[spoRv] projects - past and future — Page 4

drngr said:

Everything I've read indicates that it's an undisclosed hardware mod, but that is one of the devices that can be modified.

 Thanks for the heads up drngr

PDB said:

DoomBot said:

PDB said:

Well happy to say I was wrong and you learn something new everyday. So you can copy DTheather with a work around. I noticed some references to using a Samsung T165, which I have, does anyone know how the exact process works (perhaps PM me)? If I can do it, I can also make a 1:1 copy. I'd like to backup all my tapes.

Does anyone have a list of the decoded tapes? Is one of them The Ring? I wanted to make a copy of that DVHS, since the tape is rumored to have the original theatrical blue color timing vs the Blu-ray's green color timing.

I believe that the D-theater tapes started at 25 GB and ran up to 50 GB and the bitrate maxed out at 28.2 but floated in the mid 20s at a constant bitrate. Alien was probably 25 GB. The back of the tapes lists a AC3, PCM and DTS soundtrack so if accurate you should have that in the TS.   

 That would be pretty bad ass if you could do a 1:1 copies. Whats the list of movies you have for DTheater?

Sorry for the late response. I have a newborn and she takes a lot of my time lately. I have:

Alien: DC

Die Hard

Fight Club

Man On Fire

Master And Commander

True Lies

X-Men

X2

The JVC Demo Tape

I have Terminator 2 but I can't find it at the moment.

 I bought them all back when Dtheater tapes were "popular". I still want to get The Ring from ebay

 Excellent list of movies and i do like The Ring as well.

Thanks PDB

I bought them all back when Dtheater tapes were "popular". I still want to get The Ring from ebay.

I do have a D-Theater rip of The Ring on my HD.  It looks really nice and I still love the movie.  It's a guilty please of mine along with The Grudge series and Ring 2.

The Ring on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/D-VHS-The-Ring-D-Theater-DVHS-Movie-Dtheater-Theatre-/380791016838?pt=US_Movies_Other_Formats&hash=item58a8e9cd86

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ring-D-VHS-DTheater-new-sealed-HD-1080i-/110401142226?pt=VHS&hash=item19b46bbdd2

Jetrell Fo said:

I bought them all back when Dtheater tapes were "popular". I still want to get The Ring from ebay.

I do have a D-Theater rip of The Ring on my HD.  It looks really nice and I still love the movie.  It's a guilty please of mine along with The Grudge series and Ring 2.

 How big is the file and is it 1080i?

DoomBot said:

Jetrell Fo said:

I bought them all back when Dtheater tapes were "popular". I still want to get The Ring from ebay.

I do have a D-Theater rip of The Ring on my HD.  It looks really nice and I still love the movie.  It's a guilty please of mine along with The Grudge series and Ring 2.

 How big is the file and is it 1080i?

 Unfortunately it is only 9GB in size. 

Jetrell Fo said:

DoomBot said:

Jetrell Fo said:

I bought them all back when Dtheater tapes were "popular". I still want to get The Ring from ebay.

I do have a D-Theater rip of The Ring on my HD.  It looks really nice and I still love the movie.  It's a guilty please of mine along with The Grudge series and Ring 2.

 How big is the file and is it 1080i?

 Unfortunately it is only 9GB in size. 

Codec ID :	V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration :	1h 55mn
Bit rate :	9 998 Kbps
Width :	1 908 pixels
Height :	1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio :	16:9
Frame rate mode :	Constant
Frame rate :	23.976 fps
Color space :	YUV
Chroma subsampling :	4:2:0
Bit depth :	8 bits
Scan type :	Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) :	0.202
Stream size :	7.92 GiB (88%)
Title :	x264-CHD

 That's the one I found too

Found this over at tehparadox  although i see that 7 of the files are offline

General
Complete name                    : The.Ring.2002.1080p.DTheater.DTS.x264-CtrlHD.mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 13.3 GiB
Duration                         : 1h 55mn
Overall bit rate                 : 16.4 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2012-01-02 17:20:44
Writing application              : mkvmerge v3.0.0 ('Hang up your Hang-Ups') built on Dec 12 2009 15:20:35
Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 4 frames
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 1h 55mn
Bit rate                         : 15.3 Mbps
Width                            : 1 908 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.309
Stream size                      : 12.1 GiB (91%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 68 r1183M f21daff
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=esa / subme=9 / psy_rd=1.6:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=1 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=15278 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.60
Language                         : English



Audio #2
ID                               : 3
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 755 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 24 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 626 MiB (5%)
Language                         : English

Ok i also found  other links and all are online for The Ring DTheater.

