AntcuFaalb

Guys, I think the user AntcuFaalb might be a troll.

WTF is up with that guy?

Davnes007 said:

...Although, that part about losing sleep is a bit odd. o_O

Yes and it reeks of Sam.

I have a copy of the 1982 rental VHS in pristine condition.

I plan to do a transfer soon with the following setup:

Panasonic AG-1980 =(s-video)=> Panasonic DMR-ES10 =(s-video)=> Hauppauge USB-Live2 Capture Card

I also have a copy of the 1985 CAV LD (same master). I'll do a preservation of that when my Panasonic LX-900 comes back from Duncan of laserdiscservice.com.

CatBus said:

Teeceezy has reported to be almost done with ESB, and maybe also almost done with ROTJ synced to NTSC (not PAL?).  I imagine he'll be making something available soon.

Interesting. How is he GOUT-sync'ing them?

Guys, guys!

Is there an into thread?

skyjedi2005 said:

No one preserved the video it would have had Japanese subtitles stepping all over the picture but as a sync guide i guess it would have some use.

I know about the subtitles in the video.

I'm saying that I could GOUT-sync the audio by GOUT-sync'ing the video and then getting rid of the video, leaving only the GOUT-sync'd audio remaining.

Cuts and blank frames added to the video would show up as (impossible to notice) cuts and silence in the audio, respectively.

skyjedi2005 said:

dvdmike said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

The Super Expensive blu ray Dark Jedi owns.

It resolves the grain slightly better than the UK disc, but there is not much in it. Not for the price and 100%not with that master. But compared to the skynet I would take my Japanese laserdisc.

Is it the Anamorphic Squeeze Disc , i always wondered what that looked like the japan LD. 

My buddy from LDDB (disclord) just got a copy. He said it looks amazing.

borisanddoris said:

How out of sync are they?  Are they just the LaserDisc sides, or is it a matter of applying a delay when muxing, say to Harmy's DE?

Beats me. I could GOUT-sync them if I had the video to go along with the audio. I'd do it Harmy-style.

borisanddoris said:

I'm dying to get the digital 80 and 83 mix for Empire and Jedi too if anyone has just those.  Synced to GOUT of course...

I have them from the set schorman13 put out not too long ago.

Unfortunately, they're not GOUT-sync'd.

You_Too said:

No offense because I'm really interested in it as well, but you should move the Indy discussion to this thread.

Will do. Sorry!

skyjedi2005 said:

I thought it was pretty much a given the Best BD so far was the Japanese release.  Over the US Skynet.

It is. You_Too demonstrated that in the Terminator thread, IIRC.

captainsolo said:

I will find you and give you a cream pie. ;)

Wow... where's TV's Frink when you need him?!

Smilebox just looks like fisheye distortion to me. How is it different?

msycamore: Can you go into more detail (or provide a hyperlink) regarding the changes to RotLA?

skyjedi2005 said:

Was not the Terminator before the new BD ever recolor timed?  I mean to match the second film.  Seems to be something they do these days as they did it with the Matrix and Lord of the Rings.

It certainly wasn't in every LD and DVD release (I own 'em all).

Also, FWIW, the first LD release was struck right off a theatrical print; cue marks and all.

TV's Frink said:

Harmy said:

See, I'm 24, which is just about older by enough to have been exposed to the original version first and that seems to have made quite a difference to my perception of things.

It's not an age thing.  There are people here younger than Mr. 20-Year-Old who get it.

True.

FWIW: I've known some surprisingly-immature twenty year-olds.

TV's Frink said:

I'm told they enjoy my posts here because I'm "unfiltered."  But it's not appropriate there.

TV's Frink: Raw. Uncensored. Uncut.

Live tonight at 11.

Moth3r said:

The THX Ultimate Demo disc contains the Wow sequence that was previously used on a demo laserdisc. While it's interesting to compare the colours (no clipped whites, unlike the GOUT DVD) it's no real use for projects as the fast-paced editing means there are no complete shots in the sequence.

Wow! There isn't a single complete shot?

That sucks. Thanks for the information.

djchaseb said:

 Wow lol, how does this stuff go unnoticed at the studios that prepare these blu ray masters?  

The studios might send their materials to dedicated post-houses rather than doing the post-processing in-house.

Here's the thing: If you spend X dollars on post-production work and the post-house does it wrong, then you still have to spend Y dollars to have them fix it to your specification.

Considering that most studios are giant bureaucracies, then it stands to reason that the extra expenditure of Y dollars usually can't be justified.

Furthermore, I'd bet that untrained eyes are used to evaluate the final product coming out of the post-house in most cases.

JEDIT: ... and untrained eyes are usually impressed with shit like the BttF Trilogy BD release.

darth_ender said:

It's very odd when you read the silliest guy on this board acting like a serious and mature mod on a different board.

Huh?

You_Too said:

Not bashing your idea, but I think that the only way to really bring this film back would be to find an original print and get it scanned and restored.

Running the CAV LD through an excellent LD player would result in some great PQ as well.

dvdmike said:

Was the 3D missing shadows or was that just Lion King?

It is a shame that Disney DNR their animated stuff :(

Well, at least the LDs are un-fucked-with.

Animation looks great on LD. It's not like there's a ton of fine detail that's being lost due to the lower resolution.

This definitely sounds like an interesting project.

The first step would be to do an excellent preservation of the MGM CAV 25th Anniversary Box Set.

Colortiming can be corrected on a shot-by-shot basis using a two-step method:

1  Rough: shot-by-shot using g-force's RGBMatch Avisynth function.

2. Final: shot-by-shot using the skills and eyes of an experienced colorist.

The first step gets you pretty close, but the second is necessary to deal with potential problems arising from the first.

dvdmike: True. Let's go to PM.

TheBoost said:

I work at a high school. Walking onto campus this morning in the parking lot a couple of big senior football player types were talking loudly. It was all "f-word" this and "n-word" that, which I generally find distasteful. 

As I passed them, it turned out they were talking about "Dragonball Z" which somehow made it hilarious.

lol!