SilverWook said:

FanFiltration said:

SilverWook said:

Hey FanFiltration, Sony had a line of external Dolby Digital surround processors in the early days of DVD that had an unadvertised extra feature, an AC3 RF demodulator built in. Might these be in your price range?

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-SDP-EP9ES-ES-SURROUND-PROCESSOR-PREAMP-NICE-/350393597777?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519515ff51

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-SDP-E800-Dig-Surround-Processor-EXC-Fr-Shipping-/130428969359?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5e2c218f

Thanks so much for this info. I was lucky to be able to get my hands on an RF Demodulator this weekend. It will be put to good use on this and a few other projects I want to do in the next few months.

UPDATE: All of my future James Bond Laserdisc preservations will now feature lossless DTS Digital Surround (if film had an available surround ac3 track on the laser), and / or a PCM audio track.

FF

You're welcome!

If it's not a silly question, would the first DVD's of the first three Bond's be of any use to you? They were all THX and came in the snapper cases. They went out of print pretty early on, and I don't think Lowry had anything to do with these transfers...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dr-No-THX-Edition-DVD-1962-1997-Sean-Connery-OOP-/110544607313?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item19bcf8d851

http://cgi.ebay.com/Russia-Love-DVD-1997-/300460494319?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item45f4d74def

http://cgi.ebay.com/Goldfinger-DVD-James-Bond-Pussy-Galore-Spy-007-VG-NM-/290457907607?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item43a0a3f197

Thanks for asking! I'm not sure if this was the same print as used for the SE or not. The SE was not THX certified, and I am not sure if the technical details changed when these films had been re-released and repackage as part of the SE wave. But anyways, I am going to be sticking with only doing laserdisc preservation for now. Yet to be honest, I am still very intrigued by those THX releases. I seem to remember that Moonraker (a guilty pleasure of mine) was amongst the first released Bond titles on DVD. More information on their history and technical specifications is desired for sure! These disks came out in the mid 1990's. I clearly remember drooling over them in the bins at the Virgin Mega-store back in the day. I was a late bloomer, and I did not get into the DVD game until late 1999 or early 2000. That was around the time when the SE sets came out. Now that I come to think of it, I got my first DVD player specifically for the Bond set release.