AntcuFaalb

Don't forget about the Pioneer CLD-1010, Andrea! It has a red laser as well.

stretch009 said:

dvdmike said:

Orange flags......

What does this mean?  Please be kind.

I think he's referring to the red Nazi flags looking orange on the BD.

dvdmike said:

Orange flags......

...and?

Since when were the colors of a film required to reflect reality?

Jetrell Fo said:

Apparently it's no longer available......

"Post 40331125 does not exist" is the message I get.

:(

Try nzbclub.com! :-)

skyjedi2005 said:

Some channel showed the BD version which i don't own and it was so orange that is was horrible.

Glad i don't own it.

Is your TV calibrated?

I'm a member at the LDDb forum.

A good way to repair scratched LDs is Novus #2.

Jetrell Fo said:

Is the WOWWOW version available anywhere for one to get and see for themselves?

:)

Search NZB.cc for "c-rotla-jp". I'm pretty sure that's the WOWOW version.

digitalfreaknyc said:

 

AntcuFaalb said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

 

AntcuFaalb said:

I'd roll my iPad back to 5.1.1 if it were a sure-thing, but I'm not 100% positive it'll work. I've too much to lose.

Does anyone have an old iDevice to contribute to the cause?

It's not just that it's DRM protected. I'd be happy just to get a higher quality. What's the point of having a higher quality screen if they compress the video/pq even more.

 

Well, the iPad version is 720p. The media files themselves are ~250MiB in total, IIRC.

I don't remember the bitrates offhand, however.

I'm aware of that. That's the whole point. However, the Kindle has a higher screen resolution (and that's what I have). No reason to have the lowest quality on the highest resolution screen.

 

Ah, I see what you're saying now. I agree.

digitalfreaknyc said:

 

AntcuFaalb said:

I'd roll my iPad back to 5.1.1 if it were a sure-thing, but I'm not 100% positive it'll work. I've too much to lose.

Does anyone have an old iDevice to contribute to the cause?

It's not just that it's DRM protected. I'd be happy just to get a higher quality. What's the point of having a higher quality screen if they compress the video/pq even more.

 

Well, the iPad version is 720p. The media files themselves are ~250MiB in total, IIRC.

I don't remember the bitrates offhand, however.

I'd roll my iPad back to 5.1.1 if it were a sure-thing, but I'm not 100% positive it'll work. I've too much to lose.

Does anyone have an old iDevice to contribute to the cause?

SilverWook said:

2002 actually.

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/43726/---/Dragon%27s-Lair-%281983%29

Wow, cool!

Thanks for the correction. I'll edit my post.

adywan said:

FFS. We make a quick dirty capture just so we could get this footage out there as soon as possible so that it could reach a wide audience before we spend more time and money to capture this thing in the highest quality to share,  and now we get accused of glory hunting?

I didn't know that "[spending] more time and money to capture this thing in the highest quality to share" was ever on the table.

Furthermore, I didn't know that you were still involved. I was directing that comment specifically at the person posting the clips on Facebook.

Some of the replies from the owner of that Facebook account seemed to indicate that a "high quality" capture is not in-the-works. I don't have access to Facebook at the moment, but I remember one justifying the logo with words like "we don't want our hard work to be used by someone else".

So... forgive me for flippantly making that remark. I never intended to accuse you of "glory hunting". I got the wrong impression from the Facebook page and I'm sorry.

I've also slashed-out my original comment.

Joel said:

Ah, yes, good point.

I suppose I meant - will someone be sharing a complete capture of this on a popular torrent site that we sometimes use to share stuff that we own the rights to?

I doubt it. The owner of the LD seems to be more concerned with the "glory" of it than anything else.

My apologies to adywan, et al.

I need to go food shopping. We're running out of healthy food at home and I've been forced to live almost exclusively on PB&J sandwiches!

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DAY 6: MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2013

  Ugh, I'm a big fail. I keep losing my records! WTF?! I'm going to start keeping a small notebook with me at all times.

http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp

I need to read this sometime soon.

Come one, come all! Share your hyperlinks here. Forget keeping a private "Read It Later" list; share it with your friends (or enemies, if you're Jedi Temple34) instead!

CatBus: I agree. The BD is likely the most accurate preservation of RotLA to date; color-wise, that is.

Most people conveniently forget the impact that the bulb has on the colors during projection: gold-colored bulb => gold tint. A proper film preservation must take this into account.

pittrek said:

Well, 240p is one of the reasons why I hate youtube. Just sayin' :-(

I'll post some comparison images later, possibly this evening.

The truth is that, when resized back to 704x480, the 352x240 image looks better than the original in a side-by-side comparison.

The resolution simply isn't there and the noise is the original is painful to look at.

PS78 is technically widescreen since it was transferred from an anamorphic print without using an anamorphic lens. Due to cropping, it's not 2.35:1, but closer to 2.75:1.

I intend on releasing it in its "original" form, however. Ya'll can try to stretch it out if you'd like, but the fisheye (or barrel?) distortion makes attempts at registering it to a reference very difficult.

The release resolution will be 352x240. This is DVD-compliant (the actual resolution when considering the PAR will be 320x240). My tests have demonstrated that this will help to cut down on the noise considerably.

The original capture resolution is 704x480 at a 10:11 PAR. I intend on using a gamma-aware resizer (ResampleHQ) to bring it down to 352x240 without compromising the accuracy of its color-timing.

I'm currently working on synchronizing my latest capture to a 3:2-pulldowned GOUT, reel-by-reel.

I'm working with a 3:2-pulldowned GOUT because PS78 can't be IVTC'd.

DarthAss: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/user-profile.cfm/DarthAss/user/13336/

Harmy said:

So, what do you guys think about this?

http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/4/15/new-star-wars-reclamation-series-holds-clues-to-episode-vii.html

Interesting!

OK, I now know that the impossible-to-pronounce-surname-man was darth_ender's neighbor.

I finally know darth_ender's IRL name and it's quite easy to pronounce.