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AntcuFaalb said:

My father watches VHS over composite stretched to 16:9 on a contrast-boosted over-sharpened LCD TV with a terrible black level and he thinks it looks fine.

I'll see you that and raise you a "and the VHS tape is recorded from an OTA broadcast", with now-vintage commercials and everything.  In EP mode, so he can fit three movies on one tape.

Agreed.  Most of the world does not care about quality, and furthermore, they seem to aggressively prefer the worst quality just to annoy us.

May it's just, but like the new lack of personal pronouns.  It suits.

Whoah.  A good-quality still of the missing frame would be pretty cool too.

TV's Frink said:

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

...I'm a bit worry for the lack of Team jmow's answers... and the fact that Team Olie is a team at only 99%... I wonder what's in the missing 1%!

 Margin of error.

Team Olie

Car Talk's statistician has gone missing?!? Alert Barb Dwyer!

I dunno, this could still be topical, as a prelude to a Buffy Blu-ray preservation.  If all we're left with is that Pivot HD crap and Joss doesn't step in and set things right, then we've got some DVDs to upscale.

In fact I've already done this for myself, but I'm really hoping this small effort of mine doesn't qualify as the be-all-end-all version of Buffy, because frankly, it still doesn't look so hot (kinda like an upscaled DVD...).

Funcha said:

That wasn't very friendly!

Kinda warranted though.  Sure he asked a question that was more like a demand and was kinda hard to respond to directly, but seriously this thread is more derailed than Harmy's threads on a bad day.  I like to think I'm a lovable jerk, though.

jedimasterobiwan said:

sorry about how bad i came across on forums

with both my posts i guess i might have been a little impatient.

i just thought people were starting to ignore me on here.

i'll try to be a little better.

i guess i don't come across to well i don't mean to be annoying again i'm sorry.

i'll try to be a little better if someone could tell me my grammer mistake i'd appreciate it.

You're fine, we're weird.  We have a lot of running inside jokes here, and we don't have a solid answer for you.  So since we don't have the answer, you get the jokes instead.  Not a very good substitute, I know, but it's all we have to give.

I'm sure he will be asked about that (and all the Pivot BS, OAR, etc)... and the Dr. Horrible sequel, and much much more, so no worries.  He has issued at least one very cryptic tweet on the subject recently, so it's on his radar for sure.

No, I'm not going.  Frink and I can never be in the same place at the same time.  It's either a superhero thing or a restraining order, I forget.  It's increasingly difficult to accomplish, though, because there are so many of them.  And so handsome.  So very handsome.

Yeah, I think it was the restraining order.

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Because if -1 is no longer on Team -1 (and he's not, they said so), but Team -1 continues his work and is now imitating his posting style perfectly - there's only one conclusion I can make. The sincerest form of flattery:

Murder.

...

Shows what you know. When the team decides to name the team solely after the member that doesn't want to be implicated, it makes it almost impossible to figure out who the man behind the curtain is. Listen, if you were working on a project that made you nervous, the first thing you'd want to do to throw them off your trail is the change your user account from ww12345 to Team ww12345.... then it's like checkmate, suckers!

...although I have to admit, this post comes close to making it worthwhile.

towne32 said:

Are you saying the ruse is that negative1 is no longer a part of the project (I think virtually everyone is in agreement about that...), or that there is indeed mid-to-large size group working on this stuff, rather than just one guy? Aspects of their updates and progress do suggest to me that it's a team.

It's no secret that -1 worked closely with other people long before the team identity was dreamed up, don't see any reason to suggest that this has changed.  There was already a team before the Team.

I'm kind of on the fence about caring about this. On the one hand, I think deception is unnecessary and strange. On the other hand, as far as I can tell it is 100% about privacy concerns and/or paranoia than a need to trick people. As people have pointed out, there is no real privacy when it comes to Disney/law/anyone who cares to really figure it out. But if it's only a silly motive, and not a malicious one, I don't quite see what's offensive about it. Most people would probably be dishonest to received credit for something they haven't done rather than exactly the opposite.

Well, part of it certainly is the futility of the act, and part of it is the quality of the acting. I haven't seen anything so transparent since Monty Python's North Minehead by-election skit. If I'm going to have to sit through that sort of act, I want at least that much entertainment value (no offense to Frink).

Ergh, I'll stop editing my posts if you do.  It's a "community" thing.  First, trying to trick your community isn't cool, no matter how poorly it's executed.  Secondly, trying to get your community to lie on your behalf (by nod and wink if not by fooling them) is also not cool.  Thus the occasional flare-up.  It has nothing to do with the project itself.

