren't identical to the theatrical. There is more of the picture vertically (like in the DVD's). And the end theme is different from what was described at IMDB. But they do match the theatrical scenes, whereas the DVD's have extra scenes.
BTW, what format are the HD versions before they are being converted to DVD format? Is there a loss in quality during the conversion? If so, is there any place where I could download the original HD files? Many questions, but I'm kind of new to this ...
@Jaiman Tuckuh:
As I understand, you have a HD version of The Undiscovered Country which seems to be the theatrical cut. Are you going to upload that one as well? Would be nice to have, just for the sake of completion.
I wouldn't be welcome to repost them into the groups they were originally in - alt.binaries.hdtv and alt.binaries.hdtv.repost. Once something is reposted, there, that's usually it.
I might be able to repost hdtv files to alt.binaries.startrek, some day. But I don't know how likely that is. I have at least 2 months of fan-edit/preservation stuff to post already, and there's more that I haven't got yet. Plus new stuff keeps coming out. Also, it would take me 4 or 5 days to post a set. I would like to, because they should be posted to that group. Of course no one does post hdtv files, there, so I would have to do an "intent to post" to see if anyone objected.
You might be able to get them by torrent (see the babbling at the bottom).
Of course, if the movies become available on retail HDTV discs, (or retail HDTV download, like the XBox service), then I won't be able to post them at all. OTOH, if the retail versions are altered from the HDTV captures, then it wouldn't be against the forum rules to distribute the old captures (if I understand correctly).
That being said, the first set of ST VI captures, that I have, aren't identical to the theatrical. There is more of the picture vertically (like in the DVD's). And the end theme is different from what was described at IMDB. But they do match the theatrical scenes, whereas the DVD's have extra scenes.
BTW, what format are the HD versions before they are being converted to DVD format? Is there a loss in quality during the conversion? If so, is there any place where I could download the original HD files? Many questions, but I'm kind of new to this ...
Yep, there is a lot of quality lost, in conversion to DVD. HD files have much more detail than DVD. So, of course, they are large sets of files - 2 or 3 single-layer dvd's-full.
The hdtv files are almost always .TS files. Usually in 100 Megabyte chunks. Those have to be joined to play smoothly. They contain either mpeg2 or hx264 codecs. VLC plays HD files. But any software will have trouble playing some hx264 caps (if they have a full-sized picture and a high "bitrate"). Joining and converting gets into a longer subject.
A different posting of ST VI (looked about the same, but wasn't a file-match, and I didn't get a chance to check it scene-by-scene) was posted on 11-27-06. That expired from Giganews recently. So it might show up again in the repost group, soon.
Meanwhile, ST III was posted, for the first time ever, 15 days ago, in alt.binaries.hdtv. It'll likely be reposted.
So that leaves ST IV as the only Trek movie never posted in HD.
Bit-hdtv Had torrents for ST 1, 2, and 6-10, the last time I looked.
Hd-bits probably has V, but they are invitation-only.
Once you download them, though, you might not have someone to seed to - ruining your ratio. Their advice is to select some of the files from a popular torrent, and seed those over & over, to build up a ratio - then go for the heavily seeded torrents with few downloaders.
I wish I had ST V, but I managed to miss it. I don't suppose anyone happens to have it, or could get me an invite to hd-bits?