Asaki

Now we just need a master copy of the commercials and we’re set B)

Animeman1000 said:

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT NOT OF THESE LOSERS WANNA WATCH THE DESPECIALIZED EDITIONS AND WOULD RATHER WATCH THE SPECIAL EDITIONS!?

That’s what my friend did. I offered him my wide selection of preservations, but he refused. I didn’t go =)

poita said:

I haven’t seen the preview, but which scenes have blown whites?

It wasn’t any preview, it was stills posted at the old blog.

Someone had compared them with the SE DVDs (I think?) and was complaining that the negative sourced SEs had more detail in the whites than the 35mm.

I can’t remember which film it was, but I remember it was shots of explosions.

Wazzles said:

The deinterlace filter that I have added introduced a little bit of aliasing…

Actually, it’s supposed to look like that =| The GOUT and the 1992 set are the same way.

Lasz said:

O, and can somebody please tell me how to change the layout of this new forum to something other then for myopic elderly people?

AFAIK, the only thing you can do is press CTRL± (control and minus), or CTRL+mwheeldown a few times. It’s not the best, but it’s something.

In some ways, yes, and in some ways, no.

The GOUT has more horizontal detail, but they blurred up the vertical detail (an attempt to fix the aliasing?), and blurred up all the motion detail on Eps. IV and V with DVNR.

Technidisc Ep IV has rainbowing baked into it, the picture is a bit softer, and the colors fluctuate a bit.

JSC Ep IV has artificial sharpening applied and (possibly fixable?) chroma shift.

Film reel preservation is the future.

FrankT said:

So there’s no way to subscribe then?

Us old folks are getting priority, but they were taking newcomers not too long ago.

FekLeyrTarg said:

I’ve just seen the preview and it’s awesome, even though I find the whites and black too strong.

I already knew the whites were going to be “blown”, since it’s like that on the print. I don’t know about the blacks; my CRT monitor isn’t calibrated, so I just adjusted the brightness/contrast settings until the gray letterbox borders were the same color as the background.

I’m sure it looks just as bad as the home video >_<

The blog isn’t around anymore.

towne32 said:

As far as the AR goes, the email does suggest that it’s not finalized.

Everyone was so excited about the new clip, they forgot to actually read the email =)

I think we had it taped, but if we did it’s long gone.

We call that “Itchy’s sex chair”.

I always have to have my restraints tightened whenever Harvey Korman appears on-screen =|

It’s going to be a lock-in event, I hope 😄

Shouldn’t Life Day be on the Friday before Thanksgiving, not on the original broadcast date of Nov. 17th, since Thanksgiving isn’t usually on the same date every year?

…or I guess if you’re Lucas, Life Day is on…Christmas…??

I was trying to celebrate, but for some reason, we only made it about 20 minutes in before my friends all remembered that they had to be somewhere else!

Doctor M said:

Also, trailers are rarely restored or retimed unless they are cutting a re-release trailer… and the DVD is pretty damn similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8

It make for a pretty solid reference.

Maybe it’s just me, but to me it looks like every scene in the trailer has the same color timing going on. I don’t notice any difference between inside or outside of the Matrix.

Reminds me of seeing Magic Mike at the theatre (though it might also be yellow on home video).

I agree, I could see this quickly becoming a “slippery slope” situation where movies with perfectly acceptable BluRays are being captured “because we can”.

But I can’t say I didn’t enjoy the heck out of seeing that Jurassic Park print.

Man, some bad luck in that household =(

The new forum still has a lot of kinks to work out, but MAN do I really like the fact that we can see the full width of all of these beautiful frames without having to open them in a new tab/window.

Wow, I also like how dead simple it is to edit quotes. I don’t have to worry about pressing escape in the wrong place and having the entire thing vanish! >_<

poita said:
Oh and for all the rest of the world that is just entering into the day where our collective future suddenly becomes the past, think for a few minutes that for any kid going into a cinema today to watch a special showing of the Back to the Future Trilogy, the world of 1985 is as far in the ancient past as 1955 was when BttF first came out.

Just think, in only a few years’ time, we’ll be laughing about how tiny 5TB drives were.

CapableMetal said:

I've downloaded your latest JSC capture of Star Wars.

 Is this not on Spleen yet?

brycebayer said:

But they show me something stupid or give too much info I will not see that opening week. 

 You mean like BB-8?

Glorious.

AntcuFaalb said:

The color bleeding isn't present in the source. It's an artifact from the 3D comb filters used in the previous preservations.

 That's the first time I've heard this, would be cool to see that fixed.

Or...not repeated, I guess?

poita said:

...Arnie's famous line...

 "Your clothes. Give them to me. Now."

AntcuFaalb said:

This doesn't mean we can't get rid of it.

 Yes, but it would have been awesome to see the phase inversion work its magic =)

AntcuFaalb said:

I disagree since I think the JSC looks the best...

I've said this before, but while I like the JSC, the sharpness looks very artificial to me. Also, the color bleeding looks pretty bad, although this may be repairable?

AntcuFaalb said:

One interesting thing about the Technidisc SWE is that it has baked-in rainbowing. That is, it has rainbowing baked-in to the master that can't be removed via the phase inversion that comb filters rely on.

 Darn =(