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#60629
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60629/action/topic#60629
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The DVD players in question DO take non-anamorphic material and interpolate it to Anamorphic; EXCATLY what I said originally inj defence of releasing the DVDs as non-anamorphic, from the quote This feature really shines in effortlessly scaling and playing non-anamorphic movies as anamorphic! I also know someone who has a JVC DVD Player that does this - takes non-anamorphic video and makes it anamorphic. You right, it stretches the picture vertically - AS IF IT IS ANAMORPHIC BY INTERPOLATING LINES. Thus for all intents and purposes the output from the DVD Player is anamorphic whereas the original in letterboxed non-anamorphic video.
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#60616
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60616/action/topic#60616
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Urgh, no it has nothing to do with that, do you want me to go google hunting until I find another review that spells it out more clearly? It takes the non-anamorphic source and converts it to Anamorphic - it has nothing to do with being able to play progressive while in 4:3 mode. HERE YOU ARE, END OF DISCUSSION:

The RP91 is a solidly built player that produces a very nice progressive image. I really like its autoscale feature. It automatically scales 4:3, letterbox, anamorphic, and non-anamorphic movies to their correct aspect ratio. This feature really shines in effortlessly scaling and playing non-anamorphic movies as anamorphic! The RP91 is the only unit in this price range that is capable of doing this. (A fellow enthusiast however submits that his JVC XV-D723GD also has that capability.) This feature is especially critical to owners of sets that have no image size control or lock to "Full" mode when sent a 480p signal. This player also has a littany of menu options for video and audio which adds to its flexibility to meet user preferences. I may actually get one not only for its autoscale feature but also for its audio (DVD-A) capability.

http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/videodevices/skyworth1050p/skyworth_minishootout.html

Go on tell me I still don't know what I'm talking about.
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#60604
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60604/action/topic#60604
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Originally posted by: Itchy
Originally posted by: LittleWing
New poster here, but I've been following the discussions on this forum for awhile. I'm thinking about buying another bootleg set, and I was wondering if any of you have experience with playing these on an Xbox (my primary DVD player at the moment, besides my laptop's). I have an older set of Asian bootlegs (audio-video sync problems and all), and the Xbox has a very hard time reading these DVD-R's (plays them only once in a "blue moon" for some reason).

I'm thinking about going for the TR47 set, but I'm worried that my Xbox will have a hard time reading these also. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Hey littlewing.

I have both the TR47 set and the anamorphic set. They both play on my xbox without any problem. I have a first generation xbox to boot.

Mike
That doesn't mean anything since from what I hear they've got worse not better. MeBeJedi, if you're going to insist ... some JVC players do it. XV-N44SL, XV-FA95 ... here's a review mentioning this feature. "This player properly scales non-anamorphic DVDs and can zoom during progressive playback. Very few players at any price can do this."
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#60619
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Help - I lost my Tremors in the Force Volume 1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60619/action/topic#60619
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Originally posted by: Rikter
Hey there guys - I seem to have deleated my master file for the Tremors in the Force Collection Volume 1 -

If anyone has this that I send PLEASE - would it be possible to get a copy from you or the original I sent you?
Nope, but I can send you a postcard instead Glad to hear you deleted it. I mean that you got it back... hahaha.. hehehehehehe, sure that's what I meant. What is Tremors in the Force anyway?
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#60601
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Best Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60601/action/topic#60601
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Originally posted by: JediKiller
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Originally posted by: DanielB
sounds like thr TR-47 set. How much did you pay for them?
I think they were right around $50 including shipping. Didn't seem too bad to me, as I've seen some go for a little more.
I got them (mind you I live in Australia) for US$17 shipped. I sell them for AU$20/set or $16 just the movie discs including Australian postage. I will soon be offering that same price (+$2) for international people. Mind you that includes a covers CD. I know that there are a lot of people who don't think that that price is too bad, and even someone paid me $25 for a set (since that was the price I originally asked for before changing my mind). I sent him a $5 refund with his discs. Yeah I'd have just as many customers asking for that price, but I'm not greedy.
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#60447
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60447/action/topic#60447
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Obviously I need to spell this out. Just as there are DVD players that are WM9 compat, Div-X compat, etc there are players that will TURN NON-ANAMORPHIC DVD VIDEO INTO ANAMORPHIC WHILE PLAYED ON THE FLY by interpolating the extra lines. Just in the same way some players will do PAL-60 and others will do true NTSC-2-PAL. Of course the difference between watching an anamorphic and non-anamorphic video is obvious. What is a few extra lines of interpolated resolution going to do for you? Make it look better on limited Widescreen TV's because you don't like scanlines? I for one don't mind scanlines at all. That argument is flawed.

Which will look better on a computer - which I might add is going to interpolate anyway? Widescreen TVs have not yet been refined. I can switch my monitor's resolution to 320x200 and have no scanlines on it - picture information will be as dense as it is at 1152x864. If I want to play a game that's in 320x200 do you think it'll look better to interpolate it to 320x240? Of course not! It'll look horrid. All you're complaining about is a limitation of the current technology that doesn't allow TVs to switch between resolutions the way monitors do. One day that will be corrected. Until that day it's no use adapting bootlegs to look better on today's technology at the expense of what it'll look like on tomorrow's technology.