Cue the Luke "I Care" image.

Some would say not wanting to play along with the charade qualifies as caring.  If you do, then I care.  If you don't, then I don't.

EDIT: Sorry, I was responding to the original question "Who cares?"  As for the point, our failure to entertain the ruse will hardly slow this project down. Maybe I've had too many friends ask me to lie for them in the past. It's just not healthy for a community for people to ask that of them.

AntcuFaalb said:

MrPib said:

Darth / Frink, could you take a moment and explain what you're talking about with respect to the makeup of Team Negative1?  I see cryptic comments here and there, and I'd love to know what you're talking about.

Thanks!

They're claiming that the original member, negative1, is still a member of the team despite the team frequently claiming otherwise because the team account has written several posts in negative1's idiosyncratic style.

Not to mention the frequency and vehemence of those denials is pretty wildly out of proportion to any casual mention of -1 (even to people who accidentally choose the wrong shortened form of team_negative1, not intending to say anything at all about membership of the team), considering they engage in no other discussion of specific current or former team members whatsoever.

jimbotron235 said:

You should not need to reencode the video.  It is already in h264 format.  You would just need to change the container from MKV.

Simply demuxing it and putting it on a BD-R using tsMuxer resulted in an unplayable disc for me (admittedly on a sample of one player, but it's an Oppo BDP-93, which is decently well-regarded, and isn't showing any issues on other BD-R's).  Sure it's h264 and 16:9, but there are a few other restrictions when you make a BD-compliant stream too, and maybe one of those is off.  Just re-encoding in x264 with the "--bluray-compat" flag produced a stream that worked without problems for me.  YMMV.  Not really sure about the audio, but since the main track works, I don't care to dig deeper.

If you want to play off the coffee connotations of Puggo Grande, you could call it "Puggo Ristretto".  A short shot with the same amount of coffee as a full shot.  Or just "Puggo Breve", which is a little easier to say.

team_negative1 said:

The beauty of the digital format is that, you can upgrade your monitor, projector, or TV when you wish, and gain benefit from it, accordingly.

Theoretically the back-end resolution could be bumped as new scans are made, but I'm not sure that's really ever happened.  Furthermore, that puts you even more at risk of having the media you "bought" replaced with a orange-and-teal revised director's cut monstrosity without notice.  If you're just talking about "it's just high res", well, I certainly started buying Blu-rays long before I had an HDTV, so I got the benefit of the hardware upgrade just the same.  That's just an effect of upgrading the players before the display.

Frankly for most consumers, if you buy a (good quality) Blu-ray today, there is no upgrade needed for any future display.  It's a terminal physical format in the good sense of the term*.  It's not perfect, sure, but the imperfections are something nearly every consumer wouldn't notice, let alone care about.  The handful of people who want more will keep chasing the AV rainbow no matter what.

* Terminal physical format in the sense that CD was the terminal physical music format.  Successor formats existed, but few even knew what they were, let alone bought them.

PM sent.  As you've probably read, the Japanese full subtitles for ROTJ are graphical-only, so you're not going to find an SRT file for those.

PM sent. Your niece is lucky she has someone looking out for her. Enjoy the movies!

DuracellEnergizer said:

But you're Team Olie, not Team Ollie.

Unless Team Olie is a superset of Team Ollie.  I wonder how much overlap there is between our various teams.  Could we get a Venn diagram please?

TV's Frink said:

What is all this we don't even.

Team Olie

I suspect at least one of you even.

PM sent.

Yes, that's all very outdated.  All of the languages you listed are now based on the official translations (except American Spanish, which is derived from the official Castilian translations and converted by one of our members).

I don't really mark subs as unverified anymore, since that's not really a useful quality description anymore.  That's not to say that any given translation doesn't still have room for improvement, but things should be much better with the current version.

EDIT: Oh yeah, you can always check the first post in this thread for the current status.

Feallan said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Wazzles said:

What the fuck is going on in this thread?

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♥

Star Wars was obscure for about 26 seconds during the seventies. I was there, man, before it went big time. You don't know.

I doubt this applies to individuals pretending to be teams. Not trying to insinuate anything about anyone's team accounts... but not sure Team Dinkins is entirely on the up and up.

They could use percentages as a way to express opinion, but still use the signature.  78.4% of us think this is the case, 12.3% of us think this is complete BS, 5.6% of us went out for tacos two weeks ago and haven't come back yet, and 3.7% of us are a stray cat the rest of us just kind of adopted even though we still behave kinda sketchy when we're inside.