According to TV Guide, Sci-Fi is airing Waterworld on Saturday, May 12th, from 5 PM to 9 PM! That's 4 hours! (with commercials)
I'll of course be capturing this and crossing my fingers that the quality is out of this world. I encourage anybody else to do a cap, in case my computer explodes or something.
Unfortunately for me, I just minutes ago finished synching up the Bravo, USA, and Telemundo caps I did. I hope all that work won't be for nothing when I get this new Sci-Fi cap. It took me about 12 hours longer than I expected, but I have a few interesting tidbits:
-The USA and Bravo versions are identical, except for the placement of commercial breaks. Also, in one shot, when Helen is scarcely covered by a towel, USA added a blur. Both versions omit a couple frames from all the best violent shots. Both have not just additional scenes, but often additional shots in already-existing scenes.
-I still believe the Telemundo is the Theatrical Version (I haven't gotten around to comparing with my Theatrical DVD). It has full violence and one near-nude shot of Helen was longer in this version, while another was shorter.
Also of note is that there were a couple frames that Decomb IVTC'd differently (incorrectly) in the different caps. I had to eliminate these frames to maintain synch between the different caps. I believe I'm seeing some combing artifacts on some frames as well, no doubt because I've set post=0. I figured if it IVTC's correctly, there's no sense in deinterlacing, but I may have been wrong. I'll play around with it a bit.
I've given almost no thought to how to handle audio. I think Surround Sound may be out of the question since about an hour worth of footage is Stereo. Even as stereo, it's tough to just cut back and forth between audio tracks without it sounding jarring. I'll have to just hope that the 3-hour cap will have everything I need so I won't have to chop it up. Another audio problem is my captures always have this hiss. I don't know if that's normal for cable bootlegs, but I'll try to eliminate it.