And for that reason the resolution should not be changed. As for the 5.1 remix, the argument is simple. Anyone with a surround sound setup can enjoy the Dolby-Prologic-II soundtrack in all it's glory. The 5.1 the DVDs are using, I'm assuming, are down-converted from 6 or 8 channel surround sound. You cannot up-convert surround sound. This is why I hated our local release of The Terminator - it's remixed using new and different sounds. Okay it's a great soundtrack, but they didn't give us the mono track which was the original track experienced in cinemas, and the original part of the film. They didn't make the 5.1 using just the soundtrack, or even using 100% existing material. Why not? Because it's hard enough to convert mono to stereo let alone 5.1. Converting 4.0 to 5.1 is just like interpolating non-anamorphic to anamorphic. Okay so all the sounds are there and you aren't creating mid-way pitches; that's not what I mean - what I mean is all you're doing is spreading the original material out, thusly leaving gaps filled with the interpolated stuff. Therefore it will never sound as good as the original Prologic-II soundtrack.
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#60462
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1995 VHS
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60462/action/topic#60462
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By PAL-M do you mean PAL-60? How is that better? Technically DVDs can only be in NTFS or PAL. SECAM might use a different frequency but it's still 25fps and 625 lines which makes it just like PAL. The way I understand it their TVs must automatically convert the PAL picture to their SECAM picture which wouldn't be hard since it's only the frequency that's different.

Here you are:

PAL 50 625 4.43MHz
SECAM 50 625 4.25/4.40MHz

And while we're on it, yes PAL-M is basically just the PAL version of NTSC:

NTSC 59.94 525 3.58MHz
PAL-M 59.94 525 3.58MHz

How is it a better PAL? It is for all intents and purposes NTSC!

PAL Advantages over NTSC:

* No 2:3 pulldown
* More lines of resolution
* More Luminance Bandwidth
* More Gamma Information (wider contrast)
* Stable Hues
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#60455
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OT bootleg DVD reviews
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60455/action/topic#60455
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Kris, the way I would do it:

Progressive Scan NON-Anamorphic.
Uncompressed PCM soundtrack.
Chapterstops in the same places as present on the Definitive Edition LaserDiscs.
No menus. No commentary. No additional soundtracks. Leave the alien-subtitles burnt in.
Do not use other source material - just the master tapes. Ie don't try to splice with footage from the 2004-DVDs.
Compress video to fill up all the remaining disk space, leaving as little as possible unused space.

Use a 4th disc for the extras.

Perfect. Those would be worthy of "Criterion Collection" type covers, which I would love to design of course. You could make a second version for people that want the perks of the audio commentary, 5.1, anamorphic, whatever other extras - but a DL set using the maximum possible video-bitrate while still having an uncompressed soundtrack would be second-to-none.
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#60451
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MY Ultimate/Final/Archival Editions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60451/action/topic#60451
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Originally posted by: MagnoliaFan
Well, here's my two cents.
-Change Death Star plans in Rebel Breifing to match the ones in AotC.

Yeah, this I agree on. There are two shots for a combined 1 second or so where the DS plans show the dish in the center. I don't objectto shifting the dish upwards. Beyond that, leave it alone. No holograms and PS2 games displayed on the screen.
Depending on what angle you look at it the dish can be in the middle.
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#60324
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60324/action/topic#60324
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If I was to watch it again I could tell you what else needs to be done...

Take out the poofter-night-club completely, who cares where he gets his clothes from? It was interesting the first 2 times, and a bar/nightclub has already been done in T2. Arnie telling John he killed him... heck you're right most of the stuff Arnie rants on about needs to go. And ditch the hydrogen fuel-cells, really I like a bit of mystery as to how the technology works that's more artistic. You could leave in Silberman just so that he runs away from Arnie and never show him talking to the woman. All of the stuff you've said is defiantly good. You may as well wait until T4 comes out and then just cut together a single movie from them both. "This guy weighs a ton!" - uh yeah, sure a fire-fighter would say that ... cut it.
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#60322
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60322/action/topic#60322
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: Have you forgotten that the video on these DVD's is MPEG-compressed, quite unlike the LD's? So much for "fidelity". //sigh

Of course not. But that's unaviodable.

: Even if this were true (which it isn't), it would imply the very bastardization of the video you claim is a bad thing to begin with.

It is true, and yes it is an abuse.
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#60296
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60296/action/topic#60296
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Kris, your versions have 5.1? Why did you do this? That is an abuse just as much as making it anamorphic. I believe it's better to simply present the original 2.0 track the way TR-47 has done it, uncompressed. You could use the extra space of a dual-layer set for the comm and/or alternative tracks ripped from other LDs - but I think it would be better to just have the one 2.0 track in uncompressed PCM and use the rest of the space available for video. No menus just chapter stops, preferably the original ones on the LDs (even though I know there's a lot of them).

I hope this is what LaserMan does. I agree with you, making the video anamorphic is an abuse of the source material. Make it progressive, yes, make it anamorphic, no. There are DVD players on the market for these kind of people that will turn non-anamorphic video into anamorphic on the fly.