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Post #466411

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msycamore
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THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
23-Jan-2011, 12:47 AM

I've now gone through the Italian cut, thanks again, erri! It was nice to finally see that extended scene with Donald Pleasence.

A few comments on the video:

The intro and end titles is letterboxed in order to not crop out the titles, however it is stretched causing a wrong aspect ratio- that should be easy to fix, I guess.

 

Unfortunately, this video is also in very low quality sometimes, lots of bad MPEG artefacting as you can see below, in fact, this whole scene looks like this, and many other scenes as well.

So a different source of this cut would've been nice to have.

This cut of the film is 01:17:25 min, converted to NTSC it is 01:20:43 min... I want to know what you all think of this, if it is even worth to convert this file to NTSC and loose the extra lines of resolution? Should we do anything with it? just release it as it is, with the subtitle stream, or should we wait and see if we could get a better source for this?