ElectricTriangle

SilverWook said:

ATMachine said:

I hope that's true. I myself recall hearing that Digital Domain (the studio that did CGI for DS9, Voyager, and Insurrection) trashed all its old rendering files when the studio went through bankruptcy.

I'd much rather prefer that you be right and I wrong on this.

 The version I've heard is an employee kept backups of the files. Where the truth lies is anyone's guess.

Different employes have partial backups of different things, but collecting and cataloging them all would be a large undertaking. Robert Bonchune supposedly has a fairly extensive personal backup. Some stuff would probably have to be remade.

Unfortunately, I don't think that DS9 is going to happen anytime soon. What I really would like to see is an HD version of TMP Director's cut.

TylerDurden389 said:

Top Gun was and always will be one of my favorite movies. Definitely watched it over 500 times over my life. Here's the problem though. The VHS tape aspect ratio was the entire image. So now the so called "widescreen" versions show less. Being the film is about about supersonic jets, I can't imagine why they'd cover up like 30% of the image. The image is so burned in my head that I simply can't watch any dvd/blu-ray release, regardless of how good it looks lol.

So as ridiculous as this sounds, the only preservation I'd like to see is the best picture quality possible from the "full scope" (or whatever) version lol.

And a release of Faltermeyer's entire score would be very nice to :D

Top Gun is shot in Super 35, so the frame is composed for the tighter widescreen aspect ratio, but can be opened up for home video transfers. The widescreen version is how it was presented in theaters. Of course, open matte versions are neat to see as well.

Any updates on this project? What you've showed so far seems great.

Asaki said:

ElectricTriangle said:

Change "Sorted by" from best to new (it's just above the comment box). This only works on a thread level as Reddit is really not that well suited to a forum style dialogue.

That just sorts it so the most recently created threads are at the top. I'd like to be able to see new replies without having to open up every single thread and skim it.

 Reddit Enhancement Suite show the number of comments added since you last visited a post on the subbreddit page. (If you don't have RES, it's practically a necessity.)

This userscript apparently seems to highlight new comments since you last visited a post: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/157032

I haven't used it, but it might suit your purposes. Reddit is unfortunately not well suited to small, fourm-like dialogue.

Asaki said:

How do I make it so the Reddit threads are sorted with the newest replies at the top?

 Change "Sorted by" from best to new (it's just above the comment box). This only works on a thread level as Reddit is really not that well suited to a forum style dialogue.

It's a disaster. Hopeful it never gets released on home media this way. Joss Whedon is aware and he doesn't like it.

Unfortunately, HBO managed to convince David Simon to agree to screw up the framing on the Wire, which is a terrible precedent for remastering shows.

Why are people so vehemently opposed to black bars? Star Trek looks great in HD in 4:3, but apparently everyone now wants to screw with classic tv shows. HD reruns of Seinfeld look so stupid, with the top and bottom of the frame cropped down and absolutely useless information added to the sides that we were never meant to see.

kk650 said:

If anybody is interested in me uploading this release to myspleen, let me know.

 I don't think this would fly at Myspleen, it being big/new/commercially available/Disney material. All things that they disallow. I'm guessing this would be reported on there pretty fast. A different tracker or site would be better.

EGOvoruhk said:

Looking forward to 2.0!

Can I make a request for the MKV version? In that you crop out the black bars when encoding it? I don't always play everything back on a 16:9 screen, so it would be nice to scale it horizontally rather than vertically like Star Wars 2.1/Empire 2.0

 Both VLC and MPC can crop out the black bars during playback.

TV's Frink said:

So I take it this is where I go to complain about reddit...so...boo reddit!  Trying to read anything there makes my eyes bleed.  Something about the layout/format, I can't explain exactly.

Reddit enhancement suite will make the comments sort somewhat better. It also gives you a dark mode if the white is too bright for your eyes.

Wazzles said:

 It's impressive how much detail was lost on the arms in the Blu Ray verion- they look like thin little sticks. You can actually see the entirety of the arms in this.

 That's the GOUT in the 2.0. The Bluray wasn't used because it was composited differently. It would actually have the most detail, being digitally composited.

GRIFF13 said:

Hey gents.

New to this forum.  I own the original 1984 releases and really want scans of these DVD covers for my dvds.  Any chance I can get copies?

Cheers,

Charlie

 https://www.box.com/s/piixpilum4u6ypv2dz4b

imagazzell said:

Hello, all. A few quick questions on burning this project to disc...

