TV's Frink said:
Apples and bricks are both red, do you think people will eat bricks some day?
Yes.
They already do.
People seem to be constantly shitting them: http://shitbrix.com/
SilverWook said:
Easy to forget Star Wars was called the cinematic equivalent of junk food by it's detractors back then, among other things. I still chuckle at the memory of one critic who was strongly suggesting parents were better off taking kids to the Disney film Candleshoe instead. Oh, the irony!
This one cracks me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3V3qyZiFM
He also runs a blog now: http://uncensoredsimon.blogspot.com/
Jay: Can you also give us a way to edit the Location field in our profiles?
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Cannot-set-Location/topic/9789/
TV's Frink said:
Is the Furby sentient?
As sentient as a 6502 CPU can be.
Jaitea said:
But running a Church costs money
J
The $2 million wasn't used to run the church. It was used to build a brand new one.
Churches have many other means of making money; especially Roman Catholic ones.
RicOlie_2 said:
Again, pedophilia is worse, so I'm not saying homosexuality is just as bad, so that is not my point.
How do you feel about Ephebophilia?
I was raised by a Roman Catholic family, but I've been a Strong Agnostic for quite a long time now.
How do you feel about the common practice of Roman Catholic churches taking collections?
It has always seemed a bit corrupt to me to take time away from mass to walk around and request donations from people. My former church, St. Robert Bellarmine, managed to raise $2 million from collections alone while I was there.
Plus, doesn't God have enough money?
How would you feel about a man staying in a committed relationship with–, and possibly marrying, a Furby?
Mavericks: You can thank [redacted] over at forums.stevehoffman.tv for his crappy amateur color-correction job on the 2004 DVDs. Here's an example...
JEDIT: As always, I'm sorry for adding to the derailment, Harmy.
JEDIT 2: Redacted a username to protect the not-so-innocent innocent.
Mavericks said:
In short: DVD and BD versions of OT didn't hide all dubious artifacts of the special effects of the era. It most affected objects (ships) in motion.
This is true and it's not because Lucas' team lacked sufficiently-advanced technology or was on a limited budget.
It's because they did a rushed half-assed job and only "improved" the original FX that they considered to be most noticeable.
Lucas was (surprisingly) happy enough with this shoddy work to call it his "original vision" or whatever...
Yuck.
Harmy said:
Huh?
I think he's trying to say that the CGI on the DVD and Blu-ray looked terrible on his TV and he's wondering why Lucas' team didn't do a better job.
metaleonid said:
Also AFAIK the AGC problem is in hardware, not in driver.
Possibly. It could also be the driver dynamically modifying a register value on the chip in response to its own analysis.
pittrek said:
The Lowry master isn't 2K, just 1080p
Ouch :-O
drngr: Did you use the new driver I mentioned in an earlier post?
JEDIT: Nevermind. I just realized that you're using the USB one. Do you have the PCIE one too?
Mavericks said:
But why the official SW Blu-Ray is 1080p (as well as majority of other movies' releases)?
Other Blu-ray releases often have enough effective resolution to justify a 1080p encode. This is not the case with the Star Wars Blu-ray.
The Star Wars Blu-ray is encoded at 1080p, yes, but that doesn't mean that the screwed-up 2K 2004 Lowry master they used to produce it requires that much resolution. Harmy's experiments show that very little detail is lost in downscaling it to 720p.
1080p is not magically better than any other resolution. Upscaling an old DVD to 1080p doesn't magically make it look better, for instance, and is only justified when you're using a TV that exhibits terrible motion resolution when displaying non-native resolution material.
poita said:
Try it, it could be an impedence mis-match between the player and the Extron.
If so, can it potentially damage the equipment?
Is this kind of thing common?
EDIT: I just checked: The CLD-1010 manual and the YCS-100 manual both say 75 Ohms for impedance. Is there anything else I should look for?
DuracellEnergizer said:
My parents heads' will explode when I give them that answer. XD
Does their TV have an s-video input or just composite (rca)?
It looks like DIAMOND released a new driver for the DIAMOND ATI Theater 750 PCIE (TVW750PCIE) on 2013-09-10.
Get it at the following hyperlink under "Support & Downloads": http://www.diamondmm.com/tvw750pcie-diamond-pcie-hd-tv-tuner-card.html
Please tell us if it fixes the AGC issue!
It looks like DIAMOND released a new driver for the DIAMOND ATI Theater 750 PCIE (TVW750PCIE) on 2013-09-10.
Get it at the following hyperlink under "Support & Downloads": http://www.diamondmm.com/tvw750pcie-diamond-pcie-hd-tv-tuner-card.html
Please tell us if it fixes the AGC issue!
poita said:
How is the colour if you go straight from the Pioneer to the BMI?
I haven't tried that yet, but I imagine it won't be much different because my earlier tests with the Extron YCS-100 didn't change the color much with my DVD player (it probably didn't at all).
The real pain-in-the-ass is that I can't calibrate U and V separately; there's only "chroma gain".
So I finally moved into my new computer room. Everything is more-or-less setup.
I have a few more things to do before I can say it's "finished".
I'm working on calibrating my capture chain at the moment. The [Pioneer CLD-1010] =(composite)=> [Extron YCS-100] =(svideo)=> [Blackmagic Intensity Pro] produces rather drab results with the color-bars on GGV1069.
I have to up the chroma gain by 1dB just to get it close to the reference.
althor1138 said:
Also, Jbinup seems much more stable and modern than powerpost imo.
Yay! I helped! :-)
FrankT said:
Excellent! :) I suppose it's not region-locked then or anything.
Yep, it's region-free (region 0).
FrankT said:
Never mind; got the NTSC ISO. Will it work if I burn it to a DVD and play it in my DVD player?
Yes
Moth3r said:
Over-processed VHS source?
Most likely, yes.