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#111384
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PAL vs NTSC laserdiscs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111384/action/topic#111384
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
The X0 transfer will be the best NTSC can offer. You'll have to see then if it stacks up. The PAL set has somewhat more detail, and includes a fair amount more dust and crap. If you get the Japanese Collector's Set, the black level is at the NTSC-J standard 0 IRE.

Personally I'd prefer a slightly grainier/dustier image over one that looks like this:
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsLDjaggy2.jpg
I mean, c'mon, that's atrocious! I'm seriously surprised the matter of what appears to be 'half the picture missing in removed lines' subject hasn't been brought up before about the definitive collection, nobody has answered wether the 95 Faces set suffer the same picture detail loss and if the Japanese discs do too.

Besides, a grainy image is what was originally experienced in the cinemas all those years ago
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#111266
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Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111266/action/topic#111266
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I have a transfer of Howard on dvd, ... its not widescreen unfortunatly and its probably vhs quality, id be down for a better version if anyone has one.

I also have a copy of The Wizard (Fred Savage) thats of good vhs quality if i remember correctly.

There aren't any widescreen releases of Howard the Duck on VHS or LD unfortunately, I have The Wizard on DVD from Germany, had to remaster it with the original English audio from my VHS though. One laserdisc I'd like to get is The Wizard of Speed and Time to replace my VHS but the eBay prices are crazy, will just have to settle for my pretty good LD rip of it.


edit: holy crap! have you seen the prices for The Frighteners signature collection LD box set on eBay? average $200+, I'd like to see it but not at that price (plus the cost of an RF AC3 decoder to get the best out of the audio)
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#111182
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Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111182/action/topic#111182
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Yup that's the one I upped, I encoded it in XviD format with "1 pass quality", I tried encoding it at a higher bitrate but couldn't see any noticable picture quality improvement (the LD was very grainy compared to something like the definitive SW LDs). I've been working on a higher quality clean-up of the documentary over the past couple of days, now in the final stage of encoding PAL and NTSC DVDs of it.
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#111152
Topic
PAL vs NTSC laserdiscs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111152/action/topic#111152
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I know about those extra charges on shipping, only one of my current laserdisc collection is PAL format because it came with the player (Die Hard 2 widescreen) and the other 30 or so are NTSC format I bought from US eBay sellers because they're not available on DVD, international airmail isn't cheap but all the discs but 1 arrived in perfect condition, the "but 1" arrived with one of the sides cracked in half because the seller did a poor job of packing.

Anyway back to sort-of on topic, I received an email from the German eBay seller a couple of hours ago saying the bank transfer completed already and he shipped the THX set! woohoo! I thought I'd be waiting 10+ days for the bank transfer & posting time, seems like I'll be receiving them very soon

*looks at the lack of harddrive space and contemplates upgrading...*
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#110977
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.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110977/action/topic#110977
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One thing I've learnt about replacing audio tracks from different sources is that doing the replacing without the video can be extremely time consuming to get it as accurate as possible, without the video as a guide to synch them together you don't know if the source or destination have dropped frames that can put the sync way off.
Which is why when I finally do my own DVD set with audio from the Definitive LD's and video from the German THX LD's I'm going to have to undo the 3:2 pulldown on the captured Definitive LD set so I can match the frames up with the captured THX LD set to then save the Definitive LD's audio and use it with the THX LD's video.

I've got the first 3 seasons of the ReBoot CGI cartoon on dubbed Russian DVD that I'm going to synch up with the audio from my VHS's sometime. Another future project I want to do is get hold of the French DVDs of Insektors and remaster them with the British audio (they dubbed it round the world, each country having their own voices, names for the characters and in-jokes that only people in that country would understand)
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#110960
Topic
PAL vs NTSC laserdiscs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110960/action/topic#110960
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I sent off the money for those German THX laserdiscs yesterday by international bank transfer, got a letter today detailing the charges, £56 for the 82 Euros and £20 charge to do the transaction... daylight f**king robbery!! banks suck
I wish more people would take PayPal, especially in this case because I have a 20% off coupon for an eBay purchase with PayPal until next Tuesday.
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#110545
Topic
PAL vs NTSC laserdiscs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110545/action/topic#110545
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I noticed on the Blade Runner CAV discs that one of the side changes was in the middle of a scene, when the side flips are removed and the colour balance adjusted so the two halves of the scene match, the picture goes more grainy at the join when the video is first being read from the outer edge and then the inner edge. But watching the DVD I made it's only noticable if you know to look for it and in what scene.

One of my laserdiscs (Deep Red, 1994) the first side is CLV and the 2nd is CAV, sometime I'll capture it in and see if there's any noticable picture quality difference between the sides. Another laserdisc I have only has one side, the other is just white plastic, looks kinda weird.
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#110312
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.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110312/action/topic#110312
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1280x545 is a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio for a 2.35:1 image, because ideally when doing 2d sharpening or smoothing you want a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio image, and also the MSU Denoiser crashes on images wider than 1280 pixels.

As for dealing with cleaning up & scaling truly interlaced source (not merely the interlacing of 3:2 pulldown) I have another method I'm working on using AviSynth, but that's another story.

BTW, I messaged you about Leia's 7 seconds welding clip, did you get it? the default users setting might be not to receive messages.
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#110020
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.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110020/action/topic#110020
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xyzzy, on the scaling side of things, whatever source I end up using (PAL or NTSC) I'll be creating a PAL set of DVDs because my tv system is natively PAL and I hate 3:2 pulldown.

Testing cleanup filters with VirtualDub to upscale the image from letterbox to anamorphic I remembered I'd downloaded a filter a long time ago that does a 2x resize but with edge detected interpolation, from what I can tell it doubles the image size without increasing grain, this is an example of scaling a crappy mpeg1 frame compared to Lanczos3:

http://www.haku.co.uk/edgeresample.jpg

How I use it is to crop the 4:3 source so I just end up with the letterbox image, 2x resize with the edgeresample filter, rescale it again but with Lanczos3 to 1280x545 to get 1:1 aspect ratio image, apply a sharpen filter and then finally Lanczos3 resize & add black borders to get an anamorphic PAL image.
Slow, yes, worth it, definitely. If anyone wants the VirtualDub filter it it's available here: edgeresample.zip (it's not optimised so expect long filter times)