Nice! :) Never seen that before, similar to the earlier video cover you posted.
I've started to fiddle with the DC DVD-opening again, I noticed that the Buck Rogers footage is much more zoomed in on the Laserdisc transfer compared to how it appear on the DC DVD. How does the betamax tape compare?
Laserdisc
DVD - degraded & resized to 4:3 Letterbox, I removed the ugly blue tint to restore the original Black & White photography.
Even though Buck Rogers was shot in black & white, I thought that maybe the clip was presented in a sepia-like tone on the THX-print as the LD suggests, but if you look at the Laserdisc AZ-logo you can actually see the same tint, or am I wrong? How does the betamax tape compare, is it in plain black & White?
Laserdisc
DVD - degraded & resized to 4:3 Letterbox
Laserdisc
DVD - degraded & resized to 4:3 Letterbox, so how is the green color on this, am I even close?
I'll post a 4:3 and 16:9 clip for you when I have tinkered with it a little more and we'll see if we can make it work. I'm not sure if we want to reproduce the same edge enhancement, it would be nice if we could try to reduce that a little on the LD-capture.
I've also noticed something weird, the aspect ratio on the LD transfer seems to be vertically stretched when compared to the DVD-footage or perhaps vice versa. You can see this throughout the film, not only on the screen-caps above but also on the site which compared the transfers side by side posted earlier in this thread. Any thoughts on this?
Laserdisc
Are there many instances of this bad type of cropping, SilverWook?
DVD
And damn what I hate this guy! ;)
If there only wasn't altered footage where it appears...