Bingowings said:
There is nothing in the OT as nonsensical as the Jabba's palace rescue in ROTJ and that's the best bit of that film.
Even I agree with this and ROTJ is my favorite of the three. >.<
According to a few recent Amazon reviews, the ViewHD splitter mentioned in the OP no longer strips HDCP. :-(
Does anyone have an (old) extra one lying around to sell/trade?
I second this request.
A Link to the Past is my favorite video game. I've completed it way too many times (more than twenty, at least). I have it memorized. o_O
As you'd expect, I absolutely adore A Link Between Worlds on my 2DS.
The best results I've seen for upscaling involve Avisynth's nnedi2_rpow2 and ResampleHQ (a gamma-aware downscaler). I'd certainly say it's "detail preserving".
Assuming a PAR of 72:79 (since we're using 711 rather than NTSC's 710.85), the GOUT has a DAR of ~64:27 (2.37:1) since 711*72/79=648 and GOUT has 274 visible scanlines, so 648/274=2.364963503649635...
The idea is to use nnedi2_rpow2's field interpolation to get from 720x480 to 1440x960. (This'll take care of many of the aliasing problems as well!)
Next, you use ResampleHQ to downsize to 1280x540 (or what-have-you) by using the extended parameters to take care of the cropping. It's better to pass the crop values to ResampleHQ rather than crop manually since ResampleHQ can make use of the pixels-that-will-be-cropped in its downscaling algorithm, thereby reducing the likelihood of screw-ups at the borders.
(Note: You'll have to double any crop values that you computed since you'll be running ResampleHQ on the double-size output from nnedi2_rpow2.)
If someone posts a frame (preferably a PNG) from GOUT here, I can hack the code up rather quickly.
Warbler said:
I find her stuff boring and unfunny and stupid.
Me too. My wife likes her show, I think...
Warbler said:
AntcuFaalb said:
Warbler said:
I truly hope they never let Ellen Degeneres host the Oscars again. She was terrible. The pizza bit was unfunny and stupid. Whoever thought she'd make a good Oscar host should be fired.
What didn't you like about her performance?
the whole thing. especially the pizza bit. It didn't make me laugh at all. I kept saying "ENOUGH ALREADY! LETS GET BACK TO THE SHOW!"
I see. I think Ellen has a love-it-or-hate-it kind of personality, especially wrt the cutesy thing; e.g., the pizza bit.
Do you enjoy her other work?
Warbler said:
I truly hope they never let Ellen Degeneres host the Oscars again. She was terrible. The pizza bit was unfunny and stupid. Whoever thought she'd make a good Oscar host should be fired.
What didn't you like about her performance?
The big news is that I now have a Runco LJR-II in excellent condition. Yay! ^_^
zeropc said:
AntcuFaalb said:
zeropc said:
but don't believe the dcp source lie.
So what's the source?
the person who originally created and shared this release didn't reveal it, possibly to protect his source. it's only known that the wowow cap is based on the same source.
Interesting! I wonder if he/she has access to BttF2 and 3 as well.
zeropc said:
but don't believe the dcp source lie.
So what's the source?
Does anyone have the 1982 and 1995 Dumbo LDs to compare?
Did Dumbo go through a nasty early-days-of-digital digital restoration for its 1995 LD release?
This is an interesting "human friendly" alternative color-space.
The md5deep run completed and the file I dumped its output to is bit-for-bit identical (after sorting) with the file I generated from my previous run of md5deep on poita's HDD.
I can now safely say that my copy of the Super8 files is exactly what's on poita's HDD.
Jay said:
The hosting service informed me that they've been having problems with ot.com's ColdFusion server. Since it's intermittent (as you've witnessed), they've been having difficulty diagnosing the exact cause. They have monitors in place and are working to resolve the problem. I'll provide updates as I receive them.
Thanks for the update, Jay! :-)
Harmy said:
Cool. Cool, cool, cool. :)
PM sent. :-)
It looks like DJ's capture card might not have been calibrated when he did this capture. My LD looks much more vibrant on my colorimeter-calibrated display.
I'm uploading it now. I'll PM you the link when it's done.
Harmy said:
That would be cool, thanks :-)
OK, I'm downloading it now.
Harmy said:
Well, sure. I mean, if I can get my hands on it, I'd love to check it out.
I have a copy of the LD, but my capture setup isn't in-place yet.
DJ did a basic DVD5 preservation of it years ago and it's on Usenet. I can't attest to how representative of the LD it is (his capture card may not have been calibrated, etc.), but it should give you an overall idea of what the colors on the LD look like. Would you like me to upload it somewhere for you?
CatBus said:
I think the thing the 85 CAV release has going for it is that if it's a transfer from 1985, then the film elements would have been only five years old when the transfer was made, so theoretically less fading. But as for all the other crap that can go wrong with color during a transfer, it's just as suspect as everything else, if not moreso.
FWIW: Another thing it has going for it is that no digital trickery was used.
I do agree with both of you, however, that it's just as suspect as the other existing sources.
I still think it's certainly worth checking out and comparing to them.
It just feels "right" to me, ya know? O_O
Doctor M said:
Does the laserdisc have the same ghosting from DNR as the first DVD?
I don't think so. It feels like it's a straight dump from a 35mm print.
Harmy said:
So far, I'm sticking with color-boosted GOUT with a bit of PSB and 97SE thrown in.
Sounds good!
Just wondering: Have you seen the 1985 CAV LD release?
I don't know how accurate its colors are, but it looks the "best" to me.
Harmy said:
What's that?
It's a digital currency like Bitcoin.
Harmy said:
I will - the new computer should make the work much faster and easier.
Did you ever decide on a color reference for this one?
cms382 said:
Pinocchio 1987 LD came, the print is visibly worn and faded (very brown) and there's some black crush and warping. Still, the image is very natural. The comparisons in the OP are congruent with my findings.
Do you have the CAV one? That's the one I have: the 1987 CAV release.
I think the picture is beautiful. It's very natural looking, as you said.