The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread (Released) — Page 30

I realize there are other, newer and desoecialized versionsout there. I'd really love to check out this cowclops (TR42) version 2.

I loved the 1993 Definitive Editions laserdiscs "THX release" best and I'd love to see them in anamorphic widescreen and the uncompressed audio.

My PM's are turned on if anyone can help me find this, I've searched the net to no avail.

Thanks.

They're DVD5 and so much space was used for the audio it leaves the video pretty bit starved. But hey, it's still Star Wars :)

It was pretty noticeable to me. I was even kind of lol wtf?! who would do this?
Bit starved MPEG-2 looks terrible imo.

If you can, check out the OUT rules transfer by the guy with the beware cat avatar. Pretty stunning for a LD transfer.

That and msycamore's Technidisc are my favorite LD transfers, and I"ve checked out most of them.

<blockquote><p><strong>RU.08</strong> said:</p><p>Do you have this release dave88?</p></blockquote><p> </p>

Cowclops? yes, I would not have made such a comment without having actually seen it. If I don't still have it on a HD I have a dvd of it around here somewhere.

Agreed.  That would be great.
If not, if I could get my hands on a physical copy, I'd be happy to try to upload the thing to Myspleen and seed it.

Why are you guys so keen on this release?

dave88 said:

Why are you guys so keen on this release?

I don't mind to reply.

For me, this hits my Star Wars sweet spot.  This was the last release of the movies before the Special Editions took more liberties with the movies.

I'm not interested in a "despecialized" or recreated experience (not knocking the effort that went into creating them).  I want to recall the movies just as I grew up with them and liked them.

I've seen several people state they felt this was the best version (at least at the time) of the laserdisc transfers to DVD.  It has uncompressed sound and a widescreen anamorphic picture.  Other than making the picture anamorphic, it's my understanding this presents the definitive edition laserdiscs just as they appeared.  I own the limited edition 2006 DVDs and watch them from time to time (I prefer them to my Blu-rays).  I look forward to hearing the uncompressed audio on my home theater and watching the anamorphic picture and getting sucked into the movies all over again.

I now have two sons and I want to show them Star Wars as I first saw it and loved it.  I can't speak for everyone, but that's the reason for my interest.

Thanks to all involved in these projects.
May the Force be with you.

Mallwalker's uploading this to usenet right now. (alt.binaries.starwars)

tbird97 said:

dave88 said:

Why are you guys so keen on this release?

I don't mind to reply.

For me, this hits my Star Wars sweet spot.  This was the last release of the movies before the Special Editions took more liberties with the movies.

I'm not interested in a "despecialized" or recreated experience (not knocking the effort that went into creating them).  I want to recall the movies just as I grew up with them and liked them.

I've seen several people state they felt this was the best version (at least at the time) of the laserdisc transfers to DVD.  It has uncompressed sound and a widescreen anamorphic picture.  Other than making the picture anamorphic, it's my understanding this presents the definitive edition laserdiscs just as they appeared.  I own the limited edition 2006 DVDs and watch them from time to time (I prefer them to my Blu-rays).  I look forward to hearing the uncompressed audio on my home theater and watching the anamorphic picture and getting sucked into the movies all over again.

I now have two sons and I want to show them Star Wars as I first saw it and loved it.  I can't speak for everyone, but that's the reason for my interest.

Thanks to all involved in these projects.
May the Force be with you.

 I'm totally with you on most of that. Except that this is any kind of definitive release, there are many, many better LD transfers. In fact I would put this one in the lower part of the list. The main reason being the mpeg-2 artifacts and overall low image quality from such a low bitrate. It's hard enough as it is to fit a 2 hour movie on a single layer DVD without using more than 1/3 of the space for audio.

Since this release someone found a LD with a digital transfer of the 1977 stereo mix that is superb. So I wouldn't even give this the top spot for audio quality, though it may have held that honor when it was released?

If you want a very fine LD transfer I would suggest

_,,,^..^,,,_ 's OUT Rules 2.0

It's so much better looking than the old LD transfers, it's not even in the same ballpark. Any fan who hasn't seen it should check it out. It looks even better than any of the GOUT sourced releases imho.

It was upped to a.b.starwars 902 days ago. Unfortunately it is dead at myspleen though his 1.0 release still has seeders. I have not seen 1.0, but he considered 2.0 to be a significant upgrade:

• a bit more saturation than OUT 1.0 - NO color correction was applied
• the new sharpen/denoise script is less aggressive than the old one
• a proper color matrix is used this time for the final release (TV.709)
• proper levels used; PC -> TV, from captures to release

It really is stunning. I would go so far as to say it is the definitive LD transfer at this point.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope-OUT-ruLes-20-AVCHD-BD-RELEASED/topic/15313/

Darth Mallwalker,
Your PMs are full.
I wanted to say publicly Thank You.

I also believe you were correct regarding the issue I had with episode IV.
I think I'm on track to getting it working now.  Thanks much for your assistance and I'm really looking forward to episodes V and VI.

Darth Mallwalker said:

Bad news, bird.
I cannot find a drive who'll read the sequel discs.
Like ANH, they're also Taiyo Yuden made in Japan

 These are already uploaded to usenet albeit a long time ago.  A good usenet provider like usenetserver will download them with no problem at all though.    

Darth Mallwalker said:

stretch009 said:

These are already uploaded to usenet albeit a long time ago. A good usenet provider like usenetserver will download them with no problem at all though.

A long time ago . . . Yes.
segaflip posted them in August 2005 . . . before the retention wars.
I doubt usenetserver is that good.

If you think they were reposted more recently, then tell us when.
Give us a search string we can use at binsearch, nzbindex, etc.

 NZBKing.com

Search - cowclops

Full Trilogy Approx. 1818 days old. (2010 YOU posted it)   UNS has 2612 days retention.

No problem at all......

Darth Mallwalker said:

I must've been eating 'brownies' that day.



stretch gets to put me in my place,
tbird gets to watch Cowclops,
and I get a new favorite indexing site.
Win, win, win!
Go team

 It's all good.  I appreciate everything you do for our community.

I see the results on nzbking.

I'm away for the weekend, but can't wait to get back home to download these.

Thanks Mallwalker, much appreciated!

May the Force be with you.