1) Would one be better off burning the MKV file straight to BD (my player can play MKVs) so as to take advantage of the higher bit-rate and DTS-HD track, or just going with the AVCHD?

2) Does the AVCHD ISO contain disc menus, chapters, etc.?

3) I've seen Harmy's advice to another member on here to mux the DTS track to the AVCHD video stream. Would anyone be so kind as to point me in the right direction as to how exactly to do that?... Should this be done in a program like HandBrake, or somewhere during the burn process?

Thanks.

 1) Just go with the AVCHD unless you really want the three audio tracks. The difference in video is small, as is the difference between the Dolby and the DTS tracks.

2) Both the AVCHD and MKV have chapters, but no menus.

3) If you want to mux audio use tsMuxeR for making .ts or mkvmerge/MKVtoolnix for making mkv's.

We've gone through this before, I think. Van Ling used a separate scan/color-correction of the 1997 SEs for the DVD menus since the 2004 master was still in progress.

edit: Tobar beat me to it. Here's the link:http://www.eias3d.com/featured-artists/van-ling-star-wars-trilogy-dvds/

Okay, have we actually confirmed that Guardians didn't have a slight greenish tint in 2d theaters? I saw in theaters, but our eyes adjust to blanket tints really quickly, and it's entirely likely that it had this slight bit of greenness which was removed for the 3d showing as part of the brightening they did.

It would be really strange of them to introduce it on the bluray for no reason. I'm guessing it was always there and we didn't notice.

That's really cool. I'm wondering what the point of all the open matte films at the bottom of the list is? There were tons and tons of films (way more than this list) released open matte on DVD home-video, but they were clearly composed for widescreen.

Also, the filmed in (*) doesn't seem to make much sense. For some films (like On the Waterfront) it marks the aspect ratio the film was composed for, but on others (like BTTF and the films at the bottom) is marks the tallest aspect ratio available from the filming format regardless if the film was ever meant to be seen that way.

For the whole Kubrick thing (The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut) I believe the consensus is that he composed for widescreen, but he approved open Matte transfers for CRT home video because he didn't like black bars (he was a strange guy).

It's a very nice list. I had no idea that Star Trek 6 used the Univisium aspect for the DVD.

TheHutt said:

Well, I guess that makes my audio rather redundant. :)

 Not your mondo sync. It's wonderful. Definitely the best way to watch the film. Actually, if the extended scenes are now dubbed differently, it would be neat to see the mondo sync with the new changes.

This is a little bit off topic, but I'm curious. How was the music handled at the end of the film in theaters?

On the MGM disc the music continues after "the end" over the modern extended credits. On the Mondo, the music sort just abruptly fades out after "fine." Was it like this in the theatrical version or did it continue over a blank screen?

Wikipedia says (and my memory somewhat confirms) that George Carlin also redubed series one and two.

That would mean there are three dubs for the first two series: George Carlin and the UK/US Ringo.

TV's Frink said:

Out again all last night.  This morning it was out until I cleared my cache on my phone.  Seems like the cache thing works for a while, until it doesn't work and I have to do it again.

And I haven't been able to get on with my PC in who knows how long.

 Switch your DNS servers to google DNS. ( I can't send the link because I'm on a phone, but search "using google DNS") This should hopefully fix it.

The bluray AND DVD look vastly different from poita's theatrical print.

poita said:

Right click and 'view image' to compare to the Bluray. You can see the colour changes and smoothing that the BD restoration has caused.

 Dang! I see your scanning is coming along quite nicely. That is a beautiful image.

Youtube compression eats up everything, but if you told me that was a new scan, I would believe it. I can't notice any alignment problems; it really looks great!

I would like to see this 480p image that is claimed to be higher resolution than a 1080p, I am not sure I am getting this.   But I said I am no expert, I will trust that it is so.

 The point he's trying to make is that a shitty HD TV will look worse than a good SD one. Resolution is not the most important aspect of your TV set, and 4k is somewhat of a marketing gimmick right now.

It's labeled "4k?"

Clearly official.

There is no official disk based media for 4k yet. The "mastered in 4k" refers to how they were scanned; they are 1080p disks. I  think Netflix offers a tiny bit of content in 4k, but there is no way you can get that on a"somewhat crappy internet connection."

Just don't get a 4k TV.