Adywan did a color corrected reconstruction of the theatrical Phantom Menace using the UK DVD (less sharpening artifacts) and I believe the widescreen theatrical Laserdisc.
Hmm...maybe I was off a little. Don't remember him sourcing HD broadcasts.
Williarob said:
The "Nooooooooo!!" added to ROTJ isn't as bad as I had feared.
That's exactly how they want you to react. Each re-release will bring a dozen new "Oh, I guess this isn't that bad..." changes until nothing remains of the original except for one single, overprocessed shot of Chewbacca's butt B)
Awesome stuff.
Any chance you'll have this ready before May 4th? ;)
You could...just not watch the Blus? =)
You_Too said:
...I think my first thought when I saw this scene in 97 was "Jabba can move?" :)
I think my first thought was "Wait a minute...didn't he just have this exact same conversation with Greedo not more than two minutes ago??" =|
Moth3r said:
It should be possible (so long as the "analogue hole" hasn't been plugged), but obviously there are losses involved in re-digitising. A direct stream capture or a pure digital (screen capture) solution would be preferable.
Right, but as I said in another thread, with the low bitrates that Netflix streams at (especially a lot of the unpopular movies, and most TV shows), I can't imagine the quality loss would be noticeable at all.
Especially considering that the alternative is not being able to capture anything.
Harmy said:
Look at the blurry edges around Han...
I assumed that was because they had to "snip" him out of the scene and composite him back in so he could step on Jabba's tail.
Or at least, that's the only reason that makes any sense...it doesn't look like that in the "Han deftly avoids Greedo's laser blasts" scene, does it?
SilverWook said:
When DVD first hit the market, one of the features touted was the ability to pan and scan a widescreen movie on the fly. I've never encountered a disc that actually offered this though.
One of my friends had a DVD player that would automatically zoom and crop the picture to fill the whole 4:3 screen.
Unfortunately, we couldn't figure out how to turn it off =|
dark_jedi said:
You do realize it is going to make it hard to enjoy these movies now, I will be focusing in on all the crap now.
Welcome to my world.
Mielr said:
...wasn't it proven in the X0 thread that SW-on-LD sucks compared to the Gout? It was a while ago, but I remember some pretty disappointing-looking clips.
Yes and no.
The GOUT does have more horizontal detail, but every single LD (and even the VHS sets) has more vertical detail.
Not to mention there are DVNR-free pre-THX LDs, but I guess a lot of people find the GOUT to be perfectly watchable.
Unfortunately, Netflix has this thing where they don't let you stream every episode of a television series. At least a couple of episodes from each season will be grayed out and tell you you have to rent the actual DVD discs (in the mail) to watch them.
So unless they shuffle them around, or just happen to have only withheld episodes that were untouched on the DVDs, we've still got a few missing episodes.
Unless there are VHS/LD alternatives?
I've heard that the PAL DVDs are supposed to be unaltered too, but I've only read it on Wikipedia, so...
I have seasons 3 and 4, and I also noticed something else. I only checked episode 301, so I don't know if they're all like this, but it had this really weird sounding echo effect, like they held a microphone up to a TV to record it. I don't know if it had anything to do with the fake surround sound or what (was listening to it in stereo).
Hopefully if it is just a fake surround thing, there's a way to fix it with hardware or software, as opposed to reencoding the whole thing.
Quantum Leap =/
Beastmaster 2 B)
TServo2049 said:
The Technidisc does look good, but I think it has a little too much yellow/red in it?
Sometimes, but the color fluctuates quite a bit from frame to frame, it's hard to capture it in a still.
You_Too said:
That technidisc version is oversaturated too.
It is, but in a good way...it's got this very "old 70s Technicolor film" feel to it.
You_Too said:
If going by how the GOUT looks...
Sounds like a bad idea =|
I was real confused when Mr. Verta returned and everyone was being civil to him...now it looks like everything is right back to normal.
Stinky-Dinkins said:
Removing said grain inherent to the source is the polar opposite of being faithful to the original presentation.
You missed the part where he said he puts the grain back in when he's done.
He made vague *wink wink, nudge nudge* hints that it was scans from a Technicolor print, but maybe I was just reading into it too far.
One of these days I need to seriously clean out my hard drive. I would totally give it a try if I had the space.
maff said:
...ripping a Netflix stream would give better results than simply recording one...
I'm sure it would, but at the low bitrates they stream at, I don't think anyone would be able to notice much of a difference.
I think the bigger difference would be that having a direct rip would be a much, much smaller filesize.
Generalfrevious is my favorite _____.
generalfrevious said:
...and the idea that future generations will not be able to see these essential films of american cinema just scares me.
You are obviously unaware of the fine preservation efforts we offer.
Not to mention, any old shmoe can get a used copy of pre or post THX in their favorite flavor on both VHS and Laserdisc (and post on DVD).
I don't think I've ever even listened to the 5.1 remix (though my memory is trying to tell me that the DVD's remixed audio is in stereo).
I'll have to pull out my DVD and check, it's been a while.
maff said:
Unless someone knows how to do a rip from Netflix...
I'm getting pretty confused here, now. I keep asking why it can't just be captured via 360-->capture card, and everyone keeps ignoring it and going on about how "There MUST be a way!" as if I had asked the most ridiculous question in the world...
jasmorru said:
I looked all that stuff up but how is this being done?
Seems kind of hard to get a film like this transferred on your own? Are you scanning each shot in with a home scanner? That seems really hard and time-consuming.
They're not telling.
I'm not a fan of the show, just interested in reading about these problems, but...
Surely some of the more able members here could cook up an un-interlace/re-interlace AVIsynth script to replicate what this guy did?
http://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.html#030421proof