Laserdisc revived - pics added - Japan Definitive Collection & Special Collection (WIP) — Page 5

I think we can safely say aleksbmw has fucked off somewhere.Pity this seemed a good project.

over here it meens" gone somewhere else ".

Sorry for being away for so long, real life takes its toll. Im going to try and get some material uploaded for you to look at as fast as i can. For the time being the player is not that far off, still trying to get the best capture card for raw avi. The Pinnacle Dc30 card compresses the stream and i dont like the compromise after all the hours spent.

Murry Sparkles said:

 Welcome back , i always wondered what happened to your project.

 Thanks, i will push to finish this. Alot of people seem to be watching and it seems Lucas is not willing to put in the $ to author/splice/restore the original and release it. (Pretty sure the tapes exist and some collectors got 35mm reels) Im putting together a multi proc Xeon server to grind the capture and mastering, so this might turn out good if i get response on the electronic gear-sponsor requests i have sent out.

And just to say it if any of Lucas's representatives are looking here; This is not a commercial project to earn any money, im doing it for the community/fans of the OT.

Aleksbmw said:

Sorry for being away for so long, real life takes its toll. Im going to try and get some material uploaded for you to look at as fast as i can. For the time being the player is not that far off, still trying to get the best capture card for raw avi. The Pinnacle Dc30 card compresses the stream and i dont like the compromise after all the hours spent.

I guess you want to go for uncompressed capture. What about this card? 

http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot/

IIRC it's the same as the PDI deluxe card used for the X0 captures

Do you have The Special Collection, btw?

I cant wait to see the finished version of this , sounds amazing . Aleksbmw how close are you to finishing ?.

Here is some more pictures, many more black gates now (short black/gold):

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=tweaks&m=171972

Im considering getting a used Pci-x osprey capture card since the machine i will be using is a 64 bit multi proc Xeon server. But that card seems nice, maybe i will try it out. The Dc30 is out the window now after consulting with some specialists, i would lose abit of resolution and detail if i used it because of the onboard compression.

About the Special collection (for those who dont know, it was released before the definitive edition and does not suffer from the DvNR from Thx processing wich is apparent on the GOUT Dvd release wich came from the US master tapes), no i dont have that yet. Would be interesting to see if i could merge the two, but the work could be immense.

After looking at the defintive Japanese release i must say im impressed with the detail if i turn up the brightness. Japanese superior pressing tricks maybe, but the US version is not this sharp.

Im at the stage of finishing the player and starting to put together the server to crunch the editing.

alphabetty spaghetti said:

Aleksbmw have you watched any the original trilogy laserdiscs on your mighty laserdisc player?, was there a difference from watching them on a standard ld player . Im looking forward to the release of this , do you have any idea when that will be ?

 If there was a difference ? :-) you could say that.. in stock form the Sony C2ex is not bested by many (X0 and the X9; Slightly sharper but more smearing and a more digitized picture). When im done with all the part 2 mods it will hopefully be the best player in the world (for Ntsc video) Muse (Hi def. Laserdisc) is no more, all that hardware is sacrificed for less noise.

Sneak peek at the power "filter" i'm making (Ironically from the chassis of the first Nec 3D y/c video processor i picked up (IDC-3000)- rack mounted, green quartz lined chassis and filled ferrites, several kilos of led weights to keep it from vibrating etc. All in the name of video quality.

[img]http://j.imagehost.org/t/0187/1_120.jpg[/img] [img]http://j.imagehost.org/t/0558/2_29.jpg[/img]

I think we can clearly state that whe all your mods are done and everything is greenlit to go

This will be better than an X0 player

Hopefully, you will get (if you didnt already) the best capture card and share those raw caps that you make :-)

Murry Sparkles said:

What part 2 mods are left for the player ?.

 Well lets see, putting in even more Black gate caps. Reclock the Tbc chip (with superclock4-s)  reclock the Runco, put in some BG caps there and "os-conize" the powersupply. Im glad im not engaged or something, would be fun to explain several hundred bucks in a week to just get some Caps and small parts.

At least i dont have to worry about audio too much, got access to my stepfathers recording studio when the time comes. Might use Hairy_hen's mix at least for Anh, real time EQ with Pro tools looks fun tho :-)

Jetrell Fo said:

Are there any miniDV's that do a lossless capture for a fair price?

 DV is not lossless tho, im most likely using a lossless Pci-X Osprey card for the capture straight to raw avi.

Hehe :) very much real, and yes it will be interesting to see how Jsc turns out. I can say this tho, i watched the Japan Definitive version then watched the Dvd Gout and wondered where the small stars went. So much more interesting to mod and tweak analog mediums, with Dvd its more like "what you see is what you get". With the Black gate capacitors in, the image has become very sharp.

By the way nice signature, didnt know. And no i dont think Cameron is going back into Alien to CGi fix the "man in the suit" shots for the quadrilogy.

And yes im here talking because my parts has not arrived yet :)