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I'd kinda like to have an 1080p version since that seems to be the only way for me to optimally watch version 2.5. My PC can't handle DTS-MA, and playing 2.5 on my Blu-ray player after remuxing the MKV into a Blu-ray structure only allows playback at 720p60 or 1080p60, not 1080p24, so I get pulldown judder.

I'd be fine with just an upscale of the 720p24 master, if Harmy can't do it perhaps someone else would be up for the task? I'd volunteer myself but I only have a low-end laptop at the moment.

I hope Empire and Jedi can get some love soon now that Star Wars 2.5 is out. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I honestly would have preferred if Empire and Jedi had gotten their chance at 2.0 versions first, if Star Wars 2.5 was going to take this long after 2.1.

But I still greatly appreciate the work that Harmy and everyone who contributed has done (I even contributed a slight amount myself through some of the foreign language subs/dubs), and I will greatly enjoy sitting down to watch 2.5 the next time I'm in the mood for the original Star Wars.

Have the fixed Hard Boiled subtitles been uploaded anywhere yet?

YanniD said:

HD-DVD had a really great feature that allowed external subtitles and even soundtracks to be incorporated into the movie on the primary disc, without them having to be on the primary disc.  I really miss that flexibility with Bluray.

Blu-ray can do this as well, the Gundam Unicorn BD Live features had downloadable commentary audio+subitles, although they were only available for a limited time on each disc.

You can also do similar things with unofficial sources using MPC.

CatBus said:

SpilkaBilka said:

CatBus said:

Space Kaijuu said:

Will the Blu-Ray version of 2.1 have the 1985 laserdisc remix?

We are trying to package this up for Harmy ATM.  I'm hopeful.

Awesome, glad to hear it.  How's that going?  Been away the last few days, haven't been keeping up with this or the 1985 thread.  Thanks so much for your efforts, and I'm sorry I have absolutely no skills to contribute to this!  :)

This is done now, and I've sent Harmy a link.  DTS-MA lossless stereo FWIW.

What's the bitrate, BTW?  I've noticed a lot of Blu-rays with stereo DTS-MA 2.0 that are higher bitrate than what they would be if they were just LPCM 2.0, but I assume that's because the core DTS was a full 1.5 MBPS.

skyjedi2005 said:

Which i am wary of because Bandai simply upscaled the galaxy express 999 films and used DVNR for the blu ray rather than going back and scanning the films,

That was Toei, not Bandai.  And they were actually HD scans (maybe old ones though) and not upscales, but yes they were filtered pretty bad so it was hard to tell.

Bandai doesn't have a perfect track record (The Big O was an upscale even though the 1st series was done on film), but their JP Blu-rays of old anime are generally excellent.

Jetrell Fo said:

This is probably why 24fps works best...

    Film uses 24fps, and more recently, 48fps and even higher. Timecode in theatrical films is different and very simple — it counts every frame from number 1 to the total number of frames in the movie.

While this is true for editing, an actual 24fps signal (as opposed to a 23.976fps one) isn't always fully compatible with modern displays.  For example, the Total Recall "Mind-Bending Edition" Blu-ray is one of the few discs encoded at 1080p24, and a few people had problems where frames are skipped/dropped: http://www.avsforum.com/search.php?containingthread[]=1406134&output=posts&action=disp&search=24&resultSortingPreference=recency

If possible, I think the final release should be at 23.976p.

I kinda doubt this will ever be used for the OOT but I'm all for making high-quality film scans cheaper. There's tons of old TV shows and animation that deserve a release in HD but don't have a huge fanbase to make them financially viable.

Maybe if this scanner gets made it'll be used for the Droids and Ewoks cartoons :D

I just wish her face looked like it did in SW or Empire.  All that coke snorting made her look like she was in her 40's by the time of Jedi.

Probably not, but it certainly has a ring of truth.  And more importantly, made me laugh.

I wish someone could get a hold of the 8mm film and do a scan of it, even if you have the LD it's reportedly very prone to laser rot.

