msycamore said:
I don't know where that have been established, both Reivax and Flunk is said to be professional digital beta tape transfers rather than captured broadcasts.
Smearing on the '97 SE has been a main topic on the last few pages of Dark Jedi's Special Edition V2 thread, as he decided to go to the laserdiscs, which he believed lacked the broadcast's smearing. Pages 13, 14, and 15 have discussions about smearing.
As for where I thought it was established that the smearing was a result of the capture method, Adywan said the following on page 14 of aforementioned thread:
adywan said:
The smearing is caused by the crappy capture software available at the time. The TV PC cards really couldn't handle and movement and this is why the smearing occurred.
If the laserdiscs indeed do have the smearing, Dark Jedi's upconversion would surely highlight this flaw... Then the only hope for a good quality '97 SE would be a reconstruction, such as Harmy's Despecialized Editions.
yotsuya said:
If there was way to use one of the LD captures to enhance the GOUT, we might be able to clean it up in a fairly automated way. I'd say a PAL ld would be the best option, especially if it was transferred frame for frame (which speeds it up, but preserves the frames).
So you're suggesting fixing the GOUT's motion problems with other laserdisc sources? Interesting. I believe this is similar to what Laserman was trying to do in the XO Project.
However, he was using the completely DVNR-free JSC to try to enhance the GOUT, not the PAL laserdiscs... I think.