Info & Help Wanted: 'Death Becomes Her' & 'Dr. Giggles' - Preservations?

Death Becomes Her and Dr. Giggles are guilty pleasures of mine, however neither movie has gotten much love on the home video market. I place the blame squarely on Universal for neglecting these two horror/comedies.

DBH on DVD in the U.S. is Fullscreen and muddy looking, but the U.K. has a rip from the WS LaserDisc much like the Star Wars Theatrical Editions. There is an HD copy somewhere because I saw it on Netflix instant two years ago.

Dr. Giggles is on Blu-ray, but the transfer is weak and not OAR. Somehow Warner Brothers acquired the rights for the film from Universal.

The current DVDs are not anamorphic or in their OAR and I own both on LaserDisc solely for that reasons.

I myself cannot do a preservation , would anyone be interested in helping me preserving these movies? I doubt they will get the a proper release anytime soon.

Death.Becomes.Her.1992.720p.HDTV.x264-OCTAGON

Death Becomes Her (1992) 1080i HDTV DD2.0 MPEG2-TrollHD.nzb

dvdmike said:

Death.Becomes.Her.1992.720p.HDTV.x264-OCTAGON

Death Becomes Her (1992) 1080i HDTV DD2.0 MPEG2-TrollHD.nzb

This supposed to be a link?

Well no offense to an LD transfer but there is just no way in hell it will look at all as well as these.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/debe3d256468347

http://www.imagebam.com/image/16a4e4256468352

http://www.imagebam.com/image/9088ec256468363

That the 1080i? I just got the 720p

Asaki said:

Didn't know Death Becomes Her didn't have a good DVD.

Which reminds me, Drop Dead Fred is only fullscreen in the US, also, and is currently on Netflix streaming. Haven't checked it yet to see if it's widescreen, but I'm betting it is.

It sure is and HD

Death Becomes Her
1080p
http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/4799/Death-Becomes-Her

Asaki said:

That hardly looks HD, but awesome none-the-less.

...except that nobody will capture it ¬_¬ But at least I can watch it before they take it away.

That was its lowest HD stetting I was doing some work at the same time

Didn't people working on the NOTLD 90 restoration use a VUDU copy?

I live in Australia (with that nasty TV format called PAL, hehe) and we did have a free-to-air broadcast (probably SD, maybe HD) of Death Becomes Her in 16:9 ratio and perfect quality with probably the TV channel's logo burned in.  Unfortunately, I didn't know about this presentation before having a chance to set my STB timer, but I spent the rest of the running time enjoying this creative comedy with its obviously limited but still impressive CGI (kinda like Jurassic Park where nothing looks plastic etc, not even Meryll and Goldie post-mortem etc).

I'll do my best to record DBH or any other gems that grace our screens that are often a better quality than its DVD counterparts.  Another movie called Men At Work has been doing the rounds of late, too.

Vudu's Death Becomes Her looks maybe a little better than the broadcast screens above, based on the 2-minute preview. If you want it I'll accept a donation...

It is also on my cable provider's VOD but the compression is MPEG-2. If you have access to it, there's a 12.71Mbps h264.

drngr...how do you do your Vudu captures?

Right now I am using a BlackMagic HyperDeck Shuttle 2 with a 256GB SSD because I don't have a desktop PC. It supports 16-channel audio... and records extra space-wasting blank audio channels all the time if the source is less than that. Argh.