AntcuFaalb

doubleofive said:

I don't see how the DE is a backup of the Faces Laserdisc. It's certainly sneaky...

Yep. That's why I think it would be hard to convince a non-OT.com-savvy rep to pull the auction.

Harmy said:

What should we do about this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-Trilogy-THX-Faces-LASERDISCS-plus-HD-Backups-on-Blu-Ray-/291236838877?pt=US_Laserdisc&hash=item43cf117ddd

Good question. This is a bit stickier than a typical bootleg-on-eBay affair.

JEDIT: Do you have an eBay account?

News just came in that a close friend of mine, Ty (disclord@LDDb), has died.

He's the reason I have the Runco LJR-II.

This project will be dedicated to his memory.

Fuck. :-(

harryhenry said:

When reading the book "Star Wars: Year by Year", I noticed a bit about Spike TV airing all six Star Wars movies in HD back in 2008. Was that airing where the HD version of the 2004 dvd versions came from?

I'm also pretty sure that Spike TV zoomed them to 16:9. Yuck.

Does anyone here have checksums or the original torrent file from MySpleen? I was able to pull this off of an old HDD and I want to make sure no errors occurred during the transfer. Thanks.

Does anyone here have checksums or the original torrent file from MySpleen? I was able to pull the US theatrical release off of an old HDD and I want to make sure no errors occurred during the transfer. Thanks.

TylerDurden389 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

That looks to me like they just scanned and didn't do any of the post grading, TylerDurden389.

 I don't understand.

I'm assuming that the show was shot on film and I'm guessing that those heavily-blue-tinted shots were done in post-production to a video master in preparation for broadcast and that this was not done when the film was scanned in preparation for a home video release.

Mike O said:

As for the music, I transferred it off of my old computer's hard drive onto an external hard drive so that I wouldn't have to reload the hundreds of CDs into iTunes with lyrics and album artwork, and the versions that I loaded off of the external hard drive onto the new computer no longer work. It cannot find files.

Do you mean iTunes can't find the files or something else can't find the files on the external HDD?

Mike O said:

they have solve themselves all responsibility

Cool eggcorn! http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

I think you meant to write "absolve".

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I never thought they'd just start transferring over emails I had always got in my "regular" inbox into completely arbitrary, retarded categories.

This is one of the many downsides of using a "free" e-mail service. :-/

Yep, most of jedi1.net's scans are heavily green-tinted.

TV's Frink said:

doubleKO said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-Calibrate-your-TV-Please-read-the-first-post/post/592177/

 Good times.

Agreed. Even better times: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-Calibrate-your-TV-Please-read-the-first-post/post/600997/#TopicPost600997

Wow! Almost two years ago!

That looks to me like they just scanned and didn't do any of the post grading, TylerDurden389.

Necromancer time!

This looks legit: http://wonderyearsdvds.com/

I sent poita an e-mail for you.

PM sent.

point5 said:

Or am I totally missing something???

You need to learn about PAR.

http://lurkertech.com/lg/pixelaspect/

Read that and come back here with questions.

moviefreakedmind said:

I actually know someone who worked on the Star Wars Trilogy in 2004

Vidiot from the stevehoffman.tv forum?

peet2 said:

Niphoet said:

You should be able to use WinRar or 7-zip (my preference) and tell it to unpack the first file (as long as they're all in the same folder).

 Im on OSX, so I'll find a reasonable facsimile..

many thanks.

Check out "The Unarchiver". It's in the App Store.

That's awesome, DJ! Excellent work.

Darth Id said:

IP scan is the only way to be sure all the wipe-cuts will be correct.

I would personally prefer a scan of a well-preserved IP to any reconstruction of the O-neg.

Agreed. Same here.

SilverWook said:

Calling All Girls doesn't seem to have ever been included on any official Queen video release I can find.

From Google: ""Calling All Girls" was issued in USA (only) in the VHS called "Queen Collection - 15 of their best"."

peter_pan said:

could somebody please upload the team blue releases to spleen.

They were pulled. It's usually not a good idea to re-upload something that was pulled.

OK, so that's 768Kbps for audio, leaving me with 9312Kbps for video. I'll use HCenc to VBR the video between 8Mbps and 9.25Mbps to leave a little room.

There's still going to be a generous amount of space left on a DVD9. Can someone tell me how big the "BALD" stream is on the DVD? It's a classic documentary, so it would make sense to have it as a second title.

Also, can someone hook me up with that extended SEN scene scan?

Lastly, is there a list of pre-2004 trailers somewhere?

SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

SilverWook said:

At least consider a high bitrate? Too many mono mixes are regulated to 192kps Dolby Digital, even on Blu Ray.

I was thinking of using 224Kbps. Too low?

 384Kbps would be nice. There is only going to be one audio track?

In that case I can just max it out at 448Kbps. I'll do that.

Question: Does DVD support 1.0 PCM tracks?

JEDIT: Seems like it does: http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/DVD/Book_B/Audio.html

In this case, the PCM will only be ~475MiB. That's sufficiently small for my purposes.