@ kaarma33 - Where the Ducktales movie is concerned, there is a 4.38GB 720p HDTVrip available on rutracker (which suffers from PAL speed-up) capped from disney cinemagic HD in France (as it has the title of movie in English and French) however the release only contains English and Russian audio. It contains the Disney logo in bottom left-hand corner and looks to be a straight to digital (no film in-between) transfer, which IMHO looks to be a little too DNR'ed (but it just might be me, LOL) still, it's better than the DVD. There is also an itunes 1080p 3.5GB rip floating around in proper NTSC speed and looks to be a film transfer. Personally, I think the 1080p copy, even though it has a lower video bitrate, is a much better transfer but this copy is extremely hard to find (took me over 4 months of searching in Eastern European forums to find it after a friend told me that it's out there) According to the metadata, the itunes copy was ripped in January of 2013. If you, or anyone else, would like to find this copy, please PM me for details as I've been asked not to post publicly.
Alright, now that I've addressed that, I would just like to say "WOW!" and "Thank you" to the HUGE response that this project has gotten. I'm surprised how many people have commented already and how many people have viewed this thread already. I can't wait for this to be finished. Not only because so many would love to see this, but my kids and I would like to see this as well. However I will not compromise my process (and therefore quality) to get this done sooner. I am very disappointed with Disney and many others for what they have (or haven't) done with some of these great shows from the 80s. If they even get released, they are usually of poor quality and are usually incomplete. We have seen this with other shows, from Nickelodeon, from the 80s as well. David the Gnome (which a fan restored from VHS recordings) and Maya the Bee (partially restored by fan from VHS as well, but still incomplete) are great examples of others from the 80s that have gotten the shaft. WHAT THE F*CK is wrong with our generation? All of us, that grew up on the 80s cartoons are now adults (some of which I'm sure are involved with Disney, Nickelodeon, or others) should be doing more to preserve "our" stuff! That's a big part of the reason that I took it upon myself to do this preservation project for Winnie the Pooh series. It's something that SHOULD BE DONE, not JUST for this, but for all other shows of that era. I guess that's why I love this forum so much and the people involved in it: we all see the need and purpose in preserving these wonderful "things of the past" ;) and IMHO, a lot of the "old stuff" is WAAAAAAAY better than some of the "new school" crap (pardon my French, LOL) that is released now-a-days.
As far as updates are concerned on progress, I am now on episode 14 of season 1, where the last few episodes have been more of a pain to work on because they were incorrectly transferred from NTSC to PAL (where the PAL copy does NOT have the PAL speed-up) so there are LOTS of garbage frames due to frame blending and with every episode being around 30000 frames (excluding intro and end credits) that's a LOT of correcting. But never fear, for I am stubborn and will make this project see the light of day as I will not give up until it's complete.
Once again, thanx to all for the support of this project and I can't wait to share once it's completed. Peace