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Laserdisc revived - pics added - Japan Definitive Collection & Special Collection (WIP) — Page 4

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Im still building dark, however most of the recapping are done. Black gates are in place and almost burned in fully, just the power filtering and black gates took the 97 SE to a whole new level. The DC did improve but not as much as the SE, the biggest gain thats going to come is the reclocking wich im working on. So many different boards out there.

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Any updates?

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Hasn't been online since September 5th. Hope he's all right... or maybe the project's hit a stall? I hope it's only the latter.

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Yep still alright, the project has been put on hold for a little while. Working on this level costs alot of money to be honest, family comes first. Still another 1000 bucks to spend before its finished i reckon, not that far off now tho.

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I thought you had all of the expensive stuff already (power supplies and exotic caps etc).  Just curious, what are you buying for the player that is so expensive?

I would love to have a go at doing something similar to my player as well, but this all sounds well outside of my budget unfortunately :o(

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Wow from the sound of it would have been cheaper to buy a refurbished X0 or X9 from japan, a thousand extra bucks just for parts.

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Any updates? I am excited about this project. I just hope it doesn't fall into vaporware like the XØ Project.

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Its not dead, ordering parts at the moment. I hope people understand building gear at this level costs money and time. Its almost re engineering at this point, not simple recapping and basic mods.

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Please take as long as you need , im sure it will be worth the wait .

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I understand. Take all the time you need. I'd rather wait and have this done right than have it now but not as good.

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Alek - I don't want to take your thread too much off topic, but any info you could provide in response to this thread would be appreciated. Ta!

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Any news?

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It certainly would be a waste of all that wonderful effort to make a super high quality, no compromises transfer only to mangle it with such a crummy format as DVD.

You know, just sayin'.

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You ain't gonna get any benefit outputting to a format better than DVD.

You know, just sayin'.

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Significant reduction in file size and artifacts, no anamorphics, no wasting pixels on hard coded black bars, native res and no PAL speedup/Telecine bullshit.

You know, just sayin'. ;P

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I will make a Dvd also, for now im trying to finish the mechanical bit of the project.

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Yeah, it would be great to hear any details of how it's going. This super charged Laserdisk player should produce excellent Star Wars Laserdisk captures! :)

The Star Wars trilogy. There can be only one.

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Aleksbmw said:

Im thinking of releasing a blue ray format release also, since whats the point in IVTC the whole thing then cramming it back into interlaced for a dvd.
Progressive > interlaced. Technically by the way those owning the re release gout dvd can watch mine with no trouble since the master tape is basically the same.
As I'm sure you know, Lucasfilm made several "master tapes" for their various 1993 releases, only the one used to create the definitive edition (/faces) was used for the DVD. Capturing multiple releases would be useful as they could be edited to use the best quality video (though this has been done with the retail DVD as it is), but especially if there's an NTSC version that doesn't suffer from DVNR.

I know Mother already touched on this but I'll throw in my 2 cents. I don't know why people still bother releasing in the DVD format to be honest, if it was up to me I'd say simply encode it as an XVID, if you're cropping the video (which is probably necessary since otherwise the black borders affect picture quality on the edges in encoding) just resize it to 720 x 304 and let the player do the scaling. You can leave the soundtrack in AC3 format, while having the benefits of MPEG4 video. Releasing in DVD format is a waste of space when so many standalone players are compatible with XVID and DIVX anyway.

As far as IVTC is concerned, NTSC DVD's that are not progressive play back at 29.97fps on computers, and in 59.97i on DVD players (even if the movie "once was progressive") because as you well know the telecine pattern changes at any point because it was edited using an interlaced digital version of the movie. On a computer, the software blends the fields together so you effectively get pppii in a repeating pattern. Hence merely IVTCing the DVD and re-encoding as a progressive DVD will improve the playback quality, particularly on computer. I've also seen frame-blended encodes - for instance it's prevalent on the Brother's Keeper DVD. Using an avisynth script to remove it and restore it to 24p and then encoding will improve the quality whether it's watched progressively at 23.97fps or interlaced as NTSC (since the fidelity is preserved and not softened with frame blending).

I'd suggest using an avisynth filter (maybe a modified version of the G-Force script) before release, the two main benefits of the G-Force script are to reduce the image-shake and to antialias. The video quality, IMO, of the GOUT is still way below par even with the G-Force script applied, but at least it's a bit better. Maybe if Lucasfilm hadn't wasted their money on several different transfers in 1993, and instead only got one done they would have gotten a better result?

Are you planing on capturing any other Laserdiscs, besides Star Wars when you're done?

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Last online January 9th... :/

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Any word at all would be welcome. :)

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