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Laserman
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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Date created
21-Oct-2004, 12:05 AM
The other thing to remember guys when looking at the original laserdiscs, screengrabs and so forth that most laserdiscs mastered to a black level of 7.5 IRE, whereas DVDs are at 0 IRE.
This means (in simple terms) that a nice prog scan DVD is darker on playback than laserdiscs.
If you have your telly setup for DVD and then watch a laserdisc at the same settings the picture will look overbright, (washed out) and flat, and will have poor black levels.

If you have a laserdisc player and like to watch movies on it, make sure you calibrate your TV for laserdisc playback and it will look a lot better.

(Now back to the topic at hand)

We are going to scan some of the film we have from the 78 ANH 35mm print. Does anyone have any particular frames they want to see for reference?