Just stumbled across this
http://hdguru.com/darbeevision-darblet-hdtv-dvp-5000-review/
(small slideshow here http://hometheaterreview.com/oppo-bdp-103d-darbee-edition-universal-disc-player-reviewed/#2) “hometheaterreview.com/oppo-bdp-103d-darbee-edition-universal-disc-player-reviewed/#2)”)
and it got me wondering what everyone’s preferred method of upscaling footage for projects is. I’ve always thought it would be amazing if someone with top of the line hardware could release high bitrate BD encodes of lossless captures of some of the projects that have only seen releases on DVD/720p.
From my personal experience, I can say that my old Samsung UP5000 has made many edits “pop” in comparison to what I was getting out of my PS3.
Preferred Saga:
1,2: Numeraljoker extended
3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan
I´ve tried to capture the Faces LD´s with a Pioneer DVL-700 and a ISCAN VP50 upscaling to 720p connected to a AVerMedia Game Capture II captureing in MP4 with a very high bitrate. But the results did not impress me. The Picture looks good on the Epson 9000 though. But the big LCD´s have a too harsh contrast, exposing the shortcommings of the LD format.
The problem with game capture devices is most of them have built in hardware encoders that can't be bypassed. You'd have to find a way to feed the uncompressed video directly to to computer to save losslessly, then convert with a multipass x264.
Preferred Saga:
1,2: Numeraljoker extended
3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan
... quite possibly rambling to myself here, but these things intrigue me.
What would be the result of upconverting footage through a digital-film-digital conversion process?
Say you take the GOUT, transfer it to 16mm (or 35mm, but seems overkill), and then scan the resulting 16mm footage in at 1080p. Are individual pixels transfered to the film stock, or is some sort of physical interpolation automatically applied during the transfer process?
Preferred Saga:
1,2: Numeraljoker extended
3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan
Not to be a complete distraction, but what would be the point? Have you forgotten that the gout is both SD and DVNRed? By taking that, putting it to 16mm and retelecining it, all you will get is more artifacts. What would be the point, anyway? There are several real 16mm transfers of star wars that are true film to film transfers. Won't they always look better?
Oh, and for the record, if you transfer a SD source to film, it will always be SD. Scanning such film to higher resolutions, like traditional upscaling, will not magically make the footage HD. If it did, the BBC could make blurays of Doctor Who kinoscopes.
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