adywan said:
4:3 TV's stopped being sold here in the UK much earlier than 2006, in fact CRT TV's weren't on sale AT ALL in 2006, only LCD and Plasma 16:9 TV's. You could find them online, just about, but in the main stores, no CRT's to be found. How do i know this, In 2005 my Dad wanted to replace his now defunked 4:3 portable TV, which had a built in VHS player. We went all around the shops and nothing. So he got a 16:9 20" LCD TV with built in DVD player instead. But even then, most people i knew who HADN'T upgraded to a LCD/ Plasma still had 16:9 CRT TV's, not 4:3
I bought a new 32" CRT TV in 2006 at Wal-Mart.
the GOUT was horrendous quality coming from a studio that had access to prints/ negatives. How difficult would it have been to make a scan off one of the prints for these bonus discs? Even without a clean up they would have looked miles better than crappy laserdisc transfers.
I would much rather have a good DVD sourced from a scan of a 35mm film print than the GOUT, especially if it wasn't cleaned up. I love film grain and dust and scratches (as long as they aren't excessive). But what's available vs. what I'd rather have is irrelevant to the argument. Also, the GOUT isn't a LaserDisc transfer.
These were actually LESS quality than the preservations fans were doing at the time. Forget the slight improvement in sharpness of the picture, the digital smearing and the terrible aliasing problems made that release an joke.
I guess you don't know that nearly all of the most popular and well-regarded fan preservations were transfers from the 1993 and/or 1995 LaserDiscs, which were made from the same masters that the GOUT was made from. This means they had the same "digital smearing and terrible aliasing problems" that the GOUT has, because those were present in the 1993 D1 masters. The claim that the GOUT was of less quality is false by any objective/technical standard, given that they are from the same source and the fan preservations have a lot more loss relative to the source:
GOUT = 1993 D1 master --> DVD-9
Most fan preservations = 1993 D1 master --> LaserDisc --> DVD-5
CatBus said:
Well, Frink kinda sucked the magic out of the thread. Now we know that the dude just likes CRTs. Not the way I like CRTs (yeah, I'm one of those), but in an obsessive religious zealot sort of way. All the mystery is gone. The motivation behind bizarre statements about "there is only one true display on which you can watch the GOUT and all others are false displays", it's all sorted out.
Thanks Frink. Jerk.
Yes, "TV's Frink" made great use of his Junior Detective Kit™ (and his non sequiturs and laughably wild insinuations are fantastic, by the way), but anyone who has read at least the last several pages of this thread already knew what "TV's Frink" "discovered". For example, from post 1081:
MaximRecoil said:
They'll get my CRT when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. I'll take the visual qualities of a CRT over any digital display currently on the market, any day, even if the CRT is lower resolution and a smaller screen.
There are only two display technologies that look right to me: CRT (direct-view, and especially rear projection; Barco 909 and Sony G90 being the ultimate examples) and projected film. It sucks that SED displays (the same visual qualities as a direct-view CRT) never happened.
And post 1087:
MaximRecoil said:
The best CRT displays ever made still set the standard for overall picture quality. But regardless of that, I simply hate the look of digital displays; I feel like I'm looking at a glorified calculator or digital watch.