AntcuFaalb

I'm definitely going to do a preservation of this before I sell my copy.

Ugh. Why can't laserdisc sellers include mint markings with each listing?

It's such a pain-in-the-ass to e-mail a bunch of sellers asking for the mint markings from side 1 disc 1 of a particular listing.

:-(

I guess my standards are too low or something.

I loved the first two seasons of TNG as well as all the rest.

It's just one really long TV show to me. I was in it more for the characters than I was for the story-of-the-week.

My only disappointment was that the entire thing didn't end on a high-note with Star Trek VIII: First Contact and instead ended on what I consider to be a low-note with Star Trek: Nemesis.

Ideally, I would have cut Nemesis and presented the films in the following order with continuity issues (such as the NCC-1701-E) fixed:

  1  Generations

  2  Insurrection

  3  First Contact

Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed Nemesis. I just don't think it was the best way to end TNG.

bkev said:

Nobody's mentioned the all-important .gif.

Gift without the t.  I've heard it pronounced "Jiff" by crazy people.

http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/

schorman13 said:

Just ANH, the other two don't have the shrinking ratio issue.

Thanks!

Harmy said:

^Exactly!

The problem, unfortunately, is still one of size.

Let's assume YUY2 (2 bytes/pixel) to make the calculations easier...

[1920*1080 pixels/frame] * [2 bytes/pixel] * [24 frames/second] * [7200 seconds] = 716636160000 bytes, which is ~667GB for an uncompressed two-hour movie.

Even if we can get a lossless compression algorithm that reduces the size by a factor of three, then we still need a medium on which to store ~222GB movies!

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... and that's just for the video.

I just want them to stick with 1080p, but work on making losslessly-compressed releases possible.

Now that'd be awesome!

Did the DC/Faces/GOUT release of ROTJ have any DNR applied at all?

I'm struggling to find smearing...

Does only ANH suffer from the incredibly-shrinking-aspect-ratio issue in pre-Technidisc releases of the SWE LDs or does the entire trilogy?

poita: What do you think of the ATI Theater 750 HD's 3D comb filter?

althor1138's samples don't show any of the 3D-comb-filter-artifacts I'm accustomed to seeing.

I wish we had a solution for the dynamic AGC problem...

poita said:

I'm yet to find a 3D comb filter that doesn't do that unfortunately to varying degrees.

I've never seen one this bad.

The moving circle in the Snell & Wilcox Zone Plate pattern left easily-visible ghosts of itself. Yuck!

The checkerboarding wasn't as bad as the DMR-ES10, but I've never seen the DMR-ES10 leave temporal-NR-looking ghosts.

For me...

  Avisynth: A-V-I-synth

  CAV: CAV rather than C-A-V

  CLV: C-L-V

  .DOC: DOCK

  FAQ: FACK

  JPEG/MPEG/etc.: J-PEG, M-PEG, ...

  .PDF: P-D-F

  SQL: S-Q-L

  Telecine: tele-seen

There's no pattern here. I'm a mess.

poita said:

Do you have the Video Essentials on laserdisc as well?

Yes, I do, but both of my LD players are with Duncan, so I can't spin up the VE LD at the moment.

The NXP SAA7164's 3D comb filter is way too strong. There's significant checkerboarding and ghosting at sharp shot-changes!

... and by "ghosting" I mean real temporal-NR-looking ghosts.

Yuck.

I'd be interested in preservations of the BttF 1-3 MUSE LDs.

Do you own those?

Bingowings said:

I hope your wife remembers to review the pilot version of the first episode which is quite different.

If anything the First Doctor is even more sinister.

She intentionally chose to not review the pilot.

My wife started a Classic Doctor Who blog. Here is the link: http://classic-who-review.tumblr.com

The website is still in its infancy, but she plans to keep going with it. Check it out!

msycamore said:

Was it that many?

No, not many. I'm just interested.

Thanks!

Is there a list somewhere of shots in ROTJ that were reused from ANH?

CP3S said:

Which part did you watch and how much?

It was a lower stakes, smaller scale story, which I appreciate. It had some neat prime directive dilemmas, and some good character moments. In some ways it felt more like a long high budget episode of TNG. If you enjoy TNG, then there is no reason not to watch it. It had a nifty space battle too that was more tactical and not all about explosions.

All in all, I feel it probably captured what TNG was all about far better than any of the other TNG movies.

My sorted list of favorite->"meh" for the ST:TNG movies:

1. First Contact

2. Insurrection

3. Generations

4. Nemesis

Darth Lucas said:

AntcuFaalb said:

How important is "HD" to you?

Not important at all.  In fact most of my dvds are SD and look fine on my hdtv imo.  I mean, obviously I want it to look good. I could always hook up my old vcr and show her my old '95 vhs tapes if I didn't care at all, but it doesn't have to be HD, just at least as presentable as a standard definition dvd.

In that case I'd recommend showing her the 2006 Bonus DVDs on a good DVD player and CRT TV.

I'll be testing the Hauppauge HVR-2250 (NXP SAA7164 chipset) over the weekend.

I plan to capture the Snell & Wilcox Zone Plate, that pattern we settled on for AGC testing, and the Stormtroopers-looking-for-Leia clip.

I'll be connecting my Panasonic DVD-S29 to it via composite, so the aforementioned captures should demonstrate the quality of the SAA7164's 3D comb filter.

Is there anything else ya'll would like me to capture?

How important is "HD" to you?

Yodaman97 said:

A brittish guy is selling the blu ray on e-bay. I'm going to get it for $50. It is the holiday special transferred from vhs to blu ray.

lol

Forget XBOX and Microsoft.

Stick to the NES/Famicom and SNES/SFC. The respective libraries are large enough to facilitate a lifetime of new (new to you, that is) games and the cartridges can be purchased cheaply enough if you're not in favor of piracy.

3D is overrated anyway.

SilverWook said:

I think he means there is no new TNG for him to watch.

Yes, that's it.