Jetrell Fo said:
Now I see where your snide "I don't like to share" comment comes from in my Alien DC thread.
Hello Jetrell Fo,
maybe I should have chosen my words more wisely because it seems I unintentionally offended you somehow.
Which is why I want to provide an insight into my actual intentions:
Luckily or unfortunately (from whichever point of view one want to look at it) I’m quite a quality geek, which some might call already obsessive. Hence I’m keen on getting any movie in its highest quality possible (of course I won’t break into Cameron’s home to get the original of Terminator 2, though ;)). While being interesting and somehow like a sport to "hunt down" all those sources for video and audio for a particular movie, it also totally pisses me off that most distributors are too ignorant to listen to their fans. Maybe you have heard about the petition to get the original mono mix of ‘The Terminator’ onto the Blu-ray-release? Had it been included at the very end? Of course not! What an effort to multiplex some low bitrate 1.0 AC3 track into a M2TS-container, absolutely pathetic!
So I’m frustrated on one hand and desperate on the other, knowing that all the good stuff is actually floating around somewhere, but it’s a high effort to come near it. For instance, most tracks, few members here are willing to share, are stored on some more or less obscure one-click-hosting, but there is no dedicated storage where interested people could easily access it. So most goodies are gone faster than one can say “no, that is not piracy cause if the labels would do their damn job right, I could easily buy it!” So I wondered if I could contribute, offer my upload capabilities or get a sleek FTP host up and running in a data center for all of us.
Hence there is neither impatience nor snide (great new vocabulary for my by the way), but only desperation ‘cause I’m afraid the some files will be gone until I can grab them and there are many movies I like to enjoy in their original quality. Sorry if I appeared any other way to you. I might add that English is neither my native language, hence I might not get everything right all the time, misunderstandings occurring.
I already contacted DoomBot regarding Waterworld to give it a try in conjunction with the Blu-ray video (don’t have the HD-DVD yet which is considered to have less DNR).
Furthermore you are probably right - since I haven’t come across any Cinema DTS CD yet, I wasn’t aware that there are separate files for each reel which have to be put together. The extraction of the LFE content as well as the frame rate adjustment is enough effort on its own I suppose.
This isn't all we do during a day.
... at least probably not for living which is actually a pity because if I had an own label, you guys would be exactly the ones I'd hire instead of some idiots messing around with audio tracks which have been okay at the beginning (German language track on the LaserDisc) and sucked at the end (German language track on the Blu-ray).