The entirety of the 2 films were part of the Little Boy exhibit at the Japan Society back in 2005, but they were only running a digitized file (of course).  They did have a bunch of cels from it on display, though, which looked awesome.

http://www.japansociety.org/little_boy_the_arts_of_japans_exploding_subculture

A pity that 8mm is the highest resolution it will ever exist at (since I seriously doubt they kept all the cels and backgrounds, and even if they did many would likely be stuck together), and even the 8mm source will possibly never be seen again...

I've owned it and seen many reports in Japanese that the CLD-HF9G has direct composite.  Its picture definitely wasn't a recombined Y/C signal.

Ah, OK.  That's good to know then.  Sorry for the confusion.

Arnie.d said:

No, I didn't test the comb filters because of limited time and because the X9 owner had a lot of experience and said the composite out was much better for image quality.

I'm also an X9 owner, and while the results using the composite output might look better at first glance in some circumstances, I don't recommend using it.

The X9, like most other players with both composite & S-Video output, does not have direct composite (also called pure composite) output.  This means that instead of the signal path being disc->TBC->output, it's disc->TBC->3DYC->recombined signal-> output.  So the composite signal is just the S-Video signal recombined back into composite.

I've comfirmed this on my own setup (you can tell what recombined composite looks like after you see it enough times on different LD players), and I believe it has been confirmed on the repair manual of the X9 as well.  You can talk to someone like Kurtis Bahr for more information, he's repaired and worked on a lot of players including the X9.  I believe his contact info can be found in a past post on alt.video.laserdisc.

If you absolutely need to use composite, you should use a players with direct composite like the Pioneer Elite CLD-99 (CLD-HF9G in Japan) or the X0 (BNC terminal output only).

Sorry I didn't notice this thread earlier, I don't visit this forum much.

Will it be possible to get these to play in 1080p24?  I seem to remember hearing that burned Blu-rays can only be played back at 1080p60, but I could be misremembering.

I actually haven't gotten around to downloading it(I have Giganews so the files still should be available for me), but thank you for posting for me.  I would like to have Empire and Jedi eventually but I'm in no hurry so anytime in the next 6 months or so would be fine.  Not sure if there's anything I'd have you'd need but let me know if you can think of anything (I live in Japan so I could maybe post something like the Japanese dub AC3 audio from any of the SW movies or if you know of something else from Japan like an anime, etc. I could try looking for it).

I'd appreciate it, thanks.  No hurry, whenever you have the time.

All seems good with Jedi.  Will try re-authoring SW later on, and after that I'll see how Empire works on the A3.  Although if this thing ever dies, I'd rather not have to go back to my HTPC... Maybe by then I can author them as a 480p Blu-ray...

Would someone mind re-posting the LD PCM (93 mix is fine) for SW synched to GOUT somewhere (Fileshare, etc. is fine, as is a.b.sw )? For Empire and Jedi I just used the PCM from a fan's copy of the LDs I got from here years ago, but not sure who did them so I want to make sure I have a digital copy.  If you could post the LD PCM audio for Empire and Jedi as well, I'd also be interested in those but mostly interested in SW.

I was able to mux them fine using DVD Lab Pro.  Did Empire way back when the GOUT DVDs were first released and it played fine on my HTPC.  Finally got around to doing Jedi recently. I figured even if the bitrate was over the DVD spec it'd play fine on the PS3 since it's basically a PC, but the video starts stuttering at certain points and lasts for quite a while, then re-starts at later points in the movie.  Does something similar when played on my Oppo 980, and there's no improvement when I try to play the vob files directly through USB using the PS3 or Oppo.

But strangely enough it seems to play fine on the Toshiba A3 HD DVD player (even though it's otherwise a cheaply made POS that takes forever to startup/load and has started freezing in the middle of every other Star Trek Remastered episode I try to play on it).  I haven't played it all the way through yet so I'm not sure if all is good, though.

Any plans for torrents of the AVHCD DVD9 versions?