Daredevil on D-Theater would be nice too.  I believe it's the theatrical cut.

bigrob said:

 

quick question

is there any noticable picture difference between the original and THX remastered release of Die Hard?

i'm hoping someone preserves the 35mm Stereo track from the original LD and couples it with the 5.1 remix that is reportedly based on the 70mm print. Pretty sure Jonno was in the process of capturing the 35mm audio last i heard

 

Hoping to see this new 4K remastered print at the weekend :)

I forgot about that, it's playing near me too. 

If the 4K master is as good as when I went to see Ghostbusters in 4K, then it will probably be awesome.

bigrob said:

 

quick question

is there any noticable picture difference between the original and THX remastered release of Die Hard?

i'm hoping someone preserves the 35mm Stereo track from the original LD and couples it with the 5.1 remix that is reportedly based on the 70mm print. Pretty sure Jonno was in the process of capturing the 35mm audio last i heard

 

Hoping to see this new 4K remastered print at the weekend :)

 I have that laserdisc and can preserve it if Jonno doesn't.

Ok i finally got the DTheater of The Ring, and here's some comparisons shots from the blu-ray and DTheater....

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/53385

I'm not sure if you're interested in this Andrea, but Dawn of the Dead has a recent Japanese release with a new transfer!

http://www.ghoulbasement.com/2013/12/second-update-on-japanese-dawn-of-dead.html

The release, though, is not without its flaws. It is green (maybe teal?) shifted, and it was encoded using RGB levels which makes contrast levels too low. That being said, it has grain intact and substantially more detail than the Anchor Bay-based BDs.

It should be quite an easy fix to you or any other forum members here. I played around myself with the caps, and the color is still fully intact underneath the green. The transfer hasn't been regraded so much that its unsalvageable. Remove the green and you have a very saturated image that is somewhat blue (which I can buy is the original color timing). Contrast adjustment should be a cinch.

Only issue is the price. Without shipping, the individual release for the theatrical cut is already $36. 

That being said, I'd be excited if anyone had a go at this. It looks like it's ripe for BD-customization.

the ring d-theater log

Sequence Frame 208523(9-B) / Time 1:55:57 :
Info: End of MPEG2 sequence

Sequence Summary:

File Size Processed: 20.25 GB, Play Time: 01h:55m:57s
1920 x 1080, 29.97 fps, 45.00 Mbps (22.95 Mbps Average).
Average Video Quality: 93.46 KB/Frame, 0.37 Bits/Pixel.
AC3 Audio: 3/2 Channels (L, C, R, SL, SR) + LFE, 48.0 kHz, 576 kbps.
Dialog Normalization: -31.0 dB, Center Mix Level: -3.0 dB, Surround Mix Level: -3.0 dB
0 of 208523 video frames found with errors.
0 of 217412 audio frames found with errors.
0 corrupted video bytes in file.
0.000000 seconds of video timestamp gaps.
0.000000 seconds of audio timestamp gaps.

End of Log

Hey, happy new year, guys :D

Andrea, what happened to the Beauty and the Beast's [ruLes] project?

it's ok, at least someday we'll have the (as close as possible) correct version.

btw, loved the picture hahahah

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

I have a new entry for future projects:

MINORITY REPORT

BD has a different color grading in comparison to DVD and HDTV - avsforum

also, look at this screenshot comparison: in the HDTV version, should those reflections on the computer screen be there, or they are only MPEG2 noise?

I have both DVD and BD, but didn't find (yet) the exact frame...

Does it worth a preservation?

 I've been loving what you've been doing with your color grading. I just watched "The Thing" last weekend and it looked wonderful - better than I've ever seen it look.

But personally, after looking at those comparison shots, I feel that this time, the blu-ray, for once, has better color. The DVD and broadcast versions look very unnatural - the teal/greenish look that they usually add to so many blu-ray catalog films. For once, they actually improved the color on the blu-ray. I have no idea which is "correct", but after reading about the blu-ray transfer, it seems that Steven Spielberg worked closely during the transfer. To me I like the results much better than the DVD colors.

It's a great film, so I would say yes it would have been worth it if they actually harmed the film on blu-ray. But this time I think they did an excellent job and the colors look terrific to me. There are so many others that look awful on blu-ray thanks to poor color timing choices, I just think the effort would be better served on a title that really needs it.