AntcuFaalb

My recommendations:

1. Panasonic AG-1980P: It's a really nice deck that uses a field-TBC.

2. Panasonic DMR-ES10: It corrects horizontal jitter really well in passthrough-mode, as it uses a line-TBC.

3. Leitch DPS-290: Cuts through Macrovision like butter, as it uses a (full)frame-TBC. It also serves really well as a kind-of PreAmp for video.

I suggest eBay as well. I got all of this for under $400 there.

doubleKO said:

Is it better to watch the classic series in production code order rather than air date order? I did it accidentally and the beginning of the serial mentioned something from the last serial I'd seen, but by air date it hadn't even happened yet. Not that it's much of big deal, I'm watching the third and fourth Doctors concurrently anyway.

I'll likely get into the audio adventures as well, but I'm kind of overwhelmed by the volume of material in the Whoniverse. I'm already familiar with Pertwee and Tom Baker which is why I started there, but I'm not sure whether to keep going with the fifth Doctor or check out the first two next. Any suggestions appreciated!

Check out William Hartnell (Doctor #1). He's a lot of fun!

msycamore said:

This is fucking brilliant! Thank you Moth3r! :)

Now I just need to find a VHS with color bars!

Harmy said:

Not really, I've got to finish the SW v2.1 BD first and I've been really busy lately, so there isn't much progress on that either. I'm hoping to get some work done this weekend.

OK, thanks for the update. Take your time and don't burn out!

Come on, guys! Stay off-topicly-on-topic in off-topic!

How's this one going, Harmy? Any news/updates?

TK421138: Send me the most damaged scan. I'll see what I can do with it.

How's this going? Are you going to meet your deadline? ;)

I'll soon be working my way through Jethro Tull's unremastered discography. I plan to start by listening to all of the original UK CD releases. I have them in EAC'd FLAC. :-)

I'm considering keeping a log here. Would anyone be interested?

pat man said:

AntcuFaalb said:

pat man said:

5,895 :)

It's good to see you back, Pat.

How's it going?

  Good, you?

Not bad.

pat man said:

5,895 :)

It's good to see you back, Pat.

How's it going?

I have a top-loading A/V Famicom (model HVC-101). With a NES->Famicom adapter, it's the best of both worlds. I get a clean composite signal with all of the benefits of the second-generation NES/Famicom consoles. Also, no modding required!

Does anyone here enjoy Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril?

My favorite game is Mega Man 5. (Ugh, it's so weird to not type it as Megaman, but it's supposedly the correct way.)

Thanks for the update, -1. We're all looking forward to seeing what's next! :-)

frank678 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

I just purchased a Panasonic LX-900U, a very highly-rated LD player known for its noise-free picture and lack of CLV smearing.

In fact, the ultra-rare high-end Runco LJR I/II is just a clone of this model with some added features!

I got a good deal, too.

sweet! are you planning to do a straight or a tweaked preservation so you can compare&contrast with myscamore's versions. Also are you still going to be preservaing your 92 vhs collectors tape - I'm interested to see how that stacks up against the technidisc, if theres any undiscovered differences

I plan to do a straight preservation of it. I'll be using TooT (better than MedianOfThree for laserdiscs), so I plan to take three captures of each side. (That's 27 in total!)

I'll keep it at 29.970, but will do a second release at 23.976 if a certain OT member is willing to help me with the manual IVTC'ing.

And, yes, I have many pending preservation projects. All will get done, in time... :-)

Also, I'll be using the following for the final results: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Moth3rs-guide-to-LD-capture-colour-correction-using-AviSynth-emphasis-on-correction/topic/14582/

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Impressive

One of the shortest, recognizable, Star Wars quotes.

Any ideas on how to remove the haloing?

DeHalo_alpha makes it look worse.

I just purchased a Panasonic LX-900U, a very highly-rated LD player known for its noise-free picture and lack of CLV smearing.

In fact, the ultra-rare high-end Runco LJR I/II is just a clone of this model with some added features!

I got a good deal, too.

It's tonight! I'm so excited!

Williarob said:

Looks brand new! Don't know how long the send space link will be good so I have posted it here:

http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/post/2012/10/25/Star-Wars-Holiday-Special-Boba-Fett-Cartoon.aspx

I have also converted it to an MP4 so you can watch it online.

Thanks, Williarob!

Not cheap and worthless, so save this for later.

Whoops! I didn't read closely. That's Super8 film.

Buy some film and purchase something like one of these.

SS4DarthPayne said:

How do you like PFClean? Is it effective?

It's excellent, but I haven't played with the automatic dirt/dust fix effect enough. Most people seem interested in that particular feature.

Myself? I'm interested in manual approaches, especially assisted-manual ones.

Dusty Gozongas!

OK, so you have 704x342 (after cropping all 4 black borders).

Considering PAL PAR, that gives us 768x342 square pixels, so the DAR is ~2.24. We want to maintain this DAR so that the anamorphically-encoded DVD video, when stretched on your widescreen TV, will have the same proportions as the source video.

Now, notice that 854 width that I was throwing around before. That's for NTSC. You get that by doing the following calculation: (480 * 16)/9 = ?.

For PAL, we do a similar calculation: (576 * 16)/9 = 1024. So we now know that when the video is displayed on your widescreen TV, it will have an approximate resolution of 1024x576.

Using the same method as before, we need to adjust the height. The calculation is (342 / 768) * 1024 = 456. So, you need to make the size 720x456 (before adding black borders) in order for it to look correct on your widescreen TV after the anamorphically-encoded DVD video is stretched.

(Notice that 1024/456 = ~2.24! This is our DAR!)

How much do you need to crop from the top to get 342?

I can write the correct code for you if you get me that value.

arduino said:

Hi,

I was wondering if this was worth anything in it's current condition, pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62383528@N07/

LOL!

That is one extremely frightening mask, arduino.

Look at how frightening this mask is...