Obviously any Japanese animation with sound is probably going to have music in it, just like anything else. I’ve heard plenty of great Japanese music, and plenty of that was in some sort of Japanimation.
The infection cleared up and he is back at the rehab facility. Today, he was the best he has been since the the fall. He could actually talk a little and ask questions. He had some of idea of what was going on around him. I think he understood for the first time what had happened and that he had been out of it for multiple weeks. I’m not sure he quite understood where he was. For a few moments I thought that he might have thought he was at home. So he is not any where near 100%, but he is miraculously better than where he was a few days ago. I pray that he keeps improving.
That’s great news, Warb! I hope he can go all the way back to perfect health. Sending more prayers and good vibes his way!
Would the LaserDisc audio be useful for fixing the episodes with down-mixed 7.1?
LDDB says that the releases that included Balance of Terror had only an analog mono track, so I’m assuming most if not all of the episodes would also have only analog tracks. I’m not extremely knowledgeable about audio formats, so would that make it lossy, or in other terms, a bad source?
Balance of Terror? I won’t even be able to enjoy my favorite episode of the entire series in HD with it’s original audio because… why? Were they just too lazy to go back and grab the old audio?
I just listened to The Way, and I have to say, those are some nice sounds you play. Like, you should be selling records by the thousands, man.
At some point yhwx will have to admit that he compared himself to the PT, but I don’t know how long it will take. It’s a terrible burden for sure.
Nope
Chuck Testa can no longer keep up with you.
Could Chuck Testa Claus keep up if we make it to the holiday season?
Anyway, from this one sample, it looks eminently fixable even to the point of making Hot Rod red (just my guess from reading that review). All one would need is a proper color reference for the characters.
That’s a cool fix. Wouldn’t the best references be the original G1 toys and the corresponding artwork?
Such as these images for Hot Rod:
Truly sad times, are these.
That would be stupid.
Both MKV releases are the same as the original ISO, they just don’t include the disc stuff (menus and whatnot); no extra compression. The 5.1 MKV is the same as the other one with the 5.1 mix as an addition, obviously. If you want an MKV rather than a BD ISO, just get whichever one of those that suits you.
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
Listen To The Music – The Doobie Brothers
Cotton Mouth – The Doobie Brothers
Jesus Is Just Alright – The Doobie Brothers
Don’t Start Me To Talkin’ – The Doobie Brothers
Disciple – The Doobie Brothers
Toulouse Street – The Doobie Brothers
Mamaloi – The Doobie Brothers
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
…graphic novels (not comic books)…
Hahahahaha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNSzOHRsLL8
Smooth McGroove soothes the soul. It’s amazing.
I just watched a two-year-old video by RedLetterMedia that I never ended up seeing until now:
Best of the Worst: High Voltage, Death Spa, and Space Mutiny
When they talk about Death Spa, they take a look at the BD case from the release they got.
At 29:45-30:05, Josh said:
“It’s clearly not from the negative because any time there’s any sort of gore shot, the grain pops way up…”
If it was a composited shot, the grain is always going to be different. The finished negative will have a generation of quality loss on those shots because the film had to be processed for the finished effect. And even if it wasn’t a composited shot, the special effects shots may have been shot on different, more grainy film stock than the rest of the film (and this release being taken from the negative, the inconsistency in grain between shots isn’t covered up by extra generational grain). Clearly not from the negative?
Of course some few shots vary well could have been taken from a 35mm print or something, but to outright accuse the company that made this release of lying about the source used right on the back of the case is just stupid.
“There are scratches all over it, there aren’t going to be scratches on the f***in’ negative.”
Why can’t there be scratches on the negative? Why is it impossible that the negative of an obscure '80s bad horror flick has damage? The negatives of some films people actually care about are sometimes heavily damaged if my memory serves me correctly. That statement just doesn’t make any sense.
And everyone else was agreeing with him about it like it was an obvious fact. I mean, in the clips they showed in the video I didn’t see anything obvious about the subject.
This just kind of bothered me, and I felt like blowing it off here. I honestly don’t know why it bothered me as enough to go and type this up.
If any of my statements have been incorrect by any means, please inform me.
END RANT
I’m curious then, which home video release of Phantom Menace is thought to have the best color timing? I never thought the dvd looked off to me.
I think the DVD is probably better for color, aside from a few Naboo shots that people say are too pink.
I’m pretty sure there’s a pink cast through the whole film. It isn’t terrible though, so the DVD is probably the best choice, especially if the pink were to be corrected.
Oh, Bibleman, how campy you are.
Is it possible there was some extra DNR applied (not as much as the BD necessarily), and a fake grain plate was put over the image? That could account for the weird noise.
That’s right Susan, it’s another way to fuel his addiction.
fixed. 😉
Is Susan replacing Jay??? 😉
I hate the term “African-American”. I have several black friends and they all hate it more than I do. My niece is African-American though. So the term has it’s place, of course. But calling Americans “African” because they have dark skin is stupid.
Ditto.
Tritto.
…but it’s been hit or miss.
I honestly first read that as “hot piss.”
Ugh…
…because Bane wasn’t portrayed in a similar way. Vader didn’t cry about Palpatine like Bane cried about Talia. Vader actually wanted to rule the galaxy. Bane didn’t actually have any goals for himself, he only cared about Talia. The entire film built up Bane: the self-righteous agent of judgement, and the finale gave us Bane: he-likes-a girl-and-that’s-his-entire-character.
There’s nothing that suggests that he didn’t believe in the tenets of the League of Shadows. People can do things for multiple reasons you know…
…but I think they did a great job at developing the Bruce/Selina Kyle relationship.
Lol. There was hardly a relationship at all.
Whatever you say man. Just please don’t tell me that Vicky Vale and Bruce’s relationship in Batman 89 is better. I don’t want to hear that shit lol
That’s not what I was saying. Though at least a romantic relationship was existent in the story in '89.
I wouldn’t call it romantic at all. Bruce fucks Vicky while she’s drunk and then after he stands her up she starts stalking him. Aside from the horrible premise for this “romance” Vicky and Bruce had absolutely no chemistry. At least Bruce and Selina could do a nice back and forth.
Like I said before, I’m not saying what you’re implying I said. In the story (whether it was well developed or not), there was a romantic relationship present.
And I wouldn’t say he just did her while she was drunk. That’s not what was implied in the film at all. They had a date, they liked each other, and they slept together/had sex. I will admit that the chemistry and development of the characters’ relationship wasn’t that great. But like I said before, the relationship was clearly existent in the story, regardless of how well it was developed.
In TDKR, I never realized there was even supposed to be some sort of relationship beyond mild friendship born out of working together, I guess.
In TDKR it just seemed like they pretty much said:
“Oh, yeah, if you didn’t notice, they have a relationship goin’ on outside of just speaking with each other. Y’know, because Batman and Catwoman have to be involved with each other, regardless of whether or not it was properly written into the story.”
And however you want to compare it with '89, I don’t care. In my head I was actually comparing it to the relationship between the same two characters in Batman Returns, which also actually existed, and made sense as a part of the story and character development.
All I can say is a disagree. You’re not really giving me anything besides “I don’t like it because reasons”
I’m giving you the reasons why I don’t like it. Did you want more than that? I don’t think the romantic relationship between them in TDKR was well done, mainly because it didn’t exist until the movie just kind of said that it happened.
