THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released) — Page 2

SilverWook said:

That looks like my copy. I watched it a couple years ago, and didn't see any rot. Had to wash the Director's Cut DVD aftertaste out of my mouth. ;)

 I can understand that. ;) Great to hear it's in good shape.

SilverWook said:

Should I record both sides in one go, or record them separately at maximum bitrates to allow someone else to work their mojo on it?

Capture the sides separately at maximum bitrates sounds like a dream come true! :) Is the audio in mono or stereo on this LD and do you know if there is any difference between the two tracks besides the analog/digital difference?

I'm really looking forward to how this will turn out, thank you so much for trying this out!!

SilverWook said:

It's mono, IIRC. There is likely no difference between the analog and digital tracks.

Yeah, of course it's a mono track, don't know what I was thinking. ;) It is also a damn good mono track, far ahead of its time.

SilverWook said:

A dirty little secret of some later model LD players is the analog output was lowered a bit to make the digital sound better/louder. My old player (which does much better at ignoring rot and speckles) is analog only, but sounds great with a CX encoded track. Most of the titles I've captured off of it don't have digital tracks anyway. Hope this isn't a problem?

Interesting story, what a cheap way to make the digital seem better/louder. Well, sometimes the old equipment is better. Analog audio only won't be a problem to me at all, I think you know what you're doing. It was just me who was a little curious about a possible difference between the tracks. I've not that much knowledge when it comes to LD.

When did they start doing that to LD players?
Please, please do THX!! The angrysun does leave much to be desired. Many thx :)

I don't think Rikter was responsible for that transfer.

I think he was just putting it out there for people, i do think he authored the DVD though.  Not sure who the capper was.

That's some great news, SilverWook! :)

I know that the transfer on this LD isn't the best and that it's a little dirty in some places but it doesn't matter to me, I'm really excited about this. I don't know, I think I would actually be fine to have it just as it is, without any cleanup. Maybe resize it to 16:9 and improve the contrast a little as I remember it looking flat and washed out sometimes. What do you think? It would be nice if someone could help out and try to improve it of course. When you get the time, maybe you could post a few caps of it here.

Thank you for doing this! If you want a CD-rip of the FSM THX soundtrack or a hi-res poster scan, let me know.

Yeah i am surprised someone has not done a isolated score for Graffiti or THX.  But the change in the forum rules would make that a custom DVD and not allowed.  I guess the only thing allowed is a how to guide if you have the official CD's whether they are out of print or not.

As for the lalo schiffrin score i was under the impression some of it was different on the CD than how it was in the film.

skyjedi2005 said:

Yeah i am surprised someone has not done a isolated score for Graffiti or THX.  But the change in the forum rules would make that a custom DVD and not allowed.  I guess the only thing allowed is a how to guide if you have the official CD's whether they are out of print or not.

As for the lalo schiffrin score i was under the impression some of it was different on the CD than how it was in the film.

Yes, the score is presented a little different in the final film, but I was just thinking if I could offer SilverWook something for the kindness of him capturing this LD.

SilverWook said:

I wish somebody could tell us if the Japanese LD was a different transfer. It came out a couple years after the U.S. disc.

Yes, it would be nice to know. If I understand it correctly, the Japanese is from '94? my bet is that it's from the same master but it could look better of course, I've heard the '86 JSC Star Wars should be better looking than the '92 US LD even though they use the same master.

You could always download the free VLC media player:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

There's an easy snapshot function on it.

Looking damn good to me! Much better than I thought it would. :) Perhaps a little improved black level should make it look even better. What do you think?