Doctor M

Check out this thread on MyCE: https://club.myce.com/t/looking-for-50-gb-media/312330/23

I’d recommend using DVD Rebuilder. It has a built in option that does just this. Select it and in a couple clicks you can re-encoded and rebuild the entire disc without any effort.
http://www.jdobbs.com/

It is under the Options Tab: AVS Options/AVS Expert Options/Convert from LB 4:3 to 16:9.

Edit: I do prefer to do this while converting PAL to NTSC. PAL has more lines so you do gain some picture.
Otherwise, it’s usually easier to select the Zoom picture mode on the TV.

Thanks, GoboFraggle1983, looks good.

I’ve noticed a large number of new users that post on threads or PM requesting where to get an edit, preservation, etc.

Checking the details of these people, they usually have been a member for one or two days and have made few or no posts at all.

Can we get a rule added when people sign up telling them not to do this? I’d never provide that sort of information to someone who hasn’t proven they are here to join the community.

I was thinking about they way Disney does things and hit upon something.

We know Disney will default to stereo mixes and/or have ‘home theater’ mixes because people don’t understand setup menus or have proper audio systems, etc.

What if they’ve carried this thought process to their video ‘restorations’ as well. That is, the make sure the picture will look best under torch mode.

It would skew the colors so when displayed on a TVs default settings skewed to a blue-white they’d be closer to their original tones. By scrubbing the image, it wouldn’t turn grain into weird noise when it gets hit by motion smoothing and sharpening.

If that’s the case then at the very least color corrections could be done wholesale by changing the color temperature not just trying to adjust specific colors.

Possibly wrong, but just a thought.

Okay, I’m trying to understand, this edit has a new regeneration sequence showing McGann changing into Eccelston at the beginning and at the end he kicks Rose out of the TARDIS and doesn’t come back?

Then what? Any other changes?

Anakin Starkiller said:

By that logic, Griphook is also Flitwick (but only in DH). I mean, come on, these two look nothing alike. Personally, my headcanon is that the young one is the old one’s nephew, but really, it’d be nice to just have the young one in all the movies.

We should adjust Richard Harris’s voice to sound more like Michael Gambon’s.

I never noticed the change in wands. I just looked it up and apparently they changed in PoZ, yet another thing that was drastically changed in that movie. I swear it’s almost like they rebooted the series. Anyway, does somebody have some comparison pics for all the wands that were changed?, 'cause I can’t find any.

I can live with the idea of a magic makeover. Doesn’t bother me.

Old and new Flitwick? They’re all Warwick Davis.
I was always more annoyed by the kids wearing track suits, sneakers and other casual clothing in the later films.
Wizards in the Potter books wore robes and outlandish clothes at all times.

I noticed all the images are gone.
I also should roll back the subtitle conversion details to just repositioning since I’ve never liked how resized subs look.
Should probably replace audio conversion steps with EAC3TO since it’s a mature one stop solution.

The question is, does anyone still refer to this guide?

According to TheDigitalBits.com:
“Sony has also announced the return of a classic holiday TV special to DVD in the form of a new Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas: 40th Anniversary Edition. Extras will include the Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow featurette, deleted and alternate scenes, outtakes, and a lost song (Born in a Trunk).”

Maybe they’ll get it right THIS time?

Since 99.9% of the people can’t hear the difference between high bitrate DTS/DD and lossless, you should consider using ffdcaenc. DTS at 48khz & 1509 Kbps should sound great.
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=170952

Awesome, people love it when you put a spoiler in the title of a thread.

robshot said:

tv-vault is currently invite only 😦

My rank there is too low to get invites. Maybe someone else can help.

As far as I know all three versions of the Storm Front episode are still available on TV-Vault.

I’ve never found evidence that the 2008 release had any restoration versus the 2001 DVD. The real damage was done for the 2013 release.

The important thing is the AR is still 1.33:1 which suggests pre-2013 restoration which was 1.75:1.

Laserschwert said:

Doctor M said:

Looks to me like they are using a master that has been ‘restored’.

What do you mean? Detail-wise this looks great, even grainier than a “good” Disney release. Colors are a bit meh, I agree… what is the filesize of this?

Sorry. Looks like i had the web-dl and HDTV mixed. Yeah, that is an improvement.
I do like how the grain is more intact and not blotchy from low bitrate compression.

Looks to me like they are using a master that has been ‘restored’.

It’s not necessary to get pay software.
Eac3to will decode DD TrueHD using LibAV which is included and free.
For DTS HD MA conversion, it was a real surprise this year when the free decoder “dcadec” appeared. It’s now included with Eac3to as well (and I believe it’s also included in MPC-HC among other proggies). It’s still “being tested” because it’s so new, but I haven’t seen any complaints yet.

With Eac3to you can decode to most other audio formats including multichannel WAV, individual WAV files, change sample rate and bit depth, speedup/slowdown for framerate changes, etc.

For pretty much all your BD audio decoding and conversion needs, Eac3to is the gold standard any more.

^…^ said:

Thanks!

A friend made a note about a possible regrade using a 35mm as reference… thoughts?

Why wouldn’t that be better? Is that in the works?

Sounds good to me.

RayRogers said:

DrDre said:

RayRogers said:

Will this be a BD25 or BD50?

The current plan is to do the initial release as a 30-40 GB mkv, so a bluray version will be BD50.

Guess you’re using H264 and not H265 which is the vastly better codec including halving the filesize. I’d rather wait for the BD anyway.

Commercially perhaps, but the free x265 codec is immature and inefficient.
Hi10P x264 is superior but has low hardware compatibility which rules that out as useful too.

I’m not sure how I feel about the added grain, ^…^. Overall, yeah, the new look is definitely superior.

I’ve always felt that once the grain is destroyed, adding fresh grain is just obscuring any detail left from over filtering or low resolution.

Could you post a new w/ grain plate vs. new w/o grain plate for comparison?

bjwanlund said:

Okay, looked into it on Blu-Ray.com and the new Snow White Blu-Ray is basically the same master as the Diamond Edition. Which, given your recommendation of the Diamond Edition as an acceptable alternative DoctorM, seems like a “must-buy” for me. Been wanting Snow White back in my collection of Disney movies for awhile. Had the VHS (really it was a good restoration for its medium, dunno why they decided to continually monkey with it for future releases) and now I’ll probably have the Signature Collection Blu-Ray. Hopefully that stupid DMR-exclusive bonus feature is still there.

BJ

EDIT: Would have been nice had I enclosed a link. http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarfs-Blu-ray/144704/#Review

Snow White is a problem because there really is no know original version outside of some film prints. Disney ‘restored’ this film early.

I just saw the above post(s). If anyone is still looking for this, PM me.

It should be pointed out that bad/sub-optimal burns can reflect a burner drive that is starting to degrade.

If you can do a surface scan to check the quality of your burns, you should and then try burning on a different drive and comparing scans.

MyCE.com used to be called CDFreaks. The people there know their optical drives and media still.